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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
6
The Register surveys world events and curiosities from architecture to industry. It notes Olm Cathedral’s 530 foot spire, Chicago tar industry, Arab fruit and silk ventures, and London school board lunch incentives. It mentions a German epigraph puzzle, electric canes, Koch lymph concerns, and a mild Arctic winter contrasted with Tunis and Algiers snowstorms.
In Bismarck a veteran speaker urges expressive participation in public affairs, drawing praise from locals. Young would‑be soldiers claim Pine Ridge lessons included draw poker from veterans, hoping Washington delegation offers pointers. A Boston woman roams hotel parlors waiting for a friend, lifting small change from chairs after finding a ten‑dollar bill.
In Western Germany rising meat prices drive peasants to substitute horse flesh and even blood sausage. Some peasants abandon meat entirely while others collect pig blood every Saturday, mix with fat, let it congeal, and serve it as the main Sunday dish.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled a lady could recover the cloak’s value plus $50 for the trouble after losing a garment she left on a cloak store counter. The court found the cloak was temporarily in the clerk’s care and thus the store liable for the loss.
A professional deception occurred when an agent claiming to represent an English syndicate headquartered in Detroit sold carpets at about 30 percent of their value and cashmeres. Buyers paid cash about double, but the carpets never arrived, leaving some customers out around £50.
A St Paul officer, locked in a room during a search, sent a letter to the city attorney asking about authority to break out and was told to tear out of the house. In Norristown on the Schuylkill River bank the first public canal was excavated for a link between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. The Schuylkill and Delaware Canal, incorporated April 10 1792, reached about fifteen miles at $400,000 before bankruptcy ended the project. The ancient trench remains. The American exporter notes large shipments of axe wood handles to England and South America as Brazil trade grows. US wood lacks long whalebone fiber. tropical woods are dense and polish poorly, except lance wood which has distinct uses.
The piece notes Pennsylvania’s early railroad claims and the 1827 gravity system from Mauch Chunk to Summit mines, contrasting it with Quincy’s earlier U.S. canal link. It then reports a Chicago opium addiction scare estimated at 25,000 users, predominantly women, warning of spreading vice and noting calls for a temperance style crusade yet lacking results.
A playful verse about Mary and her mischievous puggy who chases her through town. The pup dashes onto the railroad tracks and is swept up by a butcher with a brush and dust-pen, ending with Mary reclaiming the dog named Bologna.
A Pittsburgh foundry foreman recalls a deadly near miss with a collapsing wall and a dramatic return to work. The story climaxes as the foreman witnesses the cupola operator collapsing, shouting the fifth angel sounded, and the tale ties fate, faith, and an industrial accident.
A narrator recalls a savage struggle with a maniac worker in a blast furnace cupola. The assailant rants about hell and seeks to push him into molten metal, culminating in help arriving and the foe being restrained as the furnace door is shut. The narrator bears lifelong trauma from the ordeal.
Director General of indirect taxes reports 27,416,327 hectoliters produced in 1890 up 4,182,755 from last year but 2,260,768 below the ten year average. Area under cultivation fell by 1,248 hectares. average price fell but total value rose to about 197.8 million dollars. Artificial wines up 30 percent, sweetened wines up 468 thousand hectoliters, and Algerian viticulture rising with 2,844,000 hectoliters produced.
Guernsey in the English Channel is famed as Victor Hugo’s residence and inspiration. The triangular island features dramatic southern cliffs, sea caves, and vine cloaked slopes. Hugo’s Hautville mansion and St Sampsons scenes are highlighted, with Corbiere lighthouse and raging sea shaping the rugged coast.
The text explains public roads are laid out and supported by officials. It notes state laws regulate care, ownership of soil, and revert of land if discontinued. It covers road repair liability, duty of towns, and damages from neglect. It also outlines passing rules for carriages and the owner liability for runaway horses and blocking etiquette.
The Society for the Importation of German Sorg Birds expands with a $1000 order for diverse songbirds to be delivered mid March. Birds, including skylarks and thrushes, arrive sound and healthy. lawmakers push a bill to protect sported and native song birds with penalties for harming nests or eggs.
A collection of aphorisms and humorous maxims on judgment, honesty, and human behavior. Notable lines warn against one sided thinking, urge listening over talking, and poke at politics, marriage, and social vanity with playful paradoxes. Attributed to the Boston Transcript.
In a London excerpt, the elderly Charles Greville toys with a fraudulent medium at a seance. The medium claims an aged lady behind Greville’s chair and describes blessings from his supposedly deceased mother. Greville coolly replies he will join her at tea at a hundred o’clock, exposing the trick.
In Penacova Portugal villagers for generations eat earth from nearby fields. Leaving home causes gastric illness unless earth is consumed. Arsenic is suspected but Dr. Vogel reports no arsenic and finds about double nitrogen, suggesting an alkaloid as the active substance. A chemist could settle the question.
A Jacksonville resident deposited 5000 oranges in a public space inviting passersby to take them if they quarter the fruit and place peels in a nearby alcohol barrel. About 4000 oranges were collected, with the donor planning to ship the peels to England for medical use, noting no expense was spared to accomplish the task.
Maud says he is too intensely practical and has no faith. He does not believe in anything, not even dreams. The dialogue suggests a clash over belief and imagination.
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