The Iola register., 1883-07-06
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/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Emigration from the New England
States to the West is falling off, and 1t
is believed that cyclones, hurricanes
and earthquakes have something to dos
with the change.-Boston Post.
"A Rockville, Conn. } young lady,
who was examining some hats in one
of the millinery shops there lately, IN
nocently inquired: s.Do the crushed
strawberry hats have the odor of the
fruitp"
Fourteen men were dividing two,
kegs of gunpOwder in house in
Canada, and one of them was smoking
q pipe at the time. No one was killed,
but what was left at the house could be
carried away on q shovel.-Chicagor
Herald.
New York girls, according to the
Graphic, have become SO '.English"
that they viii not go out on the street
unattended. They musthaye a chaperon
to parties and the theater. They won't
so out with young men alone.
One of those tearingly funny Bos-
ton wits says: "a garden party is not
party who owns a garden, but party
in the garden of another party" This
is so very humorous that it almost
makes Chicago man want to think
about smiling as soon rs he gets time
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The employees of large mill in
Lawrence. Mass, are now paid weekly
This is departure from long estab-
lished custom. The idea has prevailed
that man with dollar in his pocket
is bound to get drunk, but the manager
of this concern says that his hands will
refute the slander.-Boston Herald
The Hagerstown (Md.) Globe re-
latcs how horse near Shepherdstown
is an incorrigible practical joker. He
picks up small pigs and lambs-not
hurting them-and lays them down at
distance, unmistakably enjoying their
amazement. A believing calf similarly
carried evidently convulsed him with
internal laughter. He ended by Dump
ing it on pile of straw and playfully
rolling it over, and then he pranced
chuckling away.
The people of Pittsburgh. Pa, h ave
Just discovered that they have an in
teresting relic of colonial times in their
city. 1t is the old Fort Duquesne block
house, for which nations strove a-cen-
tury and half ago. 1t is now sur
rounded by all kinds of dilapidatec
tenements, and is itself domicile for s
poor family. There is 8 movement OF
foot to acquire the property and create
public park, of which it shall be the
principal attraction.-Pittsbargh Post
Two ladies, long intimate friends.
Mrs. Emma V. Turner. aged forty-two
years. widow of Lewis Turner. Jr, anC
Miss Josie r. McAlachen, aged thirty
years, died on the same day recently al
the residence of Wendell Bollman, il
Baltimore. Mrs. Turner had been IL
of consumption for two years, and Miss
McMachen suffered from the same dis
ease, though for much shorter time
They occupied the same room, ex-
changing kind attentions during their
illness.
An official statement shows that
more than 154 900. 600 tons of coal were
taken out of the British mines lastyear.
and in doing this vast work nearly hall
3. million persons were employed Sir
Henry Bessemer has made the ca-cU,a-
ton that if this Goa; were formed if.to
cylindrical columns of fifty feet diane
ter and 500 feet In height, and if these
Were placed in u row, their own diane
ter apart, they vo'lld make colonnade
righty-five miles aud $50 yards long,
the product of cacl. working day being
sufficient TO E,ake fourteen such
columns.
About twelve years ago Mr..
Royal, of Ellsworth, Me-, while fishing
off the coast near Prospect harDor, lost
overheard in from six to ten fathomS OF
water silver watch and silver chain.
A day or two since the watch was re-
turned to its former owner (Mr. RoyaD.
The finder says he found it in his potato
patch, where he supposes it became de-
posted by being attached to the sea-
weed which he used for fertilizer, and
which he procured upon the shore
abreast the place where the watch was
originally lost.-Troy IN. " Times.
A dispatch from Gloucester. Mass,
says: The Transparency of the water
at the South this season is unprece-
dented in the experience of veteran
and interferes seriously with
the success of the mackerel fleet, en-
ablinS the fish to see the operations of
the seine, making them wild and in
tractable. The purse weights at the
bottom of the seines could be plainly
seen at a depth of twenty fathoms, and,
in coming alongside another vessel. one
could see under her keel. The clear
water is said to be moving this way,
and shore fishermen report that they
can see the hooked fish start from the
bottom in seven fathoms of water in the
vicinity of Killich Ledge, off Cape Ann