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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1889
Page
3
A family stranded on a western desert island learns through a fable that death is a voyage to a better land. The father, mother, and two children fear black canoe bearers but reach the mainland to find milk, honey, and fruit. The tale links salvation with faith and a German rendition, ending with a note on a sheep and pony scene.
The London Journal argues that fair treatment and steady, well lighted work strengthen eyes, not weaken them. Proper use guards against overtaxing vision, and trained eyes retain sharpness longer, urging swift action to protect the present generation.
A blacksmith buys a lamb that forms a strong friendship with a white pony. The lamb trots beside the pony while it works, hides under the pony when frightened, and sleeps in the stable with the pony. The pair share companionship that mirrors human friendship and loyalty.
A New York Star excerpt by Prentice Mulford describes hotel chambermaids as the backbone of daily upkeep. It notes heavy lifting by porters, long shifts, and the demanding routine of thirty five rooms a day with bed making sweeping sheet changing and toilet care. The piece emphasizes endurance, minimal rest, early waking, and the need for strong, persistent workers who sing to cope with the wear. It predicts a tired future for the current worker and a constant turnover as fresher help takes the place of exhausted staff.
A correspondent from Varis details Adelina Patti's new purchase of the Chateau de Chenonceaux. The piece weaves historical highlights of the site, from Francis I and Bayard to Ronsard, Marot, Marie Stuart, Anne Boleyn, Claude of France, Diane de Poitiers, and Rousseau, noting famed literary and royal figures associated with the landscape and its secluded passages and gardens.
The report compares smallpox mortality in Paris and German cities under varying vaccination enforcement, noting Paris at 136 to 1.1 per 100,000 and rigid German laws yielding 1.44 per 100,000, London at 0.6, while Anrich Switzerland shows a rise from 8 to 85 per 100,000 after a vaccination law was repeated in 18983.
In Eau Douce a customer asks if cheap cologne at ten cents a bottle is good. The shopkeeper replies it depends on imagination. If imagination is vivid, the cologne is good. if not, it is only passable. This exchange appears in Yankee Blade.
A collage of miniature jokes and portraits from a 19th or early 20th century page. Vignettes include two Scotch tramps profiting from a baby, a parson aided by a christening, a Czar comparison to a father, a mortgageed house for a diamond necklace, a Texas editor sharing his paper with a banker, a weary singer, a wry mayor arrest, and stray quips about eel soup and gray hair becoming fashionable.
Readers are told of the Robinson arsenic poisoning cases in Somerville Massachusetts where eight deaths, seven in one family, occurred over five years. The piece cites a Massachusetts Medico Legal Society meeting noting doctors misdiagnosed arsenic poisoning as pneumonia typhoid fever meningitis bowel disease and Brights disease. It criticizes medical ignorance and argues for self observation and recognition that doctors do not hold all knowledge or monopoly of medicine.
As young Smithers moves out he asks about a bright red table-cover once liked. Clara urges Tommy to go play while a deal unfolds. Tommy resists, a whispered interruption, and the scene ends with a playful reference to a sister’s Sunday petticoat used as a cloth.
Early signs of kidney and bladder inactivity are hard to overcome. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters acts as an efficient diuretic, stimulating safely without irritation. It strengthens kidneys and bladder, and also aids fever, age, constipation, and dyspepsia.
Palgrave notes a laughing gas like plant from Arabia with two varieties reaching three to four feet. It bears black seeds like a French bean, sweet in taste with opium-like flavor and a sickly odor. Pulverized seeds induce boisterous laughter, singing, dancing, and fancy capers for about an hour, followed by a deep sleep and total amnesia of the events.
Deafness cannot be cured by local applications. Only constitutional remedies can restore hearing. Deafness results from inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. The firm offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hali's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, with free circulars available.
Baron von Mueller, government botanist, claims to have seen a forest tree reaching 525 feet. The late chief inspector of forests measured a fallen tree at 485 feet, prompting discussion on forest heights and measurement accuracy.
The article traces early church architecture from bell less origins to bell towers. It notes small bell cots gave way to high spires as bells grew larger, with west end placement giving way to central towers in cruciform churches. Spires became needle like and tall, matching tower height, signaling grandeur and daylight through vast interiors.
A reader recalls frosted panes damp pillows and headaches on cold mornings signaling poor ventilation. Experts warn air is often shut out to save heat, causing carbonic fumes and oxygen deficiency that quietly harms health. In colder rooms furnace heat and gas lighting demand extra ventilation. A Boston patient faces a suit over refusing payment to his electric physician, suggesting high charges for electricity.
A dense London fog scene describes a dandy in a brougham whose window is tapped by a thief who snatches his hat and flees. A sympathetic passerby shouts run as the citizen proclaims he cannot move. The moment ends with a quip about chasing the thief and reclaiming the wig.
100 ladies wanted and 100 men to call daily on any druggist for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine, the great root and herb remedy discovered by Dr. Silas Lane in the Rocky Mountains. A cure for blood, liver, and kidney diseases. constipation and skin clarity. children like it. Large size package 50 cents at all druggists.
A storekeeper tests a job applicant with the verb to do, prompting a humorous exchange about sequence and responsibility. The young man answers do-done, prompting the merchant to praise decisive practice for ordinary purposes and trusted leadership in business.
A reader requests to inform the public of a claimed positive cure for consumption and offers two free bottles to readers who mail their Express and P. O. address. The letter is signed by T A Slocum M C of 181 Perl St New York. Also includes an unrelated joke about jaw paralysis and a plug for Dr Isaac Thompson Eye Water at 25 cents.
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