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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24
PEARL.

Pearls are perhaps the most valuable
of all the offerings of animate nature.
and are the results of the efforts of the
bivalve to protect itself from injury. A
parasite bores into the shell of the pearl
bearer, and when felt bv the animal it
Immediately fortifies itself by covering
up the spot with its pearly secretion; the
parasite pushes on, the oyster piling up
until an imperfect pearl attached to the
shell is the result. The clear oval pearls
are formed in similar way, only in this
case bit of sand has become lodged in
the folds of the creature. and in its
efforts to protect itself from the sharp
edges, the bit becomes covered, layer
by layer. and assumes naturally an oval
shape. This growth Of the pearl, as it
is incorrectly termed, can be seen by
breaking open a $500 gem, when the
macre Will be seen in LAYERS resembling
the section of an onion. The Romans
were particularly fond of pearls, and,
according to Pliny, the wife OF Caius
Caligula possessed collection valued
at over S3,000.OOO of our money.
Julius Caesar presented a jewel to the
mother of Brutus valued at S250,00O,
Willie inc pearl uTuuh Dy SleOpdtTa was
estimated at 100000. Tavernier, the
famous traveller, sold pearl to the Shah
OF Persia for S550,0O0. A $4,000
pearl was taken from American waters
in the time of Philip Ii. 1t was pear
shaped, and as large as pigeons egg.
Another, taken from the same locality,
is now owned by lady lip Madrid who
values it at $500
Fresh-water pearls are often of great
value. The streams of St. Clair County,
H., and Rutherford County, Tenn,
produce large quantities, but the largest
one was found near Salem, N. j. 1t
was about an inch across, and brought
1000 in Paris. The pearls from the
Tay, Doom and Isla rivers, in Scotland,
are preferred by many to the Oriental,
and in one summer $780, worth of
pearls were taken from these localities by
men and children. Meteorological
used in the arts is sold by the ton, from
$50 to 500 being an average price. The
last years pearl fisheries in Ceylon
alone realized $50. 900. to obtain which
more than 1000. 900 pearl oysters were
brought up 7. Evening Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24
Overlooking Cows stomachs.

When cows are changed from scanty
to flush feed, it often happens that the
benefit of the more liberal supply is neu-
tralized for some time by allowing them
To gorge themselves to the extent of I'M
comfortable fullness. An excessive dis
tension of the stomach produces inflam-
matory action and impedes digestion,
tends to diminish the flow of milk and
impair its quality. Overlooking the
cows stomach invariably gives strong
and disagreeable odor to her milk that
Injuries it for butter or for cheese making,
and also its healthfulness ferfood. Such
an overlooking is always indicative Of q
double loss-a loss from failing to utilize
as fully as might be the flush feed, and
a previous loss from a supply of food in
sufficient to enable the cows to give as
much milk as they are capable of giving.
When COWS are fed with a liberality
that develops fun Flush OF milk. they
will not overload with food so httleeen-
eentrated as green grass The fact that
they do overload is an evidence that their
previous food was too scanty for profit,
and consequently that loss has been en-
dured on account Of it. But when such
a course of feeding has existed, and q
change is to be made to a better one,
loss from oyereating may be prevented
by admitting the herd gradually TO the
new feed, and supply them with al the
salt and water they desire. The increase
in the new ration should never be so
great as to changethe flavor Of the milk.
Western Raral.
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24
A Woman Rescues Boy in Mid Ocean.

A short time ago. Mrs. G. A. d. Nc
Arthur Campbell, formerly a resident of
Coonamble, distinguished herself by a
deed of admirable bravery. Mrs. Camp
bell was a passenger in steamer from
Hong Kong to one of the northern ports
of Queensland, and one day boy about
four years of age, to whom the lady was
much attached. fell overheard. the acct
dent occurring through sudden lurch
of the vessel. With the exception of
Mrs. Campbell and the man at the wheel
all the passengers and crew were at
dinner. Without waiting for a life buoy
or diyesting herself of any clothing, and
simply saying to the man at the wheel:
..Don't tell the child's mother" Mrs.
Campbell plunged into the water, swan
to the boy, and held him up till both
were rescued, the steamer having been
promptly stop and boat lowered.
Neither the lady nor boy was much the
worse for the immersion.-Sydney Morn
ina Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

At Warstewstein, near Casselin,
Germany. is q library which is ssid to
contain q curious collection OF books.
At the first glance one would take these
books to be mere logs of wood but in
vestigation shows that each volume is
really complete history of the tree it
represents. The back is the bark, in
which small place is cut to write the
scientific and common names rs a title
One side shows the tree trunk in its
natural state and the other is vanished
or polished. Inside are shownthe leaves
fruit, fiber and the insect and ether par
asites which prey upon it, and a full
description Of its products, etc. is
added.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

I'm the fifty years from 1880 to- 1880
the amount of money invested in clifton
manufactures in the United States in
creased from 10000. 900 to 1926, OO0.-
900, and the bales con sumed from 1884,
800 to 10000
Silver veins have been found in the
Palo Pinto Mountains OF Texas The
ore has been assayed at Ill ounces to
the ton. Negotiations are now being
|. carried on with two mining companies
one of New Mexico and the other of
J. Arizona-to open up these mines.-Ghi-
cdgo. Times.
Statistics from trustworthy sources
have been furnished the Kansas State
Horticultural Society, showing the per
cent of the apple crop in seven OF the
Western States, as follows: Kansas,
6per cent; Michigan. 80; Illinois, 80;
Indiana, 20; Iowa, 80; Ohio,i 81; Mis-
souri,, 75. -iaste xsas
Mr.. John Field has prepared an es-
I innate from the accounts OF the COM
panies of the quantity of gas used in
London last year. 1t was, in round
q numbers, 20, $50. 100000 cubic feet.
This is equal to bulk of one mile square
by 720 feet high. Consumers paid Sl4,-
555. 900 for this immense supply. Chi
caso Tribune. 2.sj
The number of post-offices in
France is 6.12S, there being 30, 120 par
ishes destitute of post-offices OF. their
own. The total number of articles
which passed through the post last year
was 1850, coo, 900. as compared with
805, 600, 900 i'm 1877. Prepaid letters in
creased from 374, 900. 600 to sos. 900. 900,
newspapers from PIG, 900, 600 to Ssh
900. COO; and books and other printed
matter from Ia. 900. 000ito $4,000, 900.
sa1--Wesson. Miss was not long since
/. a pine forest. 1t now has cotton-mill.
) the insurance on which, with contents.
is 800. coo. 1t gives work to Loco
people. uses up 4. 500 bales of cotton
year. has setof hands at work all day.
and another all night, and is lighted by
-ele .tricity. 1t makes doe-skins, cassi-
meres. jeans. cottonades, knitting-cot-
ton, sewing-thread. towels, etc. Yves.
son has a population of $500. gt5 8
THE lumber business of Puget
Sound, w. T., is immense, and the dis
tribution is very wide. In one day, re-
Gently, vessels were seen loading for
Boston. San Francisco, Valparaiso, the
Sandwich Islands, Vallejo. Mexico.
Japan. China, France. England and
Australia. The export in 1881 was
about 175, 900, 600 feet, valued at ST.
200, 1000. Some of the logs are immense.
Many measure five feet in diameter.
From one. tree lately cut there were
sawn two logs of thirty-two and twenty
six and two of thirty feet, in all 11Sfeet
in length. The top of the tree meas
ured sixty-one inches across. Detroit
Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

"A New York man arraigned for
bigamy excused himself on the ground
that his first wife had agreed to support
herself, and failing to do SO he consid-
cred himself absolved from the marriage
vows and fully authorized to marry
again. The excuse lodged him in jail
IN. 7. Sua.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

IAN indianapolis woman, asking for
} divorce after twenty-eight months of
married life, says of her husband: '.Of
his home he made prison, of his wife a
prisoner, and of himself a prison guard. |"
Indianapolis journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

1t is asserted that in the three
years ended 1880 there were no fewer
than 252 theaters destroyed by fire, or
partly SO, resulting in 1870 deaths and
about ). 400 injuries.-M KaSun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

-"Ratty taste," said the butch
er, '"can't understand it. Those sau.
sages were not made of rats. sir. and
you know it. May be the eats had
caught and eaten few though -
Boston Post. fis
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

More destruction. A Montana firm
has contracted to deliver 1900 pairs Of
buffalo horne. Detroit Post. 9-lfs
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

-The.town Of Ely, in Vermont, is to
be changed to Yershire,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
The Mill Stonned.

There have been many other despotjc
Judges besides Judge Lawson on the
1rIsn pencn. Inc IaUe JuugB Dau.
though a charming conversationalist
and socially popular, was very irritable
The Cork court house, in which on one
occasion he opened assizes, was backed
by an ancient -four mill of large dimen-
sions, owned by very litigious gentle
man named Bendeeble. So close was
the mill to the court house that the
noise of the machinery disturbed the
tympanum of Judge Ball, who was in
his later years what is known as hard
of hearing. "What noise is that, Mr..
Sheriff." he Numbered, with O fiery
face. "Itis the mill, my lord" meekly
that functionary. ''Let it be
commanded the Judge. 'I
cannot stop it, my lord," said the
Sheriff, "the owner is the only one who
can d. that" ''Send for the owner,
them" said the Judge. This was done,
and the order given. Bendeeble took
it literally and Internationally. The
mill was stopped, and remained stopped
long after the assizes was over. Ben
deeble, who was no fool, sued for dam
ages, and the Government had to pay
arg sum to compromise.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
TEXAS SIFTINGS,

SIGHs and tears will never pay arrears
of duty.
REGRET not yesterday, despise not
to-day, depend not on tomorrow.
Up IN Northern Texas a horse-thief
stole a runaway mule that nobody else
could catch.
You can always guess when an Arctic
explorer has found the North Pole. LIZ
he comes back he has not found it.
AN ENGLISH paper says that the
wearing of costly iewelry among the
wealthy and aristocratic has gone out OF
fashion. We infer that it is only the
paupers who sport diamond rings, and
like costly frivolities.
"PA, I'LL be right sorry when you
get well, said a little Austin boy to his
sick parent. "Why, my son ?"
Because I won't get any more empty
medicine bottles to sell. sell 'em for
five cents apiece to the drug store"
"Do YOU like candy, map" asked a
little Austin boy of his mother. "No,
my son, it makes me deathly sick" 81
am so glad TO hear It. You are the
of KIND OF WOma an Gan Brusb ~ uOIu
my candy for me until I'm done play
ing"
LAST week the 7eras Siftings estab-
lishment was moved from cellar to dome,
at least we started to move it last week.
Tt is not ell moved yet. There is still
a lot of damaged type, strong smell
of obsolete paste, and q mortgage in the
old building.
THERE is salt mine in Austria that
has been worked for more than a
thousand years. The Austrians may
have a great deal of experience in work
ing salt mines, but when it comes to
sailing mines, the Americans can teach
them thing or two.
OLD Mrs. McGinnis has been laid up
for some time, and has become a little
respondent. A near neighbor, old Mrs.
Gadabout. dropped in, and Mrs.
McGinnis being in peniteDtial mood,
said "Tve been great sinner for forty
five years" Fifty-fve years, at least,
retorted Gadabout, consolingly.
Gus DE SMITH, who is the greatest
bore in Austin, called on DIR. Dosem,
and complained that he, Gus, was
troubled with fits of dependency, and
wanted to know what to do for it. "You
must go out riding in buggy every
day with some cheerful companion who
will talk to you and amuse you" you
are cheerful man. Doctor, and you
have got buggy, have you ?" Z" Yes ;
we doctors never take the medicine we
prescribe for others,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
A Coat to be Disciplined.

The Cincinnati Commercial says In
the days of early Methodism in North
ern Ohio, a preacher had been appointed
to new circuit, and wore on his first
round a fashionable broadcloth frock
coat, which his tailor had innocently
provided for him. This became a
source of grievance to the homespun
Iaity, and it was finally resolved to make
it a matter of discipline. So at the first
quarterly conference charges were pre-
pared in due form, and the offending
minister notified to be present and make
answer. Entering the room where the
Presiding Elder and lesser magnate:
were assembled, the preacher stripped
off his coat, and hung it on the back o
chair, and pointing to it, said: "Sinct
it is the coat that offends, try it. Gould
L reach any sounder Gospel in robes ol
cassock It seems to me it is not the
manner of the coat, but the manner O.
men in the coat that should be consid'
cred" And there the trial ended.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
Sweet Sixteen.

Be glad that you are a little girl yet.
Keep your childhood as long as you can.
Those days are the happiest you ever
can know in all your life.
You may believe that to be grown up,
and to have the pleasure of society, will
be better, but you never made great
er mistake in your lie. With woman
hood come duties, cares, anxieties of
which you have no knowledge. To
marry means generally to leave home
and begin g new life that may be full Of
trials and troubles, pretty as the bride
looks in her wedding finery.
In these last school days, with no
greater anxiety than your music lessons
and encompassed by the affection of
your parents, warm and snug in the
home nest, with no more knowledge of
the outside world tball Il now ]. -LHGvI4sl
spring bird has of winter, how many
stylish woman envies you, even as you
envy her gorgeous robes and her train
of admirers. Be content. Time will
pass all too quickly. You will have
many years in which to wish yourself a
little girl again. Linger on the thresh-
old where womanhood and childhood
meet as long as you may.
Don't rush into matrimony, my dear
young ladies enjoy your youth while
you can. If you are but 1e, don't allow
any such idea to get into your head for
at least four years. Don't even run the
risk of it by permitting any young man
10 get SO far as the proposing point.
Fight him off and make him wait or go
away to somebody who is ready. Don't
live under the impression thatyou must
accept the first lovesick youth who pro-
poses. Be patient, deliberate and saga
cious. There is world of happiness
for you between 16 and 20. The world
would be dreary old waste if it were
not for the sweet faces of young girls
with their piquant sayings and melting
smiles. Your father has bought you
piano, and you have learned how to
play after many long and wearisome
lessons. Don't spoil all by getting
married, for after that you won't have
much use for your piano. After you
have reached 20 it will be well to con-
slider the matrimonial problem with
some seriousness. And even then, if
you have a good home, you need be in
no hurry to solve it.-RurGI NeaO
Yorker.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
Lucky Hop Growers.
THE HIGHEST PRICES EVER KNOWN, AND
ALE AND BEER GOING UP.

The hop market has never before, ac-
cording to old dealers, been SO excited
as it is now, and prices are unprecedent-
edly high. When it was certain that
the hop harvests in England, Bohemia,
and. in fact, throughout Europe were
not ND to half the ordinary production,
English brewers and hop dealers at
once cabled to the United States to Sc
cure very large share of our hop crop,
and some six weeks ago actually secured
q quantity estimated at one-fourth OF all
on hand, even buying the ungathered
hops in the fields. The price ran up In
four days from 33 cents a pound to DO
cents. Ever since then it has been
steadily advancing, until it reached 81
to S5 cents, and choice lots for 80 cents.
In few days more it is expected that
the price will go up to 81, and before
the next crop is gathered it may very
likely reach $1.50. A Williamsburgh
brewer. Mr.. Abbott, contracted for
arge lot of hops at 55 cents some weeks
ago, and has since been offered $4,000
70 resign his contract. A dealer some
time since got hold of lot of old hops,
five bales of them, that had been stored
III O carriage house for nine years, and
upsuccessfully offered them for sale at
S12. so bale (250 pounds), but since
the recent boom in prices he has dis
posed of them readily at 800 bale.
The immediate effect of this advance
in hops will be corresponding advance
in the Wholesale prices of ale and beer.
The ale brewers have already resolved
to put their price up 81 a barrel, and
the lager beer brewers are discussing a
like advance. Another dollar viii prob
ably be added to the price of ale.
'The lucky farmers who held out
against the English bids for their un-
gathered harvest will soon be Astors,"
said dealer lately, "but next year we
anticipate that so many farmers will
rush into hop culture, the prices will
be lower than ever" ."-NeV York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
After Marriage.
BUSINESS QUESTIONS THAT ARE NEVER
SPOKEN OF BY HUSBANDS,

One frequent cause of trouble in mar
ried life, says Our Continent, is q want
of openness in business matters. A
husband marries pretty, thoughtless
girl, who has been used to taking no
more thought as to how she should be
clothed than the lilies of the field. He
begins by not liking to refuse any of
her requests. He will not hint, as long
as he can help it, at care in trifing ex-
penses-he does not like to associate
himself in her mind with disappoint-
men5s and self-denials. And she, who
would be willing enough in the sweet
eagerness. of her girlish love to please,
to give up any whims or fancies of her
own whatever, falls into habits of care
less extravaganza, and feels herself in
jured when, at last, a remoDstrance
comes. How much wiser would have
been perfect openness in the begin
ming
"We have just so much money to
spend this summer. Now, shall we
arrange matters thus or thus ?" was the
question heard very young husband
ask his still younger bride, not long ago;
and all the womanhood in her answered
to the demand upon it, and her help at
planning and counselling proved not
thing to be despised, though hitherto
she "fed upon the roses, and laid among
the lilies of ife." I am speaking not of
that are no marriages-where
Venus has welded Vulcan, because
Vulcan prospered at his forge-but
marriages where two true hearts are set
out together, for loves sake, to learn
the lessons of life and to live together
till death shall part them. And one of
the first lessons for them to learn is to |
trust each other entirely. The most |
frivolous girl of all "the rosebud garden
of girls" if she truly loves, acquires
something of womanliness from her
love, and is ready to plan and help and |
make her small sacrifices for the general |
good,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
The EmperOr's Walking Stick.

Not long ago, during the absence of
the Emperor, an English visitor was
shown through one of the imperial
castles near Berlin. He looked upon
everything with the most utter Cockney
superciliousness, until, say the story
tellers, he came across collection of
walking-sticks, when one of these, a
sturdy piece of hickory, quite captivated
his fancy. Long and longingly he
gazed upon it and handled it, nor did his
admiration decrease when his guide, the
stewards daughter, informed him that
it had been cut from the forest and
fashioned into shape by the Emperor's
own hands. At last, however, he was
constrained to tear himself away from
the object of his fancy, but just as he
was leaving the castle his admiration of
the stick blazed forth beyond control +;
and drawing a handful of sovereigns
from his pocket, he intimated to his fair
guide that by SO much would she be-
come richer if she would allow him to
bear away the coveted cane. OF course
she spurned the temptation Indignantly
and he went away disconsolate. Well,
the girl told her father about it, and he
carried the story to the Emperor on his
return to the castle, week later. And
when Kaiser Wilhelm heard it he
laughed a right good royal laugh an6
exclaimed: 8" If the fellow had Offered
me so much good gold for the stick, ]
would have taken it and turned it into
the fund for the disabled soldiers
1t is difficult for woman to keep secret
and know more than one man who is woman
La Fontaine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

To BE proud of learning is the creates
ignorance.
HENDERSON says he wishes he was at
rumor, for rumor soon gains currency,
and that he has never been able to do,
Exchange.
In particular field are ninety-seven
water-melons, and tits softly approached
by five colored men in search of wood
chuck. How many times does ninety
seven go into fveP
"WEII, I shall do my best to have
justice done you," said the lawyer to
his client. "Indeed, if you are going to
do that, replied the rascal, 81 think I'd
better be off at once"
IF you think yourself a genius you
will probably die poor, but if You re-
gard yourself as an ordinary man, with
deal of tough work before you, you
will probably live happily and die well
off.
A TRADE journal gives directions for
preserving harness. Preserved harness
may be considered very palatable to
those who like that sort OF thing, but we
don't want a bit in our mouth. Norris
toaOn Herald.
AS Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was walk
ing upon the beach one day an overcu-
rious admirer asked if she were not afraid
of the terrific storm then raging. She
replied: "No; prefer the voice of God
to that of the summer boarder."
IT costs political candidate $25 per
head to retain thirty 1oafers to slug him
through convention and $3.50 for in
cidental expenses. How much is he ont
altogether, and in case he is left how
long will it take him to make himself
good by hoeing corn at 81 per day.
A MATHEMATICAL professor had been
invited by city friend to visit him at
his residence in a certain square, and
had promised to do so. Meeting him
some time afterward, the friend inquired
of the professor why he did not come to
see him. ST did come" said the math-
ematician, ''but there was some mis-
take. You told me that you lived in
square, and found myself in a parallel
ogram; so went away again"
A GREAT many of the scandalous sto-
ries current ara built on this formula:
81 say, mother, John told me that he
heard Mr.. johnson say that Mr.. Handy's
aunt was present when the Widow Burn
ham told Captain Balls cousin that old
Mrs. Oxby understood that Sam Trihe's
wife said, in so many words, that her
mother heard on the best of authority
that you weren't any better than you
should be. If were you should look
the matter up, for the thing comes pret-
ty straight, you see"