The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
Gail Hamilton has nearly ready a
new book on sour Common School
System"
Mr.. Charles GibbOn, the English
novelist, is about to make lecture tour
in Scotland on Literary London"
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the
well known. authoress, visits Mrs. Com
modore Vanderbilt every summer.
Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet,
thinks of making his home in the North,
saying that the South shows little ap-
probation of letters, and gives no
encouragement to the professional lit
erary man. He has been for some weeks
with Whittier in Ossipee, N. H., and
has enjoyed the hospitality of Long
fellow and others in Boston.
Here is a new thing in journalism:
The editor of the South african Star
makes the following announcement:
"FrOm and after to-day the exact time
of the publication of the Star will be
announced by the blowing of a steam
whistle, which has just been affixed to
our boiler and steam engine. Sub
scribers will thus be able to know when
the paper boys have been dilatory in de-
livering the paper at their residences. !"
Mrs. Julia C. X. Dorr, the author of
the new fall book of poems entitled
"Friar Anselmo and Other POems.' is
a sister of Prof. Ripley, of the State Uni
versity, located at Columbia, Mo. The
Ripley family are very highly esteemed
in Missouri. Miss Lulu Ripley, a daugh-
ter of the Professor and a niece of Mrs.
DOrr, was for some years a teacher in
the Mary Institute of st. Louis, Il branch
of Washington University. Miss Ripley
is now married to a distinguished ply
stefan of st. Louis.
Mr.. VIM. II. Rideing was born i'm
Liverpool, England, in February, 1858,
SO that he is one of the youngest of our
now prominent journalists and maya
zinists. He is the son of a veteran Off
Ger in the Cunard service, but both his
parents died when he was very young;
and in 1869 he came to the United States
to begin his struggle for livelihood i'm
the difficult paths of literature. Mr..
Rideing's first newspaper experience
was with Mr.. Bowles on the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
Science and Industry.
"A bed of bituminOus coal has been
discovered near Mountain View, Stone
County, Ala.
"A hundred thousand dollars worth
of hazel-nuts are shipped yearly from
Turkey to England.
Thirty years ago only about GOO cases
of seed leaf tobacco were sold in this
country. The average quantity now
grown is 15O, 900 cases.
Nice griddle-cakes can be made by
mixing one-third corn meal, twO-thirds
wheat flour, with buttermilk and salera-
tus; nice to be eaten with melted sugar
and butter.
The Northern Pacific is now draw
ing 100 cars, containing 10000 bushels
of wheat, to Duluth daily, and the stor-
age and transportation facilities at that
point are inadequate to meet the pres
sure.
No American industry has under
gone a more surprising development
than the manufacture of silk. The pro-
ductiOn of the Paterson, n. j., mills for
the current year is estimated at S10,-
100000. These mills consume between
10000 and Is, 600 pounds of the raw ma
terial per week, and employ 10000
operatives.
1t is estimated that at least $4,000
IONS of wheat will be shipped from east
IN Oregon and Washington Territory
this year through Walla Walla alone.
This estimate does not include a vast
stretch of territory where the farmers
must seek another outlet. 1t is evident
that eastern Oregon and Washington
Territory will, in the future, contribute
largely TO the grain exports of the Pa
cific coast.
in the nine months ending October
1, there have been built 2,2l4 miles of
new railroad in the United States,
against 1867 miles reported the CORE
spending period i'm 1873; 1886 in 1917;
1877 in 1876; SO4 in 1875; 1,10l in 1874;
2,778 in 1873; 1870 in 1872. But for
the difficulty to secure rails, so great is
the demand, the exhibit this year would
doubtless have been several hundred
miles in excess of the above figures.
-Bird-fanciers advise for lice or mites
rubbing a little Persian insect powder
under the birds wings. Also apply
sweet oil to the end of the perches and
that part of the cage on which the
perches rest; here il is the lice are liza
BILE to breed. At night cover the cage
with n niece of white clOth-fannel is
best-and remove early in the morning.
The insects will leave the bird to 60 to
the cloth, which in consequence should
be washed each day previous to using
again at night.
School and Church.
Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Sankey have
begun series of meetings in Cleve-
land, o.
n. uo,fnrd IF (Nhin1.