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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1892
Page
2
A rambled column in a New England paper mocks social excesses and public foibles. It rails at doctors selling cheap patent medicines, laments fashion, notes royal and legal misdeeds, ridicules theater, and even counsels suicide with a grim joke. The piece skewers hypocrisy, luxury, and misfortune, weaving satire with sharp social commentary from the era.
The article notes Tre Czar’s apathy as he travels from South Russia and sees famine. It warns he blames ministers for deception and should abandon flattering courtiers. It suggests a noble impulse akin to his father could reform the empire.
Judge Swan's ruling to send a China man arrested crossing the Canadian frontier back to Canada faces a practical hurdle as Canadian authorities demand an 850 head tax. The Chinaman refuses to pay and customs funds are unavailable, leaving him in limbo while the government decides the next step.
The piece surveys potential upheaval if Chinese revolutionaries advance on Pekin and unite Celestials, noting Russia’s Siberian railway links and France Türkiye alliance signals. It mentions Ormuz gulf access, East India Company pearl fisheries, and contrasts public bravado with private grief. It also notes pure food legislation debates led by Senator Paddock and state laws on dairy products and oleomargarine.
A reflective meditation praising faith and virtue. The poem links hope charity peace and joy to moral strength, youth and age, and ends with the line Great Divide.
Mrs. Bangs dreams of a grand stove buys a showy Queen of the World costing 45 dollars. A disastrous misfire starts a chimney blaze, floods the kitchen, and draws in neighbors and fire brigades. The stove collapses, is hauled away for old iron, while Bangs mutters about modern stoves being all talk.
A Providence Telegram writer explains that on muddy roads the wagon stays clean only if driven at a precise gait. Walk speeds around three miles an hour fling mud to spokes, six to seven miles an hour plaster the vehicle, while four and a half to five miles per hour keeps mud from dropping or flying off apart from wheel rims.
Amechiunic¢ prescribes dissolving camphor in melted lard to coat machinery after scumming. A twenty four day cure then yields months of cleanliness. A second artisan outlines hardening tools by dipping forged ends into molten Babbitt metal and cooling, claiming superior hardness. A corollary note observes a woman hides only what she does not know.
The article surveys how deep daylight penetrates water, noting Secchi’s Mediterranean experiments showing visibility up to about sixty metres for large white objects, versus Soret’s Lake Leman tests with a shallower light impression, reflecting lower transparency in the lake.
Treary Labouchere in London Truth warns of furious persecutions in Russia that will lead to catastrophe. Jews Protestants and Catholics face brutal repression as the Russification drive deepens. Czarist policies suspend jury trials and curb local privileges, risking revolution or palace coup as Alexander appears unstable or fanatical.
The Monteros de Espinosa guard the Spanish royal palace from sunset to sunrise. Native Espinosa townsmen with military service honor lock palace gates at midnight and open them at dawn. Their fidelity to the sovereign is as traditional as their ancient privilege.
A Montana prospector reports a peculiar mineral that ignites when exposed to air. When taken from the ground it resembles iron ore and is very heavy. The first piece cooled after smok ing the next morning then grew hotter to a white heat lasting days. It gradually cooled and weighed half its initial heft, resembling meteor fragments.
Wood treated through caustic alkali bath at 175 degrees for 2 to 3 days, then dipped in ferro-sulphate of calcite for 24 to 39 hours, followed by a sulfur solution. A lead acetate bath at about 100 degrees and final polishing with lead tin or zinc yields a shiny metal-like surface.
Experiments in England achieve a remarkable display with vertical electric lights aimed skyward. The Eddystone lighthouse beam reaches seventeen and a half miles on clear nights, while a lower powered vertical beam extends to about thirty-five miles and could better pierce ordinary fog.
In Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine a catalog of extraordinary trees and plants is offered. It describes edible, fibrous, and useful trees including bread, wax, milk, soap, and butter trees, plus a man eating plant with Venus flytrap-like defenses.
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine reports Australian butterflies deliberately entering water to bathe. M G Lyell Jr observed several specimens joining the water, with bodies and hind leg edges wet, wings paused, then rising refreshed. Heat drove them to water, after which they flew back to hill sides.
The text explains how adding carbon to iron creates steel, while hydrocarbons modify steel’s properties dramatically. It notes that steel can be as soft as iron, gain resilience like a watch spring, or hardness approaching a diamond as in a file. Low temperature heating forms edge tools. midrange colors produce springs. high temperature whitening and quenching in hydrogen-rich water create fires or harder forms.
A small group of cold loving butterflies resides only near the Mt Washington summit in New Hampshire. They stay above 2000 feet and have never been seen elsewhere. A Cornhill Magazine writer notes the icy colony may date to the end of the last glacial period and has persisted for thousands of years.
A county fair ad proclaims highly amusing donkey races and pig races with a bold note that competition in these contests is open to citizens of the county only. The wording highlights care in expression and elevates the public notice as a civic concern.
An American widow returning from Japan laments leaving her teapot trove behind. She owned over 600 teapots and spent days choosing the 50 she could bring to the United States, expressing sorrow at giving up the rest of her gems.
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