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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
MENTAL DISTURBANCES.
Irrationality Which Comes Dangerously
Near Insanity.

Irrationality Which Comes Dangerously
Near Insanity.
The lowest grade of mental disturb
ance is seen in that temporary appear
ance of irrationality which comes from
an extreme state of abstraction or alb
sence of mind. To the vulgar all in
tense preoccupation with ideas. by call
ing off the attention from outer things
and giving a dreamlike appearance to
the mental state, is apt to appear symp-
tomato of ..queerness" in the head.
Bat in order that it may find place
among distinctly abnormal features this
absence of mind must attain certain
depth and persistence. The ancient
story of Archimedes and the amusing
anecdotes of Newton's fits, if authentic,
might be said perhaps to illustrate the
border line between a normal and an alb
normal condition of mind. A more dis
tinctly pathological case is that of
Beethoven. who could not be made to
understand why his standing in his
night attire at an open window should
attract the irreverent notice Of the street
bows. For in this case we have tenn
porary incapacity to perceive exterior
objects and their relations; and adeeper
incapacity of like nature clearly shows
itself in poor JohnsOn's standing before
the town clock vaiDly trying to make
out the hour. This same aloofness of
mind from the external world betrays it.
self in many of the eccentric habits at
tributed to men and women of genius.
Here again johnson serves as a good in
stance. His incOnvenient habit of sud-
denly breaking out with scraps of the
Lords Prayer in fashionable assembly
marks distinctly dangerous drifting
away of the inner life from the firm an
chorage of external fact. In the cases
inst considered we have to do with q
kind of mental blindness to outer cir
cumstances A further advance along
the line of intellectual degeneration is
seen in the persistence of vivid ideas.
commonly anticipations of evil of some
kind, which have no basis in external
reality. Johnson's dislike to particular
alleys in his London walks, and Mime.
de Stael's bizarre idea that she would
suffer from cold when buried, may be
taken as examples q these painful de-
lusions or idees fires. A more serious
stage of such decisions Is seen in the
case of Pascal, who is said to hare been
haunted by the fear of gulf yawning
| lust in front of him. which sometimes
became so overmastering that he had to
be fsatened by . chain to keep him from
leaping forward.-NjneteentA Century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
REINDEER HUNTING.
How the EsquimsnN Hunt the Reindeer
Aided by Boys and Dogs.

Aided by Boys and Dogs.
Esquimaux dogs are used in various
WAYS in hunting. When the weather
is so foggy that hunter can rot see
very far. and there is consequently but
Little prospect of his killing anyth nc
unless he almost stumbles upon it. one
of them will take his bow and arrows.
or his gun. if he be fortunate enough
to own one. and giving the best-trained
hunting-dog in charge of one of his
sons. they start out Misunderstanding.
The boy puts harness on the dog. ties
the trace around his own waist. or
holds it in his hands, and follows his
father out into the fog.
OF course. the older Esquimauy has
some idea where the reindeer WI be
grazing or resting. and he soon finds
out which way the W nd is blowing
over the place where he suspects the
reindeer to be. Then. with his boy
and the dog, he goes around in such a
way that the game will not be DIS
turbed. to some place where the wind
blowing over the reindeer will come
toward the hunters. As soon as the
place is reached, the dog smells the
reindeer and commences shifting the
ar as if anxious to go toward them.
The boy allows the dog to advance
slowly, still holding on to the harness
so that it shall not run away. As soon
as the dog scents the deer. 1t goes
directly toward them. and when 1t is
quite near, it grows excited. and COM
mences 10 Jump and to jerk the harness
trace BY VIII CHI the boy is holding it;
being a well-rraned hunting dog, how
ever, it never barks so as TO brighten the
deer by the sound
The hunter nov knows from these
excited actions of the dog that the
reindeer must be close at hand. al
though he can not see them for the fog.
So he tells his son to hold the dog and
remain IN that spot while he takes his
bow o. gun and crawlS cautiously for
ward in the proper direct on. Before
he has gone far. probably not more
than twenty or twenty-five yards away.
the huge forms of .wo or three REIN
deer loom up through the fog. If he
is good hunter he Will at least bring
one DOWN. and perhaps two or three OF
them. and so have something for sup
per. When there is snow on the
ground. the boy VII generally take
two or three dogs along. and after a
reindeer is killed. will use them to drag
it into the snow house. As the little
Esquimaux loves exc tement. this IS
good sport, and in this way he soon
learns to hunt quite well.-Lieutcnanl
Frederick .Schudtkd. in st. Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

door about the size of knitting-needle
and replaced the spindle. and when the
time arrived to work he ran wire
through the door into the notch in the
end of the spindle. aud turning the wire.
moved the bolt: then turning the key
with nippers, the door was open. Nor
tise bolts are also beaten by running
wire through the key-hole or a small
gimlet-hole made for the purpose. Ths
mortise- bolts that necessitate revolt
ton or semi-revolution to release them,
are beaten by an instrument known as
plug-cutter and pair of nippers.
The lock expert gave an interesting
account of his experiences in the various
cities of the country. In some cities the
police refuse to permit him to move
among the business men with his lock
aad tools, fearing to have them terrified.
In others he is limited to a certain dis
trict. In st. Louis the Chief of Police
permits him to show his patent only to
business men. refusing to allow him to
move among house-keepers.-St LOUIS
Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
The Bismarck Family.

Prince Bismarck is the tallest and the
most stalwart OF first-class European
statesmen. On one of the posts of the
door of the study at Friedricksruhe the
height of each member of the imperial
chancellor's family was sOlemly regis.
tered on the last day Of 1880 by the
chancellor himself, and the penciled in
scrip,ions, which are still to be seen
there, as follows: Prince Bismarck, six
feet and two inches; Herbert, six feet
and one and one-third inches; Bill
Count William), six feet and one-hali
inch; Rantzau, Count Rantzau. the
princes son-in-law), five feet and ten
and one-hah inches; Johanna, princess
Bismarck). five feet and eight and one
quarter inches; Marie Countess Rant
zau), five feet and eight inches. The
average height Of the six members Of
the family is, therefore, little over five
feet and eleven inches. A well-grown
race the Bismarcks, eyideutly.-Phita-
deipAiG Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
PREMATURE BURlALS.
An Undertaker's Belief That People Ar
Often Buried Alive.

An Undertaker's Belief That People Are
Often Buried Alive.
The world would be Mortified
sad well-known undertaken the othec
day. If it knew the number of bodies
that are buried before fe is ext net
Once in a while one of these case1
comes to light. but no steps are taken
to prevent its recurrence.
..Someth nc that happened to m.
about twelve years ago has worried m.
ever since. was sent for one day to
take charge of the body of man in
- street. The man was tailor.
and had fallen over while sitting on
his bench sew .ng. He was a big. fleshy
man. about forty years of age, and
weighed about $50 pounds. The body
was warm and the limbs very Imp. 1
did not believe the man was dead. and
said so. His friends told me that a
physician had pronounced him dead.
1 was ordered to put his body on ice at
once. but delayed this operation. on
one pretext or another, for nearly two
DAYS. During this time the body Law
on the bench in the tile shop. Finallr
could delay no longer. The limb,
were still as limp as when / first ex
amined the body. / prepared tn.
body for burial. and the next day it
was buried. do not believe that man
was dead when the earth was shoveled
in on his coffin. If the same thing
were to happen again l would let
somebody else do the burying.
About the same time Young woman
living up town was supposed to have
died very suddenly. A physician was
called in. He said she was dead. An
old woman who was present thought
otherwise and insisted upon it that she
was in trance. The body was bur ed
A week later the old woman deter
mined to satisfy herself about it. and
bribed the grave-diggers to d.sinter
the coffin. The lid was removed. and
a horrible sight was seen. The young
woman had come to life and had made
terrible struggle for liberty. Her
ha was torn out and her face was
terribly scratched. She had turned
over on her face.
"A person is generally believed to be
dead if there is no act on of the heart
or pulse. But if such person is in q
trance there is no act on of the heart
or pulse. A vein should be opened
II blood flows the person Is not
dead. This operation would take about
thirty seconds. but it is not often re-
sorted to. Suppose the person is suf-
fering only from temporary suspen-
sion of animation. Before he can re-
cover the use of his faculties an UNDER
taker comes in and he is put in an ice
box, where whatever life there may
have been in him is frozen out. The
Board of Health should take hold OF
tn 5 matter and devise some means of
a.certaining beyond all doubt that life
is extinct before the body is buried. /
have thought OF a good many different
means A receiving vault could be
built in every cemetery where bodies
could be placed until deeomposit. on
had begun, when they could be buried. u
-Phiiadslphia North Asserieon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
What He Found Out.

Il say, Jones'" called the city editor
to 4 reporter in the next room. Il wish
you'd 20 down to Captain Davis and
find out something about The death OF
his brother"
'.All right. SIR" replied the obedient
Jones. and started Oh. in about an
hour he returned.
Well" inquired the C. e.. when
lid he die?'
Didn't find out" said Jones.
What was the matter?'
Didn't lind out" repeated the re-
porter.
when are they going to bury him."
Didn't find out" he said again.
Didn't find out? Thunderation.
man. didn't you find anything out, ="
exclaimed the agitated city editor.
Yes. sir."
swell. well, what was it?"
Captain DAVIS" said the reporter,
with q sad. sweet smile. and the C. e.
rose up and bumped his head against
the wal. Merchant Trareicr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
a RUSSIAN REVIEW.
How the Armies Of the CxAr Are Inspect.
ed by the Emperor.

ed by the Emperor.
We rode at least a mile and . half
past the line of tents, and must have
seen 80, 900 men. The ground is pref
tily Academic. and altogether well SUIT
ed for camp purposes. At the end we
came upon the Guard regiments and
the Preobra;ensky Regiment. with
whom finished the inspection; and here
were assembled all the bands and
drums, to the number of 800. in one
compact mass facing the Empress's pa
v.lion or tent at the door of which she
and her ladies alighted. and were
joined by the Emperor and Grand
Dukes. We all dismounted and came
inside the square. of which the royalty
and staff formed one side. the must
clans the opposite side, the other two
sides beng composed of officers of the
various corps who had hurried to the
spot. In the center, on a mound. stood
the conductor of the united bands of
music, and near him onedrummer-boy,
Tor perhaps lad of twenty. We (the
foreign missions) stood in line, and the
Emperor came down from the pavilion
and spoke to each of the Generals. He
was very gracious to me. and inquired
about my service and the commands l
had held. This over. he stood alone in
the center, and detachment of Ser
geants in full marching order passed
h m one by one. each Sergeant giving
the evening report of his picket and OF
the usual .'watch-setting" in a
loud voice, the Car thus fulfill
ing for the moment the role of camp
commandment. We Generals only
were then taken up. one by one. to the
Empress, who talked to me about the
Princess of Wales, Cowes, Osborne.
ETC.. and was altogether gracious and
charming. Then tea was handed
around. and the crowd of officers and
of the troops generally kept closing
round the square as the hour for 1.-THE
retreat" or Zdird. drew nigh. Mean
while heavy clouds had gathered in the
horizon. and storm seemed to threaten
us, though the view down the slope
and over the valley to KrasnOe, distant
about a m lie. was not rendered less
beautiful bv the combination of waning
sunlight and threatening clouds.
Eight o'clock sounds; each field bat
terry fires an evening gun. three rock
cts shoot into the air. and the drums
and bands roll out. with a solemnity
and volume of sound not Nv for
gotten. the even ng hymn. As the last
notes de of. the drummer bow steps
forward the bandmaster descends, and
the little drummer. sole occupant of
the square. repeats slowly but with
perfect d stinctness the Lords Prayer.
Every head is uncovered and bows.
from the Emperor to the furthermost
spectator; and should from NV heart
pity the man who, as the little lads
Amen went up in its solitary SIM
plicity. could scott at or even be I'M
impressed by the silence which fol-
lowed. There was total absence of
all exaggerat:on or straining for in
creased effect. The bands then burst
forth with the Russian National ar, so
well known to all of us, and the scene
closed as night fell.-Lieutenao,- Gener-
alHigginson, an Blackyoods Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
The Language of the Profession.

How quietly everything was getting
on in the Tuffboy family! the cat was
mapping on the rug. Tuffboy. sr., was
mapping behind his newspaper, and the
maternal head was doing the specta-
Giles off her nose. Just then Jimmy
came rushing in like a whirlwind on a
summer afternoon.
Il say, dad, I've got dandy curve. "
"A-a--what. sir?" said his father.
"a dandy curve. The fellers say no
kid can knock me out of the box"
knock you out of the box? What
does the boy mean?" queried his
mother.
Il don't know. it's all Greek to me.
.sOh. dad. Whist did You sit over on
the ball ground for all this week." said
Jimmy.
There was no more mapping in that
family for one while.-HarTord Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
A NEW TUNE.

Sound the cymbal, beat the drum!
loot the deep bassooni
The glad millennium has come,
That hand
Organ man
Has got brand
New tune!
sweet violets" The Mulligan Guards
Climbing Up the Golden Stair
The awful bore plays as before,
men The crank
n 4ftst, - Did air!
Al Trovatore rs ssCaptafn Jinks.-
He plays. and Gentle Spring"
Then. as my jaded spirit sinks
Why, man..
He's got
A spike and span
II thrills my soul with rapturous bliss,
That tune unknown to me,
care not what its title is,
Ody.
Then sound the cymbal! beat the drum!
Tooti loot the deep bassoonI
Don't let amazemcnt strike you dumb
Just because
He went
'Gainst all the laws
OF precedent,
Organ man.
And got brand
New tune.
-Somerriue Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
LOPEZ
Charaeteri.tics OF the Noted Paraguay.
Ruler and Chieftian.

Charaeteri.tics Of the Noted Paraguay
Ruler and Chleftian.
Never was a ruler, . chief, better
served by his subjects than Solano Fran
cisco Lopez, second of the family name;
and never did any one personally less
deserve such devotedness and fidelity.
While the Paraguayans, whom his reck-
less and disproportioned ambition or
vanity alone had involved in q war with
half, and more than half, the South
American continents war OF one 10
twenty, in which defeat and ruin might
well from the outset have seemed fore'
gone conclusions-were perishing for
him BY battallions in the field, or starv-
Ing in the forest; men, women and chill
dren during the six long years of q ms
TONS agony, preferring death in its
worse forms to foreign rule, or to any
conditions of peace with the invaders OF
their land; Lopez himself. sole cause and
originator of the war, well provided not
merely with the necessaries but even
with the Injuries of life. lay hid behind
the securest defenses, or remained abb
sent at safe distance from the scene of
actual combat; nay, worse yet, exer-
cised on those within his immediate
reach, on the best and most faithful of
his own officers and servants, and ulti-
mately on his nearest kinsmen-On his
brothers, his sisters, his very mother
cruelties to which history, fortunately,
supplies few parallels-I might almost
say, taken in their totality. none. And
vet it was for this man, sensualist, cow
ard, tyrant, fratricide, matricide, that
Paraguay lavished with scarce a muir
muir three-fourths of her life blood; saw
her men, women and children extermi-
nate by war, by disease, by famine, by
misery of every kind. or carried off as
slaves into distant bondage; saw her
towns destroyed, her villages and fields
wasted, her cattle harried. her wealth
plunderedt to absolute baroness, nor even
then submitted; only ceased to strive
when she had practically, and for all
national purposes, ceased to exist. More
vet, were Lopez himself, in the wors,
anger of the Internal gods, to revive
tomorrow on Paraguayan territory, his
temperance would, there is every rea.
son to believe, at once rally round him
the obedience and the devotion of vas
majority among the yet surviving in
habitants of the land.-Nacmitian's
MdU1zine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
Something New in Cookery.

A gentleman seated behind plate OF
beef and beans in one of the coffee and
cake saloons of Park row said to the
waiter:
Bring me a napkin
"A what?'
Napkin"
The waiter shook his head obviously.
Il don't believe we've got any," ne
said. .'but I'll ask the boss. P'rhaps
he'll send out for it. How do you want
It cooked?''-N. T. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

The capital invested in wild AMI
mails in this country is estimated %
81, 600, ON. Chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

Dressed beef now comes 10 the At
liant G seaboard in the best condition
from 1000 m les awsy.-M y. Sns.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

NO pusson is lazy case he doan
want money. out bcca'se he dosn want
ter work -ArkousGp 7fsrelsT.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

"
until it reaches its proper position. snd
then draws it slowly along. As the
thread passes along ON the inside of the
door it catches the knob of the bolt and
draws it easily from the noosing, and
without making the slightest noise.
This tool is known by the profession As
a .widdie' The thief then enters. Sc
cures his booty, and returning places the
kew in the lock, fastens silk thread
around the knob of the bolt, and closes
the door again from the outside, and.
drawing his thread, uses his nippers or
outsiders, the room is fastened as he
found it. Ali this can be done in tive
minutes.
The chain bolt is considered by many
TO be the most secure. 1t is picked in
two WAYS. 1t allows sufficient room 10
put the hand inside, and, by using q
screw-driver. one can take the screws
from the casing side of the door. An
other way is BY using the 'widdie. or
bent wire. by pushing through the key
hole. catching the dog of the chain, and
drawing to the opening in the plate. and
push throws it out. All this involves
less than three minutes time.
How do you throw back this newly
patented bolt?"
The mortise bolt? o, easily enough.
That has been done time and again. AT
the Lafayette Hotel. in Philadelphia.
Penn, during the Pan-Presbyterian
Council. a guest was robbed of sl9 and
a valuable watch and chain. A short
time previous another guest was robbed
of 500. At this hotel they use the NOR
tise hotel lock. which contains q NOR
tise bolt. During the temporary alb
sence of the guests from their rooms at
meal hours, thief picked the lock. en-
tered the rooms, removed the spindle
which throws the bolt and filed notch
! in it. Then he bored hole through the
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-01
A 1910.

sary legislation. Mr.. Depew also accuses
Mr.. johnson of desire to send Gen.
Grant to Mexico to get him out OF the
way, because he refused to be party to
his plan of restoration. If these charges
rested on the unsupported testimony OF
Mr.. Dspsw, high as his standing and posi-
ton are, they might be consid-
cred sufficiently answered in what
has been said by Gen. Sher-
man and others, but he has found many
supporters in men of eminence in the
military and civil branches of the national
service, and their testimony to the cor
rectness of his statement makes it neces-
sary that it shall be met by documentary
evidence that shall forever sci at rest not
only these but other and similar charges
affecting the character of an eminent citi-
zen who, whatever his falling, peculiari-
ties or idiosyncracies, is entitled to the JUS
tice of an impartial hearing by his coun-
trymen. Such evidence Mr.. johnson for
tunately left behind him, and in the or
derlv sequence that characterized him in
the preparation OF his speeches and ad-
dresses. AS it was preserved by him so 1t
shall be given in these columns, and with
but the one purpose of honestly and hon
orably defending statesman whose name
and fame are forever linked with the State
that honored him and made The highest
honors he reached possible to him. Your
correspondent has no purpose in view but
that defense, and in presenting the evil
dence, which was placed within his reach
by Mrs. Patterson, the only surviving
child of the dead President, he must be
acquitted of any purpose personally to re,
fleet upon Gen. Grant, whose memory If
the sacred legacy OF bis country.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-01

fed the State. Juan Vicente Palavicini
was travelling with his wife and child to
his hacienda On the way bandit, Manuel
Padron, came out on horseback and tried
to carry OFF the vile of Palavicini. A fight
took place between the two men and Pa
dron was killed. After the former had
left his family at the hacienda he returned
toward the town of Tiepa to advise the au-
thorities Of what he had done. On his
return he was captured by brother of the
dead bandit, assisted by three desperadoes.
They took Palavicini off his horse, stripped
off his stockings. fayed the soles Of his
feet and then made him walk with the
raw flesh nearly mile. They then cut
off his ears and wrists, in which condition
he was obliged to walk some more. They
then took out his eyes and lashed him to
make him run. Finally, they dragged
him at the head of their saddles and then
tore him in two. The perpetrators of the
outrage escaped, but feeling has sprung
up that if they are caught it is likely that
they will suffer in the same manner.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-01

OMAHA, NEB, October 81. The high
wayman killed by the street-car driver
Thursday night now proves to be Walter
Ruckel, half-brother of w. f. Martin, a
furniture dealer of this city Ruckel
had been a cowboy in the Territories,
came to Omaha few months ago, and
worked for Martin, collecting bills. Re-
Gently he was discharged for drunk en-
ness. Tbs coroner's jufy not only ex-
onerated Woodbridge, the street-car
driver, but recommended him to the
highest position he is competent to fill
in the service of the company.