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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1886
Page
2
The item pool reports on Lake Michigan facts, a Campbell County man with many sons, and strawberry regions near Newark New Jersey. It recalls a Lynn clergyman salary story, Carlyle's smoking tale, railway etiquette, a Cape Cod navigator’s swift voyages, Italian rail ticket advertising, socialist tavern warnings, royal invitations’ limits, and German carp feeding notes with details on fish sizes and feeding.
The speaker notes age varied weights of fish by fourths of a pound versus some weighing only an ounce. He asserts greater profit from a half-acre German carp pond than from a five-acre wheat-field, claiming this from experience.
A historical note recalls bull terrier and another dog surviving falls at Niagara in 1886 and 1858. It explains water cones forming at the river below from rapid condensation and violent ebullition, suggesting dogs may slide onto a cushion of water and be carried away by swift currents.
A Castilian widow Mrs Antoinette Puppo Marsan married Senor Piazzini through Galveston proxy Calosia after her first husband’s death. The ceremony followed by the proxy’s own marriage to a SpanishCompletes the unusual sequence as U S statutes cover the case. A medical note on King Ludwig’s death trial and a remarkable drowning resuscitation case from Australasia accompany the report.
A bartender in a country store back room accidentally pours turpentine into a drink, then fills it with whisky. The customer consumes it, returns, and asks why he has not been given the best liquor before, demanding a drink “like the one you give me just now and we’ll call it square.”
A Fortnightly Review piece in the Zoo setting quotes a Philadelphia Telegraph interviewee describing bees as harmless if not provoked and contrasting them with yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps. The expert notes bees sting once, hornets are hard to deter, and yellow jackets bite back. he adds observations on nesting sites and practical attitudes toward insects.
The article argues the economics of modern novel writing have transformed the craft into a business. It contrasts the romantic vocation with the practical pressures of income, debt, and inconsistent creative flow, citing Trollope Dickens and Payn while noting the uphill path for contemporary novelists.
A New York Analyst note explains kerosene lamp use as a machine needing practice. Regularly clean the wick or replace it, empty and refill with fresh oil weekly, keep the burner free of dust, and use a polished chimney. With daily care the lamp becomes a cheap luxury rather than a nuisance.
A discussion on how modern schooling and shifting hygienic ideas affect child health. It notes excessive after school reading and social pressures harming sleep, diet, and nervous energy, urging parents to guide reading choices and teachers to reinforce health ideas beyond the classroom. It also covers Annamese funeral rites as described by James G. Scott, including corpse preparation, ancestral worship, and propitiation practices.
A humorous quip from the Omaha World about a motor that won’t run unless pushed, likening the Keely motor man to a former hotel waiter. The joke points to a malfunctional machine and a colorful characterization of its operator.
The piece argues the third month sign of the zodiac links with the tale of murder and city founding, citing a British Museum tablet and Lenormant. It parallels Romulus and Remus with ancient founders, suggesting the oldest document in the world reflects historical events rather than myth, and notes posterity judges a man by best deeds.
A European buyer notes London slumming as a fashionable chase where the aristocracy tours poor quarters in elaborate wraps, aided by police, visiting opium dens and shanties. The piece contrasts English indifference to misery with American views, and questions New York’s lack of similar fashion.
Aunt Harriet from Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses how wives’ appearance and chatter affect their husbands. A neat, attentive wife keeps interest. an irritable, nagging attitude loses affection. The piece urges women to stay well turned out and informed to sustain love and conversation with their husbands.
A child laughs at the daylight moon, mishearing Lord as moon in. Other youngsters speak slang and ask for cookies and wishbones. Florence asks if dad will die and then for his wishbone when he does. The Rome Sentinel notes a structure height of 520 feet.
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