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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1889
Page
2
The page surveys diverse items from rulers, scholars, and workers. It notes the Prince of Wales booked for 1889 engagements, a 106 year old Still Pond colored woman active in life, a Hamburg derrick powered by steam, and social glimpses of figures like Roopter McGanicke and Count Herbert Bismarck.
The piece mentions Prof J P Mallarry visiting the United States to lecture on Greek life and civilization, the Brazilian Princess Royal Isabella Christina, a Boston tax list of major taxpayers, and legal commentary on the American Cotton Seed Oil Trust. It discusses Monarchy, industry, and legal doctrine, with emphasis on public interest and monopoly versus free markets.
In London a district used two dressed monkeys in a wagon with a brass band to lure children to school. Volunteers handed out candies and recorded names and addresses, revealing over sixty parents kept children home. About 200 kids attended that day, a clever trick by school officers.
The Tur government names a committee led by the Minister of Commerce and Industry to organize an international congress focused on popular tradition. The move signals a push to gather cultural practices from multiple nations and showcase regional heritage.
A poem warning against denying temptation and urging compassion. The speaker uses bee and bird analogies to argue that beauty and desire entice beyond control, and scolding only fuels trespass. The verse cautions not to be cruel or cold in demanding promises that restrain natural impulse.
A new barrister and his friend Armitage share chambers at Wig-tree Court. A shabby solicitor, Ward of Gibbons & Ward, seeks help in a bizarre inheritance dispute involving Podgers and the late Glubb. The wary duo agrees to assist and inadvertently offers a donation to a widowed, struggling family amid comic misunderstandings.
The narrator discovers Browne asleep on the bed with a gagged mouth and exposed derision, while Frank mocks him about a new client. The narrator vows to tell the story himself to avoid misrepresentation and insists on secrecy.
The St James Cazette notes England still hosts a brimming Flint and tinder-box industry centered in Bradon Suffolk. Flint quarried here historically supplied gun flints for centuries, with Africa as a major modern market via export in keys to coastal ports for interior barter.
A medical note describes using inversion to aid coughing in pneumonia. An assistant lifts the patient by the ankles while the body is face down, helping clear bronchial secretions and relieve cyanosis. Gravity assists mucus drainage and bronchial clearing in this improvised technique.
A 1774 Frankfort publication described a two box telegraph with alphabet marks. Each box shows letters. the distant box lights the same letter when the near box points to it. Inventor and mechanism remain unnamed. it was treated as curiosity and forgotten.
Microscopist Worthington G. Smith explains how genuine honey differs from manufactured honey. Real honey shows few or no sugar crystals and abundant pollen grains, while imitation honey contains crystals and little pollen. He notes taste may derive from honeycomb or beeswax used in production and that pollen grains reveal the plant sources and origin.
Dialogue on family marriages with a foreign nobleman and an elopement by a street car driver. A comic exchange notes compensation in life choices and the speaker Tevas Sifting reflects on expectations for daughters.
Survey of 1888 outputs shows leal 189000 tons up from 169700. sugar refined 1362000 and raw 106500. Chicago architecture 4985 buildings costing 20360800 with 116419 feet frontage. Potato crop 230000000 bushels, up 90000000 from 1887. states New York Michigan Iowa Minnesota Dakota top producers. Window glass output and pot counts rise. imports and silver price trends noted. dairy herd supports 100000000 acres of pasture.
A quirky essay extols apples as a universal remedy against liver torpor and indigestion, denying cider as effective. It references Palmerston, Dean Swift’s patron, and Gillray’s goat demon while weaving in Emerson and De Quincey to frame the apple myth and its social disbelief.
In ancient Rome the head cook, an Archimagirus, commanded high status and generous pay. Cooks reportedly earned about $4,000 yearly and valued their artistry as a divine service. Sicilian chefs were famed as the era’s best, often staying despite temptations of larger offers.
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