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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-16
A Beautiful Easter Card,

The Virgin Salt Co., of New Haven
Conn.,, are making a grand offer to intro.
duce their salt Go and ask your grocer for
Virgin Salt and get an elegant Easter Card
In addition we offer an extra indncement a
pair of Doves beautifully Autographed in ten
colors, as natural as life, on a large card
9xl0 inches. Virgin Salt is the cleanest
purest and whitest salt ever seen or used.
A large package costs only l0cts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-16
HOMG
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PATHlC
Notice.
Notice to Teachers.

examination of teachers at lderm ems Room
at r. NJ, Thursday, April ~, and Salur-
day, May 1, 1850.
j. y. WEBSTER,
Augusta, April l, 1886. Supervisor of Schools
aprld&w1m
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
NEW WOOL SUITS.
Pretty and Stylish, Homespun and Double
Diagonal Costumes.

Pretty and Stylish, Homespun and Double
Diagonal Costumes.
Homcspun and double diagonal wool
dresses, either red, brown or blue, of
very dark shades, are completed by a
short military jacket instead of a mantle.
The stylish wool dresses for the street
and church. also for making calls. may
be entirely of the wool stuff. with only
large buttons and brandebOurgs and
Astrakhan fur trimmings, or else they
may be combined with watered silk pre-
cisely as velvets are. Black silks is con.
sidered the correct thing with these
dresses. being used even with brown-a
thing formerly thought inadmissibly.
The black watered silk most Used is
that with waves two or three inches
wide, in preference to the larger de-
signs known as antique, or else tine
striped satin and MORE silk is chosen.
There are also many dresses made with
the silk and wool of the same shade,
but the use of black garniture is the
newer fashion. Eight yards of double
width wool stulls, with two of watered
silk, are enough for the costume. A
wide band of Astrakhan fur is then
added all around the jacket, or else
merely edging it like binding. with a
standing collar of the fur, and frogs Of
heavy braid or cord across the 'front.'
Harper'S Bdzdr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
RELIGIOUS ANY EuUCAllONAI.

Since DR.. McCosh has been Presi-
dent of Princeton over $4,000, 900 has
been given to the college.
of the 672 Yale graduates who died
in the ten years between 1876 and 1885
there were 271 who were past seventy
years of age.
The sabbath year is the name
given by Cornell to the year Of vacation
granted to each professor after seven
years of continuous service.
-'.Bread services" are held at some
places in England, each person attend
ing church brin ging one or more lOaves
to be distributed to the poor and un-
employed.
During the past year. in eleven
States, General Booth. of the Salvation
Army. complains that his meetings
were broken up by pistols; hence his in
tentiOn to make his next campaign
among the colOred people of the South.
-Chicago Herald.
MIR. William Henry Parker, princi-
pal of Philadelphia grammar school,
claims to have coined the word 'tele-
gram" as long ago as 1851. two years
before its use by the Newspapers
Phiiads phia Press.
a-Little Stuart had spent his first day
at school. "What did you learnP" was
his auntie's question. didn't learn
an, thing" "Well. what did you do?"
Didn't do anything. There was a
woman wanting to know how to spell
cat and told her,"
The great question of the sin'ulness
Of raftles is not permitted to rest in
Scotland. The Free Church Presby-
terv of Inverness has decided by large
majority that rafting is not only con-
law of God, land can not be regarded
as harmless or allowable for any object
whatsoever" moreover, '.that the prac-
tice is dishonoring to God. who is irrev-
erently appealed to as disposer of the
lot. contrary to every principle of sound
morality"
The London Christian declares the
position that the gospel will be preached
in the next world to those who do not
hear it i'm this to be "semi-Universal-
ism," and asks the question, "Why can
uOt HleH DOW Ill IcNtItHJ aCvuttSCcuCo
before the silence OF Scripture?" 1t
adds very truly, "Surely these are not
the methods whereby the missions Of
the American Board have gathered
everywhere their numerous converts. ="
Presbyterian.
A number of steamers are running in
the waters of Equatorial Africa on er-
rands of the gospel. The Henry Wright
is in use at Zanzibar and MOmbas;
the Henry Wright aud Illala
are navigating the Nyassa;
the Eleanor is engaged on the Victoria
Nyanza: the Good News has raised
steam on the Tanganyika, and the Peace
has made her first trip on the Congo.
above Stanley Falls. The Charles JAN
sen is under construction for the Nyanza,
and the Henry Venu has been completed
at cost of $50, 900 for voysging on the
Niger. She is intended to replace one
of that name irreparably damaged after
rendering valuable service to the mis-
sionaries. Ckicog0 Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

the cold, do you, little Onesf lvu "now
Paradise Court, PollyP Great God!
how this cough tears my chest! Take
the little ones there and wait for me by
the side of the dead wall. It's nice and
quiet there-no one to disturb us. I'll
soon be with you. Away you 60"
He watched them depart-POlly in
the middle. holding the children each
by the hand. Then he gazed around
and looked up at the stars.
CANCELS of Heaven! he murmured,
''here in these haunt find you your fitting
work! Here is the true wilderness. II
you could change the snow to manna-"
He tottered away, coughing violently,
and smiled in pity for himself, as he saw
the white snow stained by the blood
which dropped from his mouth,
Ten minutes later he stood by the
dead wall in Paradise Court, the child
rem by his side. He had brought with
him some meat pies, highly Favored,
ana cupful of potatoes. smoking hot.
They warmed the children inside and
out. Color came to their cheeks. And,
now that natural forces had fair play,
and could find natural currents, tears
OOzed from their eyes at the thought of
the mother lying dead in the hospital.
'.Do you feel better, littleOnesp'
Ever so much, Mr.. Richard!-Oh,
ever so muchr'
Every well, then. Go away now. I
want to rest. And, Polly, hve are
some shillings and some odd coppcrs.
Don't spend it all at once. Kiss me,
Polly, and! God bless you and guard
you, child! You need his blessing and
his care"
He was alone, standing propped up
by the wall. The forms of the children
faded from his sight; and as he sank slow
ly to the ground he saw the snowllakes
fading and changing. A faint, rosy
hue stole into the air; the sight became
suffused with color.
at is lovely and peaceful sunset"
he murmured as he closed his ey 8.
"Ah, if could but have left my legacy
of love behind me!'
At midnight Polly and the two
orphaned children crept to the dead wall
and knelt by the side of their friend.
whose form was covered with snow.
He's tired out" said Polly. ale
must he dead beat. He's good sort,
amt he? Come away. We won't
wake him."
They crept SLOWLY and softly away;
and all night long The white snow kiss
ed his facc.-B. l.. Farjeon IN IHustra-
ted London Ne,cs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

in 1919 tin was discovered in New
South Wales, but two years later gold
was found, and the baser metal attract
ed no mercantile interest until 1872.
when regular mining operations began.
n the space of fourteen Years not less
than 100000 tons have been exported
and S35,00O.0OO have been real,
lied by the colony. Previous 10 1872
the total tin product of the world scarce
ly exceeded $4,000 tons per annum. but
now Australia alone produces consider
put of New South Wales was only SIG
tons, while in 1884 it was 1888 TONS
Chicago He-aSd.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
A RARE COLLECTION.
The Wonderful Collection of Birds Eggs
Owned by Mr.. Dickinson.

The Wonderful Collection of Birds Eggs
Owned by Mr.. Dickinson.
Mr.. E. w. Dickinson. of Springfield.
Mass. has probably the best private col
lect ion in the country, there being in it
about six hundred eggs of North
American birds. There are the big
swans and eagles eggs, the tiny white
globules in downy nest constructed by
hummin o. birds, besides the odd. cone
shaped affairs laid by the guillemot,
probably so fashioned by Nature that ne
might not roll off the bare rocks where
they are invariably laid. Rare eggs,
like all rarities, come high. the eggs of
the great aux. of which there are but
three in this country. being rated Mt
$3.50. From this the price runs down
to five cents. Common owls eggs are
worth from 81 oS3 each. the gray owls
of the north being worth so. however.
Of hawks eggs those of the duck hawk
bring ?l2 each. and those of the pigeon
hawk are still more valuable. Beside
his remarkable collection of eggs, Mr..
Dickinson has one OF birds which, TN.
like the specimens seen in museums and
private houses mounted on stands. are
cured fiat, the legs and head being
folded respectively upon and under the
body. If the owner should wish q Hat
cured bird mounted. all that would he
necessary would be to remove the cot
ton-wool and arsenic padding and
place the bird erect. Mr. Dickinson $
house thus becomes veritabie den
filed with the rarest spoils of Nature.
Pairs of horns and antlers jut out from
the walls on all sides, and under glass
cases can be found mounted some OF
the choicest of his brds.-Bosion Tran.
sc1.iOf
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
A Remarkable Plant.

There is in Australia plant which,
in its growth so much resembles a sheep
that, in the days OF the early settlem mt,
the pioneers We're often surprised By the
apparition of focks of sheep on the dis
tant hills. The plant is of the order
Composite, and belongs to the genus
Raoulia. 1t grows in dense kidney
shaped mass about eight feet across and
three feet high. The leafy branches
are densely packed together, and the
whole mass of snow-white color. The
flowers are microscopic, and hence there
is never any variation in The appear
ance of the vegetable sheep at any sea-
SOM y INDEPENDENT.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
Selection of Trees.

To reap rewards, the planter must
know just what varieties do best in his
particular locality. Orchardists are
only just beginning to realize the local
nature of very many varieties of apples,
though some kinds succeed more gener-
ally than others. Two year old trees of
some sorts, and three year old of others
are mature enough for orchard planting
nice, straight, free from crotches,
headed low, is my choice. Go to a re-
liable nurseryman with your list already
made out, select your own trees, and
allow little if any substitution nursery
men are too prone to shove Off special
ties on you); see that each tree has
plenty of clean cut roots, not bruised or
split; label carefully. and protect the
roots from the air until healed in or
planted out.-Prairie Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
At EvENTiDE,

Within q room, where roses bloom.
And heliotrope, the winter thro,s
Sheds on the air faint Perfume
Iwait at eventide for you. 4
The pa!ing glories prize Of c. the H ,rs t..
And. calm as sinks the day to rest
MY heart awaits the opening door.
The noisy sparrows i'm the pines,
With folded wing their clamor cease.
A distant bell, a. day declines.
Tolls sweet and slow the hour OF peace.
Naybap. some day-the sudden thought
Fills all my heart with strange alarm
That you, whose coming ever brought
10 eventide its GROWING charm.
Will come no more. As in q dream
wait the opening OF the door.
And try to think how It would seem
10 know that you would come no more.
To sit as now, and hear the moan
or winter wind amOne the pines.
10 hear the far bell g eOmber tome
As YEARLY the day declines.
To see. along the dusky street,
Dim figures glide like shades OF yore.
To hear swift. homeward-gOing feet.
And nOt-not wait the opening door.
All, after all. 'tie not 30 strange,
never thought of II before
The heart at rest dre,sns not OF change.
Or, once il dreams, it rests no more.
That sudden fear. no longer new.
Familiar i'm my breast doth hide
To tinse with rain my thoughts of you
Toledo Blade
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

He who can suppress moments
anger may prevent a day OF sorrow.
OF what kind of fruit do the rapids
of the Nile remind us? Wild currants.
The fortunate circumstances OF our
lives are generally found at last to be
of our own productiOn.-Aibany Jour-
nal.
Appropriate sign for church in need
of musicians: Wanted-singers; in choir
within.-Hot Springs Ne0s.
The young man who spends money
before ne earns it. is always a slave to
him who earns it before he spends it
Chicago Ledger.
Not one person in million knows
either when or how to perform the use
full operation of holding his tongue
N. Y. Herald.
Come to the same end
Letting q boil pursue its course
II like tracing u river to ii source.
Though each may prove quite troublesome,
At last unto head they come
The farmer was telling how we'll
bred his cows were, all full-bloOded Al
derneys, when a neighbor interrupted
him, saving: '.They are not well-bred
at all, but Just as rude as can be, for
one of them chased me out Of the pas
ture lot. Boston Globe.
Pa said little Eddie early the
other morning, 1.-THE storm signal is
up" as it, my SOM" ''Ob, yes. Ma
says she found toothpick in the front
door lock this morning and your shoes
on the top of the bureau. and she says
it's going to be a cold day." Mr.. Nc
Donald went down town without wait
ing for breakfast.-Pittsburgh Gazette.
"A little black boy stood with his
small sister at the edge of water-hly
pond in Florida. "Ephlum." said the
girl, ''what makes SO many cat-tails
grow in dis heah pon'?" ''Wcll, 1
would say!" replied Ephlum, "doan you
know? "Why, dey grows up from
kittens dat people hez drowned in de
pom, of coase! Pears like you VIM
men folks doan know muffin bout agli-
ultsch"-Golden Days.
Mrs. Smith Ito Bridget. the new GRID:
'.Why didn't you ring the rising-bell
this morning, Bridget" Bridget: Il
did. mum. l gave it couple o taps in
the back hall" Mrs. Smith: ''But we
can't hear it from the back hall. Bring
it into the front hall tomorrow, and
ring it loud and long. like this" Gllus-
trating). Bridget: cher face expressive
Of mild surprise); '.But shure, mum,
wouldn't that wake yees all up?s-
Boston Bulletin.
An old lady read a paragraph in
one of the papers the other day describ-
ing how a grindstone burst in saw
mill and killed four men. She happened
to remember that there was a small
grindstone down in her cellar, leaning
against the wall; so she went out and
got an accident insurance policy and
then, summoning a servant, and hold
ing a pie-board in front Of her face, SO
that if the thing exploded her face would
not be injured. had the stone taken into
the road, where twenty-four pals OF
water were thrown over it, and stick
was stuck in the hole bearing placard
marked. Dangerous. She says it is a
mercy the whole house was not blown
70 pieces by the thing before this
| Wood and Iron.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
THE TRUTHFUL coss.ea.
He Proves to a Growing Customer that hi
Sign Il the Embodiment Of Truth.

He Proves to u Growing Customer that his
Sign Is the Embodiment Of Truth.
A man whose stockings were soaking
up the sidewalk at every step, was AZ
tracted lately by sign in shoemak.
er's window: '.Shoes half-soled while
you watt
His shoes had been hungry for half
sOles for some days; but as he had been
travelling steadily fora fortnight, he had
not found time to have the operation
performed.
He went in, took of his shoes. handed
them to the shoemaker, and taking a
paper from his pocket settled himself to
} quiet half hour of enjoyment. He
was astonished to find, upon consultiD.
his watch some time later, that an hour
had passed.
Say! Aren't those shoes ready?" he
asked.
"All in goot time. mein trent"
Half an hour later the customer said:
''See here, are you going to keep me
cooling my heels here all day? Your
SIGN saws, Shoes half-soled while you
wait.
"Dot vas a goot sign"
''It's lying sign"
"No, sir. dot var choost der mosht
conscientious sign you see along py Hous-
ton Street. 1t tells der trut', der
whole trut', and noddiug but der trut', $
help me!''
"Bosh!It says, while you watt and
I've been here an hour and q half"
"Vell! dots all right. don't it? Dot
sign ton'd say holdings but vot |
do. 1t ton'd say how long you got to
wait, oder we're you got to wait. 1t say
'Nle you vait.' unit you can do some
Waiting py your house dot vOs in the city,
oder your summer place dot Hudson
riffer py. oder if you got some papers TO
read in ter daytime. und bring along
NIT you cot for der night, you can shtay
in my shop, und I make my woman get
ready your bed all vile you wait. Der
peen't no flies onto dot sign, NELL
trent. It'd BIS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
Excellent Logic.

A rather shiftless sort Of fellow, who
hangs around the saloons of q Texas
town. was asked:
"Why don't you marry and settle
down?'
"Well. I've got my reasons forit- The
woman I want to marry must have lots
Of money, and be smart, but when 1
find q woman who has money, and who
is willing to marry me. her willingness
to marry me is positive proof to my
mind that she is stupid, and then. of
course, she don't suit me. I want .
smart woman for wife. ''-Tszas SJ1.
inQs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
Our Drincipal ObSeryatOries /:

Our principal observatories all work
at specialties. At Harvard the relative
magnitude of the stars is the chief OBJ
;ect of study; at Princeton. spectro-
scopy; at Allegheny Observatory, the
dark spot of the solar spectrum and the
effect of the invisible heat rays on the
earth; at the National Observatory. po-
sitions and orbits of satellites; at Gin
cinnati, double stars, at Chicago. Ju-
pliers surface, and at Albany and Yale.
perfecting maps of the heayens-M 7.
Svn,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
Mans chief superioritv over WON.

Mans chief superiority over woman
consists in hiding his night key OR salts
factorily excusing its use. She on the
other hand. will 60 through his pockets,
and, in less time than it takes d mule tc
reach out with his hind foot. gather his
loose change and love letters. and make
him believe she is only hunting for rips
and missing buttons. The buttons gen
orally stay missed, and the rips ripped
Boston Bulletin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
the Women,n

Among the women" says q
french writer, sit is regarded as a
well known fact that moonlight is not
only more injurious than sunlight to
the complexion, but that silk and
wooden materials are ,sded more rapid.
~ by the moons rays than by the
brightest sunshine"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

"A machine called the Buffalo home
trainer has been invented, by which
bicyclists can train for races in THEN
own room. It is stationary.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

~ ANY person who tRkes me paper REP,
larly from the post Office. whether directed l.
his name or whether he is q subscriber or not
70 responsible for the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers from the post Office. or re
moving and leaving them uncalled for, ie
prima facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

upturned faces. The f.h, within their
little bodies was so absorbing that. like
Aaron's rod, it swallowed up all minor
| evils. The loss of mother-a good
| mother so far as health and means per-
mitted-the grave which lay open in
| their young lives, their being orphaned.
the desolate future that stretched before
them-all was nothing to them. 1t was
the present which Oppressed them, the
terrible, tearing, hungry present. Great
heavens! Why had these innocent little
creatures been born with appettes3 What
| wrong had they committed that man
] and nature should be so eruel to them?
Ii they could only bite the air. They
opened their mouths and gasped.
..Childrcn;'' said Mr.. Richard, in a
| gentle tone, .'what would You like bet
ter than anything in the world?"
! Wide awake now with all their intel
| lectual forces sharpcned. with hands
imploriugly stretched forth, with eyes
that shone with keen desire, they
| answered, in one voice as it were:
Something to eat!''
''And you shall have it. What are
! you screaming tor. little ones? That's
| tigerish way of expressing joy. Keep
still. will you? Polly. take hold Of
them and don't let them go. You, too,
Polly. you look as if you wouldn't say
no."
81 wouldn't. I'm precious hungry
precious again, Ell? You see.
Polly, my landlady told me when |
| went out this afternoon that I couldn't
get into my room unless paid her the
three weeks rent I owed her. So
went 10 friend and made a bargain
with him. Look here. Ten brigh,
shillings! You don't mind eating out in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-02
The Monroe Mystery.

The Belfast Journal says there is much
speculation in regard to the person who per,
ished in the tree Mr.. Will Page of Belfast
a brother of Foster Page, who has been
missing for three years, is confident the re.
mains are not those of his brother. Foster
Page had lost several teeth, while the skull
of the skeleton found has full and perfect
set of teeth. 1t is also believed that Foster
Page is in the Provinces A young man
named Charles Green, of Monroe, has been
missing two years last fall. He was an &C.
centric fellow, and Travelled about tinkering.
He once made a trip to and from Chicago to
Monroe, tTamping most of the distance. His
mother was widow when Charles left
home, but was to be married in January.
He remarked when he left home that he
would return to the wedding, but he never
came. Charles was known to wear a leather
belt and sheath, and to possess a kit of tools
similar to those found, but his folks were
unable to identify those found in the swamp
two years ago. 1t is rumOred in town that
shortly after Charles left home Chicago pa
pers were received containing the execution
of one Charles Green for shooting police
man, and it was then believed to be Charles
Green of Monroe. 1t is also rumored that
three years ago partially insane man nam
ed Higgins, a. son of widow Higgins, of
Thorndike, left home, since which time moth
ing has been heard from him. AS Widow
Higgins was written in the pocket memoran-
da book found with the remains, this seems
to be strong clue,