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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1886
Page
2
A collection of short items includes a Algerian natural curiosity, a Petaluma accident that left a woman mute, Flathead reservations fashion and gambling, a New England counterfeit ring led by a woman, a Montana letter on women's rights, a Florida senator’s self election tale, a Boston prank dispute, a South Chester woods joke gone wrong, and a Dayton man paralyzed by a prank.
A man struck in the eye by a wire suffers long pain and near blindness. Samuel W. Allerton, once a Fulton County farm hand, rises from $20 a month to a Chicago pork empire through frugal savings, pig farming, marriage to his employer’s daughter, and eventual slaughterhouse success.
A London Lancet writer extols Victoria as a healthy rising colony with 1884 marriage 7.63 per 1,000 birth 30.49 death 14.27 and a year round climate aiding vitality. Gen Arthur trip details reveal open air benefit, hunting and fishing, and a seven hundred mile journey with President Arthur and a party, while a Philadelphia brokerage story describes a dress rental service profiting from high fashion and loans.
A humorous exchange traces a groom’s bright mood after marriage. The friend teases with irony about happiness, while the groom claims joy comes from marrying the right person. The quip ends with a playful line about a “sirup” in the groom’s life.
A passenger recalls tramps in a Dakota town who beg, drink, and play the “crow act” by acting as scarecrows in wheat fields. They receive small pay and food, avoiding actual labor, while crowds and boredom plague towns. The story notes the danger of large bands of vagrants and their supposed living.
The article argues outdoor sports offer health benefits and moral value. It contrasts yachting with horse racing, defending yachting as less costly and more healthful. It cites Bloomingdale Asylum physicians noting idle wealthy youths risk mental decline when lacking occupation.
The Nation argues that modern society favors quick consumption from newspapers and gossip over sustained book reading. Fewer people read serious works or novels, and a long attention span for literature declines as daily life centers on brief articles and quick updates. Maintaining reading requires daily practice and steady effort.
A tale from New Orleans Picayune recalls a young English wife aboard a sea captain's ship. She braved mutiny by pistol in hand and, later shipwrecked with her infant, fed the child by drawing blood to provide sustenance until rescue.
Dr Buisson favors a worn bath and other means to induce perspiration when specifics on animal poisons are unavailable. A Paris College of Surgeons report notes a child stung by a swarm of wasps recovered after a vapor bath at 130 degrees, with rapid pulse normalization and subsiding inflammation within hours.
A dialogue contrasts high art with a costly painting, as Mr Skaags boasts a $25,000 work while Blimber calls it high art. The quip about vowels notes only O is audible while others remain unheard.
A New York dealer in cheap engravings and prints notes war scenes attract the most attention outside his shop. He cites Napoleon at Elba, Waterloo, Gettysburg and Civil War parades as popular subjects among the uneducated public who buy engravings ranging from three to twenty dollars. He adds such pictures educate the poor and help them later pick painters from modern works.
A dying train boy, an amputee and orphan, recites his imaginary runs from hospital bed. He clings to memories of the Milwaukee road, Sioux Falls, Winona, St Paul, and Hastings as life ebbs away. Nurses and a physician watch his fevered vigil as he dies calling out his final run.
A 19th century notice describes a nitrate of lead based purificator mixed with salt and water for use in cesspools and rooms with contagious diseases. It claims to neutralize effluvia from scarlet fever diphtheria typhus typhoid and other infections and to be cheaper than chlorides. A separate line notes babies will abandon bibs for lace at home.
Maryland and Pennsylvania cases discuss wagering contracts in brokerage and services disputes. Key rulings include that brokers cannot reclaim for services on mere wagers and that formality cannot mask a gambling agreement. Other decisions cover specific performance in personal service contracts and the limits of legal remedies amid cross state dealings.
A man tests how a tuning fork affects a large spider on its web by sending sound through the silk. The spider follows the sound via threads, finds the fork, and dances as if hearing music. Spiders are noted to stop spinning to listen to music, a tale linked to a flute performance.
In a Pittsburgh Dispatch note the scene at an evening party shows a young girl, her aunt Alice, and a bright military man. The child blurts kiss me too, aunt, prompting a calm correction to say kiss me twice. The anecdote reflects on diplomacy and presence of mind amid social proprieties.
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