The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-17
THE lola REGISTER.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
-" Oulda" adopted her nom de
plume from her own childish pronuncia-
corresponds to the French slang phrase.
"Why, certainly She is of French
parents, but Of English birth.
VIM. Morris, the English poet, has
sort of ouse-furnishing place of bust
ness, and in his store he makes out de-
signs for wall paper for wealthy and fas-
tidious families. He does a great deal
of work for stylish houses, his best pat
terms being in green and gold. Morris
is As years old.
DIR. Rosa Welt, q young Viennese
lady, has shown herself to be so learned
and practical that she has been APP
pointed by her university-that of Bern
Assistant Lecturer to Professor Pfuger
in the branch of Ophthalmology, in
which she has made very advanced
studies.
A great scheme Ia under way in
England for the publication of new
and stupendOus dictionary of the English
language, to make four volumes as large
as Webster's Unabridged; which will be
one and half times as large as the ia
nous Littre's French Dictionary. Ten
years have been allotted for the work,
and the first part of it, containing the
letter A, is hoped for by 1882. DR..
Murray, President of the Pathological
Society, is the general editor, aided by
q competent staff, of which Prof. F. A.
Marsh of Lafayette College is the Amer
lean representative.
Carlyle, according to the London
correspondent of the Dundee advertiser,
is not long for this world. "He may"
says the letter-writer, "linger on for
days or even weeks, but he is not likely
ever more to be seen outside of his house.
His thoughts have already been fixed
upon the end, and he has expressed a
wish that he should be buried as quietly
as possible in the choir of the old ca
thedral at Haddington, where he laid his
wife dozen years ago." The reports
q few days ago represented him as
feeble, but able to 60 out-indeed, as
taking by his physicians advice daily
drive.
Madame Durand, one of the most
popular French writer's of the day, whose
nom de plume is Henry Greville, is 81
years old, and native of Paris. Hav-
ing lost her mother in infancy, she was
taken by her father to st. Petersburg,
where he held Professors chair in the
University. When she reached the ear
ly years of womanhood she was married
to NJ. Durand, young Professor like
wise in the University of st. Petersburg.
In 1872 they came to Paris. At first
Madame Durand devoted herself to mu-
sic, composing many pieces that won
popularity. In 1876 appeared her first
novel, Dosia, and since then she has
published several fictions that have been
very successful. The home life of NJ.
and Madame Durand and their daugh-
ter is said to he very delightful.
Science and Industry.
DIR. Rosa Welt, young Viennese
lady, has been appointed member of
the faculty of the Berne University.
Owing to the rot which has attack
ed the potato crop throughout France,
it is estimated that the deficiency in the
same will amount to $1,000, 600 sacks.
"A member of 3 leading cigar firm
in jacksonville says that it is susceptible
of proof that middle Florida can raise
as good tobacco for cigars as Cuba, but
the farmers do not understand cur
ing it.
-Natchez, Miss, has built cotton
factory, every dollar of the stock in
which is owned by her own citizens, and
which is yielding the very handsome re-
turn of nearly 20 per cent. on the in
vestment.
-Acommission lately appointed by the
Prnssian Government to investigate the
best class Of inks, reports that the most
durable are made from gallnuts and a
salt of iron. these being the cOmpOnents
of the Old-fashioned inks.
The Lewiston (Me.) cotton mills
are running 100000 spindles, employ
$500 hands. consume %, 600, 600 pounds
Of cotton and produce $4,000, 600 yards
of cloth annually, and circulated last
year 81, COO, 600 in town. Corporation
stocks show an aggregate rise in one
year of 81, 10000
The probable surplus Of wheat in
the United States for Europe, according
to Mr.. +. ii. Walker, Statistician of the
New York Produce Exchange, will be
l6O, zoo, 600 bushels, the surplus of Cam
ada 10000, 900 bushels, and the surplus
of Chill about 5,0OO,0OO bushels, max
ing l75, coo, 600 bushels from America,
instead of the 1872 200, 900 bushels esti-
mated i'm London. -..
"A. peculiar process has been in
vented in Germany by which labels are
printed ON bottles by simple opera
ton, neither paper nor mucilage beinsg.
required. The process is an actual
printing on the bottles themselves, and
the labels can be scraped off with a
knife, though they are not affected by
water. The process is said to be inexpcn-
sive, and certainly must be convenient.
School and Church.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has
been giving IS History Talk - to the larg-
er pupils Of the public schools of Pres
colt, Arizona.
Ladies of Tennessee, Georgia, and
Louisiana have organized movement
for the endowment of the University at