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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1890
Page
6
An elderly woman died suddenly in a Birmingham Alabama hotel. In her effects a sum of 2010 dollars was found secreted. The brief incident ends with no further details given.
Report from Rome notes alarming cracks in St Peters dome. A century ago a metal band ringed the dome, heated it, then cooled to contract and seal the cracks, a method now recalled as potentially applicable again.
A Moore’s Hill resident recalls the town’s only liquor saloon being shut by temperance women. Relays of knitters visited the saloon, halting business and leading to its permanent closure. No man has dared reopen it since.
A Berkshire County site marks the 1764 Court House in Great Barrington where Aug 16 1774 saw the first open resistance to British rule. Theodore Sedgwick in 1780 used the bill of rights to free Elizabeth Freeman, a runaway slave.
The text praises a native race as intelligent and morally advanced, noting monogamy and sacred marriage, and describes dwarfs as skilled iron workers more adaptable to civilization. The dwarf queen befriends Stanley and Dr. Parke, accompanies much of the journey, but falls ill and dies.
Mr J J Carty recalls Mr Preece’s experiments on the 10,000 volt Deptford alternating current dynamo and its effect on telephones. He notes that earth connections could enable besieged garrisons to signal relief and that signals might pass from ship to shore or between ships. A recent attributed claim says the Deptford dynamo disturbed Paris telephones.
A traveler recalls sampling unpaying candies in a Canadian shop revealing cayenne pepper in multiple piles. Her companion notes the practice to deter tasting. Separately, a tale of a Brussels magnate who left a fortune to a stranger after observing a benevolent conductor and a half franc returned by a generous young woman leads to a surprising will.
In Philadelphia near Sixth and Oxford streets a shepherd dog acts as the lone assistant to a drover, corralling a large flock that fills the curb to curb street. When a wagon cannot pass, the dog positions the sheep along one side, allowing passage, then returns to guard the line, rewarded with a pretzel by the driver.
A verse from America extols the poetic pianist Herr Pachmann noting Miss Gushly and Miss Fiightly praising his performance of the Summer Song as elegant and realistic. They remark that his playing impressed even as one speaker’s foot fell asleep during the recital.
Geo W Peck recalls arresting Irish Mary during his La Crosse police tenure. He used kindness over force, enabled Mary to choose a saloon rather than a dray, and led to a calmer force with fewer incidents. Mary later quit drinking after a family death inheritance. The tale highlights humane policing and changed routines.
Paris Telegraph reports a London correspondent on a refined restaurateur who duped nobles by telephone, arranging a costly meal for Marquis de Mores and companions and a later cigars delivery paid by the messenger. Also recounted is an alpine descent tale shared by Austrian tourists with a humorous snow ride led by a guide.
A refined young woman in the third row removes her fashionable hat during a first night, revealing golden hair. A line of theatergoers follows, removing hats as admiration grows. A paper signed by about thirty gentlemen arrives and then the note is presented to her, thanking her for starting a hatless trend that allows better viewing.
Experiments in instantaneous photography show shot from a charge spread comet-like and line up behind one another. A forty yard target sees the first shot arrive before the last lags ten yards, and even a forty yard choke bore leaves eight yards between some shots. About five percent arrive simultaneously, while the rest crowd close, leaving birds unable to dodge. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Excerpts discuss existential questions about suffering and the impulse to govern, with Lechange declining a political appointment and noting limits of power. The text shifts to Prof Maurice Bloomfield on how language distinguishes humans from animals, arguing that language is a conventional social system transmitted across generations, unlike animal sounds.
A young Chinese man named Wo, who saved two thousand dollars by wearing a jade bracelet worth seven hundred fifty dollars on his left wrist, finds his bank cannot be drawn upon as ten years of weig ht lock the bracelet. With creditors pressing, he contemplates pawning himself to raise cash, leaving him both wealthy and poor.
A Twilight Club discussion on adding a four year university course for women highlights whether advanced schooling affects marriage prospects. A sprightly member argued higher education may hinder matrimony, citing New England and New York data showing lower marriage rates after graduation, especially at female institutions. Some attendees favored self reliance and extended schooling, while others warned of reduced alliance options, noting fewer pursuing further study.
Forty years on from his arrival, Collyer recounts mingling with Americans as a worker, pastor, and lecturer across two cities. He declares loyalty to England yet recalls wartime English hostility, including a Noblest colleague swearing Darn her, reflecting lingering tensions in his North American experience.
In a blurred fragment, Birdie McGinnis and Esmerelda Tongeottin recall a nervous proposal scene. Birdie faltered, Esmerelda confessed fear, her heart racing as the suitor paused twice then wondered who might enter. The passage ends with a doorstep interruption and a sudden call.
In a playful exchange a mother helps a child recall the geography topic, the lakes of Africa, while noting the mislaid geography book. The scene appears in a New York weekly narrative fragment reflecting domestic humor.
A widow seeks a tombstone epitaph for her husband, a professional card player. The stonecutter ponders a line about whiting for the last trump. A wren in East Bradford, Pa., built a nest in a garment sleeve hung to dry. A quip suggests not drowning sorrows in a jug. Asheville Citizen.
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