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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1891
Page
2
Items from The Register list odd facts and snippets from 1890s life including coats found in Oregon, a note on Marie Antoinette and hair feathers, census like tallies, geography and industry trivia, quirky anecdotes about trains and hotels, and a sleeping car porter comparing Yale professors.
A Yale student is subjected to a hostile interaction after a brush with a former associate who tips him a quarter and hands him a cigarette while muttering a lethal insult to go smoke and kill himself. The incident highlights ongoing campus vitriol and safety concerns.
Cons G Jefferson of Clinton Mass is hailed as champion weight lifter after lifting 1571 pounds with his hands beating David L Dowd's 1442 pounds from 1883 in Springfield Mass. The report includes varied brief items from crime to customs and humor.
A Calcutta gathering of the Asiatic Society of Bengal showcased a telegraph cable with India rubber insulation pierced by a blade of grass. The contact with the copper core was so complete that a dead earth condition occurred, destroying the cable’s effectiveness. The grass species could not be identified due to dryness. Queen Victoria began the fashion of wearing silk stockings.
A humorous poem from Chicago Neurovona de Tinant treats the pneumogastric nerve as a comic culprit for bodily woes. The speaker imagines a physician diagnosing dyspepsia through Latin anatomy, lamenting the nerve’s mischief and its far reaching influence on appetite and health.
In a social visit, Mrs De Camp meets Adaline and family with her nephew Mr Charles De Camp from California. Louise’s poodle attack disrupts the gathering, ending with Mrs De Camp accepting hospitality then departing, while romance briefly blooms between Mr De Camp and Louise before family tensions and class gossip resume. Australian Cities and social change in century prose follow, noting urban growth, labor trends, and democratic shifts. A court scene closes with a faded witness declaring she knows the date because the baby died.
A historical sketch recounts King Kalakaua's attempt to conquer Samoa funded by his own wealth and friends. The expedition turned into a drunken voyage, ending with the gunboat abandoned in Samoa and the crew returning home empty handed after losing supplies and weapons. The tale closes noting Kalakaua's subsequent restraint from conquest.
A witty narrator recalls an early morning trip downtown when a crowd of men, a torn lace, and a sudden pocket knife offered by a considerate stranger become a test of courtesy and propriety. The scene, told with ironic humor, shows how a small gesture reveals character.
A Donahue’s Magazine piece describes an Irish lake that petrifies wood by infusing stone material into its cells. An English firm tests the wood, making razor hones from petrified timber, linking ancient Irish use of “hard woody stone” to spear and arrow-heads seen at Trinity College. The item then shifts to shaving history and a South American motmot bird. The closing line notes common people rarely grow rich without wealth prior growth.
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