The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-20

told them to settle the question between
themselves. They did so by long and
severe fight, in which hair and clothes
were torn, faces scratched, and fingers
bitten. At length one was vanquished,
and Mr.. Dicks gave his arm to the vic
tor.
IT is likely that the old style of placer
mining will be extensively revived in
California this season. There are TO-
600 men in San Francisco without q
prospect of soon getting employment at
living wages. An immense fall of rain
in the mountains has made it possible
to work many gulches not usually avail
able. The unemployed men are going
to these places in large numbers, and by
summer the entire 10000 will be scat
tered in abandoned and new diggings.
They can make by hand from % to $5
q day-a remuneration that they scorn-
ed in flush times, but now regard as
very acceptable.
A TRAMP who was stealing ride in
an empty car the other night on the
Erie Road attempted to jump off at Ok
ford, N. Y. A hook on the side of the
car, used for fastening the door, caught
the unlucky fellows. clothing at the
waist and suspended him in mid-air.
The train dashed on and he was carried
to Greycourt, three miles distant, when
some one saw him, stopped ~ train
Immediately, and the man was taken
from his very dangerous position. There
was not q scratch on his person, but
the mental suffering he had endured,
expecting momentarily to be dashed to
pieces, completely overcame him.
= THE american art Journal points to
the objects often introduced by great
painters into their work long before the
period in which such objects existed.
Thus Raphael introduces hewn stone
step into the expulsion from paradise,
and book bound in the neatest man.
ner into the picture of Elymas struck
blind. Albert Durer introduces a tent
bedstead, q cooking-range, and China
candlesticks into his " Birth of the Vir-
GIN" In one of Vandyke's pictures
the apostles wear sea boots, and Paul
Veronese depicts Italian peasants in felt
hats and plumes contemplating the
"Adoration of the Magi." A Spanish
artist represents Abraham about to shoot
Isaac with pistol.
CoURTNEY's cable dispatch to Austria
lis, accepting Trickett's conditions for
rowing q boat race, consisted of SO
words and cost S64.98. The course of
the message was as follows: From Au-
burn to New York, to Hearts Content,
N. F., to Valencia, to London, through
Germany, Russia, Siberia, to Wildwood
stock, a point on the coast of Manchu-
ria; thence the Japan Sea to Nagasaki,
on one of the Japan islands, through
the Yellow Sea to Shanghai, China ;
thence down the coast of China, through
the China Sea to Saigon, Siam, to Sing
apore, Malay; thence to Batavia, on the
coast of Java; thence to st. Darwin,
on the Northern coast of Australia, and
to Sydney.
PROF. RILEY says, in a scientific ex-
change, that the early days of June
should herald vigorous and exterminat-
ing warfare upon those subtle pests,
clothes-moths: Closets, wardrobes,
etc., should be emptied and the clothing
laid open and thoroughly exposed to
light and air, and we'll brushed before
being replaced. Spirits of turpentine
should be brushed in cracks, wainscots
and shelves, and camphor or tobacco
placed among garments, furs, plumes,
ETC., when laid aside for the summer.
To secure the cloth-linings of carriages
from moths, sponge them on both sides
with a solution of corrosive sublimate of
mercury in alcohol, made just strong
enough not to leave a white mark on a
black feather.
THE mail carriers between Little Cur
rent and SAUL Ste. Marie, Canada, broke
through the ice when about 10 miles
east Of Spanish River, last month, and
men and dogs had sharp struggle for
life. The men, Joseph Denomie and
Frank Mezai, after getting out of the
water, directed their attention toward
rescuing the dogs, which were fastened
by their harness to the tobOggan on
which the mail-bags were tied, and
which was rapidly drowning them.
Their efforts to save either dogs or mail
would have been useless but for the sa-
gacity of one dog, which, instead of
wasting strength in trying to get upon
the broken ice, seized the thongs by
which they were bound to the toboggan
in his teeth, and deliberately gnawed
them asunder. Both dogs, thus reliev-
ed, swan toward the men, who helped
them out.