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Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
A Snake in the Eye.

New York City is considerably excited over the discovery of snake in the eye of dray horse of that city.
 Mr. w. H. Arrowsm1th, of the Ameri- can Veterinary College, says:
 'tThe disease is one seldom seen here. It is called iu the books filarie oculi, and is very prevalent in warm climates, in h. dia, Australia, and in Arabia. It is sup posed to be due to germs taken into the body when the animal is feeding upon grass in low marshy ground. The germs or eggs of the parasite are developed into the active life of a worm, and that worm penetrates to different parts of the body, sometimes to tine eye, sometimes to the brain, sometimes interior organs. But it has been so seldom seen either in Europe or here that comparatively little is known of its progress, development, or results. There have been, l believe, but four or five cases reported ill both Europe and this country.
 "When fully developed, as it is in the eye of the horse referred to, it Is para site white worm, varying from one to three inches in length, and about as thick as an ordinary pin. While in the aque- ous humors of the eye it is in continual motion. When examined 1t this morn ing by means of the ophthalmoscope, found it in the anterior or aqueous cham Der of the eye. It was very active. The cornea of the eye was somewhat opaque, and the iris somewhat distended. By careful observation we could discern granular surface upon the anterior face of the crystalline lens. The horse otherwise was in perfect health. He works and does not show any apparent incon- venience, with the exception of certain nervousness during examination of the eye. The activity of the parasite is such at present that it is impossible to say whether it has head or tail, or what its internal construction may be. But, from microscopic observation, we will probably be able to discover head, tail, and alimentary canal. According to Per cival's 'Hippo-pathology,' and Williams's Veterinary Surgeon,' even the sex of these parasites is clearly discernible un- der the microscope. I do not believe that this parasite is ever found in human beings, but only in grass-eating animals that have grazed in low, marshy ground and that it is in the eye is only matter. of accident in the course of its penetra- ton of the body of the horse.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
What We Send Abroad.

John Roach, the iron shipbuilder, in his report to the Committee on Shipping Interests, says: "Our surplus products sent by ships to foreign markets amount ed in 1870 to about 2,5OO,O GOO tons in 1880 to over 5,O0O,0OO; valued at $1,- 5s9, ,472,O93. Suppose the three nations which are doing the principal part of ou1 carrying--England, France and Ger many-should become involved in war. The first thing would be to attack each others ships, and in destroying those destroy our products. What means have we to guard this great interest We have practically no means of protection whatever for any of these. national inter ests. We could not to-day repulse al attack made by the weakest naval power of Europe To face the fact squarely is the srlrest way to 8 remedy"
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
A Tribute to De Long.

Chief Engineer Melville, in his testi- mony before the Jeannette Board of Inquiry, says of Captain De Long:
 'I did not know that it would be deemed proper for me to pass judgment upon my commanding officer, but, to my mind, he was as good a man as could be assigned to any duty at any time or at any place. He always seemed equal to any emergency, and all that he did was done with his whole soul Had sup posed that would be permitted to speak of my commanding officer or his conduct should not have allowed five minutes to pass without bearing my testimony to his worth and unfaltering devotion to duty. But words of mine are of little value beside the monument which his record has erected to his heroism and un- wavering fidelity to the service and to the well being of those intrusted to his charge"
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
John Chinaman in Court.

Many amusing stories are told of the way in which Chinamen give evidence in Christian courts of justice. In England it is the cusom to break a delicate china saucer over the head of the Chinese wit ness; and this is supposed to insure truth telling. There was Chinese wit ness in trial which was recently held in San Francisco. The judge, evidently not being quite satisfied that the witness understood the object of the form he had just gone through, asked him, as is usual in such cases, if he understood the na- trlre of an oath.
 Perfectly" replied the witness with the utmost confidence 'I know if I tell lie every man in the court will be damned"
 An equally amusing illustration of the ignorance of the Chinese in the matter of our judicial oath was furnished some time ago by the native usher in the Con- sHlar Court at Shanghai. He was ob- served to be making an anxious search for some missing object; and on being questioned by the Judge, he stated that he was looking for the little book which is given to the witnesses to smell An6 this man had been for eighteen years usher of the co ourt!
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
THE MINER',S PROTEGE.

Wal, you see, it's queer story, Missy;
 The little gals none of our kin; But, you bet, when the old men go under, She's the one will handle our tin. My pard an mes rough minin' felers,
 We've got nary children nor wife, But we love little yellow-haired Nellie
 An we'll rear her up right-bet yer life. How old? Wal, she's nigh 8, reckon; | Five years since we brought her out here; An she was the cunnin'est baby
 We'd looked at for many year. You see, twas the last time the Apaches
 Broke out. Blast the red imps of sin The emigrant train crossed their trail, Miss, An the Injuns they scsoped 'em all in. Yes, thar lay men, children and wimmin
 The red demons raised all their ha'r, We couldn't do nothin't to help 'em,
 So my pard an me buried 'em thar. We found one hkely-lookin' young cretur' Lyin' out from the rest of the heap, She was dead, like the rest, an Nellie
 Lay close by her side-fast asleep. Wal, twas near ninety mile to the settlement Bill an me turned the thing in our mind; An at last we concluded to keep her,
 An bring her up loyin' an kind. We buried her poor dad and nanny,
 Likewise all their unlucky mates, An we named her Nell, arter sweetheart
 My pard had once back in the States. But the trouble we had with that young un Was somethin' quite funny to see; Bill gave her up for mystery,
 Likewise she was too much for me. Her, ,dnrned duds we couldn't geton right, And we cussed ev'ry but'n an string; But arter spell we did better
 When we once got the hang of the thing. An she growed up quite perthke aa' bloomin We take her to work evry day, While Bill an mes busy minin'
 She'll sit by the rock pile an play. An she's made better men of us both, Miss, We don't cuss now, nor go on no spree Cause we're workin' an savin' for Nellie,
 The pride of my old pard an me.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29

By THE YARD.-In some parts of Spain where butter is a rare article of merchan- dize, it is sold not by the pound but by the yard. It is brought from the noun tain districts in sheep's intestines, like sausages that are ''tied off, with strings in lengths as required by the buyers. To travellers butter by the inch seems rather curious bargaining; the product is usually neither palatable nor particularly clean.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
A Chapter on the Vanities of Life.
From the Detroit Free Press.1

From the Detroit Free Pressl
 "De odder day." began the old man with @ half-ashamed expression of coun- tenance, "when one of de members of de club diskivered me dyin' my ha'r wid 8 leetle lanp-black an sweet ile he dis pressed de greatest astonishment dat a pusson O my y'ars would be so vain. Gemlen, when you find man widout 8 single weak spot in character you have found a man too good fur dis weary world.
 "When you find drunkard~ you find man wid weakness. He may be hon. est and truthful, but when you offer him whisks ASou peel de patch off his weak spot. If infooence am brought to bar to reform dat man, watch him. He am iist as sartin to break out in some odder spot as de sun am to rise an sot. He will run to hoss races or poker rooms, or he will dress to kill or run arter women, or develop sunthin to prove dat he can't keep right rein on his hull character at once
 Reform a gambler an what do you make of him? Passion fur play am a weakness. Shake it off an de weakness breaks out in some odder spot I have known 8 sober, temperate gambler to re- form from dat habit and become drunk ard.
 When you find man wid weak ness for horses let him alone. Take his hoss away an he will replace it wid sum- thin mo disagreeable.
 1T look on lyin' as weak hoop on de human bari. Few men lie to lie, but dey lie bekase dey want to cotch de moas fish, or see de biggest bar, or come de highest to bein' killed. Lyin' may be called an ambitious weakness. Smith lies to get eben wid Jones, an Jones tc get eben wid Brown, an so it goes Re, form liar an some odder hoop has got to bust
 "Gemlen, when de Lord and de church refuse to recognize perfeckshun in man why do we expeck an demand it? Half a millyun clergymen in dis kentry am tellin' us from de pulpit each Sabbath day dat man am weak an sinful and full O tricks, and yit when pusson beats us out O half dollar we rig up an yell out as if it was a strange thing. ] doan't drink nor gamble nor lie nor steal, but Ize got weakness. Tze bit vain. I imagine dat I look purifier wid my ha'1 greased up an de true color disguised.
 "Giveadam Jones doan' drink nol chew nor play policy, but he has weak spot. He'll bet his last dollar on hoss race, an he'll bet on de wrong hoss to boot
 "Judge Cadaver am regarded in his nayburhood as de soul of integrity, but when he went tishin' las summer he got so condiculated dat he fell off de wharf an came nigh bein' drown
 "Good old Sir Isaac Walpole am de friend of de sorrowful, gran 'fadder to all chil'ren, an his purse am eber open to charity, but he has bought a lottery ticket each month fur de las nine v 'ars, and you can't convince him dat he won't sooner or later strike prize of $50, 900.
 {" In windin' up dis eulogy let me sim ply warn you agin expectin' to fin any man or woman so good an nice an per feck dat flaw can't be foun' in de struc- ture. Give 'em due credit for all goo traits an stan prepar'd to dodge when de bad ones come to de surface Let us now march on to attack de reg'lar pro. grammy "
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
AN AppEA1.-A Philadelphia iurv pa

AN APPEAL.-A Philadelphia jury gave @ verdict of $9,000 against street car company, not because an injury to one of the pla 'ntif's eyes was as yet any damage to him, but on the ground that at some future time, as physician testi- fled, inflammation might arise and de- stroy the sight. The case will be ap- pealed.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29

LIVES LosT.-During the past year there have been 205 lives lost in Al American steamboat accidents, only 56 of those being of passengers 354, ,07O,- 447 passengers and sailors were carried.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29

"YoU are such a strange girl," said Charley; "really, I don't know what to make of you" "Well, then, I'll tell you, Charley" replied Araminta; "make a wife of me. Charley did 50 at the earliest opportunity.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
FAST JUDGE AND SLOW JUROR,

When I was a young man, says a correspondent, I spent several years in the South, residing for while at Port Gibson, on the Mississippi River. A great deal of litigation was going on there about that time, and it was not all ways an easy matter to obtain jury
 One day was summoned to act ill that capacity, and repaired to court to get excused. On my name being called, I
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29

HEARD in boudoir- Mercy on me, what are those horrible sounds up stairs?' "Oh, that's nothing but dear George; I suppose he has lost his collar button again. -PhiL0delpIi0 -NeaOs.
Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
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Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29


 The extraordinarily gifted agent of a minstrel show who was travelling over the Pan Handle route the other day happened to take seat opposite Boston drummer. Each wore pin with six diamonds in 1t and displayed two watch-chains. The coincidence happened to strike a solid old-fashioned farmer as rather curious, and hitching along up to the pair, he asked: Gentlemen, will you give me honest answers to question or two ?'' They said they would, and he continued: "What time is it by your four watches ?'' The agent replied that he only had one watch, and that didn't tick, while the other confessed that he had none at all. cone more question. Did you buy your diamond pins at the dollar store ?" The two men looked at each other ill trou- bled way and then informed the blunt uuestiOner that he had reached the limit. ooh, well I didn't intend to be sassy, he remarked, as he fell back: "I'm spark ing widder up in Wood County, and was thinking that if could buckle on dollar diamond and harness two watch chains around me she'd either kick ol cave inside of week. V WaW Stree, | No3pe
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01
LEApING FOR LIFE.

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.E3 PROVIDENCE, r J., November q.
A disaster OF. n far more appalling nature
than this CITY ia accustomed to hammered here
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four-story brick building, corner Calender and
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

The report also states that considerable ex-
traordinary repairs have been made upon
public buildings at Cairo. Ill, Indianapolis,
Ind, and San Francisco, to meet the increased
demands of the postal service. Alterations
have been made in the post-ofices at Calves
ton, Louisville, st. Paul, San Francisco and
Lincoln, Neb., and to provide sufficient room
for the transaction Of postal business at Pitts
bureh and Cincinnati it will be necessary to
rent quarters for the customs officials of these
cities. Sites have been selected for public
buildings in Columbus, o., Council Bluffs, De-
troit, Frankfort KY, Minneapolis and Quincy
I'll
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

"A woman applicant for position in
the Interior Department sent her card
to Secretary Teller recently with this
inscription upon it: "Name, Mrs. Blank;
nature of business, employment at once
or starvation. have lived on air for
seventeen years. can any one do morep"
~ Y. Granite.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01
Thirty wears ago, a laborine Irish

years ago, a laboring Irish
man at Shandakin, Ulster County, N.
Y, took fatherless nephew into his
family, fed and clothed him and sent
him to the Gilboa Academy TO empha-
size the country school education he had
given him. The Gilboa Monitor says
this uncle is now an aged pauper in the
county poorhouse, and that the nephew
he SO well cared for is Bonanza Mackay.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

There are three wicks to the lamp
of mans life-brain, blood and breath.
Press the brain a little, its light goes
out. followed by both the others. Stop
the heart a minute, and out 60 all three
wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs.
and presently the fluid ceases to supply
the other centers of flame, and all is
soon sragnation, cold and darkness
CHICAGO Journal. n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

= The great West is not the only spot
upon the earth where the grasshopper
makes havoc in the land. In the Island
of Cyprus, last year, the Government
offered rewards for the destruction Of
locusts' eggs. and more than 1900 tons
of such eggs were destroyed. Even
then the campaign was regarded as q
failure, owing to the Indifference of the
agriculturists to the work of extirpation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01
Public . Buildings.
wAsurxcrox Nov

W ASHINGTUN, NUVPuiDcr
Supervising Architect James G. Hill. of the
Treasury Department, has submitted 10 the
Secretary of the Treasury his annual report
Tor the year ended September 20, 1ssa The re-
port shows the following amounts to have
been expended upon various public buildings
in the wes:, and also the unexpended balances
of appropriations remaining in the Treasury
at the close of the wear:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

"A Texas elopement party was made
up of three couples, ranging in age from
fifteen to twenty years. One pair was
composed of a daughter of the editor of
the Waco, Examiner and the daughter
of the Episcopal pastor at that place.
They fed to the Indian nation, and got
married all at time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

Commanders of Hudson River
steamers have been prohibited by the
Treasury Department from using the
products of coal oil or petroleum as
stores for illuminating or other pur-
poses. An order has also been issued
prohibiting steamers from carrying hay
or straw as freight.-N Y Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

1t is said that the total cost Of the
Mallcy trial foots up nearly $50, 600.
And it all came about from a girl refus-
ing to heed the good advice OF q moth
er.-Dstr0H Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

Y AT Pompeii combs have recently
been found exactly like the modern fine
tooth kind.-American Register,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

A YOUNG missionary visiting Thibet for the
first time recently expressed his horror at
finding the practices of Mormonism reversed
under the protection Of the King of CASH
mere. The law allows women several living
husbands, and lad gave the names Of five
men when asked who his father waa-N. Y
Herald
The commercial traveller grows bright by
the rebuffs he is constantly receiving The
harder you rub brass the more it will shine
Boston Transcript
FoRyEY's Progress claims that billiard balls
can be made Of potatoes. Perhaps theyca
but what's the use Of wasting the potatoes
Detroit Free Press,
THE journ alist, like the carpenter, makes
= living BY means Of his ads.-Lorea Courier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01

by the decline are the members OF the Stan
dard Pipe Line. 1t was estiuated that one
weeks decline in oil had Melted the Standard
Pipe Line Company not less then eAOOO,Ooo
The heaviest losers are said to be the Penn
sylvania Improvement Company and the Land
and Goal Developing Company. -. =.
Hopkins Hughes and Patrick Rochefort
were instantly killed and James Roberts, VII
liam Hayes and Thomas Watkins, contractor,
probably fatally injured by mass OF accumu.
lated ice falling to the shaft OF the OXFORD
pa colliery, where the men were at work.
The steel mills OF Scranton, Pa, have mott
fed employees of reduction Of wages Deem
Der l. The reduction is made to keep the
mills running through Che winter N .,.f
The strike of the coal miners near Pittsburg'
Pa, proved q failure. 1t was expected that
when the strike was ordered all OF the pits
would be compelled to close down, but out oil
the fifty-nine pits in the district only fourteen
were idle, and reports from various parts OF
the district showed that q majority OF these re
sumed. --s-as-----a- -..ts.f
The strike among the Pennsylvania Goa
miners is generally spreading. Their de
mand is for an advance of half q cent pei
bushel which has been refused.
The funeral of the late Thurlow Weed wa:
largely attended in New York, by the mos
prominent people and journalists Of the State
The remains were taken to Albany for inter
ment, attended by many friends OF the
deceased. 0-., 49, -f q. -s-A .s.-
The residence of James Ruddy, Of Provi
dence, Pa, burned. Mrs. Rudy saved the
children and returning to the house to save
some some money, persisted.
A storm swept over Buffalo, N. T., on the
Oath, which was very destructive to property
On Lake Erie the damage TO shipping wal
reported very heavy ..'t...-.-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01


Indian reservations. The decision is in accord.
ance with the opinion Of First Comptroller
Porter in 1880. The State will receive about
s96,OO0 from the sale of Pottawatomie lands.
The extensive stove foundry of Bennett,
Duffey Il Co., one of the largest in the West,
burned at Quincy, ILL.,, on the night of the
18th. Total loss about $4,000; insurance,
$50, 600. Over 100 men are thrown out of
employment. EaI ~ 80. 80
| Col. 8. N. Wood has served notice upon
the Kansas State Board of Caavassers forbid
ding them to count the vote of Samuel r. Fe-
tiers, one of the Congressmen-at-La-ge &c, and an
nouncing the result. Judge Peters election
is to be contested by Col. Wood, on the
grounds of ineligibility by reason of his occu-
pying the position Of District Judge.
Near Elizabeth, Pa, a miner named For
sythe took several sticks of dynamite home,
and not knowing its dangerous qualities,
placed It in the oven of the kitchen stove to
thaw out. He then went to work and his wife
and three children sat down to dinner. In about
fifteen minutes he was startled by loud
report, and hurrying home to learn the cause,
a CHASTITY spectacle met his gaze. His
house was completely wrecked and his
wife and children were lying insensi-
BILE on the ground and horribly man
gled. The youngest child, Willie,
aged eight years, was dead, and Mrs. For
sythe. who was sitting nearest the stove, was
gashed and bruised, and presented the appear
ance Of a person riddled with buckshot. She
was still living, but her injuries were such
that death was inevitable. The other two
children were considerably bruised and cut
but were not fatally hurt The sight nearly
crazed Forsythe, and he attempted to commit
suicide, but was prevented by his friends. s1s
General" Nef and John Runkman, leaders
OF celebrated gang of horse thieves which
has Tor years operated throughout Southern
Illinois, has each been sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary and two accessories
have received shorter sentences.