The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25
oeCURRENCEs OF INTEREST.
ABrass Brick Sel1 tor eeld.


.HoE1c1 circles are convulaed ovor the neat
- complete manner IN which one Of the
ts8art men e Chicago has ZEN taken in BY -
elaprocesss HieSDs 1eorey keeps 1pFiv4te
loan and realestate Office in the. Union Build
tnR, corner Of LaSalle and Washington streeta,,
He has always had tho reputation Of being
somewhat shrewd, and was the last person in
the world who would be suspected of being
soft enough to allow himself 70 be played for
8 sucker. K short time since Mr.. Storey had
occasion to 60 to the Hot Sprinssof Arkansas,
that balmy locality where rheumatism y sup
posed to give up the ghost. He took with
him q large amount Of hard cash and .
considerable sum in greenbacks, and left
q fat bank account behind him as q
reserve in case Of emergency. Now it hap
country learned of the presence of Mr.. Storey
They immediately decided to "work him for
all he was worth" In this undertaking they
we're eminently suocessfuL They tried the
brass brick racket" They informed Mr.. Stor-
ey that the brick in their possession was avery
valuable one, all soad, aad the amysterieus
manner In which they are said to have con-
Quoted the negotiations led Mr.. Storey to ,be-
neve allti,at they said. To make long story
short, the gentleman Is alleged to have parted
with 81, 500 in cool cash, and, to have become
the unhappy possessot Of Q fine brass brick
thus losing the entire sum invested. It is said
that Mr.. Storey is making every effort to re-
cover the lost money, but thus far he has not
met with any success Chicago Journal. ~.
The Thirteen and Seventeen Year lecusts.
PRoYEssOR c. v. RILEY, Chief OF the
United States chronological Commission,
who has been spending q couple Of days In
the city, left last night for Washington.
Meeting Republican reporter yesterday aft
ernoOn, the Professor called his attention to
dispatch sent out from Washington last week.
in which a statement was imputed to him
that the locusts or grasshoppers were going
to be bad the coming season. This statement,
the Professor said, was incorrect. 1t was q
Misrepresentation of the language used by
him in the course of some remarks
made by him before the District of
Columbia Horticultural Society. His re-
marks were in relation to the seventeen
year locusts, more properly known as the
"cicada, /" totally different insect-one hav-
ing no power to do great injury.-Of this in
sect the Professor said there would be two
distinct broods, the thirteen-year and the sew
enteen-year varieties, which will appear in q
large portion of the country, say in about .
dozen different States, including Missouri and
most of the Mississippi Valley States. Their
appearance will be in May and June. Prof.
Riley stated that the simultaneous appearance
OF the thirteen and seventeen-year broods had
not occurred before since the year 1860 in the
same places where they will appear this year.
The cicada are not destructive like the pests
known as grasshoppers or iocusts. They have |
got sucking beak and therefore cannot de-
is done by the female, which has the habit Of |
pmcturing the twigs of fruit and forest trees, |
to make holes in which to lay her eggs.
Regarding the grasshopper proper Prof. RI |
ley said the prospects as to injury from them |
are quite favorable. as Is judged from the |
made by the United States En- |
genealogical Commission last year. He said |
he had no reason to fear any serious injury. |
It was found last summer that the eggs and |
insects in the natural breeding grounds of tho |
Northwest were scarce.-St. Louis Republican,