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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1887
Page
2
The Register notes Judge Advocate General Ion of Lineland remains in Washington aged and active. A colored Mississippian baby born near Aberdeen presents extreme skin and eye color contrasts. An indoor breathing apparatus claims to cure pulmonary tuberculosis by drawing frosty air through a mouth nose attachment.
Baron Gustav von HermEe-GeiDERN died in Vienna at age 81 leaving a fortune of 3,250,000. He once yielded unpublished writings to the Australian Government in exchange for the granting of a noble title. The Old Baron edited the Wiener Stremdenblatt until his death.
On arrival in the city Waren Wilson Barrett visits his hotel as reporters gather in response to a letter inviting papers to send representatives. The note, signed by Barretts private secretary, asks for tomorrow at 4 p.m. and promises an old interview to guide coverage.
An audience listens as a famed actor asserts he is Shakespeare’s true restorer of Hamlet, while offering occasional refreshments. A London tale reports a Bank of England scene where a man hoarded 1838 fourpenny bits worth 100 pounds, then sought to exchange them at jewelers for a shilling each after learning they are now distributed.
The Boston Herald quotes Col. Bob Ingersoll railing at lawyers as intellectual hustlers and burglars of mentality while noting The American Millionaire monthly aims to unite US millionaires. Publisher argues the wealth class seeks companionship, shares wealth tales, homes, farms, and marriages across a continent.
A brief exchange questions a mother’s remarriage and a child’s stance on a stepfather, while a playful line asks what makes shoes go beyond feet. The fragment hints at family dynamics and a humorous turn of phrase.
A historical review outlines the myriad charges leveled at George Washington, from theft and hypocrisy to murder rumors and political caricature. It notes newspapers like the Philadelphia Aurora and the New York Journal hybridly attacked him while posters and letters debated his legacy and term limits.
The article describes Turkish wedding customs with elaborate pre and postnuptial rituals. It notes arranged marriages dominated by elders, presents carried on trays, and the bride entering the groom’s home in a sedan chair. It mentions regal harems, trials of the bride’s beauty, and the practice of combining wedlock with state ceremonies, including age norms for girls and the fate of children.
A humorous note contrasts a legendary monkey bridge with a historical Euphrates crossing at Babylon. It claims the earliest true bridge appeared in Queen Nitocris era Babylon, with large stone arches, iron clamps, and a roof, spanning six hundred feet and thirty five feet wide, though no remnants remain.
A late 19th century account profiles Snowshoe Thompson as the era’s swiftest snowshoe runner in the Sierra Nevada. It notes a 1,600 foot sprint in 21 seconds at Silver Mountain, plus sensational jumps of 50 to 60 feet and a reported 180 foot leap on mounts.
The London Spectator notes coffee consumption fell in the year ending March 1886 by about 14,000 pounds despite a lower duty. It cites difficulty for the poor in making coffee, plus a shift to tea aided by cheaper sugar and alcohol decline. The piece argues tea would dominate if prices drop further, praising Indian teas and slight taxation on a staple seen as food.
From Chambers Journal a survey of Ulster speech reveals vivid idioms and quirks. It catalogs phrases like Tibb's Eve and neither before nor after Christmas, explains colorful similes such as as yellow as a duck's foot and as easy as a kiss, and notes oath terms like Heth Feth and Holy farmer.
A Century excerpt recalls the harsh early life near Pigeon Creek. Malaria and the milk sickness ravaged the community as Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the Sparrows died, and young Abraham mourned his mother amid sparse forest burials and a failed attempt to bring a funeral sermon.
The Vienna program educates girls to 15 with family supervised kitchen work, sometimes with trained cooks for extra years. They learn self sufficiency before managing households. Austrian women are described as affectionate wives and accomplished, witty, and among Europe’s most beautiful.
A brief Tid Bits voice recounts a noble exchange with the Czar about a father’s nobility and his death described as the crowning event in a life. The dialogue juxtaposes reverence and personal influence in a historical vignette.
The piece catalogs various idiotic behaviors from peripatetic talkers to loud theater fans and musical bores, describing their social impact and humorous failings. It notes biting critiques of the loud and oblivious, the adolescent self-absorption, and aging pretenses, suggesting the topic could fuel a substantial work.
A starving man asks for 26 cents to ride and rest, while his wife and a reader of The Pirate's Doom debate giving him aid. The husband inner voice urges harshness as the wife counters with sympathy. Local readers note the plight along city sidewalks.
A satirical column by Carl Pretzel mocks pretensions and gendered rhetoric with lilting phrases about money, empathy, and social manners. The piece plays on old world pronunciation to lampoon manners and misplaced generosity.
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