The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-" The Trumpet Major" is the title
of Thomas Hardy's new novel.
Lydia Maria Child is now a. years
old, and lives at her old home in Way
land, Mass.
Charles Readc has made $175, 600
by his writings, and he has an income
of $1,000.
"A new edition of the works of Ivan
Tourgueneff, in 10 volumes, has just ap-
peared in Russia.
The first number of the aurora daily
newspaper, planned and issued by the
Vatican, viii appear the first of January
next, as a more authoritative exponent
of the Pope's views than the existing
clerical newspaper.
-Bayard Taylor was named after
James A. Bayard of Delaware, GRANDPA
Their of the present Senator. Mr.. Sted-
man is authority for the statement that
he prefixed the initial 81" in signing
his youthful pieces, " thinking it would
look better" On his twcnty-first birth
day Taylor resumed his original sigma
ture, "Bayard," without any Cd"
which he never changed.
Maj. Serpa PintO's new work, Civ
ing the account of his great journey
across Africa, will be entitled "The
Kings Rifle; from the Atlantic to the
Indian Sea, across Unknown Countries,
and Discovery of the Great Zambesi At
fluents." 1t will be enriched by nu-
merous wood-cuts from Maj. Pinto's
own sketches and photographs, also by
about Is maps. Editions in French,
Portuguese, German, and English are
being simultaneously prepared.
Miss Dudu Fletcher, the clever and
pretty author of "Kismet a" and other
novels, has disguised, it is said, all the
matchmaking mammas in Rome by be-
coming engaged to a great matrimonial
prize, Lord Wentworth. As Lady Went
worth this brilliant and sparkling young
woman will doubtless grow even more
charming, and it is to be hoped will not
give up the literary work in which she
has shown so much promise.
-Gustave Dore, the famous painter
and draughtsman, is at work on an il
Illustrated edition of Shakespeare, which
he intends to be the supreme effort of
his life. The enormous number of pic
works of fiction and poetry that his
genius has embellished, has given rise
to a general impression that Dore is a
man well advanced in life, whereas he is
only As years of age, and remarkably
young and vigorous at that.
Science and Industry.
-Postal-cards, now almost universal,
started in Austria in 1865.
Baltimore capitalists have 700 men
ut work in a copper mine in Ashe COun-
ty, N. c., just on the edge of Virginia
and Tennessee, and 10000 pounds of
refined metal are turned out daily, the
ore yielding 400 pounds of copper to
the ton.
To make an umbrella cover water
proof, apply first strong, hot, aqueous
solution of soap, then solution of alum,
sulphate of alumina, or lead acetate
(sugar of lead); again the soap solu-.
ton, and finally wash with hot water.
The statement of receipts from in
ternal revenue from July to Septem-
Der 80, 1879, as compared with 4 like
period in 1873, shows an increase of
$2,O59, 44S from collections on spirits
decrease 81 ,422 ,276 from tobacco, and
increase $2S9,19l from fermented
liquors.
The employment of women in the
telegraph service in France on a large
scale has now begun ut Paris, where 24O
girls are undergoing an apprenticeship
of three months on trial. They are
cheaper than men, getting only 5000 a
year, whereas men get $500 and $500.
The girls are not expected to do night
work.
The summer packing season which
has just closed was of magnitude I'M
precedented in the history of Chicago.
Last winter the packing amOuntel to
2,943, 900 hogs, and during the summer
to 1880, 600, making grand total of
5,O33, 900 for the last u months. The
aggregate net weight of the pork
product was 1,O3l, 765 900 pounds, val
ned at about $41 ,0OO, 900.
School and Church.
There are two Baptist Churches in
South America; one at Santa Barbara,
Brazil, and the other at Demerara,
Guiana.
The Car has recently granted reli-
gious liberty to the Baptists, who are
put on an equal footing with his ortho-
dox subjects.
The Mennonites are about to estab-
lish mission among the Indians in the
Island of Kodjah, 600 miles West of
Sitka, Alaska.
The two Misses Longfellow, a
daughter of Professor HorsfOrd, and
daughter of Mr.. Author Gilman are
among the lady students at Harvard.
The colored Episcopal Church in
Washington, whereof DIR. Crummel is
pastor, has $50 COMMITMENTS, and the
Doctor believes it could be easily in
creased to 800 or 1000 if he only had a
larger church. The chapel he now has
holds only IS persons. An appeal is
made for 81, 500 or $1,000 to finish the
new and large edifice now i'm cOurse of