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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1890
Page
2
A London based register reports a English scientist claims discovery of a nearly goldlike substance resistant to acids and cheap to manufacture and plans to market it. The piece also notes Lynan Trumbull, at 77, remains active as a Chicago lawyer. British official Arthur Blackwood lamenting post office reforms. and varied oddities from faith cure critiques to a New York widow who bought a husband and an unusual phonograph typing breakthrough.
The Cunard Line began in 1840 and will soon mark fifty years of service with a record of zero passenger losses in millions of crossings. The Ore gon was the only Cunarder lost, but it was never born into the Cunard fleet. The piece notes the paradox of sea travel safety versus rail fear, and contrasts timekeeping on Governors Island with bugle calls by sentries near the Western Union Building.
In cold northern China inns the bedrooms lack stoves or beds. A brick platform serves as a bed raised from the floor with a side opening for a coal brazier. The traveler lies on bedding spread over the heated bricks, using a pan of burning coals to warm the space. A New York Journal note mentions cash drafts as an easy wind-raising method.
A poem expresses longing for a swift return of a ship bearing news from distant lands. The speaker kneels in prayer hoping for a loved one’s safe passage home as storms rage and death lingers, seeking comfort in psalms and faith. Louis remains in peril awaiting news, while the white winged ship embodies deliverance and healing.
In a Southern grove a stubborn girl resists her father and a young suitor named Arthur Outhwaite. A loyal old mule named Pontius Pilate carries the pair through dusk to a family showdown. A telegram later reveals the couple wed at midnight, with Pontius Pilate hailed as a timely helper.
A pair of Western sportsmen Hoffman and Cowan boast of skill on a deer hunt. They split. Cowan shoots at a calf believing it to be a deer and misses. Hoffman scolds him as Cowan defends his aim saying he shoots to hit deer, not calves.
A London Rialto quip recalls a Broadway era backstage error in which a famed Lady Macbeth impersonator arrives late to a remote theatre. The messenger is cut out, leaving the audience and star in a hushed, conspiratorial silence about the King’s tidings.
A Detroit Press snippet shows a produce dealer on Michigan Avenue discussing two ads. One claims a house sold six pounds of olea for real butter should seal immediately to save cost. The other urges payment for eggs bought two years ago or legal action may follow.
A comical exchange shows Cumso bothered by an insurance agent while Goslin claims better fortune because agents know he has a heart trouble and is a poor risk. The note cites our expenditures on the London Times during the Parnell case as well.
A New York Tribune profile of a seaside inn keeper on a sand island near a famous lighthouse. The genial old style host rejects modern conveniences, greets social guests warmly, and works to keep order as excursion crowds test his rules by dining and paying a dollar for cold clam chowder and stale pie.
In a Wisconsin village a newly elected constable leads a search for a tramp in a dark barn. He confronts the intruder alone, is knocked down, and later discovers his watch and wallet missing along with the tramp. The constable swears he would sell himself for a galler jackass.
An Arkansan woman of refined sensibilities condemns smoking cigars but praises a well seasoned pipe. She says the smell of fresh cigars turns her stomach, yet a pipe that has been smoked for a year or two is pleasant and wholesome to smell. Drake's Magazine.
In a Omaha World-Herald column, Mr Dundy lampoons Washington life from a Nebraskan perspective. He contrasts Western practicality with Eastern show, ridicules ignorance among capital dwellers, notes unfamiliarity with Falls City and Dave Mercer, and mocks Washington horses.
A sewing machine man recounts a sugar camp memory near a grove a widow's corn field and a blind sow with one pig. The pig leads the sow across a felled log by grabbing its tail. The narrator shoots the tail off and the old sow loses track. the pig flees toward the corn field as the sow wanders aimlessly.
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