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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1886
Page
2
The Register reports a push by Sydney undertakers to curb Sunday funerals and hints at possible legal changes, while other items note a disinheritance case linked to Gen Toombs's granddaughter and a discussion of silver views by Senators Beck and Eustis.
Discussion centers on cowboys cutting cattle with graceful seat and speed, contrasted with riding English style. A Boston riding-school master notes a remarkable cowboy pupil who struggled to keep balance on an English saddle.
A Boston lady looms as a patient while a throat expert explains a laryngoscope with mirrors and electric light enabling deep throat inspection. Her sister recalls no pain, only a stocking hole distracting her. The piece also notes anecdotes about J RanpoLtry Tucker Blackburn and a Kossuth sympathy report.
The piece blends anecdotes of Kossuth’s fortunes and his memoirs profits with stories of Tom Reed and Louttit rising from a Maine town to Congress. It includes a Moscow painting joke about Ivan Petroff, and Count Mexsten’s Buckingham Palace rebuke. It ends with a modest critique of grammar usage in The Current.
A Chambers Journal description depicts an itinerant Indian eye doctor offering cataract operations for one rupee in open public spaces with quick, crude technique. Separately, Americus Georgia reports pumping oyster shells from an artesian well at a depth of 1000 feet.
A humorous monologue by Charles Follen Adams about family tensions and a crusty mother in law. The speaker mocks misunderstandings between generations and the feisty dynamic of a white man and his mother in law in a humorous dialect.
A poet voice laments through stark imagery as three wolves Hunger Sin and Woe stalk mankind. The speaker wrestles with fear, hunger, and misery while longing for bread and peace, recalling a past free from sin hunger and woe. The refrain notes wolves watching from a window pane like signal lights at sea.
A Hoosier youth with eighty cents hatches a bold wheat trading idea in Warsaw. He buys grain, ships it east, and, with bank leverage and clever telegraph play, accrues rapid profits. Bankers, exporters, and rivals chase his ascent as India and Odessa loom. By Chicago he becomes a notable operator, earning wealth through risk, wit, and timing.
A prominent Little Rock merchant boasted of hunting skill. After buying two large turkeys at a railroad station he walked home. He tied them on a stump and fired from thirty paces. The shot cut the string and the birds flew away, leaving him astonished.
A humor piece recounts Bishop Williams at Episcopal Seminary in Middletown telling a joke about the cradle of liberty being placed on Plymouth Rock by Puritan fathers to rock liberty to sleep while they persecuted Quakers. The tale, reflecting the era’s spirit, targets New England stock.
A child defies schooling saying he already knows as much as his father. The father urges schooling to outstrip him, while the boy questions education's value and hints at wealth from a different source. Also notes a French invention enabling divers to descend 800 feet underwater.
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