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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Scientific Meddling.

A man in Port Jervis, n. Y, in De-
cember last was caught between two
cars and was taken lone in a helpless
condition, apparently paralyzed from
the waist down. He was also labor
ing under the weight of two additional
misfortunes. He had taken out
several accident insurance policies, and
he is said to have had an unfavorable
reputation. For both he did ample pen
ance. He was held to be shamming. and
scientific investigation was set at work.
'tNeedles were thrust to the bone in
his limbs and deep missions were made
with lances. He submitted to these
tests twenty-eight different times with
out evincing the slightest physical pain"
The scientific investigators not being
satisfied, wished to administer anes-
thetics. so that the control of the nerves
might be destroyed, but the subject re-
fused to consent. At this point one
doctor whose curiosity was stated, with
drew, believing the mans lower ex-
tremeties to be really paralyzed and
without feeling, a conclusion that ap-
pears highly reasonable. But more in
quisitive scientists arrived in the inter-
ests of the insurance company. They
applied powerful current from gal
vanic battery. There were two results,
"a slight upward motion of one big toe'
and 1.-THE burning of the flesh deeply"
by q portion of the wire which was I'M
covered. A "bottle of boiling WATER
and piece of ice were then passed up
and down the patients legs, but he said
that he felt no sensation of heat or cold.
"For the next test the doctor took pair
of sharp-pointed dividers or calipers and.
spreading them apart, thrust one point
in the subjects leg and made circle in
the flesh with the other. This was done
in several places. The patient did not
vince under the test" The scientific
investigators declined to say what they
thought of the result. Neither are the
thoughts of the patient chronicled.
1t is to be regretted that the doctors
said nothing, because it would be pleas
ant to know that scientific curiosity was
for once fully satisfied. Probably this
will not occur, however, until the mans
lower extremeties have been cremated
In a blast furnace, or run through
stamp mill. As for the patient. his en-
thusiasm over accident insurance poll
cies has undoubtedly materially subsidized.
Scientifically it was a very interesting
case. But if this thirst for scientific in
quiry increases, no citizen can be sure
when he is safe.-N. 7. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Princes in Custody.

d, The ConcieIgerie. where Prince Napo-
leon was confined, has twice served as a
prison for members of his family. Prince
Louis Napoleon, afterward Emperor, was
shut up there in 1910 when he was
awaiting his trial before the Chamber Of
Peers for his Boulogne expedition, and
Prince Pierre Bonaparte was detained
there IN 1870 after his manslaughter OF
the journalist Victor Noir. Louis Napo-
leon, who was defended by the eloquent
Legitimist orator Berryer, received sem
tence of imprisonment for ife," a
penalty which did not exist on the stat
ute-book, but which, the Peers decreed
$50 that they might not attach the de-
grading punishment of penal servitnde
(trava4r forces) to the great name OF
Napoleon" The Prince was at once
conveyed to the Fortress of Ham, in
Picardy,. whence he escaped in 1876.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte was tried in
March, 1870. before high court, spe-
cially constituted, and sitting at Tours.
He was acquitted of willful murder, but
was sentenced to pay FL, 900 damages
to the family of his victim. Touching
the arrest of Princes. it may be observed
that the police of Paris have under all
regimes had experience in this kind OF
business. Some of the arrests have re-
manned memorable owing to the intense
public excitement which they caused.
In 1748 the arrest of Prince Charles Ed
ward, the younger; Pretender, at the
door of the old Opera House, and by an
ordinary police official, produced a COM
motion of which tSaces may be found in
all contemporary memoirs. Voltaire
wrote that the Prince. had suffered a
gross indignity. But perhaps the most
amusing affair of this sort was the at
tempt to arrest Duke Charles of Births
wick under Louis Philippe'sreign. The
Duke. having been expelled from his
dominions in 1880, took refuge in Paris,
and began to give trouble to the French
Government by his intrigues. After the
Government had borne with him for
some time, it was resolved that he must
leave the country, and Count de Mont
alivet, the Home Minister, signed war
rant for his arrest and expulsion. But
the Duke was warned of what was COM
ing. and hired an obscure actor to take
his place, he himself retiring to the house
of friend. The actor, who had con-
trived capital makeup was ar
rested and conveyed to the Swiss frontier
in a post-chaise, escorted by a troop of
horse. All through the journey he was
treated with royal honors; but this SO
frightened him that soon after reaching
Geneva he quietly decamped without
waiting for the remittance of his fee.
Meanwhile the real Duke had sent friends
to intercede for him with Louis Philippe,
and the King was so much tickled at
hearing how his Minister had been out
witted that he got the order of expulsion
quashed on the Dukes promising to be
of good Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


f-Dr. Meredith has Bible class in
fremont Temple, Boston, which had
more thqp 1000 members n few DAYS
ago.
The New York Tribune has a rat
Ting article against the vicious system
of cram,aing large masses of uhdigested
facts into the heads-of our public school
children. Ignorance is preferable to the
evils OF such system.
1t does not follow that girl has
entirely finished her education because
she has. as one said lately, been through
the nominal school sand ciphered
clear through from simple ambition to
chemical fractures. IN Y. Herald.
-Yung Wing, the new Chief Magis-
trate of the city of Shanghai, is Chris
tian and has an American wife. He is
a graduate of Yale College, and the
original promoter of the scheme of edu-
eating Chinese boys in the United States.
Political economy is said to be the
one subject in which no Harvard student
fails to elect a course during the three
years in which he is allowed q choice Of
studies. Ten years ago there were
seventy-one students of political econo-
my, while this year there are 210.
The fire drill is being practiced in
several of the public schools in Toronto,
Canada, it is said, with excellent effect.
The children are required, on the alarm
being given, to leave their seats in order,
divide into two lines, one at each side of
the room, and at the exit meet and
march out two abreast.
Missouri has next to Indiana. the
largest amount of permanent funds de-
voted to school purposes in the Union.
They aggregate so, All, 500, not includ-
ing the annual apportionment of State
revenue. The State has a school popu-
lation of TAI. 1852, and of this number
48S, 900 are enrolled in the public
schools. There are 1892 schools in
operation, conducted by 10, SOY teachers.
and last year 1868, 43S were expended
upon these schools. Detroit Post.
Its not often that a country church
has more than ordinary luck with the
contribution basket. Once in a while,
however, the church gets even with the
penurious nearer. In Huntingdon last
Sunday man accidentally dropped the
contents of his purse on the church floor
Just as the contribution box was passing
him, and the liberal-hearted man who
sat in the next pew gathered up hand
full of silver and filed the basket. A
cheerful giver is a Joy to the country
church.-Ptitadelphta Times.
Notwithstanding all that has been
said about the dignity of the common
school teachers. their pay remains. on
an average, below that of ordinary me-
chanics. The average monthly salary
is S67.54 for men and S30.59 for women.
in Massachusetts,, against $3.50 for
men and S28,42 for women, in Penn
sylvania. In Alabama the monthly pay
of white teachers is $20.96; Kentucky
and North Carolina, S21.25. But in
Nevada it is SOL. 40 for men and S77
for women; in California, $50 20 for men
and $64.73 for women. The 47,200
common school teachers of Prussia re-
ceive, on an average 1882 per annum.
besides a house and Chicago
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02

A Chicago item about a horse dying
oficold is headed "a. frozen plug.n' 1t
is haraforia Chicago Fepbrter who be-
gan hiscareer lathe Fire DEPARTMENT tor
let go Of the old d,slset,-Dstroit FPS
Press. 81 e-o'1 'ern nnsr11FiF ~ 20
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
How the French Canadian is Dressed.

The New York SUMS Montreal CORES
pondent relates this: 81 must tell you
how these girls DRESS" said New York
woman to her husband. First, they start
with flannel from head to foot-and such
flannel! Why, it's an eighth of an inch
thick. Then they go like other women.
except that they put on more skirts, and
usually aquilted one that's as warm as a
wood fire. Then they put on a dress,
and over that chamois jacket that fits
like shoe in the mud. Then they put
ribbed wooden stockings over their stock
ings and arctics over their shoes. They
don'tcare any more about the looks of
their feet than the st. Louis women do.
Then they put on knit Hristlets, then
gloves, then fur or cloth dolman, then
a fur cap, and finally coil of worsted
comforters. When they are dressed. if
they are hurled at speed of a mile a
minute from a toboggan, they are
unhurt- If they fall through the ice they
are not wet. If the thermometer drops
fifteen below they read of it next day
and wish they had known it at the time"
"A Syracuse sleigh 100 years old is
driven by man of eighty-five and pulled
by horse in his thirty fifth year, and it's
the only rig in that vicinity that has been
hauled up for fast driving for six years.
Boston Post,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Eccentricity.

The Turks believe that mailman Is
inspired of God. The more crazy amau
is, the more they venerate him as q saint.
The life of many man whom the world
recognizes as genius seems to favor
the Turkish belief. Dryden says:
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide"
The life of no genius better illus
trates the poets lines than that of Bee
thoven, the composer. He was as &C.
centric as he was great. When compos.
ing, his mind was so absorbed that he
seemed like a somnambulist. Once he
ordered his dinner at a restaurant and
then forgot all about it, in the concen-
tration of his mind upon the famous
Sixth Symphony, on which he was then
at work. When at last the meal was set
before him, he said, absently:
Thank you, have dined," and
placing gold piece in the hand OF the
astonished waiter, he left the room.
When nervously excited by his work
he would rush out of the house and take
walk. and his square little figure was
familiar sight in Vienna.
Beethoven had no settled home, and
constantly changed his lodging-pla
The other dodgers in the houses where
he lodged admired his genius, but they
found him so uncomfortable a person to
live with, that they called him mad
man.
When composing he had habit Of
cooling off his hands by pouring cold
water over housekeeping a pitcher by
his side for that purpose. As he never
Tor ha 20 H.. 90
catch the water, the plastering in the
room below became wet and fell to the
floor. Of course, its occupant COM
planned.
He slept little. When a new thought
came he would rush to the piano and
give it expression, no matter what hour
of the night it might be. As his deafness
increased he played more loudly and
heavily. and would beat out the time
with his feet.
Like other men of genius, he had the
habit of pacing his room, roaring and
bowling" (as one of his pupils said Of
him), while trying so express his con-
ception. But at the least remonstrance
from his landlord he would secure aroom
elsewhere. YOUTHS Companion.
The man who told Cleveland
Herald reporter about trance trip to
Heaven in 1888. in which he encountered
the shades of John Quincy Adams and
DR.. Chalmers, has been taken to task by
correspondent of the Pit tsburgh Dis
oatch, who says that j. Q. A. lived until
lS4S, and DIR. C.. to much later date.
The lesson pointed out by tn is trifing
circumstance is that rom ancers should
,e well posted on dates and deaths
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Speaking of a doubtful man in soci.
ETY., the New York Commercial AdUer-
tiSer SAYS so long as he has got ingots il
makes no difference how he got in.
-Inasmuch as the course of true love
never did run smooth, wouldn't it be a
pipus idea for Congress to make an ap-
preparation for the stream of love?-
Grip.
The tramp who tried to steal a
through passage to New York remarked.
when he picked himself from the snow.
bank into which the muscular brakeman
had deposited him, thai he didn't care
to be a threw passenger again.-Boston
Transcript
Some men are ever ready to offer
remedy for everything. The other day
we remarked to one of these animated
apothecary shops: can idea struck us
Yesterdays before we could finish
he advised us: Grub the affected parts
with arnica. -HartUeN (Ga.J Sun.
The average age of different men is
put down thus: Merchants, fifty-five;
physicians and lawyers, fifty weight; farm
ers, sixty-one; clergymen, sixty-four,
and great geniuses, seventy-five. 1t will
be observed from the above that the
journalistic profession tends to longevity.
Rochester Post-Erpress. ----
Poem on Bells
The cry is heard on every hand
To stop the church bells ringing;
But il would be quite as unwise
As il they d stop the singing.
Say what you want about the noise
M This fact is worth repeating: IN
. tits the bellies, and nothing less,
-Erh That call young men to meeting.
"A company of gentlemen, who were
dining at an inn. inquired if the turkey
that was served to them was fresh.
.'Fresh is itr' said the Irish waiter,
iauntily. ssFaith, it's not six hours
since that turkey was walking around
on his own rale estate, with his hands in
his pockets, never draining what an
urgent invitation he'd have to jine you
gentlemen at dinner"
Extract from a modern novel: "She
had thrown her heart at his feet, only
to be rejected. What greater punish
ment can any woman have to hear?"
Well. he might have picked up her heart.
carried it home and given it to his dog.
Or he might have put his foot upon it
and gr-r-r-round it into the dust. Or,
worse still, he might have lifted it up
tenderly, placed it in his coat-tail peck
ct, married her the next day and made
her work in a shirt factory while he
fooled away his time and money in a
pool room. That would have been some
thing like punishment-The Judge.
He was a depositor in a Rochester
savings bank. He entered the institu-
ton the other morning and timidly in
qaired lis the Cashier in the city?" go.
yes, he's at his window J'tAnd is the
Treasurer around?n =" He is. s'And
the President?' "The President is
in his Office" HAS the bank
been specializing in oil. wheat. cot
ton or mines!,H ..No. sir" ..Ard
if were to present my book could
/ draw the four dollars have on
depesite" u"You could."s swell. that
takes great burden off my mind,"
sighed the stranger. as he walked out
with greatly improved looks--Rochester
IN " Democrat. 50 - -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11
The Stored Sea.
New York Tribune

New York Tribune
This airily graceful little book. the work CT
the wife of our minister in Turkey, carries
within it something of the salt sweetness of
the sea, of the fantastic glow of the Orient
and the cool beauty of classic shores. 1t is
pretty and poetical gossip about things and
places rather than about people, and is
poured forth with freshness and feminine
gaycty of heart that is exhilerating. Mrs
Wallaces experiences on the European and
Orient tai shores of the Mediterranean she has
turned TO the best account in these pleasant
sketches. One describes day in Carthage;
another presents delicate picture of a
Greek funeral; third is graphic story of
captivity among the brigands. Two of these
papers deal with the American girl, and
after wholesome fashion from which even
Mr. James might learn something. Mrs
Wallaces style is occasionally too impulsive
and husastic--sometimes in her haste she
leaves her sentences incomplete-but that
may be forgiven for the sake OF her clearness
III vision and her evident enjoyment in tell
ing her story.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11

Calhoun (Ga.) Times.
Louis Hillhouse tells a rather singular
story about some geese he had which might
be doubted if it We're not known that Louis
has q pious regard for the truth, and was
never known to vary therefrom He says
that five years ago he bought flock of geese,
which were then twenty years old. In the
lot there was IA sander which had only one
eye, and goose with a portion of her bill
gone. These two always mated. and would
not go with the other geese. but would wan
der away to themselves, and it was thought
that sympathy for each other in their mis-
fortunes the prime cause. They con-
tinued in this way for five years, and nothing
could induce them to separate Not long
since a horse placed his cruel heel upon the
goose, and sent her to the happy gooseland,
and in less than half an hour thereafter the
gander laid himself down TO die and peace
fully breathed his last. without any apparent
cause whatever, except his great grief for his
mate. This is no fiction, but a romance in
real life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11
THE FALL OF TIE TEMPLE.
An Incident Calculated to Weaken Faith in
Great Order.

New York Times.
1t is painful to learn thatfive of the Knights
of the Temple have been attacked, overpow-
cred and robbed by two paynim Turks, or
footpads to that effect, in California. Truly
this is humiliating, and in addition to drap-
ing the beauseant In Grape, the grand master
OF the order should require the defeated
knights to do penance in thick ulsterS by
making pilgrimage in Thrd-avenue sur
face car to Yorkville or some other sacred
shrine of Gambrinus.
1t appears that the knights, among whom
were two grand commanders. who had no
doubt fought lance in rest in the Holy Land,
or at all events, in Jones's wood were driv-
ing in stage coach, when they were beset,
surrounded. and, metaphorically, hewed
down by two masked infdels with shot-guns.
The knights made no attempt at resistance.
This was not due to cowardlce but to the
fact that their cooked hats and uniform coats
were in their trunks and their TASKS were
nearly empty. In those circumstances they
cOGld not be distinguished by the enemy
from ordinary citizens and they naturally
did not care to infuriate their adversaries
by informing them that they belonged to the
Order of the Temple When the stage was
halted, one of the knights said to his com
panions: Brothers in arms, we will
draw our swords, and by'r lady we
will hew these paynm dogs in pieces" but a
more cautious knight replied "Oh, give US
rest; you know we hired our swords and
left them in Frisco" and still another and
equally cautious knight added: by my
halidom l would not that we should monkey
with swords or other weapons Let's sit
quiet while these fellows go through us, and
mayhap they will spare our lives" These
wise counsels prevailed, and the knights,
stripped OF their pocketbooks, their dia-
mo breastpins and their free railroad
passess were suffered to pursue their way,
while the 70 lowers OF Mohammed got them
to their Businesses and divided the spoil.
The importance OF this sad event lies in
the fact that it will shake the popular faith
in the invincibility OF the Templars. Hither-
to men have said no nation dare attack US,
for the Templars would fall upon the foe
and deliver us, but now that it has been dis
covered that two men in masks can rob five
knights it is evidence that the Order of the
Temple is no longer invincible, and that we
can no longer rely upon it for our defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11
A Stroke of Business.

The Springfield Mass Republican makes
the following report of the address of Lieu
tenant-governor Ames, on the occasion of the
banquet to Lord Chief-justice Coleridge;
As l unpacked my va'ise tonight, found,
pinned to my coat letter. 1t was from my
wife. beseeching me not to make one of my
long-winded speeches. After what our Pres
dent has said of American industries to-
night, | will venture to blow my own horn.
As l travelled through Europe | noticed that
the shovels used by the people were very
clumsy and heavy. Now | would like TO give
my foreign friends little advice-that is,
use good shovels The only first-ratr shovel
in the world is stamped, 20. Ames" Call
at North Easton and we will prove it to you.
l should speak to you few words of well
come l feel it; but I cannot express it.
Our Governor could do it, he is the braniest
man in the State. If he were only as level
headed now as he is brainy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11
Literary Notes.

The publishers of the Century have ar
ranged with Alphonse Daudet, the great
French novelist, for a series of "reminiscences
and pen-portraits of prominent Frenchmen
and others, to appear in the Century during
1884
have just published So 900 Year on Fruits
and Flowers" the experience of a widow
who, from position of actual want, sue
ceeded in building up profitable business
in her flower-garden.
The editor of the Century has obtained
permission to print extracts from the private
journal kept by General Garfield DURING his
trip to Europe in 1867 The material in
cludes notes on a debate in the House of
Commons. a day in Westminster Abbey, a
sermon by Sturgeon, the British Museum,
etc, etc.