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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1888
Page
2
A miscellany of brief notes including Matthew Arnold on Americans, a Indiana court fine for contempt, a Florida orange tree yielding up to 12 000 fruit, a Baltimore lamplighter boy, German lawyer wit, Vespucius and Americus theory debates, Washington anecdotes on riding and Mrs. Cleveland’s riding fears, and other human-interest snippets.
A German decree restricts travel into Alsace Lorraine from France requiring a passport revised by the German Ambassador in Paris. Foreigners risk being halted or escorted back. exemptions apply to Germans from France and frontier residents on business after proving identity.
A Mississippi company forms to hunt for silver once mined by Choctaw in a secret locale guarded by tribal oath. Similar tales in Southern Arkansas claim documentary Spanish archive evidence of vast silver hoards, with harm threatened for disclosure.
A Bristol Royal Infirmary memorial window honors William Connor born May 7 1851 died July 4 1887 for sacrificing to save a patient during a tracheotomy for diphtheria. The three panel design depicts Good Samaritan and Healing the Sick with a God glory dedication.
A reflection on how the Irish potato famine accelerated the repeal of the Corn Laws and altered world history. Pearls of whimsy contrast major political shifts with everyday accidents, noting how a single misstep or slight change in fate redirected historical paths across empires.
In a Hoffman House gathering, Edmund Clarence Stedman and fellow literary figures welcome a supposed guest Col. Leigh. The officer reveals himself to be Sir Walter Scott, jokingly claiming incognito while the group includes Hawthorne Aldrich Gilder Howells and Twain, echoing a playful masquerade among literati.
The first merino sheep to leave Spain and reach the United States came to Boston in 1796. William Porter of Massachusetts secured three merinos in Spain, later slaughtered by Andrew Craigie of Cambridge. Colonel David Humphreys, then US minister to Spain, received 109 merino sheep as a gift. 70 survived the voyage and the Vermont merinos trace their royal line to those stock.
A Mexican speculator recalls a Leadville poker game with Senator Tom Bowen of California and local millionaire Dr. Powell. In a tense hand Bowen bluffed and was chased by Powell, with重 bets climbing to $650 to draw. The narrator, holding four sixes, survives a dramatic showdown as others fold.
Narrator recalls a poker session in St. Paul where a player offers a $1,500 check, another raises to $5,000, and Powell folds after Bowen increases the pot. The game ends with the narrator leaving town with a heavy haul.
Leonard Swett recounts how Ulysses S Grant priced his memoir. Grant offered Century $10,000 for the manuscript and did not negotiate further. Webster later offered $59,000, then Twain’s firm offered $100,900 plus royalty. The publishers profited greatly, and the work is praised as a landmark achievement.
In Chicago a Browning Club formed with Miss Pettie Graves and Miss L Hattie Ham as members. A Boston Browning reader led the first meeting, sparks of humor and banter followed as they debated understanding Browning and joked about readings, social plans, and pretending to enjoy the poet.
Hubert Howe Dancroft notes mission records show Indian neophytes baptized with ages, many living to 80 or more, some over 100. Examples include Guadalupe Romeo at 115 in 1858 and Antonio Valdes at 92 in 1859, with several other natives and a 137 year old dancer cited. A 123 year old in Santa Cruz and a claimed 140 by Entala Poruz are discussed, alongside an age examination of Ursula Madriage and Justiano Roxas, noting baptism ages and later deaths. The piece ends with a quip contrasting horse races and walking matches.
George Sigourney married Miss Imogene Henriques in Buffalo in 1888. The couple embarked on a six year nonstop traveling wedding tour from 1882, visiting Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America, meeting royalty and producing twins along the way. Their cost ran about 87500 dollars. The wife’s weight grew from 92 pounds to 165 pounds over the years.
A Tokio correspondent describes a funeral in Japan where a procession forms around a plain pine coffin jammed with the body and head between the knees. A brown canopy decorated with rice cakes and prayers covers the bier, lanterns mark the deceased as married or divorced, and women typically do not attend, especially for a divorced woman.
An American Angler tale recalls a Kennebec river day fifty years ago when a crane perched on a log dropped bugs into the current to lure prey. A pickerel rose for the bait and vanished in a flash, the crane reacting with a flap and retreat.
A scene shows Mr Darringer declining to read a manuscript calling it awful while a young man explains it is a recommendation from an employer. They send it to a printing office. A druggist Gillingham is suggested for cough medicine and relief. Teerif's music circulates. a clay violin is displayed in Berlin.
A New York report details a German led street band that earns about two dollars daily per man by performing six hours daily. The leader, a Pennsylvania Dutch American, describes pay, profits, and living, noting his method of hiring Germans, teaching seasonally themed music, and planning for summer boat rides and excursions.
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph report describes a new home washing method using benzine to whiten fabrics and cut laundress labor by about half. The chemical is added to overnight soaking and again at boiling, with odor said to vanish via evaporation. a pint covers two large washings at little cost.
The article argues that rural origin soldiers suffered higher death rates than city troops in the Army of the Potomac. It notes Stoddard's Vermont Brigade and mountaineers as especially prone to disease, dying in Chickahominy swamps, while city regiments had lower mortality. Since the war's end, county regiments show higher ongoing mortality and sickness than metropolitan troops.
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