The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
THE lola REGISTER.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary


Proctor. the astronomer, will soOn
be in this country again. His first lee.
lures will be delivered in Philadelphia
early in November.
Prof. f. L. Youmans thinks he has
proved that Herbert Spencer, and moi
Darwin, deserves the honor of discover
ing the principle Of evolution.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, ex-Secretary
of Legation at COnstantinOple, has sent
valuable collection of Russian books
to the Harvard library.
Miss Calista Halsey's new book,
1.-TWO of U.s." is the embodiment OF
the personal experiences of the author
and her sister. She is well known rs
teacher of wOOd-carving, and is also a
journalist of some reputation.
Mrs. Beers ethel Lynn, the poet
ess, had premOnitiOn that rs soon rs
she printed her poems she would die.
The first volumes were received from
the press only few days before that
event, and they were bound in Grape
and placed upon her coffin.
The late George Henry Lewes has
received his monument in the shape of
a studentship in physiology, founded by
his friends and bearing his name. 1t
will yield nearly $1,000 a year, will be
paid quarterly in advance, and will be
tenable for three years.
-LOngfellOw has written poem, all
about the remarkable pen made of wood
from the letters of the Prisoner of Chill
lon, and which was presented to him
not so very long ago. 1t will appear in
the December Harper.
Over three hundred babies, it is said,
have been named GwendOlen," in
England alone, since the publication of
''Daniel DerOnda." George Eliot, hav-
ing no children of her own to name,
furnishes names for other wOmen's
children.
Sarah Bernhardt tells the Partisan
that she will come to the Uuited States
next season or the one after it. She
will play in French, and stick to Shak-
speare, because she deems the classic
French dramas incOmprehensible to
Americans, who, though they under
stand not word of French, can follow
easily the action of Shakspearean
piece.
Mr.. Worth, the man-milliner, is
described by Miss Brewster in the Iele-
graph of Philadelphia as a STOPPING,
simply dressed man of middle height,
with round, gOOd-natured face, with
homely, simple, straightforward man.
ners. His son, 90 years old, is employed
with his father, and is said to be even
cleverer than Worth in designing
gowns.
Science and Industry. SOD.
The latest estimate of practical sta
tisticians is that there are in the United
States 100000 cattle valued at ST.
2OO,OOO,OOO.
Elton College, Eng, has established
a factory, a building of three floors, in
which various mechanical appliances are
to be erected, SO that boys may be taught
the practical use of tools. -.
Cattle in considerable numbers are
being shipped from Minnesota to Iowa,
to be fattened upon the big corn crop
there. In Illinois feeders are picking up
eligible lots for the same purpose.
The Arctic Ice Company, of Bos-
ton, is turning out between 10000 and
1900 tons of artifcially made ice per
day, which it is under contract to de-
liver at one-half cent a pound.
"A poor man few years ago pur-
chased piece of ground at South Am
boy, New Jersey, and commenced SELL
ing the clay that lies under its surface.
He has dug great shafts and tunnels,
and is said to have earned q fortune of
$3OO.OOO.
Experiments made $50 years ago
demonstrated that a bell, rung by clock
work, when placed under an exhausted
receiver, emits no sound. The report of
a pistol on the top of Mont Blanc makes
no more noise than the explosion of a
percussion cap at the level of the sea,
and aerOnauts tell us that at the height
of two miles all sound ceases.
In lecture delivered before one of
the English mining societies lately, a
novel illustration was given of electricity
performing mechanical work. A saw
bench was placed on a platform con-
nected with dynamo-ele machine,
which, in its turn, was connected by
wires with the machine outside the hall
used for producing the electric light
during the lecture. On the electricity
being communicated, the saw was set in
motion, and timber up to five inches in
thickness was cut into stri ps. This re-
suit has inclined some of the leading
colliery owners to test the practicability
of working coal-cutting machines and
other underground machinery by cleo
tricity-compressed air being at present
the only power that can be used for
driving these machines without interfer-
ing with the ventilation of the workings.
Electricity is said to possess the adj
vantage of doing the work at less cost.
School and Church.
Sankey's hymns have been trans
lated into Chinese, Gaelic and Kanaka.
Yale, including the art and medi-
cal departments, has 100 students. q
The New Testament has been trans
lated into japanese by the Rev. ID. l.. H.
Gulick. 8.. = E5 @H go -. q
Fisk University opens this year I'M
der very favorable auspices. In the
boarding department there are 20 stu
dents, and in the school 200. aH
The Lutherans have in the United
States ahOut g LEO minister's 5000 con-