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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1883
Page
3
In Jerusalem the Sabbath began with six temple trumpets and featured offerings and rest, while home life mixed joy and neighborly care. Rabbinical rules exaggerated piety, forbidding repairs, doctors, and even rescue acts, provoking debate on the true purpose of the Sabbath and urging a balanced view of tradition.
A dog of painter Meissonier broke a leg from overfeeding. Nelaton, the renowned surgeon, treated the injury after a dramatic visit to Bougival. Meissonier later offered payment, but Nelaton’s quip about painting materials led to a clever finale as Meissonier finished two masterpieces on the panels.
A vivid look at Tuscany reveals peasants clinging to age old arts and tools though modern advances exist. French influence shapes the upper classes while the rustic charm remains bright and individual.
A Plymouth sailor suffered ill health on a voyage with a Brixham smack owner. A white witch in Plymouth claimed the whole ship was cursed, but the spell could not be removed. The youth later recovered in an infirmary and regained wages, while the witch’s influence persists in Plymouth trade.
A rugged man moving from country life to a big city often overvalues wealth and showiness, adopting new associations that dull appreciation for simple living. Yet real character can exist in either setting, though few can judge life without their own insight.
A cooks guide suggests a new dish of oyster omelette. Stew a dozen oysters in their liquor, thicken sauce with flour and butter, add chopped oysters back, then finish eggs with cream or rich milk, fry, and serve hot with oyster sauce.
A Philadelphia Bulletin correspondent notes Franz Liszt is greeted by German ladies with many hand kisses. He combines youthful manners with aged courtesy kissing both hands and cheeks as women bow and greet him, a practice more lavish than typical American drawing rooms.
A new Swedish industry gathers old mosses blanched and bleached ages ago to manufacture fine paper. A factory near Jenkeeping produces papers from tissue to thick boards, claiming durability equal to wood. Barnum endorses St Jacobs Oil as a pain remedy per The Enquirer.
A Bristol Vermont farmer tried red pepper on a hen to spur laying. The hen scratched a dusty barn pile, unearthed a hatchet and whisky bottle, laid an egg, then cackled and left. The man notes the hatchet but not the bottle, and jokes the bird won’t get more pepper. New York organ grinders tout cures as they visit homes. Judge Fruney of Pittsfield was treated for rheumatism with St Jacobs Oil.
The Golden Gate Park in San Francisco will slowly take shape with over 100000 trees and shrubs. Growth is delayed until grasses and grains root firmly to stop drifting sand from southwest winds. Artificial moisture will cost over $8000 yearly at 33 cents per 1000 gallons.
An elderly English lady seeks fashion aid with a bold ad for youth while a stream of remedies arrives. A new corn extractor promises painless, complete relief by acting on the skin surface, advertised for wholesale by Lord Stoutenburgh & Co. in Chicago. Paris hats of straw hint at the era’s straw bustle trend and the recurring “straw bail” chatter.
A period advertisement recommends Dr. Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup for coughs throat and lung diseases. Ministers Boorrr Ippines Locewoop endorse it. free bottle offers to pastors who test and recommend. Also notes testimonials from New England readers and other patent medicines and remedies with local Michigan connections.
Two Boston artists in Quebec hired an old caleche for eight dollars to reach a picturesque town. After rough travel, they forced the driver to ride the remainder while they walked, claiming they paid for the labor. The note adds that since Tro Hope's death William Black is regarded as the best paid English novelist.
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