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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
2
The Register notes Horters and saloons in several southern Pennsylvania villages have stopped selling liquor involuntarily due to a religious revival. It also mentions a St. Louis inventor’s automatic fire-kindler, sounding like a dynamite machine, winding up to set a fuse. Housekeepers may opt to remove the old man or hired girl as usual.
GustTaAvVE Petitpiare, a singular character in Geneva, died recently. He dreamed of a universal writing suitable for all languages. He pursued onigraphy as a path to a universal language foretold by prophets, gathering notes but never publishing a complete work.
The Whitehall Review reports Princess Beatrice will live with the Queen six months yearly and another six in Germany with the Duchess of Albany, a love marriage that the Queen discouraged. Parliament may grant the usual marriage funds. Also covered are tributes to Burnaby, a London Life Guardsman, a fearless figure. anecdotes of Mrs Archie Gordon repelling a tramp. Dr Noah Hunt Schenck’s humor. English visitors at St Ann’s. and a China crisis where empresses and ministers clash over negotiations with Prince Kung and Pao Chung Tang.
The Current criticizes the Treasury Secretary as abetting a major money corner, citing surging bank vault balances over 51 million dollars and a push toward artificial stringency. The piece contrasts with past actions on financial leverage and moralizes on national welfare and governance. It also notes anecdotal tales from Maine politics and a New York letter recalling Schuyler Colfax and Tribune ownership.
A Chicago visitor argues American housewives are the most diligent, balancing motherhood and home-making with greater system and energy than English or German women. She contrasts domestic labor with paid work, praising American mothers for involvement with children, home routines, and overall intellectual engagement. European norms are deemed less demanding.
Dr Tripe recalls a dramatic fireball that rose from the earth and moved in a steady path, then split into forked lightning and vanished. In Glendowan, Donegal, another fireball sketched a zigzag arc, struck peat, carved a trench, and reappeared across a stream before final disappearance.
Jamet Phillips in Harper's Magazine recounts a Pine Island visit north of Cape Coral Florida. He describes a dilapidated ramshackle home twenty miles from anywhere with four hungry children and a missing mother. The family survives on scant food sources while encountering a tame crane and a three foot alligator kept as a toy by a twelve year old boy.
Mr. T. Mellard Reade's Liverpool Geological Society address reports that the Mississippi spills about 150 million tons of dissolved matter into the Gulf of Mexico each year, shortening the time to erode land by a foot across the basin to about 4,500 years. Similar figures for La Plata, the Amazon, and the St. Lawrence yield an average 100 tons per square mile annually, aligning with European results and suggesting the Atlantic draining continents contribute rock-forming material at a vast, measurable rate.
A Fall Mall Gazette note from Howdon on Tyneside describes a village with four living grandparents and five great grandparents at a birth, yet facing extreme sanitation issues. Open sewers, poor water supply from shallow wells, and minimal street cleaning contrast with the families’ vigorous thriving despite the conditions.
The article explains baldness results from progressive loss of nourishment to the papillae at hair follicles, due to capillary decline. It notes temporary baldness after illnesses like typhoid can recover, while long-term loss leads to atrophy and a smooth scalp. It dismisses ineffective remedies and discusses scalp cleansing, hat use, and the impracticality of skin grafts. It ends with a societal observation on headwear fashions and private billiard rooms.
A social shift sees billiard tables becoming common in private homes, expanding beyond clubs. Women increasingly learn the game, sometimes playing each other, while servants and guests also watch and join in. The trend marks a change in leisure and domestic entertainment.
Crittenden of Kentucky once defended a man indicted for a capital offense. In a powerful closing allegory, Justice and Truth oppose creating man while Mercy pleads to be allowed to guide him. The jury lamented the burden of the evidence and returned a not guilty verdict. Goethe: A talent is perfected in solitude, a character in the world.
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