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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Getting African Diamonds.

The soil. when brought to the surface,
is carted away and strewn on the ground,
where it is left for fortnight or three
weeks to pulverize in the sur. At the
expiration of this time gangs of Kafirs,
superintended by a white overseer,
break the large, dry Jumps into powder,
and this in turn is carted away to be
placed in the washing machine. 1t is
during the process of first breaking that
some of the largest diamonds are dis
covered, and the overseer has to keep a
sharp lookout on the workers in con-
sequence. In spite of the terrible pen
atty incurred by any one detected in the
act of secreting good find, thefts are
very rife, and many diamond finds its
way into katir possession in spite of the
sharpest vigilance. During the process
of washing, the gravelly substance,
which is full of garnets as well as the
diamonds, sinks to the bottom of the
machine, while the earthen substance
disappears in another channel, when it
has been thoroughly washed through
two or three times this gravelis collected
and strewn on tables, where searchers,
with steel instruments somewhat re-
sembling very broad knives, carefully
turn it over in minute search. Then it
is that the precious jewel is discovered
in all manner of sizes and shapes, when
it is placed in small tray, on which
another overseer keeps his watchful eye.
was given several little heaps of gravel
to disSect, and in half an hour had sae-
ceeded in discovering about twenty or
thirty diamonds of very fair size, and
some so perfectly shaped that they had
every appearance of having just left the
cutters hands. Lady Florence Dixie.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Windows i'm the Barn.

One of the great mistakes which the
. farmers of the past have made, has been
the keeping of farm animals in a dark
barn. Many careful experiments show
that light is very necessary for health
and the good condition of animals.
Mich cows, when changed from a dark
to light place, not only give more milk
on the same amount of food, but keep in
better condition.; and when returned
to their former dark quarters, shrink 10
the amount OF milk given before removed
10 light place. What is true of the
COW is true of other animals. The horse
s,srle should not only be well ventilated
but also well lighted. Sunshine is almost
unnecessary to good health as water and
air.
In building a barn efforts should be
made to locate it and arrange the inte-
rior so as to have good light from both
the south and west sides. A light barn
isnot only better for the animals, but it is
also much better and more pleasant for
serious objection to keeping hogs in
barn cellar on account OF the
want Of light. If it is intended
10 keep hogs on the manure, some
other place than the cellar should
be provided to keep it in. If the
barn sets on side hill, this can be
done by shed on the side of the barn
where the cattle are kept; it should be
some four to Xfeet lower than the harm;
this may be made light by numerous
windows, and will make an excellent
place to keep hogs in, and certainly a
better place to keep manure. because it
can be more easily carted out. and Is
where the odors will not penetrate the
barn as much as when in the cellar
As rule, the barns are too dark;
therefore the need of reform. There
are many farmers who have not yet
given the subject of light any attention,
but it is a subject so important that no
farmer should neglect to give it his care
full attention; by SO doing, few, if any.
will fail to become satisfied that few
things will pay better than few extra
windows in the barn.
In the days of our grandfathers when
every pane of glass, however small, was
taxed by the Government, there might
have been some reason for dark barns;
but now, when glass is cheap and the
Government officers do not stop TO
count the panes of glass, there is no ex-
cuse for shutting out the Gght.-Massa-
chuSettS Ploughndn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Scarlatina in Russia.

The St. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Times says: 1.-The ravages
of diptheria in Russia, which have so
loEg deiied the efforts of doctors and
sanitary committees, have now been sur
passed by the fatal effects of scarlatina.
According to a statistical paper just
published, the mortality in st. Peters
burg from diptheria and scarlatina has
continually increased from 1873, until
during the past year there were no less
than 1928 deaths from the latter and
l,146 deaths from the former, making
the alarming yearly total of 2,469 deaths
from these two diseases alone in popu-
lation of about 100000 From other
official statistics it appears that during
five years there have been 156,027 fatal
cases out of 463, 01S persons attacked by
these two diseases in the empire. The
Gotos remarks on the subject that no war
has ever been so disastrous, and that.
considering the large percentage ot
young people among the victims (ninety.
five per cent?, it is really the future of
the country that is in question. At the
same time, the medical statistics do not
extend, as rule. beyond the large towns.
in tie whole of Russia there are not more
than about 1000 doctors, properly SO
called"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Honey.

The honey is, as a rule, very sweet
and fragrant. but it is sometimes iniur
ious to human beings. Here 1 may
mention that no bee can suck honey out
OF flowers, as is popularity supposed.
she ticks it out with her tongue, the end
of which is covered with hairs, so as to
convert into brush, scrapes it between
the jaws, and so passes it into the crop,
where it is changed into honey. What
property may be in the crop which con-
verts flower juice into honey we do not
at present know. To all appearance the
crop is nothing but bag of exceedingly
fine membrane, and yet, after remain
ing for little time in the crop, the
fower-juice undergoes a change in con-
sistence, flavor aud scent, and, whether
the insect be wild or domestic bee, the
change is identical throughout GOOD
Words.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Hop Growing.

There are those who desire to know
how hops are cultivated, and the plan
in England is to select a good rich soil
and pillow it deep, at the same time ma
nuring well and heavily. Good drain
age is also necessary, and every precau-
ton is taken to afford the most favorable
conditions for maturing the crop. Cut
tings or shoots of any approved sort
which have been reared in nursery are
planted in rows six feet apart, and the
hills should also be that distance apart
in the rows. From two to three plants
are allowed to each hill, and they are
separately staminate and pistillate, one
male plant being planted for every fifty
of the others. No cropis expected the
first year. but hoed crop of some sort
may be grown during that time between
the hills of hops, the cultivation and
manuring for which is considered bene-
fetal. Each hill has short pole, which
is fixed before summer, to which the
young vine is fastened and trained.
Early in spring the ground is again cul-
tivated, both the cultivator and hoe be-
ing used. and the hills are finally
earthed up in June. In this country
the distance between rows varies from
six TO eight feet, and some growers use
two poles instead of one. the poles
being from twelve to eighteen feet
in height. Seven feet apart each
way is also a favorite distance, which
gives 900 hills to the acre, and allows a
fewer vines to the hills. Plenty of sun
light and free circulation of air are
beneficial to the vines, AMI manure may
be added at any stage of growth, owing
to the plant being gross feeder.
As to the quantity of hops usually
produced no exact estimate can be made,
as everything depends on the attention
given by the grower in cultivating. The
use of manure and the quality of the soil
are also important, but first in the man.
agement is the judicious use of the pillow,
cultivator and the hoe, to say nothing of
setting, tying and training the vines.
From four to six pounds have been
gathered from each bill on good loca-
tons, and it is not expecting too much to
claim one ton of hops for every acre
cultivated, though much less is often OBJ
tanned. The crop, which is ALWAYS
affords employment to a
large number of hands during the pick
ing season, the prices paid ranging ac-
cording to location. The New York hop
district last year produced $1,000, 900 |
pounds of hops. and the cost of produc-
ton was from ten to fifteen cents per
pound, including all expenses of wages,
use of land, etc., and the aver
age price obtained was sixty cents. al
though some lots sold for one dollar.
The crops are always quickly salable.
and the demand for crops increases
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
How To Buy A Horse.

An old horseman says: IF you want
to buy horse, don't believe Your own
brother. Take no mans word for it.
Your eye is your market. Don't buy a
horse in harness. Unhitch him and
take everything off but his halter and
lead him around. If he has corn, oris
stiff. or has any other failing, you can
see if. Let him go by himself a little
ways and if he slaves rightinto anything
you may know he is blind. No matter
how clear and bright his eyes are, he
can't see any more than bat. Back
him, too. Some horses show their
weakness or tricks in that way when they
don't in any other. But. be as smart as
you can, you'll get caught sometimes.
Even an expert gets stuck. A horse
may look ever sonice and go a good
pace and yet have fits. There isn't
man could tell till something happens
Or he may have weak back. Give
him the whip and off he goes for mile
or two, then, all of a sudden, he stops in
the road. After rest be starts again,
but he soon stops for good, and nothing
but derrick could move him"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
An Omaha man who was a member

of an athletic club became SO much in
tereSted in fistic science that it filled his
thoughts day and night. One night he
fancied himself engaged in friendly
bout, and, as he lay asleep, struck out
with so much force that he knocked his
wife completely out of bed. He might
far better have struck the man of his
dreams. for his wife turned to and Ibid
him up'' in what prize ring vernacular
would term elegant shape" The SUBJ
sequent Intervention of friends prevented
a separation. Chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
A bright ST ory is told of the accom-

"A bright story is told of the accom-
plished wife-now dead-of General
Hooker. When she was the admired
Miss Groesbeck, of Cincinnati. she was
once at an evening party when fash
ionable young dandy was asked if he
would Ike to be presented to her. 80!
yes, said he, laughingly, "trot her out"
The lady overheard the remark. and
when she was presented she adjusted
her Eyeglasses deliberately, and slowly
scanned his clothing from boot to collar.
The survey finished, she waved her
hand and carelessly said: "Trot him
back; have seen all there is of him."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Made New Apain.V

MRS. VIM. ID. RYcKMAN, st. GATHERINGS
Ont, says: "R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. /
have used your Favorite Prescription Gold
en- Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets, for the last three months and
find myself-(what shall | say)-'mdde nep
again are the only words that express it.
was reduced to a skeleton, could not walk
across the floor without fainting. could keep
nothing in the shape of food on my stomach.
Myself and friends had given up all hope, my
immediate death seemed certain. / now live
Ito the surprise Of everybody and am able
to do my own work." ...as.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

Peter Brundage died very suddenly
recently, near Valley Falls, N. Y, just
five months after the death of his wife.
Her decease was also very sudden.
Horace Wilbur, about seventy years old,
living in the house with Brundage, died
about two hours before the death of
Brundage. The day previous to their
death they made wager as to which one
would die first.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
A DISPATCH has been received at the Phil.

A DISPATCH has been received at the Phil
ndelphia Press office, datei Harrisburg,
signed "Uucle Reub," and marked ''collect. :"
It read as follows: "don't Accept presidents
offer to Examine gas meter, tisn't meter it's
the hands-took hands of a meter once
they still kept 90 ng around like Mule in a
Brickyard-put Coal Scuttle on the hands
carried the Hod full of coal right around
sat on the Hod carried me around till / got
h Icy anu ieii on-pue neg on my o.st enalr
leg cleaner than Buzz Saw-ruined Chair
meter Hands accidentally Invented by a
Lunatic at work on perpetual Motion in a
Third Story Back with closed Shutters-I put
q Ladder to window Bored Hole Through
shutters and Discovered his secret-no Use
trying to stop meter Hands-trouble is both
go Same Way-if went different ways could
be fixed SO as to cut each Other in Half but
pieces would go All Same, go till wear out
Look Out Don't Cut your Head Of"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
An Incident In Virginia.

Our old friend, Mr.. WIN. Claughton, OF
Heathsvile, Sheriff of Northumberland Co.,
Va. says: ave have many good medicines
In our parts, but nothing which equals st.
Jacobs Oil, the Great German Remedy. Ny
family keep the Oil in the house at all times
and use it for almost everything that medi-
cine can be used for. They claim that 1t is un-
equaled for rheumatism and all bodily palms,
-Tdppahanloek (Hdl Tide Water Under.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

There was seized in the foreign mail
at New York Postofice the other day a
small dictionary, addressed to dealer in
jewelry, in the cover of which were Sc
GREETED diamond ring, sixty-six canoes
and 1876 cat's-eyes
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Voluntary Tributes Of Gratitude for Bens.
fits Received.

DEAR sn-Please allow me the privilege of giving M
testimony regarding the wonderful curative properties
OF your invaluable medicine Hunts Remedy. DURING
tne past SIX or seven yesrs have been great sufferer
from Kidney disease, and during great part Of the
time my sunerfngs have been intense to be inie
scnoahe Only those who have suffered by this dread
disease Know OF the awful backache and pains of all
dnds' accompanied BY great weakness and nervous
prosration loss Of force and ambition which nyari.
ably attend IL had all these troubles intensified and
was in such bad condition that could not get up out
OF my chair except by putting my hands on my knees
and almost rolling out before could straghten up
tried the best doctors and many kinds of medicine,
but all failed to help me. and experimental so long
endeayorng to get cured that spring was I'm yerv
poor shape and in seeking for relief my attention was
directed by friend to the remarkable cures of kidney
diseases. ETC.. which were being accomplished by
Hunts Remedy. was induced to try IL and began to
take II, and very "lmbered up as IL were; my
severe backache and the intense pains had suffered
so long speedily DISAPPEARED. notwithstanding 1 had
been bothered with this complaint 30 many years
When began 10 take Hunts Remedy was consid-
eraby run down in my general health and suffered siso
from loss Of appetite. Ever since have been taking
the Remedy, however, my Improvement has been most
marked; my former complaints, aches. pains. ETC.,
have disappeared, and now feel like my former SELF
hale. hearty and sound In health. shall always keep
recommend all those who are sufferers from kidney or
liver diseases or diseases of the bladder urinary
organs, to use Hunts Remedy. and take no other.
Yours very truly, HENRY H. SHELDON.
No. $50 Westminster St.. Providence. r. I.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Voice of the People.

r. V. PIERCE. NJ. D., Buffalo, N. z:
had a serious disease of the lungs and
was for a time confined to my bed and under
the care of physician. His prescriptions did
not help me. l grew worse, coughing very
severely. / commenced taking your Golden
Medical Discovery" and 1t cured me. Yours re-
spectfully, JUDITH BURNETT, Eillsdale, Mich.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Josiah Davis's Trouble,

Josiah Davis, No. Middletown, KY, writes:
L am now using a box Of your HENRY's
CARBoLIC SALvE upon an ulcer, which, for
the past ten days, has given me great pain
This salye is the only remedy have found
that has given me any ease. My ulcer was
caused by yaricose veins, and was pronounced
incurable by my medical doctors. / find,
however, that HENRY's CARBoLIC SALvE is
effecting a cure,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

Boast not of tomorrow. .'I'll see
you in the morning." said Mayor Good
win. of Oxford, n. c., to a visitor,
Monday, and while speaking, fell head
long 10 the fiocT, dead of heart disease.
-Dc.r0H Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

A GENTLEMAN writes: "Dr Guysott's yell
low Dock and Sarsaparilla cured me of a
severe case of the piles, impure blood and
general ill-health."
Another gentleman writes: "Dr. Guysott's
Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla cured me of
nervous debility, palpitation Of the heart,
dizziness, night sweats, sleeplessness, etc"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Rerpouall

The VoLrAIc Belt Co., Marshall, Mich,
win send DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro Violate
Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thir-
ty days to men young or oldD who are afflicted
with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred
troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete
restoration of health and manly vigor. Ad-
dress as above. N. B.-No risk 10 incurred,
a. thirty days' trial 10 allowed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

The eompositor who set up ''gobblin' tur-
Keys. for "Gobein tapestries" should give
thanks that he is permitted to live.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

PIERcE's "Pleasant Purgative Pelletsn are
perfect ppeventives of constipation. Enclosed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

A PANE in the stomach would let enough
light In to show how one bears up under
afiliction.-N o. Picayune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

LYoN's Heel StifYeners keep new boots and
shoes straight. BY shoe and hardware dealers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

STRANGE that We can cut no confidence at
all in a professional confidence man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

The navy yard-Three feet (same as any
other yard.)- y Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

BUILDING lots and Indignation are bott
measured BY the foot.-Phladslphia Chronicle
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

THE Assistant Postmaster General is no
Quaker, although he always keeps his Hatton.
LowtU Courier ....t.r -. dbl. -. rf-H.s.r
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
The best medicine for cough or sore throat.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

In the lexicon Of youth ETC., there no such word
as Full" That lexicon Is now found in the labora.
tory Of Hunts Remedy. 1t knows NO such word as
Fail
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

LIVERY men use Wise's Axle Grease on
their finest buggies. @
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

WHY is Hshmonger q prudent merchant
Because he buys and sells c. o. d
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

DAVID FENDER, "popping the question. ("
In letter, concluded thus: "And should
you say, yes dear Mary, will truly be your
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

The engine-ear ought to be on the donkey
engine.-N o. Picdyune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

For COUGHS, ASTHMA AND THROAT DIsoR-
DERs, use "Bro,cn's Bronchial Troches."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

The electric incandescent pocketbook is
the latest. 1t Is always light. ......, VA. ...
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
THE GENERAL MARKETS.

ADVANCEMENT Of learning-Moving the
schn ol-house.-Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

TRr the new brand, aspiring Tobacco
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

WIsE's Axle Grease does not dry up
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-07-18
Kamenameha's war-CIoak.

The Sandwich Island chiefs used to
wear on ceremonious occasions cloaks
made of feathers. Each feather was
fastened separately into loop of fine
string, so that the inside of the cloak
resembled closely woven net. So
smoothly were the feathers laid on the
surface that the cloak appeared as a
rich. glossy fabric. Miss Cummings,
in her recent work of the kingdom of
Hawaii. entitled 1.-The Fire Fountain, ="
gives the following description of the
feather cloak of the great Kamehameha,
which is still worn as coronation robe:
s.One very rare and precious feather
was n served by the hunters for the
king. who alone had the privilege of
wearing cloak of these glossy, golden
treasures
The bird which yields this priceless
treasure is 90, or royal bird, a species
of honeysucker, peculiar to certain
mountainous districts of these isles. 1t
is of a glossy black, and its tiny golden
feathers are underneath the wing, one
on either side.
1.-The birds are now very rare, though
the method OF gathering the annual
harvest does not involve their deStruc-
ton. 1t was the great Kamehameha l.
who first thought of saving their lives,
and ordered the bird-catchers to set the
birds free when they had plucked the
two coveted feathers.
The feathers are only an inch long,
sharp-pointed and very delicate. Five
sell for a dollar and half. Kameha-
meha's war cloak is said to represent
all the feathers collected by eight or
ten successive chiefs.
Zone of these feathered cloaks had
descended to the late king. 1t was
square of six feet; and when the we'll
beloved died in his prime, and lay in
state at the Iolani palace, he was laid
ON this priceless cloth of gold.
"At the bidding of his father, 1t was
wrapped round him as a kingly shroud.
He is the last of our race, said the
weeping chief; it is his Sothe cloak,
which, according to Hawaiian estimate,
was valued at 100000, was buried
with him who alone was entitled to
wear it."