The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Mrs. Burnett's new story will be O
American life, and will be called !" Louis
lana"
-Longfellow's I" Psalm of Life " ha
been translated into Irish by O'Dono
van Rosa, with the title of IS Salim n:
Beatha." u
Archibald Forbes, the brilliant Zull
war correspondent, takes the field agair
the lecture field-and will come t.
America in February, to talk abou
Royal people have known" Tha
includes Cetewayo.
Flung Kai Whang, a Chinese stu
dent who has passed some years in East
hampton, Mass, has presented the Mu
scum there with an ancient history Of
China, written by COnfucius and print
ed in China and in the Chinese Ian.
guage.
"A new journal has appeared in Paris
under the title of Woman" edited by
committee of ladies who are bent moi
upon obtaining suffrage for their sex,
but upon instructing its humber mem
bcrs in the simple duties of moral and
physical training.
Major Serpa Pinto, the distinguished
African explorer, does not at all look
like daring traveller. He is youthful,
he has regular and agreeable features, a
little mustache, merry expression, and
he parts the locks adjoining his well
shaped head in the middle.
Miss Anne Hampton Brewster, the
bright Rome correspondent of the Phil:l-
delphia Evening Telegraph, is said to be
between so and 6Oyears old, of fine, no
BILE presence, and Still remarkably beau
tiful, really looking to be under 40. She
is one of the leaders of American So
ciety in Rome.
The editor of the late Prof. Cliff
ford's " Essays says of that brilliant
young scholar: "Here was man who
utterly dismissed from his thoughts, as
being improbable or worse, all specu-
latiOnS on future or unseen world; a
man to whom life was holy and pre-
cious, thing not to be despised, but to
be used with jOyfulness; a soul full of
life and light, ever longing for activity,
ever counting what was achieved as not
worthy to be reckOned in comparison of
what was left to do. And this is the
witness of his ending, that as never man
loved life more, so never man feared
death less"
Mrs. Julia NJ. Bennett of Hannibal,
Mo-, says the St. Louis Iimes-Joarnal,
is one of our busiest, as well as most
capable, Western women. She is the
mother of six children, the eldest being
about IL years of age; she assists her
husband at editing his paper, the Han
nibai Daily Courier; she has written a
cookery book within the past six months.
Balmer & Weber, of this city, are now
publishing three of her new songs; she
has furnished q New York house with
three childrens' stories which are to be
printed in book form, and she is under
contract to write holiday story for one
of the Boston magazines. In addition
to the faithful performance of her mani
fold literary duties, Mrs. Bennett has the
reputation of being one of the best house.
wives in the State. She is certainly one
of whom her sex has reason to be proud.
Science and Industry.
The amount of tobacco sold ut Dan
vile, Va, for the year ending Septem-
Der 81 will reach 90, 600, 900 pounds.
The North Carolina farmers have
over 10000 sheep, which yield yearly
profit of $45O,0OO.
From 1873 to 1879, inclusive, the
United States minis coined SIG, 641 $40
pieces of money agsgregating in value
$419,O71,3l3
AT Meredith, N. H., rich vein of
silver has been discovered four feet
down. The ore assays: Silver, $62 per
ton; lead, $50; at six feet depth the vein
is much richer.
The London Observer says it is re-
ported that the Grand Trunk Railway
Company has given out contracts for the
construction Of short line of % miles
of railway to complete the connection
between its present terminus and Chi
cago.
The Austrian State Engineers have
completed their plans for the proposed
Arlberg Railway The mountain will
he pierced 1921 feet above the level of
the sea. The tunnel will Ike 1920
meters long. The Minister of Com
merce favOrs making it \ purely State
railway.
The cotton crop this year will be
100000 bales more than ever before, the
tobacco crop 12,OOO,OOO pounds more
than ever before, and the sugar crop
2OO,OOO hogsheads more than ever be-
fore. That does pretty well for show
ing of Southern prosperity, and the
North can match it with an account OF
10000, 600 bushels Of wheat and 81, OOO,-
600 to 100000 900 bushels of corn more
than ever before OF all the fat years
in the history of the Nation, the year
1879 is the latest.
An evening newspaper of San Fran
cisco gives a glimpse of the state of the
mining stock market west of the Rocky
Mountains. Six of its columns are filled
with closely printed lists of shares in
various mining companies on which as
sessments are overdue, and which are
advertised to be sold rs directed by law
because their owners refuse or are una
bic to make further payments on them.
On some Of the stock the assessments