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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
WIT AND WISDOM.

Government pastry-a mint spy
n. y AdUeTiscr.
Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep at one thing-in no wise change
Any raw recruit can write about
face by preparing an essay on Check
n. Y. News.
Earn money before you spend it
never buy what you do not want-adopt
the ''pay-as-you-go' principle, and
never deviate from it.
Buy, subscribe to, and read all that
is necessary to fully inform yourself on
the doings, discoveries and reforms OF
the age in which you live.
If you ask bald-headed man how
he would prefer to be upholstered, he'll
likely express desire for mo- hair on
top of his head. Yonkcrs Gazette.
Troops have just been ordered to
arrest and disband the belligerent
Creeks in the Indian Territory. If they
succeed in arresting the Creeks, they
should be called upon TO put down the
destructive rivers in the Ohio Valley. the
next time they get on rampsSs.N
NOrristOUn Herald.
-Housemaid-"I does my heart
good to see you and the baby together.
It's pretty picture. Sure, and he
the image of YOU" Fond mother
But they all say that he looks like.his
father, Mary Housemaid-" Bless
your soul, mum, he's not half good
looking enough for that" Life.
"A Plattsburg On. Y. dentist recent
ly received by mail an order for a set of
teeth, which reads as follows: my
mouth is three inches across and five
eighths of an inch through the jaw.
Sum hummocks on the edge. Shaped
like horse shoe, toe forward. If wish
me to be more particlar l shall hav 10
come thar"
The following good story is told of
the Secretary of the San Francisco
Philharmonic Society: A gentleman
rang his door bell one evening recent
", and asked if Mr.. - lived there.
No" said the intensely musical
Henry, pointing up the street, he
lives about an octave-I mean eight
doors-higher. San Francisco NewS
Letter.
Plantation Philosophy: We never
feel so mad arter we shed tears. De
cloud amt nigh so dark arter the rain
falls. Many oman what won't wash
her chillun at home delights in washin
dishes at church fair De worst sort
of boastfulness is showed by de man
what thinks dat he can entertain you
wild long story. Oar is many q rule
what won't work both ways. No man
should be looked on as a fool on ac-
count oh what he doan' belebe, but on
account oh what he does belebe. A too
easiness OBJ conviction ter strange ideas
is caused mighty heap OBJ trouble in
dis world. IrGreller.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Texas will net $13, 500, 900 from the
increase to her sheep farms this spring.
The intrinsic value of the big silver
dollar is little over eighty-three cents.
-England's total of postal areas are
but about 122, 600 square miles, while
ours are not far from $500, 900 square
miles.
In Italy 499 new operas were pro-
duced between 1851 and 1860, and 534
between 1868 and 1881. making total
Of 1,033 operas in thirty years.
The aggregate value of the property
of colored people throughout Tennessee
is set down at $6,47S, 951, being an in
crease of S671,179 over the preceding
year.
Baby alligators are sold by thou
sands annually to tourists in Florida. at
about dollar each. A two year older
is worth SIS, but an adult of IA feet in
length costs S5O.-Detroit Post.
In Somers, Conn.,, there are five
persons living in one house whose
united ages amount to 400 years, and
four others whose united ages amount to
80 yearS.-B0St0n Post.
james Gordon Bennett estimates
the value of the New York Herald at
S10,OO0,OO0, and says it is paying six
per cent. per annum interest on that
amount Chicago Herald.
The official returns give. the value
of the tobacco consumed in France in
1882 at 1863, 800, 900 fraGcs. Cigars show
total of 60,500.000 francs; cigarettes,
100000, and chewing tobacco,
100000. The heaviest amount, 49,
100000 francs, was for ordinary smok-
ing tobacco.
The cigar trade of the Island OF
Cuba is concentrated at Havana, from
which port there were shipped to the
United States in 1882 cigars of the de-
clared value of 1891, 729,41. The
great bulk of the shipments was to New
York. the value being S2.387, Gas. 80.
The shipments to Boston amounted to
Sl44, 603,61.
A return up to the end of February
shows that 92,7Sl applications to have
fair rents fixed in courts were made
under the Irish Land act. OF these 81,
$40 were disposed of. The agreements
out of court fixing fair rent numbered
30.f37. The number of appeals lodged
was 6.372. of which 1926 were disposed
Of Fifteen hundred applications were
made to have leases declared void; 1Oi
were declared void; 67S were dismissed,
and 403 were withdrawn, making 1,1Sj
disposed of.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
THE EAST.

The Boston and Montreal express leaving
Boston the ether day, via Lowell and Cen.
trail Vernon. roads, was derailed at East
Granville by a misplaced switch. The en-
CINE, mail, baggage and two freight cars
were wrecked. Thomas Beech, engineer.
had his back badly injured. Mrs. Lucy
Spalding, standing on the platform, was
thrown through the side of a building and
cannot recover. The mail and baggage
men were injured. The depot was badly
wrecked. The switchman left the switch
open. OH ,-r#
ALICE, the young and cultured wife of
Frank Zimmerman, artist, of New York
City, recently killed her twelve-days old
daughter and attempted to kill her mother.
Some days before her confinement she took
an aversion to husband, mother and
friends, and when the baby was born she
declared she hated it. Twice she had at
tempted suicide. She will be sent to an
asylum.
F. B. TUTTs, z. G. Foster and George r.
Cummin, clerks in the employment of Led,
better Bros, dry goods merchants on
Broadway, New York, were arrested the
other day, charged with stealing money
from the firm. When they sold goods G. O.
ID. they collected and appropriated the
money to their own use. They were caught
in the act by detectives who had been
placed TO watch them.
LEVI D. JARRARD, Postmaster and ex-
County Collector, of New Brunswick, n.
j., is missing. He is short over $4,000 in
county accounts. HEzz N
THE steamer Granite State was recently
burned to the waters edge Just aszit was
approaching Goodspeed's Landing, about
forty miles below Hartford, Conn. Five
persons were known TO have been lost, four
by burning and one by drowning. The ves-
sci cost $4,000, was a total loss. Also the
cargo. r-..r.
MoosIc, near Scranton, Pa, was shaken
throughout by an explosion of powder IN a
magazine at a coal breaker the other day.
One man was almost torn to pieces. An
other could not be found. ~
HARRY F. WATSON, twentv-three years
of age, reporter on the Boston Herald,
shot and seriously wounded young
woman named May Appleton at a boarding
house in that city the other night. Cause.
jealousy. Watson was arrested and held
to bail in 10000.
The Pennsylvania Senate defeated the
Prohibitory amendment
A RECENT collision on the Maine Central
Railroad, near Augusta, killed one and IA
tally injured two persons.
FoR the first week of free canals, in New
York, PIG, 100 tons of goods cleared, against
47, 1o4 tons the corresponding week year
ago. a.-.--E .r -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25

"A man in the central Office of the
Telephone Company says that the noise
there is different from a young lady at
a party, for one is ballroom belle
and the other is a bedroom bawl.-
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
THE WEST.

a FOUNDRY at Cape Girardeau, No.,
burned recently, and day OF two after
wards the remains of B. Burbridge was
found in the ruins. He had been suffocated
while attempting to save his tool chest.
JAMES YOUNGER, enc Of the famous
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
Two brothers in Bourbon County, KY,
recently quarreled about the proper depth
to plant corn, when one shot the other.
THE other morning party of eight men
rode up to the house of Vaughn Hilton,
near Jacksonville, KY, and awakened
him, saying they were looking for horse
thief. While he was sitting on the edge of
the bed some of the men fired, killing him
instantly. -
AT Amity, Ark, Professor r. NJ. Burke,
Principal OF Schools, dismissed his pupils
the other afternoon and few hours later
was found dead in the school room, having
killed himself. 81.
A FIRE at Harrodsburg, Ky, recently de-
stroyed so, 600 worth of property.
HON. PHIL. B. THOMPSON, who lately
killed Walter Davis on the cars between
Harrodsburg, KY, and Cincinnati, was &C.
quilted by the jury at Harrodsburg. When
the verdict was announced there was a
shout of approval in the court room, and
men rushed forward to congratulate the
defendant. During the confusion the voice
of Philip Thompson, ST., was heard saying:
thank GOD, Kentucky's wives can now be
protected"
AT Vicksburg, Miss, Joseph T. Hazlett
was recently shot and instantly killed by
Z. G. Cook. $3.50 .Ntlas
THE Kentucky Democratic State Conven-
ton, after seventeen unsuccessful ballots
for Governor, finally nominated Exon
gresham j. Proctor Knott by unanimous
vote.
On account Of protracted ill-health Miss
Bragg, of Bonham, Texas, a niece of Gen.
Bragg, recently saturated her clothing with
coal oil and then applied match. She was
fatally burned.
HENRY FLEMING was hanged at Pitts
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25

sion of the Postmaster Generalsbefore MAX
ing sub-contracts on any route, and appli-
cations to sub-let must be filed in the office
of the Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
era], and specifying rate to be paid per
annum under it in case the service shall be
changed.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the limitation of eighty-five per cent
in the schedule of the new tariff act relating
to duty on leaf tobacco refers to each pack
age covered by one invoice.
IT is thought the Star-Route cases will
reach the jury the first week in June. Each
lawyer occupies from three to six days in
his speech.
LARGE forest fires were raging last week
on Mount Webster and Blue Mountains, in
New York. The damage was heavy.
The other night train on the Indian
apolis & st. Louis Railroad, when near
Hillsboro, Ills, dashed into a small stream.
the bridge across which had been blown
down by the storm. The engine and bag
gage car went into the stream. Pat WEIGH,
engineer, was instantly killed. Dan Har-
rington, fireman, was very seriously in
jured.
ALEXANDER ScorT, son of Hon. John
Scott, President of the Allegheny Valley
Railroad Company, and one of the best
known citizens of Pittsburg, Pa, was shot
and killed in an ARRAY with Greasers in
Madison, N. NJ, recently.
WILLIAM MCKEE, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Sturgis, Mich, was arrested at
Lima, Ind, recently, charged with attempt
ing to poison the family of his son-in-law,
Asa Ganyard, by pouring Paris green in
the well. He was placed under 5000
bonds, but his bondsmen surrendered him
to the authorities, and he was placed in
Jail at Lagrange, Ind, where he subse.
quently hanged himself.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

Prof. K. Wollny concludes thai q layer Of
farmyard manure spread upon land protects
the soil from excessive alterations of tenn
perature, but acts jnjurousy upon wet
soils by checking evaporation.
Mods. LelSel mas discovered small Or
measles, and peculiar to that disease. Herr
Tschamer had pres ionsly found an organism
which he believed to belong not only to
measles but to scarlatina and dipltllcria
also.
Sir William Thomson finds that sunlight
has about 10000 times the intensity of the
light of the full moon at any place on the
earth, and about So, 900 times that of candle
flame. The latter result differs widely from
that obtained by Arago, who found the light
of the sun to have about $4,000 times the
intensity of candIe-fame.
A remarkable botanical specimen is re-
ported to exist in Pedur, India, in the form
of a date palm which changes its position
morning and evening. The tree is eleven
feet i'll height, and in tho afternoon is in
clined so near the ground that children may
pluck its fruit from branches which in the
morning are far above their reach.
Mons. Bacle's investigations have con
vinccd him that changes of temperature
have little effect upon the strength of rail,
way tires. If accidents to tires are more
frequent in cold weather than at other times,
II Il ,rth,1,Iv tn ha of ~; ;r;J
ard irregularity of the road. which adds to
the violence of the shocks received by the
| tires.
If the assumption that pitcher plants eat
the insects caught by their leaves is correct,
there is 10 reason why the plants should not,
like meateatins animals, experience i'll
effects from over-sorsing themselves; and
by an exhibition Of Sarracenias before the
London Royal Horticultural Society. Mr.
Veitch has shown that moderate eating
seemed to benefit them, while injury resulted
when dead insects accumulated on the
leaves.
Mons. Eallin has made some experiments
upon the virus of tuberculosis to determine
the actiOn OF various ulSln1ectinlS. w Nltll
the tubercular substance he obtained, dis.
ease could be readily produced i'll animals,
but exposure to sulphur fumes, boiling
water or a solution of corrosive sublimate
destroyed the power of the virus to produce
| such an effect. The result of the expert.
! ment prompts Mons. Falln to suggest that
| it would be wise precaution to give pri-
sons. barracks, hospitals and schools a
yearly purifying by sulphurous fumigation
| The advantage of planting trees in the
streets and open spaces of towns has been a
recent topic of discussion among Swiss
scientists. In the spinion of DIR. Piacllaud
the trees impede the circulation of the all
to such an injurious extent as to more than
counterbalance any good effects they may
produce To this view Prof. Goret replies
that trees temper the heat and serve as q
protection from dust, while the evaporation
from their leaves helps to keep the air coo
and moist. He contends also that the roots
of trees absorb much filth which would
otherwise render the subs0il of streets dan.
gerous breeding places of disease.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14

became acquainted and the intense admira
tion ripened into warm friendship. Most
fitting way this to express that affectionate
regard, and only proves that real, true
| friendship is not q myth, but is undying and
faithful to the end. Mr.. Payne was native
of New York, and the Empire State should
have thus honorel her gifted child. 1t was
in New York that success first crowned his
efforts. Payne was q natural wonder-a
child phenomenon. At thirteen years of age
he was editing a weekly paper, the Thespiap,
Mirror, and a little Inter, while student at
Union College, he edited the Pastime His
histrionic talent was remarkable, and poetry
was so really q part of his nature that he
wrote verses without an effort. OF the
plays which he wrote, the best is "Brntus,' y
which Edmund Kean played SO well in 1918,
and which Mccullough plays SO grandly
now. Payne was only about twenty -One
years of age when he went to England and
| filled an engagement successfully at Drury
! Lane Theatre. He passed twenty years in
| Europe subject to many trials-at times
prosperous and again distrcssngly poor.
IIo had the bruins and the popularity to
have made himself rich, but knew not how
to demand his rights or to take care of his
money after he got it. Through the intlu-
cncc OF friends he was appointed to the con-
sularship of Tuns, in Tyler's administration
and was aftcrward re-apponted by Fillmore
= II
Sweet Home" appeared i'll "Clari," an
opera, i'll 1923. Different stories have been
told as to the circumstances under which
this song was composed, but it is sweetest
to think that it was the outburst of a groan-
ing, sad hea7t-tlle inspiration of Il moment
when, bowed down by q sense OF utter
loneliness, he longed for the home where
clustered his sweetest memories and where
loving ones were weeping over the cruel fate
that cxiel him in foreign land. The late
honors paid to this child Of genius will draw
fresh attention to his history. Who John
Howard Payne was, had escaped many.
Many never knew who was the author of
the song that has made him immortal, of the
song that, Of all others, not excepting the
charming Scotch, Irish and English ballads,
IS the most popular. Many, too sang it and
loved it, perfectly Indifferent as to its au-
thorshp, but there will be few now who
will not see u deeper meaning in it's words
and sing it with warmth Of feeling greater
than ever before; new interest will be
aroused in contemplating his clicckered ca
rcer, and the sight OF his genial, trusting.
poctically handsome face will draw from
every heart the tendcrest sympathy.
In Prospect Park, Brooklyn. is monu-
ment which was erected by the Faust Club
of Brooklyn. 1t consists of n shaft of gray
marble surmounted by q colossal bronze
bust Of Payne. The unveiling of the bust,
September, 1873, was accompanied by most
imposing ceremonies, the most significant
of which was the singing of Home, Sweet
Home" by one thousand public school
children, assisted by the multitude-at the
least, twenty-five thousand voices.
GOOsEQUILL.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14
NUMBER 80.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
Domestic,
California has silk growing society.

! DoACoUlOs
California has silk growing society.
| Tennessee has female Notary Public.
woman was hanged in Vermont, Friday
before last.
The President has refused to pardon
Sergeant Mason.
A baby camel was born In Central Park,
New York, recently.
Peter Cooper died ut New York of pnen-
monia at $3.50 A. n, April 4.
! The California mint is to do all the coin
ing for the King of Hawaii.
| Buffalo capitalists propose to construct /.
| tunnel under the Nihgara River.
Shomakin, Pttsbnrg and Philadelphia,
are the scene of immense strikes.
couple aged respectively Is and 13,
were married at Covington, KY, recently
The leatherbeard mills at Lolninstep,
Mass, We're burned April 2. Loss 100000.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher attended
performance of the opera recently tor the
first time.
lot of newspaper correspondents intend
keeping close to the President on his
Southern trip.
New York boasts of "a young Chinaman.
who reports news in both the Chinese and
English languages.
Salmi Morse llas succeeded Mt last in Civ
ing q full dress rehearsal of tho passion
Play in New York City.
New York has an Incorporated company
which gathers the names of persons who DO
not pay their honest debts.
Gov. Butler says he can prove tho bodies
missing from the Tewksbury, Mass, Aims
house, were sold to be skinned and tanneI.
The Houston Hook and Ladder Company
are soliciting subscriptions to rebuild their
truck-house. which was burned while they
were answering false fire alarm.
Another cave in the Diamond mines at
Braidmood ILL.,, imprisoned II party Of
searchers at almost the exact spot where
the bodies from the former disaster wero
lying. All were rescued.
A coored soldier who attempted to COM
nit suicide Mt Fort Elliott, was sentenced to
imprisonment ut hard labor for threa
months, with loss of pay for f." making him
self i'll in order to escape the performance
of duty"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14
SOMEBODY.


BY PEARL EYTIEGE
Somebody thinks the world all wrong.
And never has word in its praise;
Somebody sings the whole day long,
Likes the world and all its ways.
Somebody says it's queer old place,
Where none of the people do as they should
Then somebody thinks it is full of grace.
And wouldn't change the folks if he could.
Somebody calls it cruel and cold
Full Of sorrow and sin and pain,
Where life is but search for gold,
And souls are lost in selfish gain.
Somebody merrily iaughs-and cries,
Hurrah for such dear old earth,
Success shall crown the man who tries
To make his mark by honest WORTH
Somebody groans and shakes his head,
Calls his lot wretched one;
Somebody wishes that he were dead,
Cause somebody else has all the fun.
But still fancy you re sure to find
Through good or evil, or pain or care
One certain fact-so make up your mind
That-somebody always gets his share.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14
WRITE THEM A LETTER TONIGHT.

Don't go to the theatre, lecture or ball,
But stay In your room tonight;
Deny yourself to the friends who call,
And good long letter write
Write to the sad old folks at home,
Who sit when the day is done
With folded hands and downcast eyes,
And think of the absent one.
Don't selishly scribble: Excuse my haste
I've scarcely the time to write,''
Lest their brooding thoughts go wandering bach
To many bygone night
When they lost their needed sleep and rest,
And every breath was prayer
That God would leave their delicate babe
To their tender love and care.
Don't let them feel that you've no more need
Of their love and counsel wise:
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has dimmed the eyes,
1t might be well to let them believe
You never forgot them quite
That you deem it a pleasure, when far away,
Long letters home to write.
Don't think that the young and giddy friends
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thoughts for you
That the old folks have to-day.
The duty of writing do not put off,
Let sleep OF pleasure wait,
Lest the letter for which they looked and longed
Be q day or an hour too late.
For the sad old folks at home.
With locks fast turning white,
Are longing to hear of the absent one
Write them q letter tonight.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-14
WE ARE NOT MISSED,

WE ARE NOT MISSED.
If you or
To-day should die,
The birds would sing the same tomorrow,
The vernal Spring
Her flowers would bring,
And few would think of us with sorrow.
Yes, he is dead,
Would then be said;
And corn would floss, the grass yield hay.
The cattle low,
And Summer go,
And few would heed us pass away.
How soon we pass!
How few, alas!
Remember those who turn to mould;
Whose faces fade
With Autumn's shade.
Beneath the sodden church-yarl cold.
Yes, it is so
We come and go;
They hail our birth-they mourn us dead;
A day or more,
The Winter Der
Another takes our place instead.
--Erening Star.
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High Authority.

DIR. W. E. Scott. President of the College of
Physicians, Montreal, writes: Il have recon-
mended Colden's Liebig's Liquid Extract of
Beef and Tonic Invigorator as the best pre-
po$ation used for debility, indigestion, dyspep-
sia, ferer. asae, aud loss Of appetite" (Takc
no other,l