The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-29
THE lola REGISTER.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and I.iterary.

Personal and Literary.
Alexandra Hesse, an eminen
French historical and portrait painter
is dead, aged %.
Anna Dickinson will make secOm
venture us an actress next month, ap
pearing in San Francisco, in a play q
her own writing.
Boston has a g Library Delivery Com
pany," which, for five cents volume,
will draw for its patrons books from the
Public Library and the Athen;eum, and
return them to those Institutions at the
proper time.
The Old Testament is being printed
in AneityumeSe, the language of the
most somthcrly Of the New Hebrides
group, the expense having been met by
the natives. The British and Foreign
Bible Society is doing the work.
1t is said that Charles Reade, the
novelist, keeps two secretaries at work
reading and clipping murders. poison
ings, accidents, robberies and other
"unco mournful tales which furnish
him with the hint or substance for his
stories and plays.
--Fechter, the actor, was IF cOsmO-
pOlitan lineage-One grandfather Ger
man, the other an Italian, his mother
born in Flanders, his father in France,
and he himself in London. He madeh is
three signal successes in three Ian
guages.
, The Pope has intr,lstcd Cardinal
Hergenrother with the reorganization of
the Papal archives at the Vatican, so rs
to make them more accessible for his
lorical research. The Cardinal has al
SO been authorized to prepare interest
ing documents for publication.
Science and Industry.
An oatmeal company has been in
eorporated at MuScatine, Iowa, and a
mill will soon he i'm operation.
The English Pathological Society
expects to complete a new dictionary of
the English language by 1890.
The annual tobacco crop of the
United States is about 100000, 600
pounds, twO-thirls of which is exported.
California shipped to New York
last year S2i,l S5 gallons Of wine and
96,449 gallons of brandy, the produce Of
the vineyards.
Mr. l.. S. Crozier, formerly of Mar
settles, France, and the wealthy cultiva-
tor of mulberry trees and silk worms at
Silkville, Kan, proposes, it is said, to
introduce the industry i'm West Felici-
ana, La.
An iron floating dock is being con-
strlcted ut DantZic, of which the total
weight will be 100000 kilogrammes.
1t will hold the largest vessels of the
German Navy, and is to be completed
in the course of next year.
One of the largest rolling-mills
abOut Baltimore has resumed the manu-
facture of iron rails. This mill has been
closed for three years. 1t will employ
between 500 and 400 men. 1t has large
orders for both iron and steel rails.
-LoOking-g glasses are silvered. as it is
called, by the following process: A sheet
of tinfoil is placed very smoothly on
table or stone. and the foil is then flood
ed with mercury. The glass is laid up
on it in such way AS to expel air bub-
bles, and heavy weights are laid on the
glass. The weights press out the super
tluOuS mercury, and what remains forms
an amalgam with the tin, which ad-
heres to the back of the glass.
-Liechtenstein is, according to the
principles of international law, at war
with Prussia; but the fact is generally
overlooked, possibly because Liechten-
stein has only 1900 inhabitants and no
army, although she retains her parlia-
ment and has Il governing Prince, John
ii. In the war of 1866, like many other
petty German States, LeichtenStein sided
with Austria. At the end of the war.
Liechtenstein alone was neither annexed
nor compelled to sign a treaty of peace,
SD that Prince John III. is nOminally the
enemy of the Prussian King. but he visits
Berlin peaceably. ..H..-
The protective tariff that it is pro-
posed to levy on American lard and ba-
con imported into Germany is causing
much proteStation therr. These articles
of consumption have been sold there ut
considerably lower prices than the do
nestle articles, greatly I" the rejoicing
Of the poorer classes, Of whom many
find il hard to live at all. Even the
farmers are said To sell their pigs alive,
and To buy the imported product. The
proposed duty will thus fall directly upon
The poorer classes, and since lard and
pork form Il considerable part Of their
diet, will he more oppressive than u SIM
liar duty np"n almost any other article
of food. af-.s
school and Church.
The TeRneSSee University at Knox
vile is about to have endowed 4 chair