The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
CURRENT NEWS,
"A good mechanic gets fou7 doIl1z
q week in Holland.


"A good mechanic gets fou7 doIll1s
week in Holland.
New Orleans is to have Castle Gar
den, which she hopes to make Is faisous
as that in New York.
Cheese rinds are disposed Of By
making them into cement for mendisg
glass and porcelain. -Chsca5o Hyyd.
The best time yet made betweea
New York and Liverpool is six days.
nine hours and fifty mihutes.-N T.
Sun.
"A cenvict in an English prison per
fected the style of lawn tennis racquet
now the most popular among British
players.
Petroleum was known to the dwell
ers on the shores of the Caspian Sea,
and in some parts of the Valley Of the
Euphrates, five hundred years before
the Christian era. Alexander the Great
made use of it in the burning of Baby
Ion.
There are degrees of excellence
even in baked beans. A South End
restaurant recognizes grades in this es-
culent, and advertises. Baked Beans,
ten cents. Choice Baked Beans, fifteen
cents. Boston Saturday Eresing Ga
zette.
There is a peculiar region on the
border of the Colorado desert, about
10 miles east of Los Angeles, CAL,
called Palm City, where ripe fruit is
produced at least four weeks ahead of
any other locality in that section of Cal
ifornia.-Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
Yesterday little girl did not want
to 60 to school because it was '.too aw-
full hot" When asked if she liked win
ter better she said: '.In summer it is
too hot to go to school and in winter it
is too cold. l like the weather just
right. y Wilmington Det3 Nesrs.
"A preliminary British company has
been formed with a capital of SlOO,O 600
to make geological Investigations, en-
gineering plans and estimates for rail-
way tunnel between Great Britain and
Ireland. 1t seems to be assumed that
the cost of the tunnel would be
S30.0OO.0O0.
The birds of Louisiana, papers of
that State say, will soon be exterminated.
The colored people there not only make
birds an article of food, but have begun
to us their eggs for the same purpose.
The eggs of the cartridges. robins,
wrens, mocking birds, and all others
that they can get their hands on, arc
eaten.
The Berlin Aquarium has at last
accomplished the difficult feat of show
ing school of live herring in its salt
water basin. These fish are so delicate
that when caught in their native ele-
ment even moments exposure to the
air will kill them. They had. therefore,
to be caught under water and to be care
fully transported from the seaboard.
Climate never made a breed of fast
horses. The development of racing
stock in California is due to a few
wealthy men who have been willing
to spend their wealth on breeding es-
Establishments. where the best imported
stations and mares are kept, and if the
business should ever be neglected Cali
fornia horses would degenerate and win
no more races.-Sdn francisco Alta.
Browsing animals are proving as
destructive to California forests as fire. is
elsewhere. Herds of sheep and cattle IRE
driven up to the mountains every year
to Craze, and they devour every green
thing from the foothills to the meadows
on the summit of the. ranges. When
the grass fails the young Seeding trees
are eaten of, or the bark peeled SO that
the underground is entirely destroyed.
Chicago Herald.