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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
Cholera at Mecca.


Within the last few weeks there have
been vague reports from Arabia of the
presence of cholera in Mecca. These
have now assumed q tangible shape, and
there can be no doubt that q choleraic
epidemic is raging in the vi
cinity of the Prophets tomb.
A telegram from Alexandria
sets down the mortality in Mecca from
cholora at fifty-fve on the Sd inst. PA
on the 4th and PA on the succeeding
day. making total of nearly 500 deaths
in three days. As Turkish figures sell
dom err on the side of exaggeration in
matters which concern the reputation
of Turkish authorities, it may be reason
ably assumed that the actual mortality
has been greater than the death rate re-
ported from Jeddah. The dirt of Nee
ca mOcks the maxim which puts clean
illness next to goodness. Hundreds of
thousands of Mahometan pilgrims
crowd into it annually from all parts of
the Islamite world-from the remote
steppes of the Kirghitz to the almost
unknown corners of the Empire of Mo-
rocco. These zealots as q rule are
poor and half civilized persons who,
provided they can gaze upon the
shrines dedicated to Mahomet, are con-
tented with filthy food and villainous
accommodations in streets which reek
in the hot sunshine with masses of
indescribable garbage. The appear
ance of disease in Mecca in regular in
tervals is therefore matter of course.
Pilgrims dying there die happy, as death
in the immediate vicinity of the tomb
of the Prophet assures them a glorious
journey across the razor bridge of ''Al
Strait into the luxurious realms of
paradise. But the rest of the world has
9 direct interest in seeing the Turkish
authorities compelled to reform the SAN
itary condition of their sacred cities.
Cholera is q travelling and an in
vading curse. On several occasions
during the last half century it has set
out from Hindostan. and after wander
ing fftfully through Central Asia and
Persia, has suddenly burst forth in
Europe. and crossed the Atlantic to
America. One of the most extraordi-
nary illustrations of its occasional viru-
lence and lightning like rapidity of
movement occurred in the northwest
provinces of India four years ago. A
train left Cawnpore for Lucknow "a
comparatively short Journey full of
Hindoos. When it arrived at its desti-
nation it was found to be full
of people who had died or
were dying from an attack of cholera
which had burst forth in one COM
partment of the train and spread in
simultaneously to all the other compart-
ments. The Turkish authorities appear
to have got the idea that the Mecca
epidemic must be confined to Mecca,
for they show signs of a disposition to
prevent caravans of pilgrims from en-
tering the Arabian town and district of
Ell Wadj. They ought. however, to be
required by Europe to take active as
we'll as passive measures to prevent the
epidemic from travelling on radius be-
yond the limits of Mecca. for cholera,
like a stone thrown in water, makes ever
widening circles if it is not theoretically
encountered at the outset. -NeU York
WOrLd
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Who is this Fredericksburg Manp
He is Foreman in q Printing Office. He
gets Paid for throwing Men Down stairs
when they Come to Lick the Editor, and
for putting wrong Dates at the Head OF
the Paper. He can ri more type in fif-
teen Minutes than Seven Printers can
Set up in two Weeks. He loves to ask
the Editor for Copy. If it we're not for
Him the Paper would look pretty Well
every morning. Everything would be
Fat and none of the Live Ads would be
Left Out.-Denuer Tribune Primer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
Attack on the Idol Of Juggernauk

An attack has been made upon the
idol of Juggernaut, at Pooree, the most
sacred shrine in India, by body Of "a
natics.
The rioters, who numbered twelve
men and three women, and were almost
in q state of nudity, succeeded in enter.
ing the temple and tried to force their
way into the inner recesses. Although
upward of LOO pilgrims were present,
they were not expelled without . severe
struggle, in the course of which one in.
truder was trampled to death. The rest
were arrested, and have been sentenced
to three months imprisonment. The
inquiry showed that they belonged to q
sect of Hindoo dissenters lately founded
in the Sumbulpore district, and known
as bankruptcies, from the fact that its
followers wear ropes of bark round their
waists.
They allege that their religion was re-
vealed to sixty-four persons in 1864 by
god incarnate, whom they style
Alekhswamy-that is, the Lord-whose
attributes can not be described in writ
ing. They believe in the existence of
the SOC, 200, 900 of Hindoo deities, but do
not respect their images, saying that it
is impossible to represent a Supreme
Being whom no one has ever seen. They
are subdivided into three classes, two Of
which renounce the world and make no
distinction of caste, while the third lead
family life. Their habits are said to
be very filthy, and, like some European
sects, they take no medicine in illness,
but rely solely on divine help. Their
attack on the Pooree temple was prompt
ed by the belief that If the Juggernaut
were burned it would convince the Hin
docs of the futility of their religion, and
the whole world would then embrace
the truth.-CalcuttG Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
"Female COmplnlnts.,.

DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo. N. Y: Dear Sir
-Iwas sick for six years, and could scarcely
walk about the house. My breath was short
and suffered from pain in my breas: and
stomach all the time; also from palpitation
and an internal fever, or burning sensation,
and experienced frequent smothering or
choking sensations. also suffered from pain
low down across my bowels and in my back,
and was much reduced in flesh. Ihave used
your Golden Medical Discovery" and
''Favorite Prescription" and feel that am
well. Very respectfully.
DELILAH B. MCMILLAN, Arlington, Ga.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

An exchange paper says that the
plug hat is virtually q sort of social
guarantee for the preservation of peace
and order. This editor probably for
gets the desire to kick that plug hat
reposing innocently on the sidewalk
with a brick inside of it always arouses
in the gentlest of men.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

"A Connecticut horse owner has re-
covered $475 of the town of Windham
on account of the loss of his horse by
lock-jaw, the disease being produced by
treading q rusty nail into his foot, on
the highway. Now it is proposed that
the town shall sue q manufacturing
company which made the highway q
dumping ground for old building rub
Dish, rusty nails included. That would
be eminently proper. Highways are
not made for that sort OF use.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

"A number of young Englishmen are
working on a farm at LIE Mars, Iowa.
They are pupils of an Englishman who
owns a large tract there, and are learn
ing the business with view to conduct
ing extensive farming operations in the
far West. There is a large English
colony at LIE Mars, including many sons
of aristocratic families.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

"A st. Louis man who dreamed that
he was being scalped by Indians awoke
to find that his wife, who had dreamed
that she was superintendent of an or
phan asylum. was drawing him out Of
bed by the hair.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

E. L. LowEREE, ESQ.,, cashier of the Gin.
sinnati Southern Railroad, says the Cincin-
aati Enquirer, was cured by st. Jacobs OIL
Of stubborn case Of rheumatism, which
wouldn't yield to physicians treatment
BrOoklun Ed0Le
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Most people in this country are
tired of seeing the Goddess of Liberty
with that same old suit on. Why not
do her hair up in . French roll and give
her q train?-Detr0it Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

For weak lungs, splitting Of blood, short.
Ness 1T breath, consumption, night sweats
AMI all lingering coughs, DR.. Pieree's ssGold.
Superior to cod liver oil. By druggists.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

THE Albany IN. W Press and Knicksroocs.
er says: "The largest following we know of
to-day Is that of St. Jacobs Oil; for where
St. Jacobs OIL is, there rheum atism is not"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Riches are often thorns that pierce
the head with cares in getting them,
and the heart with grief in parting with
them,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

"DARN the newspapers! why can't they
leave such items out:" exclaimed hard up
undertaken, when he read an article warn.
ing people not to indulge too freely in green
fruit.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

WHEN you squeeze young lady, II you
ever do, and she eXclaims: HOh!" do not
think she is at all displeased. It is only an
involuntary action Of the vocal organs-sim.
ply oh ing to the pressure.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Cancers and Other Tumors
are treated with unusual success by Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.
7. Send stamp for pamphlet
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

FRESHMAN: "Action and reaction are
equal and opposite. as, for instance, when q
cannon jumps as far backward as the ball
goes forward.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

CHEAPER than blacksmithing-is Frazer's
Axle Grease. For sale everywhere. Try it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

DURN0's CATARRH SNUFF cures all affec-
lions of the mucous membrane Of the head.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

PEOPLE who study economy before every.
thing sss like the prefer s the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

DEALERS are beginning to see that It 10
better to 60 with the tide than to swim
against 1t. By selling the Charter Oak Range
they are helped In selling other things. 1914
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
Dr. Qree.,e OxYrenatea Rltters

Or. 0reeA's OXyGeaaeed 8letefs
Is the best remedy for Dyspepsia, Biiousness.
Malaria, Indigestion, disorders and diseases Of
the Stomach, Blood, Kidneys. Liver. Skin, etc.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

THEODORE remarked, when Angelina's
father showed him of the doorstep, that the
old gentleman had considerable push about
him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Dr. Morris LIVER PILLS are the best Veg
etable Cathartic Regulators.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

Mrs. Olive E. Whitney has salary
of IS, 900 as designer for an Eastern
chrome makers holiday cards.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

THE hotels are beginning to try the new
Charter Oak Hotel Range, because Of its great
ooking capacity and economy Of fuel. 1873
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

WHEN you have become tired Of good
promises and poor Cigars, just send to Tan.
sill & Co., IS State street, Chicago, for .
sample lot of "Tansill's Punch" &c. Cigar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

"WILL you tell me-" asked IN old gen.
tleman of lady, "what Mr.. - maiden
name wasp "Why, her maiden aim was
to get married, Of course" exclaimed the
lady.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

He2HyJ C8fDoadC OuaVes
The BEST SALvB for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, U.
GERS, Salt Rheum, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains. Corns and all kinds OF Skin Erup-
tions, Frecfles and Pimples. Buy HENRY's
CARBoLIc SALvE, all others are eoHntsrf6t&
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20

AN OLp B1RD.-The Gridley Butte
county, Herald is responsible for the fol-
lowing:
Thomas Chaplin, of Virginia City, Ne.
vada, passed through this city last Friday,
with team and light wagon, on his way
home from visit to friends in Sonoma
county. When crossing Butte creek, ten
miles west of this place, he shot and killed
a sandhill crane. The bird acted as if lost,
and being alone, attracted Mr.. Chaplin's at
tention with the above result. After the
bird was killed Mr.. Chaplin decided to
save the feathers. While thus engaged he
saw that the bird was blind, thick white
film covering the pupils of both eyes, and
on the neck he discovered crease en-
circling it, which looked as if at some time
or other the head had been almost cut off
with knife. Upon close investigation,
however, the gentleman found that this
crease was caused by wire around the
neck and sunk deep into the fesh-so much
so that it could not be seen until the flesh
had been cut away. Suspended from the
wire, which passed through little hole
near the rim of the coin, was what had
evidently at one time been silver quarter.
dollar. Both sides of the piece were smooth
and bore the following inscriptions /:
Captured at Fort Du Quesne, May 25,
1888" Released at Fort Dearborn, No.
vember II, 1886" The coin was of dull
bright color, but having been protected by
the soft down, bore no evidence of having
experienced rough weather. Cranes are
out Of their latitude in this climate at this
season of the year, and it is highly prob
able the bird was unable by reason of the
infirmities of old age to travel any longer.
1t is more than likely the coin was an Eng
lish piece. as this Government had not
ssued metal money at that early day.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
IN WoRTH,s WORKSHOP.

may be mistaken, but l have always
understood that Mr.. Worth commenced
life as cutter.out in Messrs. Shoolbred's
establishment That he has now to GER
tain extent retired from active participa.
tion of the business in favor of his son is a
well. known fact. Though of course the
tales told of this autocrat of fashion have
often been feolishly exaggerated, still there
was some truth at the bottom. Instead of,
usually the case, being the slave of his Gus
toners whims and tancies, he from the
very beginning turned the tables upon
them and dictated to them. To many
women this was an uncomfortable state of
things, and they preferred going else
where, but enough always remained,
and these, finding that they gained by
submission, were only too glad to
wear the chain for the sake of the
result. / never saw Mr.. Worth in a
dressing gown, but have been assured he
has at times appeared thus accoutered be.
fore his 50 clients" and the latter often
deigned to partake of cup of afternoon
tea while discussing, or perhaps it would
be more correct to say listening to, the
suggestions of the oracle. The following
scene, which took place in the rooms over
which MIR. Worth, Jr., presides, was de.
tailed to me short time since by a young
Russian lady. The toilet in course of
preparation had presented more than usual
difficulty it had been tried on once, twice
unsuccessfully. Art triumphed at last,
and the lady was requested to give her
couturier one last audience, but to get her
hair dressed previously in a particular
fashion by some specified coifeur. The
dress was put on and MIR. Worth
was called IN. He was enchanted
with the result of his work. The lady,
standing in the middle of the room,
was minutely examined from near and afar !;
the attendant desired to draw out fold
here, to take in bit there still there was
something wanting Was it the toilet !?
No. The surroundings were inharmonious !;
that was it. As soon as this dawned on
the perceptions of the artist he led the
way into his fathers private room, hung
round with pastel portraits of Louis XIV. s
time, and there, but not till there, he was
satisfied and desiring that there should
be as many witnesses of his triumph as
possible, he called not only all the young
women employed in the showroom, but
also for the female buokkeeper. The hero.
ine-if the part of the lay figure which she
enacted may be SO termed-fully accus.
toned to run the gauntlet of hundreds of
spectators in her old world, acknowledged
that she experienced feeling of shame
and felt herself blushing painfully beneath
her poudre de riz and her scientifically
arranged bandeaus.-[Paris Letter.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
TEUMBs.

Ii any body will look carefully at the
end OF his thumb, he will find that the sur
face is ridged with little threadlike ranges
of hills, wound round and round IN tiny
spirals. Ii he will take u magnifying glass
and examine them closely he will find that
there is a great deal of individuality in the
way in which these are arranged. No two
thumbs in all the world are exactly alike.
The miniature mountain ranges are fixed
and decided as the Alps or the Sierras, the
geography of the thumb is unmistakable.
The Chinese have made use OF this fact for
establishing a rogue's gallery. Whenever a
criminal is examined by ths law an impress
sion is taken of his thumb. Smeared with
a little lampblack, partially wiped and
then pressed down on . piece of white
paper, an engraving of the thumb is made
and kept in the police records. 1t serves
just the same purpose which is served by
our photographing our burglars and pick.
pockets. The accused can be identified
with great certainty. Nothing short OF
mutilating or burning the thumb can OBJ
literate its features. Sometimes CHASTITY
proof of guilt is furnished murderer,
red handed with his crime, may touch his
fingers end upon white wall and so leave
in the color of his guilt photograph on
the accusing wall. His signature Is left
just as unmistakably as if he had signed
the bond of his iniquity, and thus great
crimes have been brought to light and
deeds of blood made to tell their own
history. But this individuality in the
skin of the tip of the thumb, strongly
marked as it is, yet admits of strong family
likeness. Brothers and sisters who will
take impressions of their thumbs will find
resembances among each other that they
will not find when comparing them
with the thumb of strangers. Even
thus minutely does that strange thing,
family ikenesses, descend. What
wonder is it that faces look alike,
voices sound alike; how can it seem
strange that members of the same family
should have similarities of temper, of men
tai aptitudes and hereditary diseases, when
such minor peculiarities as the texture at
the end of the thumb, and its ranges of
hills, should also have family resemblances
in the midst of their infinite diversities.
The hairs of our head are all numbered" !"
and not only SO, but each hair if examined
with powerful magnifying glass shows
pecuiarities as strong as the trees of for
est. No two are alike. Everything, from
the smallest to the greatest, is impressed
with specific character and individuality.
The Creators invention is exhaustless, and
he no more repeats himself in the geogra-
ply of thumb than in the geography of a
continent. Now if anybody DOUBTS this
let him take little black, or aniline color,
and try. He will acquire an acquaintance
with his thumb and respect for it that
will bequite interesting. Il Baltimore Every
Saturday
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
HEALTHY BREAKFASTS.

If a child were properly fed, it would,
up to full adult size, not ask for anything
more than porridge, milk, bread and fruit.
There would be no desire for animal mat
ter early in the day, and this would not
be required till later in the day. Our un-
scientific ways of eating have created tastes
that may truly be called unnatural, and
we stimulate the system, when it should
merely be fed and have matter to replace
its waste. Among the cereals for break
fast, which we should like to recommend
to healthy and unspoilt digestion, are
those that have already undergone
certain process of desiccation, and,
therefore, require less cooking and
less working up in the stomach. The rich
est cereals are wheat, Indian corn, oats
and barley, and their constituents are such
as to furnish all the elements of which we
found, in our first article, man was COM
posed. To combine good cereal porridge
with healthy milk is about the best food
the young can take in the early part of the
day; sweeten this with sugar or molasses
and the palate is also pleased. 1t is when
the taste has been early spoilt that we re-
quire stimulants in one shape or another.
Those cereals are most beneficial for us
that are the growths of our own climate,
and give us the resisting power to its influ-
ence. Cereal cakes should not be entirely
condemned, but may be made so that the
digestion can deal with them properly.
The first thing for proper cooking of GER
eals is proper cooking utensil, and this
should always be steam boiler, or one
utensil contained in another. We refer to
the porcelain ware the granite ware or the
best block tin farina boilers. The cereals,
which are to be enumerated, are always
best cooked with water, milk being added
later, as well as sugar. The reason why
it is better, particularly for the dwellers
in town, to use prepared cereals, is, that
the digestive organs of all townsfolk are
in weaker condition, and can, therefore,
not undergo the hard work of digesting un-
prepared cereals.-[From the Food and
Health Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
FORTUNES rSAr WIRE.

Speaking of rich men, says the New
York correspondent of the Rochester DEM
ocrat, it may be added that the foundation
of great fortunes is laid slowly. Then
comes the gradual growth and the culmi-
nation which is followed by inevitable
decay. As Pope says
The laws Of God and of our land
Abhor perpetuity should stand.
A number of large fortunes are now either
slowly crumbling or passing rapidly away.
One of those capitalists who formerly COM
manded the admiration of the city was
John G. Coster. He was a German. and
formerly owned the site of the Astor
House. remember one of his sons
Washington Coster), who inherited, as it
was said, nearly million. This was many
years ago, when such a sum was worth
thrice its present value. He was fast
young man, and got to the end OF this in a
few years after attaining his majority.
Another rich estate was that of the Tobias
family, which owned lands near Madison
Square. Adjacent to these was the Bre-
WORT estate, portion of which is still
in the hands of some of the heirs. The
great estate of John Mason (once the dry
SOOuS pllucc VI his udJ duu tudb hieo
of Henry Eckford, formerly the great ship
builder, are now out of notice, but of the
former only small portion remains. An
other past estate was the Hone property.
Philip Hone was formerly one of our mag.
mates, having been not only merchant
prince, but Mayor and founder of Clinton
Hall Association. He left large property,
which has faded away in the natural
course of things. The Coddingtons, of
Bond street, were also among the magnates
of fashion, but where are they now
Alderman Carman, who died few years
ago, left 81, ZOO, 600, but little of this
princely estate remains in the possession of
the family. Carman began as carpenter I;
it were well for some of his heirs if they
were in some such business low. have
thus referred to some of the great names,
but there are many of less Importance
which might be mentioned, which are rap.
idly wasting away. The conduct of these
wasteful heirs reminds one of Pope's pun
gent lines
AT best it falls to some ungracous son
Who cries my fathers damned and alps my own.
Pope's hits at the errors OF mankind
seem to have been written for our own day.
Here is another
The riches like insects when concealed they lie,
Wait but fof wings and in their season fly,
Who sees pale mammon pine amid her store,
Sees but backward steward for the poor.
One year q reservoie, with none to spare,
The pext fountain spouting through your heir.