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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-03-25
NOTICE
Owners Of Billiard Tables.

There shall be levied and collected by the sher
if as Tax Collector license tax as follows.
First-From each proprietor or keeper of q
billiard table mot kept for the exclusive use Of
the owner or his family,l for each table, 81 per
quarter; for nine or ten pin bowling alley. sl5
per quarter. License to be granted for a term not
less than three months.
Revised Laws of Idaho, page JOG, Section u.
c. II. FUREY.
ma Sheriff of Alturss County.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-03-25
HALEY POstoiiice.

All Gnrrsl Greek, Atlanta and ROCKY bar arrive
M sna depart by railroad. j 49,. - T. - E.
BLU OFFICE HOURS:
once always open to owners Of lock boxes m
General delivery and oa Ss1 sso opeH IT, noon
j, m. until 1880 p m sundays 'f0A 49, no'i' W
eP.m' order and Registry Department open
Mons' A. m until p. m. NO Money order or
Registry IL. BEWS, Postmaster.
holidays,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
Humane Treatment Of Prisoners.

Here is description of what they do
with their prisoners in the Canton Of
Neuchatel. A good handicraft is taught
to every prisoner, and all who are we'll
behaved are. after period, placed with
a master of the trade which they have
severally learned, under the oversight
of the police and of a member Of
voluntary Icommittee. This committee
is composed of 1.4O0 active members,
out of a total population of lO2, 900. The
prisoner, when professionally liber.
ated," has to present himself
every week, to his patron,
who receives the reports of his master
and of the police. The patron sends an
abstract of these reports to the governor
of the prison, and in this way, if his
conduct remains good, the mans liberty
is gradually restored, and he regains his
position in society-with the additional
advantage of experience of discipline
and knowledge of trade. NJ. de La
veleye, in describing this system, says
that Swiss canton is in some things a
century in advance of the rest of the
WORLDLY Y Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
SAVED HIS HOME.
How an Old Man Retained Possession q
His Residence Property.

How an Old Man Retained Possession Of
His Residence Property.
David Van Dyke, of Mason, O.. sew
enty years old. owns a house and lot.
and that's all; and owes q large debt
contracted by going security for a
friend. As long as Mrs. Van Dyke
lived the house and lot could not be at
tached for debt, under the Homestead
Exemption law. But Mrs. Van Dyke
died short time ago, and suit was at
once brought against the widower and
the sheriff advertised the property for
sale. Under the law Van Dyke could
not now claim homestead, as his wife
died, and he had no minor children
or unmarried daughter living with him.
The only way of escape was to marry
again, he thought, and SO he went to
Cincinnati and called ON several wo-
men before he found one to suit him.
At last he hit on Miss May Jones, who
was willing, and they were married.
That was but few days before the day
fixed for the sale, and the proceedings
in execution were stopped at once. The
case was then argued in the common
pleas court. and the judge has just de-
cided that it was not necessary that
Van Dyke should have been married
man at the time of the levy on the prop
erty. but that it was sufficient to entitle
him to have the homestead exemption
by becoming the head of family any
time before the actual sale.--N Y.
Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
OUTRIGHT ITEMS.

The new South il pronounced BY
from the old in almost every respect
Chicago Herald.
-Four women, each claiming to b
the wife of Elijah Fox, q distinguished
lawyer Of Philadelphia, were present at
his funeral few days ago.
~. H. Adams. a blacksmith ut
Chico. CAL, committed suicide few
days ago because his wife refused to let
him renew a drunken fight In which no
had been engaged.
spanish professional beggars have
an expert who teaches them how to en-
large the tonsils of their throats till it
amounts to defOrmity. There are also
dealers in defOrmed children in Lisbon
who rent the babies out at SO much per
diem.
"A lady suggests that children in the
country form societies for the preserva-
ton of birds. 1t is suggested that they
circulate papers with this heading:
1--WE will not kill or injure our native
birds or rob their nests. Albany
Journal.
"A rural editor gives warning that
IF the forests of this country are not
renewed the time will soon come when
editors will be forced to take cash, in
stead of wood, in payment for subscrip-
TONS"
"A Baptist Missionary in China
writes home that what an American
family throws away in q year would
keep q dozen Chinese families; and
what a Chinese family throws away in
the same time would not feed mouse.
N. y. Sun.
In 1870 the American flag floated
over 597 sea-going merchant steamers,
having tonnage of SIS, 1872 tons. while
in 1885 the number of such vessels had
fallen to 255. and the tonnage had in
creased to only 545, 1877 tons.
Isaac Downs, of Southampton,
Conn.,. got tired of living and decided
to die. So he put Grape on the door.
and, going to his room. cut his throat.
His son happened along just then. saw
the Grape, rushed in. and, with the aid
of physician, saved his fathers life.
"A cat of Cuthbert, Ga, has learned
to open the window shutters from the
outside of her owners house by reach
ing through the Stats with her paw and
lifting the hook. She thus secured en-
trance to room number of times be-
fore her ingenuity was discovered.
"A Cincinnati gentleman was walk
ing along the street the other day with
young lady hanging on each arm when
thief stepped up and relieved him of
his watch. The young man saw the
deed and strove to catch the thief, but
the alarm of the girls for his personal
safety was so great that they chung to
his arms and implored him to desist, as
the rObber would kill him. Of course
he had to stop and argue the case with
the ladies, and in the meantime the
thief escaped.-Cincinnati Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

"A Mississippi paper relates the fol-
lowing: A remarkable incident of a
war time wound occurred the other day
on the person of W. c. Carroll, an ex-
Confederate soldier. He has been suf-
fering from a wound received at the
battle of Chickamauga twenty-three
years and seven months ago. On last
Saturday the fourth piece Of bone came
out of the wound, which has been open
during the entire time. The sufferer
has been deprived of the use Of his
right side since its infection, but has
now received the full use of his body.
The piece of bone which last came from
the orifice was one inch in length and q
half inch in width.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
ANCIENT GLUTTONS.
The Extravaganza of the Roman Emperors
and Their Nobility.

The Extravaganza of the Roman Emperors
and Their Nobility.
The history of the Caesars, with some
exceptions, is the narrative of contin-
ual orgie. Take the notorious group at
random-Commodus, Caligula. Tibe-
RUS. Verus, Vitelus, Nero, Heliogaba-
lus. Domitian. These men spent their
lives in a round Ut monstrOus debauch-
cries. The day and night, we are as
sured, were not long enough for their
revels. Verus, the first to increase the
number of guests from nine to twelve,
prolonged his supper throughout the
night. Nero sat at table from midday
to midnight Tiberius spent two days
and night at the festive board. They
had huge appetites-not only the gigan-
tic Macmillan, who devoured forty
pounds of flesh meat and drank five
gallons of wine at a meal, but finical
handles like Commodus, who ate
even in the bath; Vitellius,
who ceased eating only when he
slept: DOmitian, who late out of his
hand" to stay his stomach in the inter-
walls of regular repasts. Heliogabalus
was perhaps the most elaborate. Vitel-
Illus the most extravagant, in his daily
fare. The latter squandered in seven
months f7,0O0, 900, chiefly on his table.
The total staggers belief, but let us ex-
anime the figures on the other side.
The Roman empire is reported to have
paid Eos or so for a mullet; a brace of
pigeons cost FL 12s. At an entertain
ment given to Vitellius by his brother
two thousand of the rarest fish and
seven thousand of the rarest birds were
served up. One individual spent the
sum of $4,000 on a single dish made of
the tongues of the choicest singing
birds. The Roman bon rirant, sup
ing on the brains of peacocks and
pheasants, the tongues of nightingales
and the rOes of the most delicate fishes,
swallowed thousands of pounds at
meal; and we need only multiply the
individual expense by the number
OF the guests to form
notion of the cost of high
class dinner in the days of the Caesars.
A supper in the Apollo meant one or
two thousand pounds thrown to the
PulNCNOlS. but TIT WcTc
certainly the most reckless in the prof
ligacies of the table. Seneca and Taci-
tus are among the authorities who tell
us that HeliOgabalus spent 100000 ON
one supper; that Nero, master of s'the
House of Cold" ate dish which cost
over ESQ, 900, and drank bumper still
more precious. 1t is asserted further
that the Emperor Verus treated twelve
friends to feast which cost f46, 600,
and Seneca is responsible for the state
ment that Caligula spent fSO,O0O on a
supper. The magnificence of the En-
percrs was initiated, if not equaled. by
citizens like the Apicii; like Esop. the
actor, and his son Clonius; Ike vedius
Polio, who fattened his lampreys on
the flesh of murdered slaves.-Nine-
tee'sth Century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
w. W. Wilson and William Lar

w. W. Wilson and William LAM
bert, of Cedar Greek. S. c.. agreed to
meet at certain place and go turkey
hunting the next morning. About day
light Lambert set out for the place, and
as he neared it he heard turkey COB
Cling. and crept up to shoot it. Soon
he thought he saw it, and fired. After
he shot, his friend Wilson rose from the
ground and staggered toward him, say
ing: ''YOu have killed me! Take care
of my wife and children" and then he
fell and died. He had heard the turkey,
and, like Lambert, was creeping to get
shot at it when he himself was shot in
the neck.-N. Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

DRY earts or muck in the stable will
save manure, prevent disease and keep
the milk from being tainted.-TSoy
Times.
If your eyes are inclined to be weak
and infiamcd. battle often with salt
water. and at night rub the lids with
little fresh lard Western Rurul.
For ingrowing nails, heat little
tallow very hot in q spoon, and pour on
the sore place; there will be but little
pain if the tallOw is perfectly heated. II
very bad it may be necessary to repeat.
-Western HoUman.
"A wash for the complexion is made
by mixing well one ounce sweet almond
oil. one ounce glycerinc, and juice Of
three lemons. Apply at night, and wash
of in the morning with very warm
water.-BostOn Globe.
"A good polish for tortoise shell is
made of rouge powder, which rubbed
on with soft rag and rubbed thor
oughly, will serve to give an excellent
polish. The shell should be rubbed
with the hand afterward.-TheH House
hold.
"A good potato. when cut, will show
a light cream color, and white froth
will be the result produced by rubbing
the cut surfaces together. Reject that
variety where drops of water appear.
Another test is to put potatoes into a
solution of salt; the good will sink. the
poor float-N E. Fdrher.
"A Quick Way to Pickle Eggs: Boil
one-half hour. cut them in halves length
wise, lay them in deep dish while hot,
and pour strong vinegar over them.
You can put salt and pepper on them,
or stick them with whole cloves if you
like. They are much nicer fresh than
after they have been kept several days.
Toledo Blade.
Kerosene oil, spilled upon the car
pet, will often entirely disappear if the
room is kept free from dust. If the
spot still remains, thick coating of
powdered French chalk put over the
spot and occasionally heated by laying
a piece of brown paper upon it, and
passing hot iron over it, will generally
remove the Oil.-GoOd Health.
The crop of apples was so large in
many of the Eastern States last year
that farmers fed them to their horses.
The animals acquired taste for them
and ate them literally. This spring
when they sought to dispose of their
horses in city markets they were con-
demned by persons who considered
themselves experts because their teeth
were black and presumed to be I'M
sound.-Atbany Journal.
In Canada, where fine crops of
peas are grown, the seed is treated with
plaster in the following way: Half
bushel of plaster is put in a washtub
with a bushel of peas. Just enough
water to cover the peas and plaster is
added, and the mixture stirred with
stick. The peas. thus coated with
plaster. are sowed before the plaster
has a chance to dry. The land ought
to be in good condition.
Recipe for Custard: Boil the rind
of one orange until it is tender; pound
it fine in mortar and add to it one ia
blespoonful of brandy, the juice of two
oranges. half a pound of sugar, the
yolks of four eggs and the whites of
three, beat well for ten minutes and
then add one pint of milk. Set the mix
trlrs on the fire and stir in one direction
until it is set. Turn into custard cups
or glass dishes and serve cold.-Phila-
delphia Call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
In the Natural Order.

School-teacher-What! boy of your
age doesn't know the parts of speech?
Boy-No'm.
School-teacher- Haven't you ever
heard of a noun?
Boy-Oh, yes'm.
School-teacher-W Well, what comes
next?
Boy-Don't know.
School-teacher-A pronoun. Now
please remember that. Then there's
the verb. Now what follows thats
BOy-A proverb.-Tid-Bits.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

The unusual severity of the past
winter gave Englishmen an opportunity
of indulging in many sports common to
colder countries, but rarely enjoyed
there. Skating has been general, and
during the week that followed the new
year many toboggans and sleighs were
seen in and about the vicinity of Lon
don; but all these amusements were
eclipsed by a man who built an ice
yacht and was able to sail it for two
weeks in January on the frozen surface
of the Reading reservoir, to the delight
of the whole neighborhoOd.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
THE LETTER "R."

1t Divides the United States in Thr.,e Dis
tinct and well-Defined Sectton,.
The use or misuse of the letter '.h' in
England determines mans social po-
sition. He may drive in a carriage
with outriders in livery, and his wife
rustic in satin and glitter with jewels,
yet if they say "orse" for horse and
''heye" for eye, their accommodation
from so-called polite society may be
taken for granted. OF course no one
will deny that many excellent English
men and women have led useful lives.
died and have gone to Heaven. who
never once put the oh where 1t prop
erly belonged, and were in every way
superior to those who could pronounce
it as Hamlet enjoins, "trippingly on the
tongue"
In the United States it is s'r'' that un-
mistakably proves a mans origin. if
not his social standing and his moral
character. In New England and the
Middle States the natives have a pc
culiar way of dislocating the potent
liquid. They detach it from words
like ''near" aid dear" making them
'nea" and ''dea," and tack it on to
others like JIdea and Isaiah and EN-
ma, making them, respectively, "Ju.
DEAR" '.Isaiaher'' and "Emmer."
This, it has been argued, is fault
peculiar only to the uneducated classes
But unprejudiced and truthful OBJ
servers declare that they have heard it
from persons of unquestionable culture,
from lecturers. authors and clergymen,
even in the inmost sanctuaries Of Bos-
ton itself. In the West the Eastern
tourist is impressed by the manner in
which the r" is rolled. 1t seems the
most prominent letter in the Western
alphabet; while in the South it is heard
very rarely. The people, however, do
not initiate their Eastern fellow-coun-
trymen by adjusting the balance, and
making the letter suffix where it is
wholly superfluous. And their soft,
musical tones make the fault rather
pleasing to ears accustomed to catarrhal
gutterals and high nasal tones sharpen
ed by east winds. The side-show man.
the vender of patent medicines who
varies the monotony of selling his nos
trums by strummidg upon battered
guitar, or saving an asthmatic fiddle;
the leading man of the travelling .theat-
rical company. the ringmaster of the
perennial circus. the negro minstrel-all
these drop the final ''r'' as an afiecta-
ton of extreme gentility. We can
never hope to be a really united people
until representatives from all sections
of the country meet in convention and
agree upon a National pronunciation
of the letter '.r. "-InteriOr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

AT a recent performance in San
Bernardino, Cal, such a noise was
made by large portion of the audience
eating peanuts that the voices of the
actors could not be heard, and the star
was finally obliged to come before the
curtain and request a cessation of the
gustatory proceedings in order to allow
the play to proceed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
In the Line Of His Business.

'.Mr. Porter, you delivered my mes
sage?"
Yes"
''With what result?'
He knocked me down for my impu-
dence."
land what did you do?"
81 put up with it. sir. 1t was N the
line of his profession, you know"
why, he's no slugger?"
mo. He's an auctioneer. "-Phila-
defphia Call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

"A society of bachelors has been Or
gained in New York, and each men,
Der is to receive five hundred dollars on
his wedding day. 1t is for the purpose
Of encouraging marriage.-M Y Mad,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

e-Auy person who takes the paper req
alarly from the post-offfce, whether directed
to his name or wLeiter he IA n subscriber or
not, is responsible Tor the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing 10
take newspapers from the post-ofhce, or re
moving and leaving them uncalled for, 10
Drima facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

The silk factories of Philadelphia
employ about eight Thousand people,
and the business is said to Le growing
rapidly.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-16
"Honorable Mention"

For the Enquirer.
One loses faith in humanity in read
ing the popular daily papers and regains
it in looking at the bright characters
which the very darkness of the hour
brings into view. Until some great
event occurs, which shakes society to Its
center, we do not dream how mean,
crazy and ignorant people can be, or
how unselfsh, brave and devoted others
will prove themselves.
We have found among the so-called
"better classes" savaees who clamor for
tortures, dr.ed-beef cutters, etc.; men
who make. living trade for money
greedy tyrants who would eagerly, hang
innocent men to further their own in
terests, and thousands of dupes and toolE
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-16

A few more years of efforts to pick up
quicksilver with the fingers. A few
more years of endeavor to control mo-
nopoly by legal enactments and constl-
tutionaI guarantees, a few more years OF
judicial trifing and legal rascalIty, and
then will come the precipice of Revolu-
ton, mavhap violent, we hope peaceful,
and the hanging of the monopolists by
ropes of their own twisting. Then land
will be owned only by those who use it.
Then the eagle aud thirteen starr will
rest upon railroad and steamboat. Then
hoyel and palace will vanish. and happ y
homes, Industrious people, equality, fra
ternity and justice will rule. The times
are ripening. The storm clouds gather.
Men can almost hear the cyclone roar
over the hills of the future toward which
time hurries US. The rope ls being
played out to the end. Monopoly will
| hang itself yet.-Oregon Vidette.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-09
PERSONAL.

LAUNT THOMSON has finished an equestrian
statue OF Gen. Burnside, which is to be set up
iii Providence.
MARCUS A. WOLFF, OF st. Louis will leave
for England shortly TO put purse of $4,000 in
Mr.. Parnell's hands.
SENATOR VEST is jealous of the Presidents
skill rs an angler and is anxious for ''fishing
bout with the man of many vetOeS.
IT Is remarked that among the older Sena-
tors MIR. Morrill, Is conspicuous for never haV-
ing had a Presidential bee in his bonnet"
WILLIAM PAGE. of Newburyport, Mass,
sends out little periodical known as The
Cara, written in his own small but legible
hand.
THE daughters of the Prince OF Wales think
nothing OF tricycling hfty miles day. ami
justly smile at the American girl who faints
after haif-mlle walk.
SINCE OSCAR wTLDE's marriage his dress
has steadi become less striking, while his
VIE has taken to wearing robes OF an out
landlsh, II not ridiculous, kind.
MILE. BRAvAY, who Is presently to wed a
government clerk at Paris. ia a daughter of
that notorious Francois Bravay, who died in
penury after squanderInR in five years for
tune u! more than $4,000, 600.
NO foundation exists r the rumor Of Queen
NictOria's intention Of pur hasing Stoke Park
for Sl.2500'0. She DIT 20 out to look at it
when it was first advertised for sale and
recommended it to the eX-Empress Eugene
rs a desirable bargain
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT's
Little Lord Fauntleroy," Of whom the ST.
Nicholas readers all know. 10 IN a sense photo
graphic, the rea boy being Herbert Hodgson,
q son OF Mrs. Burnetrs brother. This brother,
q Jewelcr, lives in Norfolk.
ANNE PrxLEY's only son, a bright boy OF
10, died after brief illness last Saturday Of
pneumonia. In consequence, it i said. the
lady VIII retire from the stage as her desire
TO educate the boy was her only reason for
remaining ~ long rs she did. Her means are
adequate for her own needs.
PIERRE L0RILLARD. whose purse is as long
a. giratle's neck, has spent $500. 900 so far on
Tuxedo PARK and he intend to lay out $500 900
more. The Tuxedo Club, iOr the ducal delec-
tattoo of which the park Is being put in order
has 2G0 members. Mr.. loril ara lately offered
the BOYS living near he park 81 a head for
every Copperhead snake killed there.
Mr.. PARNELL now wears his brown beard
full bushy and curling ButtOned from the
waist to the brown beard ia an uncommonly
long black frock coat The faintest rim Of
linen II visible q DOyc he collar OF his coat. lie
Atoups & little, and the stoop enlargcs ones
view OF that anterior portion of the skull which
the raya-es Of time have left unprotected by
HAIR.
PRINCE BISMARCK put in word for hi mself
when the boys Of the Ratzeburg Gymnasium
recently visited him at his Lauenberg estate.
become a Chancellor of the Empire. But If
you mould some dav be elected deputies to
the Reichstag try not to worry the Chaucel-
Tor then in power too much, for. let me tell
you, IL Is always easier IN criticise than 10
govern"