The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-31
which he is now to prevent others from

which he is now to prevent others from
carrying on.
In 1867 France had . very bad har-
vest, and when bakers bread rose at
Angouleme to SO centimes the kilo-,
gramme, several leading townsnen or
ganized, ON o capital of %, 400, an
economic bakery, to furnish bread OF
the best quality and lowest price 70. Al
co operating. About 400 families, who,
paid up &l.25 each, Immediately joined.
The first year the promoters attempted
nothing beyond reducing the price OF
bread, which they sold to subscribers ~
per cent. lower than the bakers. When
the hard times were over it became
question whether the whole scheme
should not be dropped, but at the in
stance of one very energetic coadjutor:.
it was carried SO triumphantly forward
that not only has bread been furnished
to the subscribers at less than the ba-
kers' prices, but the 81, 400 subscribed
in the hard times has been repaid to the
gentleman who benevOlently advanced
It, and bakery worth $1,000 has been
erected. From 1000 to 1, 100 families
now derive from this source their daily
supply of the very best bread, instead of
paying higher price for that Of inferior
quality, or having the trouble and in
convenience of baking at home.
SUCH loss of life and property has
followed the wantOn cutting down of
entire forests, for years past, that sew
eral European Governments have APP
pointed commissioners to interfere in
this, and instead of removing 1T once
the entire growth of forest lands, they
now thin the trees out only when attain
ing their full growth, and in their prime.
In this way, Just as large, if not a
larger, product of lumber is obtained
during a half or whole century, and
the roots of the trees left standing and
the underbrush act as filters for power
full rains, retard their otherwise rapid
flow, and prevent their washing away
the soil. The streams in the valleys are
consequently not filed SO soon in days
rs before in hours, and no destruction
of farms, villages, and their inhabitants,
herds and flocks follows. Nothing is
more unsightly in a landscape than the
thick stumps left on the ground after
cutting off a noble forest. If the trees
be gradually thinned instead of cutting
all off at once, this ugly, depressing
sight is avoided.
THE great toothpick monopoly is ut
an end. Toothpicks may seem rather a
small thing to get up monopoly on,
yet such was the case. The familiar
toothpick which we pick up rs we leave
a restaurant, is made of whitewOod,
and pointed at both ends. These little
articles were patented in 1866, but the
patent has just run out, and competition
is now making things lively. The only
and original factory, in Bucksfield,
Maine, used from 5000 to 5000 cords
of wood every year. For rs cents, a
box of $500 tOothpicks were sold, and
a large profit obtained. The compli-
Gated machinery took in a log 6 feet
long and IL inches in diameter, and
chewed it up into tOothpicks. But the
old and original factory seems to be
about ruined by Western cheap labor.
Another factory has started up in the
woods of Western Ohio, and with SINH
lar machinery is showing that every log
has "millions in it," in the shape Of
tOothpicks. The price per $500 fell
from % cents to 20 cents, then to 10, 16,
IA, and finally to 10 cents retail and
eight cents wholesale, and here it stands.
Whether competition will prove the life
or death of the toOthpick remains to be
seen.
LANCASTER, Pa, has a sensation of
A
stranger made his appearance in that
place the other day, and said he wanted
to get married. The prOprietress of
the clearinghouse at which he stopped
undertook the management of the af-
fair. She called in the girls of the
neighbOrhnod one after another until
ten had passed in review before the fell
low, but none of them seemed to an
swer. The eleventh girl was more
lucky or unlucky, for she met his re-
quirements, and she, doubtless relying
upon the representations of the landla-
DIV, accepted him. Her name was Ida
Breneman, and he gave his name as
Eugene Delyon. They were married,
and, as a matter of course, he has since
disappeared. 1t is ascertained that he
has wife at Harrisburg. The mar
riage of young women to men who have
wives in other parts of the country is
not an uncommon thing, but it is a new
feature of the business to set up the
girls of the neighbOrhoOd for 4 stranger
to take his pick from. The young
woman who ventured thus blindly upon
the matrimonial sea is highly respecta-
BILE, as were all of the other girls who
passed in review before the scamp. The
foolish woman bitterly repents her in