The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-12-07

powder, or split even without any saw
ing. II hole be bored in the wood Of
one inch diameter, and in depth . little
more than half the thickness of the
trunk, about one-third the length Of the
log from the butt-end, and q near q
possible to the center, powder and fuse
put in, and the hole filed DIP with sand,
single blast Is sufficient to split Q log
of considerable length, which it does
generally, almost - clean as the saw.
Beech and ash have been successfully
experimental upon, but with oak and
some other timber it is not 50 success.
full.
THE prices of mining stocks have
been tumbling in San Francisco at q
rate that must seem frightful to their
unlucky holders, many of whom are
small trsdesmen and other compare
lively poor persons. The reason for
the sudden fall has been the expose
made by the Chronicle, whereby it ap-
pears that the shares of the various
Comstock mines have been selling at
figures that make their total market
value not less than @S7, 0OO, 900, yet not
one of them has been paying one dollar
of dividend for some time past. On the
contrary, they have been levying as
sessments with remarkable punctuality.
It was also shown that numerous work
men employed in the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine had been discharged.
STRONG efforts are being made in
Scotland, which will be extended to
England, to raise fund for the relief
of the most necessitous and helpless OF
the shareholders of the bank of fraud at
Glasgow. The sterner sex are to be ex-
cluded from its benefits. As they made
for long time 10 and IL per cent. by
the speculation, they must face the loss
when it comes. But widows who in
herited shares from their husbands, and
daughters to whom q father bequeathed
this among other property, may be ex.
cused from having trusted in the hon
esty and judgment of those who were
left their custodians, and the funds
raised will be devoted to such helpless,
and those whose position renders self.
help impossible.
A DETAILED description of Mr.. Ed.
sons newly invented application of cleo.
tricity to the purpose of illumination
shows that it is a practical and we'll per.
fected thing. He has succeeded, in the
first place, in dividing the electric jet al
pleasure, and then has so arranged the
process of supplying the light that il
may be introduced with comparatively
little difficulty into the houses of a large
city. He will lay the wires from the
Central stations, where the magnetic.
electric generating machines are estab-
lished, through the present gas-pipes,
under the street surface, and will con-
duct the house wires through the smaller
pipes that now run under the floors and
ascend in the walls and partitions. The
gas fixtures need not be removed; they
will be needed to encase the wire, and
only the burner will need to be changed
The light is turned on simply by press.
ing spring, and is reduced or turned
out with equal ease. It requires nc
matches, makes no smoke, gives out nc
hest. Its cost, as heretofore stated,
will be much below that of gas-less
than one-third is the present statement
and it is declared to be steadier,
clearer, and less trying to the eyesight.