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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1890
Page
2
The Register describes a new Cubcaco company formed to build elevated roads with a simpler plan than many proposed projects. It notes ideas like an atmospheric railway of three and a half miles with twin tunnels and cars propelled by compressed air, and compares costs and technical hurdles with existing telegraphic and social statistics of the era.
A collection of curiosities notes a champagne making time cut from eight months to forty bottles yet warns price cuts are needed to attract buyers. It cites a Foochow journal urging tea growers in Fukhien to switch to rice and potatoes, with opium planted where water is abundant. Berlin’s electric lighting grows, with counts of private plants and public oil lamps. forestry studies list long tree ages, and the Kede Mann Tilford steel process shows limited ductility gains. The Bell Telephone Co plans private, standalone handsets under $10, not linked to central service, promising private intercommunication. Rail fatalities in 1890 are described as severe.
The writer condemns recurring railroad crashes and the resulting deaths and horror. They urge immediate action and a united effort by railroad men to remedy systemic mismanagement and improve safety practices nationwide.
The passage argues Dickens endures in the public mind beyond his era, surpassing even Shakespeare as a source of character variety. It notes his universal appeal to the heart and his steadfast place in memory as generations pass, crediting his unmatched humor.
Report notes shipper capacity to load up to 20 000 pounds and lists cargo quantities such as 70 barrels salt lime 90 flour 60 cords soft wood plus 18 20 cattle 50 60 hogs 90 100 sheep 8 000 feet boards 17 000 siding 13 000 flouring 40 000 shingles and other timber. It reports about three thousand workers on the project and $3 000 000 spent so far with excavations to begin. General Macauley estimates 27 miles of digging on 167 miles, including a 150 200 foot rock cut requiring 10 15 million dollars. He predicts canal open to traffic within six years.
Boston seeks to extend electrical traction to elevated railways mirroring surface lines. Electric cars promise quieter operation and lighter, more ornate vehicles, potentially improving city travel. Also notes both ocean liners abandon racing after a season with no major disasters, highlighting rising steamship safety and advanced shipbuilding.
A friend notes his five year old daughter interrupts his writing to earn money for shoes dresses and toys. She asks if more writing means more money and proposes she stay out of the study if he can buy her a pony bicycle caramels and hoes. The anecdote ends with her sober play on the idea.
A New Boston barber technique using multiple hot water towels after a shave spreads from hotels to shops in New York. The process soothes, cools the face, and purportedly improves wakefulness, speech, and work. The piece notes differing mastery in New York barbers and explains the physics of towel-induced blood flow and cooling.
The Chicago Herald extols natural electric wonders and candle fish known as ulikoo in Alaska. It imagines extensive uses for the electric eel and other creatures, proposing a global export of live electricity and even a family electric eel as a home appliance. The piece blends Victorian fascination with speculative industry and playful nativist admiration.
A survey of quirky collecting habits from trusses and corner lots to ancient skulls and mummies. It notes Mary Irene Hoyt hoarding corner plots, George Wiefer’s Perugian relics, Dr. Fischer and Steigenwalt’s purchase of his mummy collection, and Herman Frank’s Egyptology obsessions ending in dust.
A historical note explains that pure water in thick masses is blue and that color variations in lakes and rivers arise from dissolved mineral salts. It cites Professor Spring showing lime dissolved alters tint toward green, with coastal waters often greener due to limestone contact.
A quotation from Ernest Renan describing the impersonal ideal of a national conscience. It portrays a figure who embodies centuries of collective dreams, serving as interpreter for a voiceless multitude and challenging the optimistic complacency of the satisfied.
Dr. Woods of Pittsburgh links poor American dental health to faulty child diet emphasizing liquid foods and insufficient mastication. Proper chewing strengthens gums and enamel while crowded teeth from liquid diets worsen carries. The note ends with a satirical Chicago crowd and a remark about the first steam boat by a Kentuckian named West.
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