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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1885
Page
2
The Paris Pays editor Paul de Cassagnac foregoes dueling and becomes heir to $600,000 from M Julien of Marseilles, though relatives challenge the will arguing insanity. The piece surveys European figures, railroads, cattle ranches, a Danbury wooden shoe factory, royal literary leanings, and various societal notes.
An ancient custom traced to Moslem tradition and Hagar explains ear rings as honoring Yshmael. A legend says Sarth pierced Hagar’s ears, prompting Hagar to wear gold rings to cover marks. Turkish descendants uphold the practice, while many modern women seek a different justification.
A discussion on sleep and trance as similar states of unconsciousness links human hibernation to animal patterns. Cases show somnolence lasting days resembling sleep with deathlike signs, including George Childer's eight day trance mistaken for death and eventual recovery.
The piece argues that large scale autumn military maneuvers disrupt crops and force farmers to host troops. It notes farmers object to billeting and damage while praising army efficiency. Contingent costs include compensation for damage and lodging payments to householders.
A Washington recruiting sergeant says enrollment hinges on passable examination. two to eight applicants daily, with frequent disqualifications for dental issues, drunkenness, or weak calves. Desertion runs high, and single men are preferred due to pay and burden constraints. Some enlistees seek escape from trouble or romance, while a few educated men join for career leverage.
A New York Evening Telegram item reports a fashionable uptown girls school held a physiology class exam. Answers reveal misunderstandings of physiology anatomy hygiene and minerals with some strikingly incorrect definitions among the brilliant responses.
A long, vivid tale from Neie Vor Siti about wood rats in Colorado. The creature is described as a thief who hides misdeeds by swapping items, leaving nails replaced by spoons and even stealing false teeth. A family fearfully encounters the rat’s tricks, including a judge’s teeth found in a nail keg.
The paper recounts the origin of the term Blue Stocking tied to a 1774 figure at Mrs Montague's receptions. It notes his wearing blue stockings and how peers were drawn to him, shaping the early Blue Stocking Club's reputation as a social hub.
In China silk rearing is widespread and provides steady income for hundreds of thousands of women. Silkworms are fed on fresh mulberry leaves, cocoons are spun into thread on a simple device, and the yarn is prepared for weaving. The outfit costs about $1 for eggs and $2 for loam, with silk selling at 15 cents to $1 a yard. a productive wife can earn about 24 cents daily, or 1.75 in the United States, suggesting a promising potential for similar work abroad.
A column contrasts the beauty of woman with a Kansas Supreme Court ruling on marital liability for slanderous words. It notes the old legal right of a husband to restrain his wife by force has been abolished, questioning whether presence can silence her speech. The piece quotes the St Louis Post Dispatch on the deafening mockery of such assumptions.
A humorous explanation recalls a traveler buried in a family vault. Upon opening the coffin the party recoiled as it seemed the remains were of a lion, prompting a nephew to quip that the lion had eaten the man. In other notes, a prolific woman bore seven children in thirty two months via twins twice and a triplet once. Experts call South Carolina tea cured in a fruit evaporator equal to the imported article.
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