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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1891
Page
2
A compilation of scattered notes: a Los Angeles paper’s losses, a Brooklyn tabernacle lien, Toronto coffin dwellers, bird flight speeds, Scenano fishermen using oil, Dublin graduates with women leading men, a golden eagle on the Sisseton, and light output comparisons. Also quips on Chilean bridesmaids, tobacco life debates, social manners, New York bill collectors, and Colonial era curios.
A rambled column cites aging demands for emotional economy, critiques of talkers, and a murder trial linked to Jack the Ripper rumors. It extols wrestling as total-body exercise and mocks lavish infant feasts in New York. It offers hangnail care tips, then reports on 1888 global mining output and coal prices in France and Austria.
A playful sample of old time newspaper English shows oddly phrased lines such as He was shot in the suburbs and She whipped him upon her return. The collection highlights era specific diction and tabloid style expressions used to convey simple actions with a humorous formality.
A poem about a fairy delivering a babe to a kind mother at a farmer’s gate and a rival sprite named Bug-1-boo who covets the child. The tale warns that if the child cries or frets, the Goo-goo-gee sprite will spirits away the child to his cave in the black molasses sea. The child remains well behaved, prompting the rival to rage while wandering the countryside.
A historical overview traces telegraphy from Morse to modern rapid systems. It notes key advances including the dot and dash alphabet, insulation, dynamos, and Edison multiplexing enabling simultaneous messages, printing telegraphs, and silent visual transmission of images for distant impressions. The piece suggests widespread public use as the ultimate goal.
The San Francisco Bulletin cites a view that Chinese medical practice lacks anatomy physiology and pathology concepts. It says centuries of observations are informal and unsystematized, with occasional correct hits overshadowed by accidental outcomes and dangers from dangerous mixtures including lizard and spider products.
A witty exchange of talking objects and animals critiques each other in a playful prairie style sequence. The folklore of talking items includes a roof, flea, dog, stage footlights, axle, wheel, wheelwright, sparrow, thrush, blue jay, chamois, and fly.
A Belgian inventor, M. Henri Pieper, introduced a simple incandescent lamp using a vertical carbon rod resting on two horizontal copper rails. Springs shift the copper rails as the carbon erodes to keep the circuit intact and prevent interruption.
In Wood County Ohio a district schoolmaam faced Budd Hawkins who refused to mind. After he climbed a tall elm and resisted, she felled the tree with an axe in minutes. Budd was pulled from the branches and punished with stern words and begging in the schoolhouse. New York Sun reports.
Captain Zalinski cautions that smokeless powders, while yielding higher velocities and lower pressures than the best black powder, carry instability risks due to their explosive nature. Ordinary gunpowder now provides reliable performance, and smokeless varieties may see future use in small arms, though they remain noisy.
A report in the Transactions of the Association of the American Physicians by Dr. Weir Mitchell details cases of false cold sensations. In one instance a lawyer, 57, endures genuine cold feelings despite normal surface temperature, wearing multiple layers and sleeping under heavy coverings to relieve the pain.
A new tubing design features a flexible, strong tube for conveying gas steam or liquids under high pressure. It uses a triangular wire pressed between round wire coils to spread the coils and maintain contact pressure. The triangular wire also fills irregular gaps, adapting as the tube flexes.
A humorous dialogue from a New York Weekly item contrasts Blessings of Wealth with Lord Toplofty remarking that all but one of his sons marry American girls while the heir may marry an English girl noting fashion as plaid.
John Quincy Adams discusses sittings with artists in a North American Review essay. He recalls Webster’s horsefly analogy, his own enjoyment of artist interactions, and memories of painters like Copley Reynolds and Stuart. The piece links art talk to courtly conventions and Horace’s saying about steadfast resolve.
A man deposits small sums for each daughter at a savings bank and faces strict trust rules. He must sign for each child, provide ages and birthplaces, and the bank insists on full first names to avoid misidentification. Guardians, trust funds, and six month interest trials reveal a peculiar, honor-bound board of directors without allowances beyond a president’s salary.
The piece profiles a thirty foot lavender gooseboat with a lattice porch and rustic flower pots. A Danish couple live aboard with relatives nearby, detailing a spotless kitchen, bright tablecloth, polished stove, white curtains, and palm accents. A four room boat costs about $100 to build.
William reports lace production plans amid talk of cows and milkweed growth. Mrs Citybred and Mr Citybred discuss potential improvements as signals of forthcoming agricultural news.
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