The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


English papers announce that
Henry 1rving's last trip to America
Melted him Sl5O,000.
MIR. Garland is Roman Catholic,
the second to occupy the place of At
torney-General of the United States
Washington Post.
The poet Mr.. Paul j. Hayne is six
feet high and so his friends call him
.'the Longfellow OF the South. Chi
cdgo Herald.
Prof. Tosso. the composer of the
once famous air, 1.-The Arkansaw Trav-
eler," is living quietly at COvington.
KY, in his eighty-third year. He wac
born in the City of Mexico.
An invitation to- Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe to appear at tho Copy
right League entertainments brings the
answer that she is now seveEty-thTee
years of age and too feeble to appear
in publicly. T. Tribune.
"A couple of colored children Of
Danielsville have long names. The first
is a girl who Is named Myrtle Rosa
Zillie Jennie Vandzer Pussy Satterfield
Addie Belle, and the boy is named
Jimmy John Hazletine Judge Atkins
Fox Galloway Picaninny Flora. Sd
Uannah Ca Ne,os.
Mr. John Jacob Aston has pre-
sented to the Aston Library, in New
York, three manuscripts which are
probably the oldest classical works to
be found in any collection in this coun-
try. They include Hesiod's Works
and Days" "Ksop's Fables and Luz
clans "Pharsalia, and were formerly
a part of the private library of Plus VI,
who occupied the Vatican from 1875 to
17SS-M y Sun.
The recent trial of blind Tom for
idiocy at Columbus, Ga, was friendly
proceeding, which accomplished its pur-
pose in placing him under the legal
guardianship of Gen Bethune, who was
his owner in the days of slavery. Efforts
were being made to get hold of the man
for exhibition purposes Tom is no
more of an idiot than he has been, and
his musical powers are as curious as
ever. --Phitadelphid Press.
The United Richard Wagner So
ciety, which was founded in 1888 with
view of combining the masters scat
tered adherents in one organization for
effective action, has already 1Sl
branches and agencies in Europe and
America, with total of 5, l24 members.
The London branch of the society in
tend opening their second season with
a series of entertainments, consisting of
lectures, dramatic reading and con-
versaZione.
Among the signers of the remon-
STRANGE sent to the Massachusetts, Leg
islature against the further extension of
the suffrage of women are President
Eliot and eleven professors of Harvard,
Bishop Paddock. Rev. Henry M. Dexter,
of the CongregdtiondIist, and over fifty
other clergymen, Thomas Bailey
Aldr;ch, John Boyle O'Reilly, William
Endicott, Jr., o. B. rockingham. Alex
ander H. Rice, and Henry Cabot Lodge.
Boston Transcript
There are now r2,913 newspapers
published in the United States, gain
of 1913 since 1884. Kansas shows the
greatest increase, her gain beng sew
eniy-cight, Illinois coming next with
seventy-seven. One newspaper is now
printed for every 1867 of population.
1t is quite likely that the increase will
be very rapid for the next few years.
owing to the introduction of economical
methods of publication by which papers
may be produced vastly improved in
points of matter and typographical ap-
pearance as compared with those of a
half-dozen years ago.-Chtcdyo Car
cent