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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
AT 1T AGAIN.
Oscar Wilde, the Apostle of Esthetic Cult
ure, on Dress.

Oscar Wilde, the Apostle of Esthetic Cult
ure, on Dress.
Oscar Wilde continues to lecture on
dress. Fashion, he says. is a form of
ugliness so unbearable that it has to be
changed every six months. Egyptian
dress lasted for two thousand years and
Greek dress nearly a thousand years.
and wherever dress has been beautiful
and rational it has lasted for long
time. The texture and color may have
altered, but the dress has remained the
same. The amount of mo.ey spent on
dress in England was something ap-
palling. If he told them the amount
spent on bonnets alone one-half of them
would be filled with remor.e and the
other half with despair. II a lady wore
the latest Paris fashion to the rage and
jealousy of the neighborhood for a fort
night her dearest friend would call on
her and tell her that it was no longer
worn, and the bonnet would be dis
carded.
Turning to the dress of men, which
was not of so much consequence-but
they must wear something-he said no
fashion was too ugly, too monstrous.
too bizarre that men have not welcomed
with alacrity and worn with delight.
Even the dress of the present day was
not so sensible as people represented it
to be.
The tall hat was an illustration. Now,
why this glossy cylinder? This tall
silk hat was considered to be sign of
immense responsibility on week days
and of orthodoxy on Sundays. Hell pro-
tested aga INST anything so ugly being
held to express what was moral.
The coat, again, was a garment that
had back to it and no front, and the
waistcoat a garment that had a front
and no back. For the sake of economy,
if for no Other reason, we should ANAL
gamate them into one-the doublet.
Generally, he remarked, that the well
dressed people were those whom we
were in the habit of calling the lower
orders.
The plowboy wore the smock frock,
which was the doublet wore in the
fourteenth century by the King and his
mobiles. The French workman's blouse
was the short tunic of the same century
worn by Kings and Princes. All the
ugly dress had came from people who
had nothing to do, and did it. Among
peasants and fisher folk we never found
ugly dress. They thought of what was
suitable and useful and what CORE
sponded to their needs. and so they OBJ
tanned what was really beautifully
Y. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
A Mean Man.

Otis S Richard, of Austin. is very
ingy man, and particularly to his wife
They were in Nose Schaumburg's store
few days ago, and Mrs Richard
limited that she wanted a blue silk
dress.
Nonsense. blue doesn't suit your
complexion. at all.
"Then I'll take green dress"
"Do you want to poison yourself?
Don't YOU know that all these green
dresses are poisonous"
Then you pick me out dress"
THAT'S the trouble. You see don't
like any other colors except blue and
and greep."-Tezas SIaia9a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
In his VOW nle,sant acrount of

In his very pleasant account of "a
Trip to Mexico" MIR. j. Margati tells as
follows how . conversation is conducted
in the polished Castiiian tongue: The
regular response from the ceosral office
to telephone call is 'Mande listed.
which is equivalent to AT your COM
mand.' Then preliminaries are gone
through something as follows: Good
morning, seIorita; how do you do?'
Very well, l thank you; what service
may render you?' will you kindly
do me the favor of enabling me to speak
with DON So-and-So. No. S57H With
much pleasure ETC., and whea the con
nection is made the usual polite intro
auctions are gone through before pro-
ceeding to the business on hand. -
Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
THEIR PICTURE.
The Surveyor and the school-Nda'am-
Fact.

he Surveyor and the school-NIa'am-A
Fact.
Tt was a land-surveyor,
With his mysterious load
OF bright, three-legged instruments,
Came stridfng down the road;
And Just before the district school
He paused to take sight;
And all the children came and stared
At his theodolite.
The little school-ma'am hurried out
To see what caused the stir:
And one and all they took the man
For a photographer.
And obi" the little school-ma' am cried,
How happy / should be
If you would take our likenesses-
My scholars all, and mel"
The man (he was willy wag)
Replied: 'Twould cost a sight
To photograph district school
With a theodoliter'
But still the little school-ma'am begged,
And longed to have her way.
She searched her pocket-book, and found
Two dollars she could pay.
He said: Although that isn't much
For taking such a view,
You're so hard up for likeneSses
guess III uidhC IL w.
The school-ma am scrubbed her little ones
With lavish soap and care.
And Strengthened down their pinaforeS,
And "slicked their stubborn hair.
And then IL was a goodly sight
To view that stiff thirteen;
Six boys and girls on either side,
The school-ma am in between.
His big bandana then he spread.
And meath it took a look;
And "sighted" them sufficiently,
And laughed until he shook.
The picture promising to send,
Nor waiting for the paw,
This graceless wight took up his traps,
And hurried on his way.
The picture-it was but a sketch
In penc !, nothing more,
OF those thirteen coniding ones
Grouped round the school-house door.
And underneath this photograph
Was writ: " This is the sight
i took by Smithville's district school,
Through my tneodolite.'
H. e. George, in ". I. Independent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
There is a gentleman of robust CO,

There is a gentleman of robust con-
stitution living in Hamilton to whose
system egg is poison. A sip of coffee
settled with egg unsettles his stomach
and makes him sick. The presence of
egg in anything he eats nauseates him,
and less than the twentieth part of one
egg has made him sick for DAYS. To
handle broken eggs blisters his fingers,
and to eat single egg, he thinks,
would kill him.-Hanaitton (Ga) Jour-
nal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

in pruning trees aim to distribute
the cuttings sufficiently throughout the
entire tree. If there is twice too much
top it might be reduced by cutting off
all the branches on one side. leaving
the other half untouched. If a tree
looks too thin another years growth
will fill it up.-RuraI Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

The Commissioner of Education
places the number of medical students
in this country in 1873 at 1851; in 1888
we had 15,151 The medical schools
during this period increased NJ "a to
1874. Washington Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

The records of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics show that the number of
deaths from pneumonia in New York
City average from 5000 to 1900 annual
ly, making about oneeighth of the en-
tire mortality,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

!" An communications for this peper
should be accompanied by the name Of the
Sutnor; not necessarily for publication, but
the writer. Write only on one side of the pa
Per. Be particularly careful in giving names
and dates to have the letters and figures
plain and distinct.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

"A card for the COW cost ten cents;
SO does a good cigar. Que viii save
fodder the ether won't
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

the miuule OF the UraLlc, right IN front
of a passing hanson. As luck would
have it, he saw his danger just in time,
and escaped it by hairs breadth. My
own attention had been so much alb
sorbed by the hanson that had not
noticed an omnibus Immediately behind
me. / was knocked down and all but
run over myself, and my uncle took me
home, terribly bruised and shaken, in
the very hanson which | had intended
to be the instrument of his promotion
to better world. To add insult to in
jury, he lectured me all the way home.
in thick, port-winey voice. on the ne
cessity of being more careful in cross
ing busy thoroughfares. / was in bed
for a week, and consumed arnica
enough to stock a chemists shop be-
fore l could move about with any de-
gree of comfort. Meanwhile, however,
l had had leisure to perfect my plans,
and had the good fortune to hit on a
method of extinction which would be
both sure and painless. / had seen a
medical man of my acquaintance de-
stroy an injured poodle with chloro-
form, and was struck by the SIM
plicity OF the process. He poured
a little of the firid on a
handkerchief. held it to the dog S
nose, and after one or two inspirations
the animal rolled over on its side. dead.
l resolved to chloroform my uncle after
the same manner. Accordingly, pur-
chased small quantity of the fluid, and,
watching my opportunity, when the old
gentleman, having imbibed his custom
airy gin-and-water. threw his handker-
chief over his head and went to sleep, ]
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
GRAND MEADOW.

DIR. Jackson contemplates taking a
trip back to his old home among the
green hills of Vermont.
Aaron Axtell, our towns veteran
soldier and Democrat, will represent the
Record at the inauguration of Cleveland.
Charles Schroeder, our County Com
missioner, and one of the most practical
and stirring farmers of the vicinity, has
just brought home from Ellis Holstein
herd. fine two year old bull.
Hon. Adolph Biermann we under
stand, contemplates taking a short trip
to London, Paris and Christiania, re-
turning in time to look after his extensive
farming interests in the spring.
Geo. Dean lost fine mare, heavy
with foal, in a snow drift q short distance
out of town few days ago. A similar
accident occurred nearly at the same
place two years ago for r. P. Carey.
Sheriff Mollison proves to be an Of
ficer of unusual sagacitY. just look at
his selection of Deputies. A pretty me-
nagerie knot Colos Fenton. of Austin.
ALI. Lounsbury of Brownsville, and John
Gilbertson of Grand Meadow.
We will mention for the benefit of
near settlers in this vicinity, that H. A.
Avery stands at the head of his profession.
There is no superior dentist in the state
He did work for US ten years ago. which
is as good now as the day he did it,
Tom. Thompson the chief cook and
general manager in Mr. Bartletts eleva
tor, had narrow escape from frightful
death the other day, in falling down from
the top to the cellar floor, distance of
some 20 to 80 feet. But strange to say.
he came up smiling and serene. with but
slight bruise.
"A noteworthy incident occurred at
Robt. Donaldson's a few days ago. A
fine Holstein grade steer had strayed from
the stock-yard over to hay stack, that
in some way, fell over the steer. aud he
was not missed for eight or nine days
When found, his neck was doubled up,
and in bad position generally, but alive,
and now almost entirely recovered.
AT meeting of the Grand Meadow
Cemetery Association held at the office
of Z. P. Gladen Fet. 10, 1885, the fol-
lowing Trustees were elected: G. p.
Gladcn, Geo. B. Foat and VIM. Lewis
At the meeting of the Trustees the fol-
lowing officers were elected to serve for
the ensuing year:
C.P. Gladen, President.
G. F. Greeuing, Treasurer.
s. 8. Baken, Actuary.
J. j. Gilbertson, Secretary.
Aaron Axtell, Sexton.-Record
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
LIE ROY,

r. T. Young and James Sanders
looked over Austin last Monday.
Miss Lille Hayes is teaching one of
the higher departments of the high scho oil
at Anoka.
The Phosa McAllister troupe played
the 1.-TWO Orphans" at Aliens hail last
Saturday evening.
II. H. Thompson has purchased the
IngmOnd residence in this village of
D. s. Fitield, for six hundred and fifty
dollars.
The c. NJ. s. St. P. lR. R. agreed to
pay Ira Knapp, one half the value of his
horse killed, after Capt. Mcknight had
sued them.
Howard and Goldsmith arc fitting up
the McGough building very neatly. They
will open a bakery and confectionery
early next week.
The west bound noon passenger
train. last Monday night, frozc into a
snow drift half mile east of Taopi and
remained out all night.
The Billings (Montana) people have
been enjoying rare intellectual treat
in listening to g. L. Hendcrson's lee
lures on the National Park. So says the
Post
Mr.. Boos. the manufacturer and man
agcr of the cheese factory on the Frank
farm, received two premiums on his cheese
at the Worlds Exposition at New Or
leans. What thriving. enterprising
agricultural community Mower county
! would sOoc become if we had few more
men among US like John Frank, who has
energy and pluck to compete with the
world and demonstrate the fact that this
county is just the place where any one
can produce superior article of dairy
aud all other farm preducts.-lndepen-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
Palace Car Excursion to New Orleans and
San FranclscO.

San Francisco.
To accommodate any who may wish to
visit the Great Worlds Exposition at New
Orleans, and continue their trip to the
Pacific coast, via the Southern Pacific
route. the Illinois Central Railroad have
decided to run y Palace Car Excursion,
leaving Mona 1T $50 y. M. February 15.
1885, arriving at New Orleans at q. M,
February 21st: leaving New Orleans for
San Francisco Wednesday. February
25th. giving four full days at New Orleans
going. with the privilege. OF stopping on
the return trip. Tickets for New Orleans
Trip Rates. Parties making the trip to
San Francisco should purchase Round
Fnp Tickets to New Orleans. good to re-
tura until June LIST, at the Tourists Rate.
Rouad Trip Rates, New Orleans to San
Francisco, $4,000, good for ninety days.
No stop-oxers going. but stop.overs at
will returning. Sleeping Car Rates same
as usual to New Orleans. and $l5.Grper
Double Berth from New Orleans to San
Francisco, without change.
will accompany the party as far San
Antonio. and from there they Will be &C.
companied by Passenger Agent Of the
Southern Pacific, who is familiar With
the route.
Write at once for Circulars. Purchase
your tickets to New Orleans and return,
from the nearest station. and on my
order you will purchase Round Trip Tick
eta from New Orleans to San Francisco
and return for $1,000. If you cannot 20
with us to San Francisco. get ready for
New Orleans. Send in your Applications
at once for berths, aud state If for San
Francisco, or for New Orleans only.
j. F. MERRY,
Gen'l Western Passenger Agent,
Manchester, Iowa.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
tROllRh o. Ceuxhs -


ASK for Rough on Coughs" for Coughs,
l5c. Liquid. Csc.
"Rough ora Rats
Clears out rats. mice. roches, flies, ants,
bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. l5c.
Druggists.
Heart Pains.
indigestion, Headache. Sleeplessness cured
by wells Health Renewer''
''ROugh on Corns.''
Ask for Wells Trough ON Corns" 15c
Quick. complete cure. Hard or soft corus,
warts, buniOns.
Strengthening, improved, the best for back
ralgia.
Thin People.
"'Wells' Health Renewer'' restores health
and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Headache, Nerv-
business, Debility. 81.
Whooping Cough,
and the many Throat Affections of children,
promptly, pleasantly and safely relieved by
"Rou&h on Coughs TrOches, l5c; Balsam ,25c.
Mothers.
nervous, use wells Health REVIEWER" 81.
Druggists.
Life Preserver.
.. n you H are osing your grip on life, try
weak spots.
''Rough ON Toothache -
Instant relief for Neuralgia, Toothache,
faceache. Ask for Rough on Toothache.' y
Is and rs cents.
Pretty Women.
Ladies who would retain freshness and
vivacity. Don't fail to try wells Health Re-
newer"
Catarrhal Throat Affections.
Hacking. irritating Coughs, Colds. Sore
Throat, cured by Trough on Coughs Tro-
ches, 15c. Liquid, 25c.
''Rough on Itch.''
Trough on Itch cures humors, eruptions.
rinEworm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet,
chillblans.
The Hope Of the Nation.
Children, slow in development, puny.
acrawny, and delicate, use "Wells' Health Re-
newer"
Wide Awake
three or four hours every night coughing.
Get immediate relief and sound rest by using
Wells though on Coughs" Troches, 15c.
BaIsam, Csc.
trough on Pain" Porous~d Plaster;
strengthening, improved, the best for back
ache, pain in chest or side, rheumatism, neu.
ralgia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

Real Estate Transfers in Mower County
- for the Week Ending Feb. Il. 1885.
Mary A. Vaudeville and husband to
81. B. Corey. SO feet off W. end of lots
10 and II, block Is, Bolcom's addition to
$75. '
s: A: Young to Andrew A. Weieen.
NE4 of NE4 Of sec. IS. town 1O1, range
Is. Con. $780,
L: A. Bowler and wife to D. C. Corbitt.
Q. G. deed. Lot 8, block 3, village of Le-
Roy station. Con. 81.
d. c.. Corbitt and wife to F. w. FRS
bee and son. Lot 8, block 3, village of
Leroy station. Con. 1925.
D. 8. Fifeld to l. II. Thompson. Lots
8, 9 and 10, in block 10, Caswell & Lewis
addition to village of Leroy station.
Con. $3.50.
Ann Moran and husband to Catharine
Cannon. Lots l, 2. 8, 4 and S, in block
II, lots l and 2, in block 16, all in Cas-.
we'll and Lewis addition to Leroy station.
Also acres in NE4 of NET of SE} sec.
20, town 1O1, range IA. Con. $500.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
ROSE CREEK.

The clover hullers are abroad.
Miss Nellie Taylor is back from St.
Paul
Geo. B. Wright is about selling his
Rose Creek farm.
Mrs. Con. Kaefe has been on the sick
list for the past TWO weeks.
Timothy Bpllsom, after pFotracted
illness, is slowly improving:
-Thos Cronon nearly succeeded lacci-
dentally) IN breaking his oan nose one
day last week. r.. s. -
Our potato merchants, Hanson +
Newman. had three cars Of murphtes
wrecked between this place and Mc6reg-
OF, Iowa. S.szxss.. =sss.. =.sssfz5 q. I. =.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
LANSING.


Who predicted an "open Yinteri"
We are soon to have new fence
finished around our cemetery.
Mercury $50 below zero Monday
morning. 10Th. and going down.
H. Harris|of Ramsey, Is still quite low.
We hope TO soon see him out again.
II. koble. the Lansing miller,is turning
out good quality of -four. so he says.
CT Riker has returned from Bis
marck. He IS again located in Lansing.
1T is reported that Mrs. 81. NJ. Foote
is soon to make her residence in Austin.
Fay Lyons is reported to be improv-
ing. Hope we may see him around soon.
Weather too cold for aIy but frosty
items. Tuesday morning, Feb. 10. 80
below zero.
The oyster supper given by the ladies
Of Lansing to assist in getting funds for
\ cemetery fence, was success. Net
gain about $25
w. B. Vaughan is taking in the big
show at New Orleans. He SAYS it is i'm
mense. The weather flne-like June in
Minnesota. Lster-Mr. Vaughan is
home from the big show at New Orleans.
He thinks n. O. more desirable place to
spend the winter than Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
BROWNSDALE.

Oak wood, Sc, at Sleeper & Sons.
I'll 40 buys pair Of horse blankets at
Sleeper & Sons.
"A new stock Of jewelry will soon be
received at Sleeper & Sons.
Frank Swift of Wells, was in the city
the past week. OF course he came to see
his best girl.
Our market is still booming, and
loads of grain come in here from all point
OF the compass.
Mrs. B. F. Bacon is slowly but surely
getting better, and will, we hope, soon
be entirely we'll.
Frank Bacon of D. T., was home on
a visit recently. 1t does a person good
to hear Frank laugh.
-Chas. Wilson, our station agent, is
on his pegs again, and has again taken
his place at the depot.
Monday morning, Feb. 9th, found
our paths and walks blown full of the
much beautiful snow"
"A. L. Sleeper g. Sons have sold out
their stock of jewelry, watches and clocks
to G. E. Stephenson of st. Paul.
The Brownsville hotel conducted by
Mr.. Miner, is doing good business, and
is a good place for accommodations
Miss Matte lockwood returned to
Owatonna the Sd inst, after pleasant
visit here of two weeks with her cousin,
Mrs. Charlie Sleeper.
Martin B. Johnson is now resident
of St. Paul: He has charge Of the Rail-
road and Finance committee rooms of
the House, at IS per day.
Capt. A. J. Hunt tried on the roller
skates the other day, lust for fun"
Well. there was lots OF fun for the audi
ence-but not much for the captain.
Farmers should never take white but
ter to market, even if it Is ''choice" Bet
ter invest in bottle of butter color, and
then you can take Gilt Edge" butter to
town and suit the merchants and public.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18
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An Important Discovery.

The mast important discovery is that
which brings the most good to the great
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

Wars dread alarms carry terror to the
hearts of peace-loving citizens. but it is
safe to say that the number of lives al
nuallY sacrificed to liver complaint. in its
various forms. greatly exceed those of the
most destructive battles. George L..
Martinez. of Nicaraugua, writes: Dur
ing my last visit to New York I was pre-
sented with half dozen bottles of Mish-
iers Herb Bitters. and I cheerfally testify
that less than two bottles cured me Of
liver complaint of1lve years standing &
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

MINNESOTA DAY ut the New Orleans
Exposition was big day. The North
Star State covered herself with glory by
giving free lunch to the multitude. She
fed twenty thousand people with biscuit
made from the celebrated Minneapolis
flour, donated by the Pillsbury Milling
Co., and our state cheese and beautiful
creamery butter. A correspondent says
it was the biggest "sociable'' he ever at