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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Nor less than six monuments have
been erected in Italy this year to the
memogyof the late King Victor Emanuel.
HERR Is1DoR KRAFT, . wealthy phil
anthropist, Who lately died at Berlin,
bequeathed the half of his fortune of
LOCO, 900 marks to found an institution
as . refuge for destitute needle-women.
BARON RorHscHILD, the head of the
French branch of the family, is usually
at the bank before his clerks are. His
wife wears but little jewelry, and his
daughter Bettina has passed success
full examination as q teacher.
The fishermen of Great Britain have
reason to be grateful to the Baroness
Burdett-C outts, for she is said to have
expended the snug little sum of 95OO, 900
in efforts to improve the condition of the
poor and deserving of this class.
NOTWITHSTANDING the persecution
of the Jews in Germany, it is said that
impecunious young German noblemen
with I" many ancestors and more debts :"
continue to seek the hands of wealthy
young Jewish maidens in marriage.
TIE defense of Mr.. Parnen and his
colleagues will cost about S75, 900. Six
meetings were held in London with the
object Of raising funds, and subscrip-
tons have been widely taken up in Ire
land. The Land League counts, how
ever, upon receiving the greater part OF
the fund from Irishmen in the United
States.
M. DE LEssEPs has eight babies, and
he is now baptizing the ninth. The
Queen of Spain will be godmother; and
q godfather has been found in the
Bishop of Panama. NJ. de Lesseps is in
the habit of taking seven of these babies
out every day in pony carriage. The
Paris GGulois devotes an article of near
ly two columns to these interesting
facts.
PROF. V1RcHow, Prof. Mommsen
and Prof. Hildebrand all appear in pub
lie condemnation of the anti-Hebrew
agitation in Germany. The Crown
Prince and his wife also omit no oppor-
tunity to show their disapproval. Prince
Bismarck has never pretended to like
the Jews, but he has made use of them
as occasion has offered from time to
time.
The current reports that the marriage
of Mr.. Bartlett and the Baroness Bur-
dett-C outts will not take place are now
said to be wholly unfounded. The
Baroness's intimate friends say she is
fully resolved to complete the alliance,
of pecuniary loss The Bar
oness lately told peer that q judicial
on her money matters may
eventually come before him, being re-
solved, though Indifferent to wealth, to
maintain what she believes to be her
rights, and carry the proceedings to the
House of Lords for q final decision. 1t
is estimated that her remaining yearly
income, after an adverse decision, would
be 100000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
How Sam Houston was Admitted to
the Bar.

BOWER MILLER, q man of adj
mirable character and education,
when he had concluded his legal
studies, decided to establish himself in
Tennessee. It was soon after the war
of 1924, says u correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune, and in visiting
the Circuit Judges to obtain their GER
tificate of professional qualification, he
fell in with Sam Houston, fresh from
the campaigns of Alabama and else
where in the Gulf States, in which he
had accompanied General jackson, and
who had determined to adopt the pro-
fession of law. The young men were at
once confidential, and Houston frankly
avowed his own educational deficiencies
and limited opportunity of qualifying
himself, occupied as he had been for
the few years preceding in the excite.
ments of the war.
Miller" said he, 81 shall tell the
Judges that they needn't expect much
learning from me. We shall be exam
ined at the same time. If question of
difficulty is asked don't be bashful; an
swer it. Leave those that are more
easy to me. am not at all jealous
p OAluoIs WIZ was V0Iy well QudalucO9
was amused, and promised to do any
thing in his power to aid him.
Arriving at the residence of the first
Judge this agreement was kept up.
Houston invariably introduced the ex-
animation by q narrative of something
connected with the war, and with q joe
-nlar admission of his own difficulties in
pursuing his legal theories. A question
having been asked upon the abtruse
common law doctrine of execut0ry de-
crees and contingent remanders, Mr..
Miller modestly repeated the exposition
of his authorities, and the Judge ampli-
fed the reply with remarks upon the
channel of judicial decisions.
We are not to suppose that the exam
nations were very technical or strict. At
q succeeding examination, however,
Houston in reply to question upon the
same subject took up thu ,eply and re-
peated the information he had acquired,
and when they called on the last Judge,
Houston observed that the two preceding
examinations must have been satisfac-
tory, and Judge White gave his sigma
ture and made the young men stay al
night.
Within two years from that time
Houston had been elected either q State
or District Attorney, while Miller, dis.
couraged at the prospect Of professional
success. returned to Virginia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
Jules Verne.

JULES VERNE is about 50, with fine,
handsome head. Once blonde, he
wears his beard full, and his hair Is
curled in haphazard fashion. His
features are more than regular; they
are fine. His eye is bright, of 3 clear
blue, brilliant and yet moist. His DOM
inant expression is sweetness, but firm
sweetness, like rosy steel, which does
not bend. His mouth, which says such
charming and clever things, says "yes''
and ''no'' with the same smile. But
eyes " or 'no," it is irrevocable. A
Breton, of Nantes, Jules Verne has kept
the religious traditions of Brittany, but
rather like painter who preserves the
impressions of his travels, than like q
child of the soil who would die for his
faith. He is at bottom more of q skeptic
than D'Ennery. No one would stand
up more bravely for q doctrine, but no
one would, moment after, make q
more questionable speech. In politics
it is worse, for he never voted in his
life.
The son Of q lawyer, he came to Paris
him in another direction, but neverthe-
less he was admitted to the bar. He
then became secretary to NJ. Perrin,
who at that time had the double adj
ministration of the Opera Comique and
of the Theater Lyrique. After this he
followed the bent of his tastes more
freely. He contributed q number of ar
ticles to the Musee DIES Families, and
about this time wrote piece in one act,
"Des Pailles Rompus," with which
Alexandra Dumas was connected, for it
was he who had it produced at the
Theater Historique, and it was he who
bought the first copy after it was print
ed. After an experience in the stock
market, being still in love with itera-
ture, Verne published his first book.
'sFive Weeks in q Balloon" It went
off like hot cakes, though it was only q
trial. But the success was so great
that it appeared to Hetzel that here was
a new road to literature which deserved
to be followed up. He made an en-
gagement with Verne for twenty years
on what then appeared splendid terms,
but which have since made the fortune
of the lucky editor. After the publica-
ton of Five Weeks in Balloon" he
announced to his friends one fine morn
ing that he was about to get married,
and then disappeared. 1t was the only
sign of life that his wife has ever given.
Since then he has led the same life of
study, of travel, and of interminable
production. He passes his life between
Paris and Amiens, where he has q
splendid house, when he is not explor-
ing somewhere or other on his famous
boat, the Saint Michel, on, which most
of his stories are written. As for the
rest, he is the most charming man i'm
aginable, modestly earning his 100000
francs year, to say nothing Of the great
fortune the stage seems to promise him.
.Paris FIGARO
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

MIR. LIE Due, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, is establishing an experimental tea
farm twenty miles from Charleston, on the
line of the South Carolina Railroad.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
A Curieus AAlction.

Mr.. WILLIAM B. FERGUSON, Of East Spring.
field, whose peculiar and dreadful malady was
fully detailed in these columns a few years
ago, is now passing through the period Of
frightful spasmS which recur at this time ev.
ery year. 1t is now twenty years since Mr..
Ferguson was first attacked with this unknown
disease During this annual season Of horrible
suffering the paroxysms come on regularly at
seven clock in the evening and continue with
slight intervals, for about three hours leaving
him PROSTATE and exhausted. Precisely at sew.
en- the next night they recur, and 50 on for three
or four weeks, when they suddenly stop and
leave him for another year. When in these
spasms the muscles become rigid as bars of
steel, and the body IL thrown into frightful
IcOntorti0ns. No known cause for the malady
has ever been assigned, and although Mr..
Ferguson has spent large sums Of money in
search of medical. assistance no relief what
ever, even Of . temporary character, has ever
been found. A few years since he spent q
week in Cleveland, and the faculty and all the
leading physicians Of the city for several
nights witnessed his spasms, but none of
them had ever seen . similar case or could
diagnose the disease.-Erie pa Dispotch.
A CONNECTICUT correspondent says:
"Horatio Case, whose body was Inferred
in Hartford recently, was a former resi-
dent Of Rockville. and married Miss
Scarborough. who at one time worked
In the hotel there. A severe sickness
left her an invalid for life. He declined
her offer to release him from the en-.
gagement. and married her while she
was In bed, and during their more than
twenty years of married life she was
unable to assist herself, even to the
raising Of her hand to her head."
Mr.. KEENE Is reported tohave bought
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

SUBSCRIPTIONS have been opened
in New York for $4,000, 900 in stock
and bonds of the Mexican National Railway,
designed to connect Laredo with the City Of
Mexico
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.

To Hepulaa3oa s(our cities.
tn following Il . list OF 1913 cities Of the
United States, with their population In 1851,
COmpored With ten YooH8 before:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
JUDGE PERCY WALKER, ex-Repre-
sentative in Congress from Alabama, is dead.

A BERLIN dispatch reports that many
Jewish families are preparing to emigrate to
Belgium, France or England.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

DIR. WILSON, the gentleman sent to
Washington on behalf of the Oklahoma COL
onists, has been granted an interview with
the President, but failed to secure the with
drawal of the Executive proclamation de-
claring the invasion Of the Indian Territory
illegal and ordering the arrest of the intrud.
ers. The only hope Of the colonists now lies
in Congressional action.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

Mr. KEENEis reported tohave bought
. fine stock farm in Virginia
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

THE trial of the Land League cases
began in the Court Of Queens Bench, Dub
lin, on the 18th, before Justices Fitzgerald
and Barry, Chief-Justice May declining to
take any part in the trials. The so-called
traversers, or defendants, were all present,
and were Justify cheered upon their arrival.
After some difficulty jury was impaneled,
but no further progress was made on the
first day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07

A COLLISION OF trains on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad occurred on the morning
Of the 26th at the State line, sixty-three miles
from Mobile, causing the death of both en-.
gineers and firemcn and the injury ofseveral
other employees as well as passengers. The
names Of the killed are Savage, Heuchey and
Moody, one not being given.
The steamer City of Peking from
China brings An account of the burning of q
theater in Nomhoitner, Province of Yuchun,
on the afternoon Of December II. Some
1000 spectators were in the theater at the
time, and great panic ensued. There was
. wild rush for the doors, and many were
mangled and killed by being trodden on.
Several hundred were burned to death,
among whom were number Of actors.
JACOB GoGLE and wife, residing four
miles from Bethlehem, Pa, on the morning
Of the 9th were found dead in bed, their
heads nearly severed from their bodies. A
bloody AK was found in the apartment and
the walls were splashed with blood. Joseph
Snyder, . miner, who boarded with the
Goggles, was believed to be the murderer.
He was caught by an infuriated- mob soon
after the discovery Of the crime. forced to
confess his guilt, and hanged to the near est
tree. The Goggles leave three children.
PHILIP WHIsNANT, Charles Sellers,
and three colored men, riding in eaboose
on the Airline Railroad, North Corolina,
were killed by collision, nine miles from
Charlotte, on the 18th.
The lawyers of Missouri met in State
Convention at Kansas City, on the 18th, for
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1881-03-01

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in elmer auisinanoerfolss sebaltsn. ion'
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men ReseIn Der 2Osit fannie.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1881-03-01

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1881-03-01

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Cunt 8lafasa S2l III In isSsr Gpstbtfs 10 ia.
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Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
Words and Their Uses.

Richard Grant White has written . good
deal concerning the origin and various mean
ings of several old English words and
phrases, and many Of his remaaks are very
Instructive and interesting. Primarily,
words were designed to express ideas, and
not, as Tallyrand said, to conceal them: If
a genuine autograph Of Shakespeare, Milton,
Swift or Pope could be found, how it would
be priced and appreciated by the fortunate
finder!
The old Charter Oak at Hartford is Justly
cared for, and its history is priced beyond
anything else in Connecticut; and the public
throughout the United States have a vague
idea that it must have some intrinsic merit,
because the words "Charter Oak" have been
used as trademark by the largest stove
factory in the world. For our own part, we
like to see ambitious manufacturers stamp
their goods so that buyers will know them
on sight. The CHARTER OAK STOVE rather
adds to the claims for veneration of the old
Charter Oak at Hartford, and will be likely
to perpetuate it long after the original tree
Is entirely forgotten. This is the way OF the
world. (5-2S)
Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
Weighing a Hog.

A dog sends the pulse of a vii
lage up to $50. and a foot-race or a
knock-down will almost restore gray
hairs to their original color; but for real
excitement let a man come along in
front of the tavern about sundown driv-
ing hog.
" Hay, where you going?"
"Going to sell this hog
/" Hold on minute What does he
weight"
30! about 225.n
You're off; he won't 60 over 20O."
Every chair is vacated on the instant.
Every eye is fastened On the hog root
ing in the gutter, and every man flat
ters himself that he can guess within
apound of the porker's weight.
That hog will pull down jist exactly
1876 pounds" says the blacksmith, after
long squint.
He won't go an ounce over 1856, "
adds the cooper.
I've got two-dollar bill that says
that hog will kick at 210," says the
hardware man.
/" You must be Wild" growls the
grocer; ." can't see over 150 pounds
of meat there"
Twenty men take walk around the
porker and squint and shake their heads
and look wise, and the owner finally
says:
If he don't 60 over 22O shall feel
that [ am no guesser."
"Over 220! If that hog weighs 200
pounds I'll treat the crowdr' eXclaims
the owner of the bus line.
" | dunno bout that" uused the
Squire, who is on his way to the gro
Gerry after butter. "Some hogs weigh
more and some less. What breed is
this hogpI
" Berkshire
"Well, I've seen some G. them Berk-
sheers that weighed like load O. sand,
and then agin I've seen 'em where
they was all skin and bone. Has any,
body guessed that this hog will weigh
60O."
mo-
"Well, that's leetle steep, but I've
kinder sot my idea on 250."
By this time the crowd has increased
to hundred and the excitement is in
tense. The Squire lays half dollar on
25O, and the owner of the hog rakes in
several bets on "between 220 and 225. ~
The porker is driven to the hay scales
and the silence is almost painful as the
weighing takes place.
Two hundred and twenty-three!'
calls the weigher.
Growls and lamentations smite the
evening cir, aid stake -hoiders pass over
the wagers to the lucky guessers, chief of
whom is the owner of the hog.
We'll, I'm clear beat out" SAYS the
Squire. :" felt dead sure he would
weigh over 30O."
&c, | knew you were all all way of, -
explains the guileless owner. "When
we weighed him here at noon he tipped
at exactly 223, and l knew he couldn't
have picked up or lost over poundr"-
Detroit Free Press.
Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
Feeding Cows Grain in Summer.

Cows which have all the sweet past.
ure grass they need do not need other
food. They will give the most and the
best milk on an abundance of good grass
that they will on most any feed. Few
COWS. however, are supplied with all the
pasture grass they can consume. The
larger part of our pastures soon get
short of feed and the COWS do not OBJ
tain all they want to eat. As a conse-
quence cows generally begin to fall of
in their milk soon after July sets in,
and the falling off of milk continues
each month until late in the autumn,
when it is found the COWS are nearly
dry. Many farmers provide supply OF
corn fodder to feed the cows in August
and September, but this is not soon
enough to begin giving the extra feed.
Oftentimes the COWS have shrunk one
third or one-half in their milk before
the corn fodder is ready for them, and
after the flow is once diminished it is
increased with much difficulty As
soon as the pastures begin to fail the
cows should be furnished with addi-
tiOnal food sufficient to maintain their
full quantity of milk. 1t does not pay
to allow herd of COWS to shrink one
third or one-half in their milk before
the summer is gone, and there is no
need OF it. By feeding grain of some
kind the flow of milk may be main
tanned throughout the summer and even
late into the autumn. Corn meal, bran
and cottonseed meal are all good for
feeding for this purpose, and the return
in milk, butter and cheese will amply
repay the outlay. At no season of the
year will a better return be obtained
for The amount of grain fed to milk-giv-
ing COWS than in the summer when the
pastures begin to fail. In winter the
cold weather causes part of the grain to
go to maintain in the animal warmth,
but in the summer very little food is
required for this purpose, and it is near
ly all converted into milk or flesh. 1t
is to be hoped that many of our farm
ers will try feeding grain this summer
Begin as soon as the quantity of milk
begins to diminish, and feed Just
enough to maintain full flow. 1t will be
found that such feeding, viii viii pay. Mi
only will the total amount of milk OBJ
tanned during the summer and fall be
largely increased, but the COWS also
will be in a good condition for winter
dairying, giving good mess of milk.
The cow is milk machine. and the
more food each COW can economically
work over into milk the greater the
profit from dairying. Never allow the
machine to become idle in part for want
of sufficient supplies of raw material.
LeUiStOn Journal.
Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
Only a Lark.

here was buzz of wonderment, says
o Detroit Police Court reporter, as a
mcy-dressed Young fellow of twenty
hrled his little rattan cane in front Of
b desk and gave his baby mustache a
slious twist to right and left.
Ne You know how It's" he began, as
IT'D Honor looked up. "Out on a lark,
rid know-took drop too much, you
lc)w."
Is your name SpeedP" asked the
+ art. in his deepest bass.
\ t'Yes-Speed, you know-very sorry,
b know"
n And you were drunk?"
sWell, ah, you know-out on a bit
: lark
Mr.. Speed, what is a lark? The
us OF Michigan make no reference to
KS"
a A lark is-aha-you know-a bit of
pree."
n h Then you were out on a bit of a
~.eeP"
'~'Just So"
y And you broke window, smashed
1iirror and raised great outcryP"
But Pll settle all damages, you
owP"
y And you fought the officer all the
~ down, and spent the night shout
h; and yelling"
"A bit excited, you know"
Yes, know all about it, and shall
p you ten dollars, you know"
r | cawn't pay"
lnen you can slide up the incline
!, three months sentence until some
: , Is = FOOLISH enough to square up for
Sijah came near lending the young
N ten dollars on "a diamond rinS
nth S3Q0," " hut the the thy silouy nj strlicR (
p TO have it valued outside. and the
Teler handed it back with the re.
rk: II buy 'em by the bushel at
outa cent apiece The Young man
fou know-therefore went up to eat
lsn and molasses-you know. and ne
'uion't even smile when the boot
,Icks sang:
"Olho!
You knon,
That's up so-you know"
Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
An Old Doctors Advice.

It was this: "Trust in God and keep
your bowels open." For this purpose take
Kidney Wort-for no other remedy so
effectually overcomes this condition, and
that without the distress and gripping which
other medicines cause. Try a box or bottle.
-TeLe1r1Dh,