Various Curious Bits From The Register Headlines
A collage of curiosities and brief anecdotes from The Register includes Americans aboard a Liverpool to London train, a sharp remark from the Chinese High Executioner, Senator Cameron’s habits, ornate wagons for a Gypsy camp near Hartford, Washington’s inaugural attire, Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, a kite parachute incident near Maidenstone, wealthy Englishmen’s expenditures, steam powered boot polishing in Boston, a risqué misadventure in New Lisbon, a bequest to educate southern colored children, Miss Parlon’s cooking class burns, Linsey Wooter the elocutionist with a memory feat, George W. Cutlips on effort and endurance, and the pedestrian habits of Mr Childs, among other sketched items.
Remarkable Pennsylvania native in late life and fortune
County Pennsylvania is dead at 87. In youth he kicked tinware from a store ceiling eleven feet high. He once rafted on the Monongahela river and escaped a wreck by leaping twenty feet to a rock and being rescued. He performed feats by jumping between hogsheads then back to the first with ease. Frederick Scumaiz, a London inventor, came to America about twelve years ago and patented enameling watch dials now used by Waltham. His uncle in Metz watched his progress. in ten years Schmalz amassed 2 million dollars. After his uncle died he inherited over 4 million in property and chateaus in France and 1.5 million in Southern real estate.
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Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Frederick Scumaiz
Londor
America
Waltham Watch Company
Schmalz
Metz
France
Sir Edward Thornton and Lord George Montague at White House
James W. Hyatt named United States Treasurer elect. Connecticut native with long banking and political service. Hyatt rose from clerk in New York to vice president of Danbury and Norwalk Railway, led Norwalk Horse Railroad, served in Connecticut House and Senate, Bank Commissioner, and became National Bank Examiner for Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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White House
Edward Thornton
Lord George Montague
Duke of Manchester
Edward
Lord George
Sir Edward Thornton
James W. Hyatt
New United States
Treasur
Norwalk
Conn
le Grand Lockwood & Co
New York
Newark
Danbury & Norwalk Railway Company
Norwalk Horse Railroad Company
House
Ingersoll
State Senate
National Bank
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Traps for Americans in Paris Matrimonial Schemes
A Philadelphia Telegraph writer notes a tall tale of a Parisized American businessman approached by a well-dressed woman from a matrimonial agency. She boasted a list of aristocratic matches and proposed paying him 10 percent of a dowry for guiding wealthy American ladies to advantageous marriages. The piece describes agents at hotels, use of social events to stage introductions, and noted impersonators and circulating schemes in high society. George Eliot is cited on temptation.
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Paris
Demi-Monde
Philadelphia Telegraph
Manuevers
Kilkenny Cats and a World of War Like Beasts
A vivid survey argues animals and humans share fighting instincts. From lobsters to ants, birds to horses, and cats, the piece notes pervasive combativeness across species. It recounts Kilkenny cats legends, primaries of war in human history, and tallies battles from ancient sieges to Napoleonic campaigns, ending with a temperate woodland reflection.
Peril of Fiji Sparks Debate on Civilizing Efforts
The Saturday Review notes Fiji social upheaval under new government and hurricanes risking a slide toward cannibalism. It argues chiefs profited while commoners sunk, traders worsened hardship, and missionaries fear a brutal relapse. the piece questions England’s responsibility.
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Saturday Review
Fiji
Lala
Mr. Dalton
Prince of Wales
Bacchante
England
New York Tribune
Forms of Oaths Across Ancient Cultures and Beliefs
A survey of oath taking from ancient Germans and Scandinavians to Chinese and Indian practices. It notes methods such as breaking a saucer, oaths on sacred books, touching rings or swords, and regional rites including goose veneration in Egypt and spear the calf in Madagascar. It also cites biblical forms and Abyssinian customs with references to Genesis and Niger expeditions.
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China
Egypt
Madagascar
Jupiter
Minerva
Neptune
Jerusalem
Temple
Israel
Bruce
Abyssinia
Abraham
Oldfield
Africa
Niger
Iddah
Old Well Story Echoes in Piano Parlor
A young woman seeks The Old Oaken Bucket on the piano when a tired older woman whispers a tale. She reveals the song recalls her husband and a well incident in their past, noting his death and wishing the past not be recalled, then she retreats upstairs.
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Detroit
Nocturnal Meeting on Moonlit Mountain Trail
A mystical scene unfolds as a young girl Bets encounters Bill beneath a luminous moon. The elusive conversation hints at secrecy and fate on a desolate mountainside, with the wind and moonlight amplifying the tension. The narrator hints the tale will finish when the moon and winds no longer endure.
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Bill
Zonas Dane
Puch
The Cowardice of Animals Revealed in Zoos and Tanks
A writer recalls a live animal dealer examining rattling anacondas for tumors, and a Syrian bear subdued with clubs after breaking iron bars. A donkey and lion clash on a zoo pedestal scene ends with the donkey mortally wounding the lion, per Scientific American.
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Mr. Thompson
Reiche
Cincinnati Zoological Gardens
The Type-writer Girl and the Illusion of Heroes
A Boston Transcript quote contrasts the type-writer girl’s keen, unflattering scrutiny with the notion of heroic self image. It argues that intimate knowledge undermines public aureoles, revealing weaknesses, pretenses, and the gap between declared brilliance and private reality.
Mechanical process drives a locomotive with oil gas
A Bereisan glass blower in Meadville Pa. used gas made from crude oil to move a locomotive and cars, with a simple device on the tender linked to the furnace. Other notes discuss ash wood cleaning, reliable cement formulas, natural cement burn qualities, Lang suction pipes, and artesian well power in France.
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Meadville
Paris
Zoological Gardens
London
France
Grenelle
Jacksonville
Cleveland
A Fit of Painful Modesty on a Country Trip
A Washington Critic excerpt recounts a country stage coach ride with a talkative driver two elderly women and a curious little girl. An innocent question about hose leads to a blush and a tense moment as the aunt guides the group with indirect explanations about stockings.
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Mace
Fannie
Washington
Suspicion and virtue in a reflective prose note
A contemplative meditation contrasts suspicion with trust, arguing that happiness favors openness over perpetual guard. It notes virtue as tied to religion and highlights tears as a defining trait attributed to Mme Swetchine.
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Miss Paruoa
Misss Parlon
Linsey Wooterr
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Robert of
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George W. Cutlps
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