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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Only two of the forty-two Methodist
churches in Baltimore have rented pews.
The others are free.
The English Presbyterian are taking
steps to thoroughly equip. . Theological
college in China Tor the training Of native
syangelists.
Miss Jennie E. Davis, who has been
chosen to the head Of the female depart.
ment of Liberia College, Liberia, was
graduated ut the girls high school.
Boston, ten years ago, and has since been
teaching in Missouri. ssf 4
The Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel
tells OF high school teacher in Wor.
cester County town who, in correcting a
composition" written by an advanced
pupil, made this note upon the margin
Thereof: "You do not dot your eyes. "
The Philadelphia Record wants ssall
the gyAmmars thrown out of public
schools aid other papers, more .ad-
sanced, want text books replaced with a
single Ratchet, 9 paper of shoe pegs
and blacksmith's bellows. ford
Post - rt ~
Thomas w. Pierce, of Texas, who
made his millions from railway opera
tions, has given q 1925, 900 church to the
town of Dover, N. H. The church,
which is known as the Pierce Memorial
Church, serves as q monument to his
parents, once residents of Dover.
The Chicago Times finds that it
costs twenty seven dollars head to pro-
vide schooling for children in that city,
against sc. 20 for those in the State out.
side. 1t is afraid that the city schools
fool away the time and money on
languages that do not belong to this
country or its schools. or in a desperate
effort TO make musical or mechanical ar
lists of the pupils. 5 ~
Jonathan Longfellow. of Whitleys-
burg, Del, having twenty-eight chill
dren, has built school house OF his own,
employs teacher of his own. and has a
school of his own. He is seventy years
old, and came near breaking up the
school last week, by marrying the
twenty-three-year-old teacher, but an
other was found to take her place and
the educational institution went along
without a jar.-Phitddelphia Press.
An exchange suggests the reading
of the morning newspaper in the school
by teachers as an effective way of teach
ing current history. "a better way
STILL" says the New York Examiner,
would be for the teacher to give the
pupils short talk on any topic of special
interest in the morning paper. This de-
mands more knowledge than most teach
ers possess. it is true. but something may
be done in that line by any one who is fit
to teach At all, and its effectiveness ia
very great. Few pupils, however dull.
fail to catch and remember the points of
a familiar talk of this kind. The prin-
ciple may be applied to other things than
history"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
A Wood hOpping Idyl.

IA man has got to know how to cut
wood. l tell YOU" said gentleman Of
the wood-chopping profession whom it
was my good fortune to interview in his
own domain. "He's got to know more n
how to swing an axe to make a chopper.
If he don't, ten to one he'll get out o.
wind on the big fellows after splittin' 8
bit or bust himself up liftin' the big
sticks. Now, was brought up to it.
and l can chop stiddy an fast, and cave
right into it, an stand hard on my legs
and not get out o. wind. Every. lick
counts. I allus did like chopin; and
there's my boy, Just turned thirteen
he'll make a chopin boy, you bet! My
wife, too, she's got an axe of her own,
and she lows she's goin' to help me
out with this piece O. splittin'. Why.
when we was first married she worked
long side o. me every day bringin'
down the trees, chopin her half cord
and putin it up; an then dom her
homework. Reg lar Jersey girl she was;
none O. your h'ity-t'ity notions bout
her; right smart to work, an Just as
fond of pretty piece o. chopin as !
" DID, VIC fWChb Out IIlO tuC ucdIt
o. the wood the first thing and set up
housekeeping in a shanty. Land! 1 can
smell them woods yet. She chopped
like a man and cooked the whites, too.
If it want that she chops overhanded
she could beat lots O fellows now" q
The "piece of chopping'' where this
delightful romance was enacted was, ]
learned afterward, "furder down Shore"
deep in wood valuable for glass-house
USE. Great quantities are consumed by
these voracious feeders, requiring large
cut annually. Wages are always fair,
and ''wittles"-so my informant an
swered on inquiry-are reasonable
..Pork bout the same figger as any
where" No mention was made of any,
thing else; por0 to him, evidently COM
prised all that was meant by ..wittles. I"
1t must have been an idyllic life-liying
alone in a great pine wood with the
woman Of his choice, working by his
side in the pretty chopin ~, with good
wages, snug little shanty, a bed feath-
cred with bough-tps, and plenty of
bacon. = Vineland Cor. Philadelphia
Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
The Earth Struck by a Comet.

This occurred some thirty thousand
years ago, if We are to believe Mr.. Igna-
thus Donnelly, who has written book
toprove that the earth must have passed
through the tail of comet, not only
once, but many times, and he claims
there is abundant evidences on the sur
face of our globe to prove that this
catastrophe really occurred. The great
deposits of unstratified clay which are
found in so many quarters, especially
in the northern hemisphere, the author
we are quoting believes came from SUBJ
stances in the tail of the comet through
which the earth passed. Nearly every
one is familiar with the erosions found
on tops of hills and mountains, running
uniformly from the northeast to the
southwest. This has been attributed to
aglacial period, when the larger portion
of the earth was covered with water, and
great icebergs, carrying rocks and stones
in their bottoms, swept over the highest
hills, making the marks now visible on
so many mountain and hill tops. Mr..
Donnelly does not deny that ice was
formed in great quantities after the earth
was struck by the tail of the comet, but
he claims that the cosmic matter of which
the tail was composed embraced clay
dust as well as stones, powders and even
rocks. When the earth passed through
the comets tail, like bullet through
board, intense heat would be generated;
seas, rivers and even oceans would be
vaporized. Some portions of the
earth would become floods of molten
fire, and finally the sudden refrig-
Grafton would form enormous masses
of ice in the polar regions, which
it would take thousands of years to
Gquefy, Comets abound in our
.olar system. Humboldt in his time,
supposed there might be Ill, 10000 Of
them, and still later astronomers. put
She number at 500,00O.0O0, without
counting those which reach us from
other solar systems. The surprising
shing is that the earth is not oftener
struck by comets than it is. Halley's
comet was 80, 900, 600 miles in length,
from the nucleus to the end of the tail.
Hence. with its head in the sun. it might
have reached 60, 900, 900 of miles beyond
the orbit of the earth. In the year l779,
LexiI's comet approached the earth so
closely that it would have increased the
sideral year by three hours, if its mass
had been equal to that of the earth. 1t
finally became entangled in the moons
of Jupiter, and lost great portion of its
tail. Mr.. Donnelly suspects that some
such catastrophe must have happened to
that planet and its satellites, as that
from which the earth suffered previous
to the so-called glacial era. All this is
very interesting and ingenious. but
astronomers as yet have not accepted
Mr.. Donnelly's views. Indeed, all re-
cent geologists have been trying to &C
count for the appearance of the earth
without allowing for any catastrophe.
Given time enough, and one can account
for mountains, oceans, and the enor-
nous professions of the different orders
of animals which have appeared at
different intervals on this globe.-Dena-
CREST Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
The Coming Man.

"De comm, man hasu,t come yet, :,
said Brother Gardner to the Lime-Kiln
Club, d he slookedr Giveadamf Jones
square in the, eye and motioned to Elder
TOots to draw his feet and let the heat
Of the stove have o. chance toecirculate
around, the Hal, ts'No, 7gem'len, de
comm man hasn't arrove in dis kentry
yet, an if de rheumatics keep on boder-
IN me can't expect to be on airth when
he gets heah, an take him by the ham
an tell him how powerful glad / is to
see him. But some Of our chill'en may
lib to see him, an dar will be SIGH cele.
bration az no Fo'th Of July kin hold q
candle to, -,
"De comm man, my friends, win 90
to Congress unpledged an come home
unbribed an iwidout fear of meetin' de
people, who sent him dar.
"De comm man win be 'lected State,
County or City Treasurer, an when his
term has expired his books will balance
an his accounts will be ,squar' to q
cent 90 ~
tide comm man will have a rever-
ence fur de Constitution of de Union
an a respect fur de laws of his own
State. 2Auli@ ~-.l"-ifll' 1od
At DE comm man will look sternly
upon embeszlement, bribery an all
sorts of fraud, an he will take squar'
stand upon an honest, political plat
form. ssa11lz 1Jh-da.T ar y
o IF de COMM man should happen to
be 'lected to de Common Council de
people of dat city would h'ar such a
rattlin'ia an shakin' of dry bones dat de
music of ten brass bands couldn't drown
de noise. s.
"As I menshuned befor' de comm
man hasn't got heah yet. and when l
pick up de daily paper and scan de daily
record of crime I can't help but feel
dat de hero will find SIGH a Job laid out
fur him dat he will go down into his
butes an nebber be seen nor heard Of
again. 81 - n -
i'S"While don't want to occupy de
valuable time Of dis meetin' ober an
hour an a-half furder 1 feel it my dooty
to remark dat dis tLime-Kiln Club isn't
gwine to wait fur any cumin' man to
come. De Committee on Finance am
gwine to look into our lodge safe once a
week all freu de var, and if de money
doan' tally wild the Secretary's figgers q
cyclone will begin to circle. While de
Janitor of dis club am only allowed to
handle seventeen cents per week, de
fust time he makes seven an five count
up thirteen hedvill be missed from his
accustomed paths. s.H11 r.-
( ''While dar am materially fraternal
feelin' in lodge of dis sort, dat feelin'
must chop squar off when brudder
member am seen promenadin' down to
de stashun in company wild "a perleece.
man. Love one anoder. but return Dor
rowed money exactly when you promise.
Stan by member in distress, but let
him know dat as he gifts well he will be
expected to arm his own meat an 'taters
and fiah wood. Anticipate a reduckshun
in house rent. but doan' move out in de
night OWN de landlord back rent. Be
obleegin', but when man returns your
coffy-mill minus de handle an boat cog
wheels doan' fail to drap hint dat il
would be less trubble for him to drink
tea or pound his coffee in a rag. Let us
now embarrass de regular order of biz.
ness. Detroit Free Press ID, ="
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
Fever Caused by Lemonade.

A remarkable outbreak of enteric fever
occurred in Evesham, England, last
summer Fifty-one households were
invaded with sixty-eight cases, forty-siS
of the patients falling i'll during the fort
night ending August 8. The houses in
which the patients lived were in many
instances several miles apart, their sani-
tary circumstances varied widely. sew
ers and water supply were entirely diff
ferent, and the milk supply was derived
from several independent sources. d.
Under these conditions it was no easy
matter for the health officer to discover
the source of the epidemic. 1t was
elected however, that all the patients
attacked before August 8. had attended
Evesham regatta, and that they had all
been present in one particular meadow.
Further investigation developed the fact
that thirty-two of the forty-six had Ger.
tainly, and eleven had probably. par.
taken of refreshments at a certain stall.
The other three were in doubt. In one
instance two Of a party of three drank
lemonade, while the third took nothing;
the two had the fever, the other escaped
The water used in the refreshment stalls
had been drawn from a well near the
meadow, the water of which was found
to be so contaminated that it was at once
closed; the belief of the health officer be-
ing that this polluted well had been the
immediate source of the epidemic.
Two very obvious differences may be
drawn from this occurrence. One is the
propriety of carrying refreshments from
home when going on days pleasure
see king; the other, the necessity of more
critic al supervision of the water supplies
of pleasure resorts. This should cover
not only the water used for drinking OF
in the preparation of beverages, but also
that used in making ice cream and
water ices, and in washing drinking
vessels and the like. The ice used for
beverages is further source of peril,
since the ponds from which it is cut are
AS the Newport inquiry demonstrated
too frequently foul, if not infected.
The theory that water in freezing clears
itself of noxious germs has been shown
by careful trial to be untrue. Contain
mated water yields impure ice, no mat
ter how slowly the freezing is accom-
plished.-Scientifc american.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
PARTICLES In Germany.

Much concern is felt in North Ger.
many with respect to the steady increase
in the number of parricides, and most OF
them are attributed to the custom which
prevails in the country districts among
the peasants of making over to theiI
children, as soon as the latter are grown
up. their property, reserving for them
selves only the right of food and lodg.
ing to the end of their days. This i
what is popularity called the altenthea
(Old peoples portion,) an expression
rendered famous by Prince Bismarck,
who used it to describe Ministry of For.
eign Affairs, to which he would perhaps
cOnfine himself in his old age. The chill.
dren soon get tired of having to support
their parents, and in some cases either
starve them to death or actually murder
them. Crimes of this description are so
much on the increase that several of the
District Governors have issued circulars
urging the peasants not to make over
their little properties in this way. But
that the practice and its consequences
are not altogether of modern date may
be gathered from the fact that over the
gateway of the little town of Juterbock,
some sixty miles from Berlin, hangs
small club, with an inscription to the
effect that whatsoever transfers his
property to his children during his life
time and suffers in consequence, de-
serves to be killed with this club" Con-
currently with this increase in the mum.
Der of PARTICLES. there has also been a
great addition to the number of beggars
and vagabonds, a political economist
who has devoted much time to the mat
ter calculating that there are no fewer
than 200, 900 vagabonds within the linn
its of the Empire, and that each one of
them manage to beg as much as two
shillings day upon the average, this
being equivalent to an annual tax of
about 81. 300. 600 per annum, raised for
the most part in the country districts
st. james Gazette. a.-.i
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
Alps Well That Ends Well.

An Austin clerk took in bad ten dol
lar bill, and his employer, who is very
severe man, threatened to deduct it from
his wages unless he showed it off on
some other customer. He said that he
did not intend that the firm should lose it.
Next morning when the proprietor
came down the clerk met him with a
beaming smile, and said:
"Hurrah! showed that bill off on q fell
low. The firm won't lose cent"
s0n whom did you palm it off?'
81 threw dice, on account of the firm.
with member of the Legislature for il,
and we lost. "-Zeras Sittings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

"A young man who was engaged to
be married borrowed money of bis in
tended mother-in-law to purchase Ii
cense, and used it to marry the daughter
OF another woman. If he lives long
enough he will probably go to Jail. Such
men are too smart to live long and toe
mean to die poor.-N Y. Commercial
Advertiser, t1
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

"A thief dressed as a workman was
admitted to the registered letter depart
ment of the New York Postoffice on a
forged pass, the other day, and was dis
covered in the act of throwing bag of
registered letters down shaft to some
confederates. He escaped.-M T. Nail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

The assassinations and mutations
OF cattle in Ireland have had the effect
OF diverting from that country a great
deal of money. The large class in En-
gland which annually apportions a
heavy sum to charities is SO in
censed at what its members regard
as inexcusable, villainy that they refuse
to give to Irish distress, and have sent
their money elsewhere.-M 7. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
Hiram B. Lewis, of CRANKY, N. Y.

B. Lewis, of CRANKY, N. Y,
recently underwent an operation for an
obstruction of the throat, during which
a silver tube was introduced into the
windpipe. Mr.. Lewis gained in health
and became accustomed to breathing
through the tube. A few days ago an
irritation caused him to remove the tube.
when the passage Immediately closed,
and death resulted in a few moments.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

Joseph Cook says: !" In Boston the
question is, before admitting man to
society, Have you written book?' in
Chicago, How much are you worth?'
in San Francisco. who owns you, the
railroads or the sand lots?' and in WASH
ington, Are you likely to be re-elect-
ed?'" Mr.. Cook observes that the state
of this country demands civil-service
leagues.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

b I'm the Common Pleas Count at
Cleveland recently, Judge Johnson
called the divorce case of Josephine
against Peter Meyer, on the ground of
desertion, and was about to order the
decree, when Peter came into court and
walking to the Judge explained that he
had neceived notice of the application at
San Antonio where he was with his regi-
ment, had been granted discharge, and
had travelled ght and day to save his
wife, reaching the court within thirty
seconds of being too late.-Clereland
Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
The Decay Of France.

The average birth-rate per annum in
France for the period between 1872 and
1880 has been calculated to be one birth
for 81 inhabitants, which is by far the
lowest birth-rate in Europe. For the
different countries the birth-rate is as
follows: Russia, one birth for 20 in
habitants; Germany, one birth for %;
Austria-Hungary, one birth for 26; En-
gland, one birth for 81; Italy. one birth
for 81; Spain, one birth for %; France,
one birth for 81. If tile yearly number
of births for any thousand inhabitants be
calculated. we have precisely the same
result. We have, in France. 26 births
per 1000; Belgium, 81; England, 30;
Austria, SO; Prussia, 80; and Russia, so.
Naturally it follows from this that the
average number of children to each mar
rage is inferior to what it is in other
countries, supposing all the children
born in each year to be legitimate.
There are five births for every marriage
in England and Germany. and only three
for France. Ordinary observation, with
out the aid of statistics, would have led
us to expect such result. We all know
that French people are in the habit of
speaking of a family of FIVE children
the average number in England and
Germany-as large family, while fam
lilies of from eight to ten children. COM
mon enough in former times, are now
almost unheard of except among the
poorer classes in the poor departments
of France. Oh T7i'.- III r..
Before fifty years are over, France
will hnr al TO IS
of population, have sunk, if not to the
level of q second rate, at least to the
bottom of the list of the great Powers.
If we suppose that the population of the
United States and the various countries
of Europe are decimated by no wars or
exceptional maladies and still preserve
their present frontiers and go on increas-
ing at the present rate of increase, their
population will by the year 1922 time
which our children will see-be as fol-
lows: United States, 10000, 900; Rus
STA, 1873, 600; Germany, $4,000, 900;
Great Britain. $4,000, 900; Austria- Hun
gary, 44.OOO. 900; and Italy, $4,000, 900.
So that France, which a century ago
was really la grande nation, having
still the largest population in Europe,
will be but the sixth in rank in point of
numbers. $3.50 H a. belly
viii France, with her diminished
numerical Importance as great Power.
make up for her deficient numbers by
that public spirit and genius for enter
prise which has raised so many small
Powers to a level in point of influence
with the GREATEST This, also, if we
consider the causes which led to. the in
creasing sterility of the country, may
also be doubled. In fact, there are not
wanting now Frenchmen who look on
this decreasing population as but one
among many signs of national degener-
acy, and are ready to exclaim hope
iessly, "Finis Galli9n'-London1 Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23

The Sun says there has been a
woman dentist in New York for moro
than twenty years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-11-03
Increase Of Wealth in England.

AT one OF the recent meetings of the
British Association Mr.. NJ G.. Mulhall
read a paper in which he said that
since the time of the Stuarts the in
crease of wealth had been more rapid
than that of population. In 1860 the
wealth of England and Wales was
$3.50, 100000, the population 100000
making the wealth per head G45. In
1872 the wealth of the United King
dom was e., 100000, 900, the population
1927, ZOO, and the wealth per head
f127. In 1882 the wealth of the Nation
was fS,720,0 00,0 900, the population 3d.
004, 900 and the wealth per inhabitant
9249. Public wealth had quadrupled
since the Waterloo epoch and doubled
since the accession of Queen Victoria.
The wealth of the Nation in 1882 was
made up as follows: Lands, 91,S80,
000,000; cattle, etc., 94l4,000, 900;
houses, 20, $50, 900, 900; railways, $780,
100000; shipping, f120,000,0 900; mer-
.chandise, $3.50, 100000; furniture e.
140,00O,0O0; bullion G143, 100000 for
reign loans, G1,0S0, 100000; sundries,
1858, 100000. The increase of wealth
has been real and very much in excess
of prices, as was shown by statistics.
The figures already given showed the
nominal wealth of the Nation. The eff
fective wealth in 1860 was f595, 900, 900,
or E109 per head of inhabitants; in
1872, G3,0S0, 900, 900, or Eli per head,
and in 1882 the same as that previously
mentioned. The diffusion of wealth
since 1910 had been four times greater