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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1892
Page
3
A caustic compilation mocks professions from plumbers to barbers and doctors, skewers political gambits, and lampoons etiquette, fashion, and public figures. It ridicules sensational journalism, epidemics, and moral posturing while criticizing costly pension swindles and social pretensions.
A reader notes the clash of American slang with Lancashire speech and Cockney manner, then discusses the Czar’s shock at Russian famine reports. He urges the ruler to distrust flattering ministries, seek truthful accounts, and perhaps emulate his father’s bold, reforming impulse.
Judge Swan rules the China man arrested crossing the Canadian frontier must be sent back to Canada if he can pay a $50 head tax. Canadian authorities refuse to release him without payment, leaving the Chinaman detained as government decides next steps. The article also notes Chinese revolutionary hopes, speculation on Russia and France, and then shifts to social scenes of grief and performance, pure food legislation under a new Congress, and references to state dairy laws and oleomargarine taxes.
Poem-like meditation extols Hope as a guiding star for the weary, Charity soothing the dying and feeding the hungry, Peace as a calm glory uplifting youth and age, Joy as fragrant air along life’s stream, and Truth as majestic light shaping just character across the Great Divide.
Mrs. Job Bangs obsesses over a grand new stove called the Queen of the World costing 845. A mismanaged fire, faulty placement, and a chimney blaze trigger a chaotic scene with neighbors, a fire crew, a bull, and a humorous perilous escape. The stove is wrecked and sold for old iron as Bangs deems modern stoves all talk and little toil.
A Providence Telegram writer argues that keeping a wagon clean on muddy roads hinges on the right speed. Walking pace around three mph throws mud onto the wheel rims, six to seven mph scatters mud everywhere, while four and a half to five mph yields the least splatter. The key is maintaining that exact gait.
A mechanic proposes rustproofing by dissolving camphor in lard with black lead to coat machinery, letting it sit then polish for months of protection. Another method claims thrusting a forged tool into molten Babbitt metal to harden it beyond oil cooling or tempering. A saying notes women conceal what they do not know.
Naturalists seek the sunlit depth in ocean waters. Secchi in the Mediterranean and Soret in Lake Leman performed noted tests with disks and photosensitive plates to gauge how deep daylight penetrates. Secchi found large objects visible to about sixty meters in clear seas. Soret indicated a shallower limit in the lake.
London Truth quotes Henry Labouchere warning that Russia’s brutal persecutions will trigger a calamity within months. He notes widespread oppression of Jews Protestants and Catholics. Finns rebuke the Czar while Warsaw recalls a priest beaten for outdoor services. Czar's reforms halted trials suspended and schools treated as prisons.
The Monteros de Espinosa watch the Spanish sovereign by night guarding the palace from sunset to sunrise. They are bound by town origin to Tispinosa natives and have served with honor in the army. They lock the gates at midnight and reopen them at seven each morning.
A Montana prospector unearthed a mineral that ignites on exposure to air and consumes itself. When removed from the ground it resembled iron ore in weight and appearance. The initial pile near the shaft smoked by morning, grew to a white heat for days, then cooled to half its first weight, resembling meteor fragments.
Wood receives a mirrorlike finish as an alternative to metal. The process begins with a caustic alkali bath at about 175 degrees for two to three days, followed by a hydro sulfate of calcium dip, then sulfur, then an acetate of lead treatment at about 100 degrees, and finishing by polishing with lead, tin, or zinc to yield a shiny metallic surface.
English experiments show electric lights aimed skyward can be seen far beyond lighthouse ranges. A vertical beam of moderate power could be visible about thirty five miles on clear nights, with a good chance of piercing ordinary fog, suggesting new signaling potential beyond Eddystone lighthouse distances.
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine lists trees with remarkable uses. The bread tree yields edible slices. the Weeping tree distills water from leaves. the Wine tree of Mauritius provides drinkable wine. a Sicilian ash sap hardens into crude sugar. Wax, Butter, and Milk trees give useful secretions. a Soap tree from China yields suds. a man eating plant resembles Venus flytrap with spines.
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine notes Australian butterflies entering water to bathe. M. G. Lyell Jr. observed multiple butterflies backing into pools and submerging body and hind wings while forelegs stayed dry, then dispersing refreshed. The article records several instances with wet wings and suspended fluttering during the bath.
Combinations of iron with carbon produce steel while adding hydrocarbon alters steel drastically. Hydrogen content yields resilience as in watch springs or durability as in knives and razors. Varying temperatures create edge tools, springs, and blue hues. white heat followed by quenching in hydrogen water yields tiles or harder forms.
A tiny colony of cold loving butterflies inhabits Mt. Washington New Hampshire above 2000 feet. They never descend below the summit and, as far as they know, no other specimens exist. A Cornhill Magazine writer says the insects became stranded on the peak at the end of the glacial period and have remained there for thousands of years.
A county fair advertisement sparks questions on care in public notices as it promotes donkey and pig races open only to county citizens, highlighting the power of wording in ads and announcements.
An American expatriate returning to the United States after many years in Japan laments leaving behind a teapot collection. She kept over 500 pieces but chose only fifty to bring home, expressing sorrow at the need to part with them.
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