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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1883
Page
2
A tale from 1869 reports Col Marteras nearly executed in Uruguay before a forest gun battle failed to kill him. He later escaped with aid from a laborer and became a waiter in a Paris cafe. The piece also notes a vast Post Office sale of Dead Letter Office accumulations and various frontier finds in Idaho.
The piece muses on ostrich farming in the Southwest noting low egg production and the plumage value, then jokes about meat texture and carving. It adds a travel anecdote on butter by the inch in Spain, a cotton shipping reform plan, and a note on Greenland dogs covering 270 miles in three and a half days.
The article describes a St Petersburg doctor using laxatives then acidified drinks and lime water before hot milk to treat diphtheria, and stresses careful cooking to ensure health. It warns that bad cooking leads to higher doctor bills and druggist costs. It also gives a corn removal salve recipe and discusses dangers of rushing to train stations contributing to heart issues in hurried urban life.
A rebuttal from the Iowa State Register arguing that labor is a divine condition and source of happiness. Idleness breeds ennui and disease, while work strengthens body and mind and leads to a more fulfilled life. The text extols the virtue of industrious living and claims happiness comes from engaging one’s powers and surrounding rights in labor.
A former Metropolitan Boston conductor named John Peck, after early rail failures caused by misplaced rails, proposed a firm chair design to stabilize rails. Despite doubt from an official, Peck built a trial model, leading to a successful invention. He secured his first patent in 1872 and a second in 1876.
The Boston Post notes that in 1881 the third and last system is adopted by all Boston street railways and by many of the nation’s major steam railways. This reflects a widespread standard in car construction and operation across local and long distance networks.
An aged Wolf tells his Son he will hand over care and wealth as he nears departure. The Son rebukes old vices, mocks his Father, and later forces him out after a collapsed plan. The fable ends with the moral to not provoke elders prematurely.
The old man notes the Lime-Kiln Club should not care if a member's grandfather slept on duty or spoke in Congress with his hat on. He warns that tracing lineage is costly vanity, joking that Whalebone Hawker and others may boast ancestry but pay fines for small acts. The secretary will read a roll to note members who want bloodlines traced to Ham.
Excerpted observations discuss how mental state at death varies by illness and outcome. Miss Nightingale notes dying patients often show indifference to danger unless bodily suffering or duty drives them. Scenes from battlefields contrast calm deaths from sword wounds with painful gunshot wounds. A London Spectator observer cites rapid steel deaths as nearly painless, while bullets cause more laceration. There's also social commentary on a Western lady and a Baltimore paper critique of introductions to gentlemen in paper collars.
A compilation of curious 18th and 19th century scientific notes touching on tiny war instruments hidden in a pencil tip, a mosquito housing surgical tools, glue elasticity with glycerine, arsenic effects on animals, a German engine patent, corn ear mysteries, vast Mississippi delta fossil forests, Brown Sequard pain free tule introduction, carbonic acid anesthesia, white lead hazards and zinc oxide paint substitutes, zinc sulfide preservation of wood, and zinc’s limited carbonate bonding influence.
A century ago Scots families kept servants for life which bred sharp fits of insolence. Thomas the spoilt but loyal butler refused a saltspoon pass, noting a prior theft, while a coachman warned he would drive bride to marriage and burial. Generous loyalty protected kin yet challenged authority.
Thurlow Weed recalls a habit urged by his wife to sharpen memory. He describes sitting alone at night and spending fifteen minutes retracing the day’s events, initially remembering little but gradually gaining a fuller recall.
I A Croffut recalls teaching himself memory by nightly oral confession to his wife Catharine for nearly fifty years. He details recounting daily events, breakfast to tea, conversations, editorials, letters, and language with meticulous clarity, claiming tenacious memory and influence.
A compact meditation on human anatomy as a living machine. The speaker likens tissues to loom threads and blood flow to valves guarding the great artery, arguing man blends ironlike strength with delicate biological precision. The piece ends by praising the microscope as a culmination of mimicking nature’s early design.
Romany literature resembles Homeric ballads in oral form though limited in extent. The collection offers proverbs and tales such as Never buy a handkerchief or choose a wife by candle light and Behind bad luck comes good luck, reflecting wisdom, caution, and social norms within Romany culture.
A farmer and wife arrive in town with a two horse wagon and a baby wrapped in an old bed quilt. The child slips free and lands in a soft street spot as boys chase the wagon shouting. The couple, unaware, soon notices the missing infant and recovers it amid a dusty crowd before continuing on.
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