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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.

to Washington on the I'd from Hominy
Hill, Ark. His general health was said to
have been improved.
ACTING SECTERARY THOMPSON has tele-
graphed the provisions Of the Chinese Ex-
clusion act to collectors of customs, pro-
mitigating the law and instructiug them
to see to its strict enforcement.
Mrs. FOLSOM, the mother-in-law of the
President, is hack in Washington from a
visit to Mrs. Lamont in Maine.
SENATOR SHERMAN, in a recent letter to
Erastus Wiman, advocated a political
union with Canada. He did not think the
present time appropriate for commercial
unIon.
THE Washington monument is ready for
the pnblic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12
-"WorId Won advise mo IN tn

-"Wouid you advise me to take the
lecture PLATFORM" asked an ambitious
youth OF Major Pond, the well-known
lecture manager, after boring him
half an hour with his conversation on
how to please the public. Il would"
replied the Major. II would advise
you to take the platform way out into
the depths of the forest, far removed
from the habitations of man, and
there, amid those dim, unpeopled soli-
tudes, speak your little piece" He
left at once.-1eras Siftings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12


1t was an evil day for China when her
tea merchants began to tamper with the
quality of the commodity which has long
formed her principal article of export to
the Western world. The progressive de-
terioration in Chinese teas has encouraged
the production of that article elsewhere to
such an extent that India and Ceylon have
every year been growing more formidable
rivals of the Celestials; and if the con-
sumption of Assam and Ceylonese teas
goes on increasing in future as it has done
In late years the tea trade OF China will
ere long be only of secondary Importance,
so far as foreign tea drinkers are con.
cerned. In addition to the East Indies, a
new rival has appeared in the colony of
Natal, in South Africa. 1t is only six or
seven years ago that an English settler
first crop, produced in 1881, amounted to
only 500 pounds weight. Last year the
production had SO increased that Natal
sent about 100, 600 pounds weight of tea to
market. The new industry is. in fact,
proving profitable that it is fast spread
ing in the colony, and ere long we may
expect to find Natal teas competing with
those of India, Ceylon and China in the
London market. The tea trade of China
Is, however, far from being yet irretrieva-
bly, ruined; but unless the native authori-
ties enforce with rigor the recent ordi-
nances against adulteration. the exporta-
ton of Chinese leaf to the Anglo-Saxon
nations will be inevitably doomed.-Loa-
don Standard.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12
Little men are invariably goo

Little men are invariably good
story tellers. They are hearty laugh
ers, they are quick to see the humor-
Gus side of any question, and they
relish a joke, even if it is at their
own expense. They make the firmest
friends. and adhere to those whom they
like through thick and thin. They
are seldom quarrelsome and never con-
ceited. They are often sensitive, but
quickwitted people generally are. AL
together. they are the best folks in the
world to get along with.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12

| EDWARD MARTIN, editor or the Times
Union, of Jacksonville, Fla, died on the
9TH. New cases for the day, SO; deaths, 8.
Total cases to date, 3,15l; deaths, 295.
The dearness Of money checked business
on the London Stock Exchange during the
week ended October 8, and a further rise
in the bank rate of discount was feared.
The Paris Bourse was depressed. The
German bourses were dull and weak.
| Four hundred kegs of powder and $500
pounds of dynamite in a magazine near
Roanoke, Va, exploded the other day.
No one was hurt, but considerable damage
was done.
JUDGE THURMAN visited President Cleve-
land on the 9th. His presence in Wash
ington was for the purpose of arguing the
telephone cases.
The cruiser Baltimore was launched sue
tcessfully at Philadelphia on the 9th. Mrs.
Theodore Wilson, wife of the chief of the
bureau of construction, christened the
vessel.
SENATOR BECK returned to Washington
on the 9th. His health is considerably i'm
proved, but he will not resume Senatorial
duties for the present.
JUDGE BREWER has appointed Henry C..
Cross, Of Emporia, Kan, and George A.
Eddy, of Leavenworth, Kan, receivers for
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway.
The bond has been placed at 500, 200. The
real control of the road will be entirely
under Judge Brewer.
NATIVES have informed the British
agents at Zanzibar that the quarrel with
the Germans is due to needless interfer-
ence with native customs and that the
hostility shown is entirely personal and
is directed against the German East Africa
Company, the German Government being
held in the highest respect.
The employees of the Yerkes street car
system on the North Side, Chicago, struck
on the 9th. The strikers were peaceable
the first day of the strike, but a row the
next day followed an attempt of Police
Captain Shack to introduce .'scabs" into
the yards in the guise of special policemen.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October 6 showed an average in
crease of 1873 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New York
the increase was 200. The increase re-
ported was largely due to wheat specula-
tons.
In the American section of the Inter
national Exhibition at Brussels there have
been awarded fifteen diplomas d'honneur,
twenty-six gold medals, six silver medals
and three bronze medals of progress.
Prizes have been awarded to MaeCoy of
Brooklyn for pneumatic tools and the In
durated Fibre Company of Mechaniesville
for paper pipes.
The disagreement between members of
the Massachusetts, State Board of Lunacy
and Charity and F. Sanborn, inspector of
charities of the board, regarding the care
and treatment of insane poor, has Gull
minated in the boards removal of Sam
born.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12

TIE monument so General Pickett was
unvailed at kiunmond, Va, on the 9th.
THERL were 80 new cases Of yellow fever
aud six deaths at Jacksonville ON De 9th.
The weather was warm but the cases were
generally mild
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12

BERNIE, Oct. Sowing to heavy rains,
foods have occurred throughout Switzer-
land and a number of railways have been
damaged to such an extent as to cause in.
sorruptions in traffic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12

The war times of long and forced
marches were the times that tried
mems soles.-M O. Picayuas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12
SEVEN BURNED To DEATH.
A GuanO Blaze,

Boston, Oct. 6.-Dole's guano works on
Spectacle Island, Boston harbor, have
been burning since early this morning.
The police and fire boats from Boston have
gone to the island.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
THE METROPOLIS OF ICELAND.
A Little Trading City in the PARKWAY
Northern Island.

William H. Carpeateri in the October Atidnttc
Reykjavik. poor little metropolis of 1900
inhabitants, has, nevertheless, its sights
and sounds. Its houses, with but few ex-
ceptions of wood, consist usually of a single
story, but in isolated instances rise to the
dignity of two. Through the town runs
wide and tolerably straight street, on which
live several of the dignitaries of the island
the bishop, the governor, the chief justice
and other members of the government.
Upon one side, surrounded by wooden
palingS, is the public square, in the center
or which stands a bronze statue of Thor
wandsen, presented by the Danish govern
ment to the native country of the sculptor.
At the farther end is the little cathedral,
which contains marble font by the artist
himself. Around the different sides of the
square are grouped the new par lament
house, the postotfice and school for girls,
which draws its pupils from all parts Of the
country. One Of the most imposing build
ings of the capital is the Jail, and two of
the most awe-inspiring of her citizens are
the policemen, who in turn patrol the streets
in felt helmets and uniform.
1t was not discovered, however, that they
ever arrested anybody, because nobody
ever so far forgot himself as to warrant
arrest. The Jail, consequently, is always
empty, fact that can but be imDerfecJly
understood when one sees its manifest
superiority to all other dwellings. One of
the policemen exercises, in addition to his
function of guardian of the public veal,
that of librarian of the Icelandic Literary
Society, which was established as long ago
as 1916 and has published many works. He
is also an author, and has written at least
one valuable book.
The streets of Reykjavik are unpaved,
but at certain corners, wide apart, stand
lamp posts, whereon burn kerosene lamps
to light the belated citizen to his door One
of the most characteristic of street sights is
the long lines of ponies that almost contin-
ually come and go, bringing loads of dried
fish and carrying back the necessaries of life,
and almost all of life's necessary demands in
Iceland must be supplied from without.
Even the wood with which the houses are
framed comes from Norway, and must be
taken into the interior on the backs of
horses. A frequent sight is procession of
ponies, each with board on either side,
fastened at one end to the pack saddle,
while the other end is left to trail and bump
along the uneven road.
On pleasant mornings another kind OF
procession is often seen. 1t is composed of
women and girls, each with a wooden tub,
and all going to the warm
springs to do the household
washing. The water can be had at all
temperatures, from boiling hot, where it
bubbles UP out of the earth, to tepid, farther
down the little stream, formed from the
overflow. Dipping up tubful of hot water,
the washerwoman puts her washing to soak,
and then selects a convenient place upon
the bank near the waters edge, where she
kneels and rubs and wrings piece by piece.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
Iiharatad From Their Fetters

BY the helpful. genial action Of that most bene-
ficent of aperlents Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
the bowels soon throw off the burden that para
lyzed and weakened them, and resume their
normal freedom of action. The action OF the
Ritters. unlike that of average purgatives, In
wolves no gripping or drenchinR. II IL did 10
would. like them, be valueless for ordinary use.
There Is rothing ungentle or unnatural attend
me bowels its action 4 most benign, promoting
a healthful bilious secretion, and directing out
Of the wrong and into the right channel. Con-
Jointly with costiveness other bilious symptoms
disappear when il is systematically used. and
the stomach is strengthened as well as regulated
bv II Malaria complaints, rheumatism. de-
bllity. nervousness and kidney troubles are com
plefely relieved by it, sleep and appetite are
Invariably promoted BY IL.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
ETIQUETTE OF DRINKING.
Rules Which Should Guide You When
You Take Smile.
Ero,n the Neiu York Sun

From the NelO York Sun.
There are customs enough among drink
ers, but the authors of Ladies and Gents
Etiquette" and kindred works seem to have
overlooked them. For instance, it is pretty
well settled that if man invites three OF
his friends into a saloon he should pay for
the drinks. That is simple enough, aDd
the book on the etiquette of the
Bar" might start out with this
and few other well established
maxims as fundamentals. But who should
pay for the second round of drinks, who for
the third, who for the fourth and who for
the cigarsl These are embarrassing queS-
tions. There is often pause after the first
man has set up the drinks, and each man
waits for another man to suggest anoth=r
round. If a book of etiquette were to decide
this, what would be easier than for each
man TO look it up in the index and on find
ing out explain to the delinquent his duty
On the other hand, there is often desire on
the part of several gentlemen to order
another round Here again a book of
etiquette that could be easily carried around
would come in handy to settle the order of
precedence.
Such book should rebuke the habit of
some men of ordering brandy and soda on
another mans treat and beer on their own.
This is discourteous. 1t also costs the other
man money. 1t has been noticed that in a
party of four or five one man generally
evades paying in his turn. He has to go, or
somethinfi happens to prevent his standing
his round A book is needed that could be
taken out and instructions be thereupon
read aloud from it for the edification of the
man who must go.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
Two Aged Alabama Women.
From the Birmingham Age.


Within twenty miles Of this city there re-
side two old ladies, who are sisters and now
very old, who have never been in Birming-
ham. The elder of the two, Mrs. James
Woods, is 102 years old. She resides in
Beat AZ, about twenty miles from the city.
She Is a widow, her husband having died
nearly twenty years ago. She lives in a
little log hut with one Of her great-grand-
sons. Mrs Rebecca Graham, her sister, re-
sides about two miles from Mrs. Woods.
She Is 90 years Of age, and is also widow.
1t is a remarkable fact that neither of
these women has ever been out of the
county in her life. Neither of them has
ever been to this or any other city. Mrs.
Graham has not been away from her own
plantation in fifty years. Neither of the
women has ever seen a railroad, a telegraph
wire, an electric light, or any OF the
modern inventions. Mrs. Woods has an ex-
ceIlent memory. She says that she can re-
member when George Washington died,
Dec. Ia. 1893. She was then only ID years
old. When Washington was inaugurated
as President for his first term, Mrs. Wood
was only years OF age. She amuses her
great-grandchildren at times by telling
them about her adventures in the pioneer
DAYS with Indians, and her many narrow
escapes during the war Of 1872 She knows
the name of every Indian chief who ever
fought in this state, and was herself per-
sonally acquainted with several OF them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
A JERSEY CITY STREET SINKING.
Built Originally on Piles Through a
Marsh, 1t is Disappearing.
From the New York Star.

From the NetU York star.
Montgomery street, one of the principal
thoroughfares of Jersey City, is apparently
slowly disappearing in the marshy meadows
which it crosses for a long distance. The
street at this point was originally put on
piles, but the work was poorly done, and
the street sank in the soft soil of
the meadows, taking the sewer along,
good many years ago. The horse
car companies whose lines cross here
preserved the geographical entity of the
road by filling in from time to time. A box
again was built by the board of works to
save the sewer, and for time it answered,
but now leaks badly, and has caused the
undermining Of the retaining wall on the
bog side of the street. That was patched,
but again trouble came when the rain fell,
and the meadows were flooded with sewage,
which diffused an odor anything but agree
able or healthy.
Complaint has been made by a large
manufacturer in the vicinity, and the mat
ter has been referred back and forth from
one board to another, until he now threat
ems to take it to the grand jury.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
Queer Articles of Food.
From, the Gemtleman's Magazine,


In South America the inhabitants eat
everything, even serpents and lizards. Hum
buldt has there seen even children drag
enormous centipedes out of their holes and
crunch them up. Puppies are choice food
on the Missouri and Mississippi, and at Es-
meraldi the tid-bit is roasted monkey. The
flesh of the larger animals is appreciated
variously; in Arabia the horse, in India the
elephant, and in Egypt the camel The
Chinese taste is for cats, dogs, rats and SER
penis, while bears paws aud birds nests
are dainties. But the Pariahs Of Hindostan
have still stronger stomachs, for they con-
tend with the dogs, vultures and
kites for putrid carrion. The nearest APP
proach to this remarkable taste is afforded
by the inhabitants Of Cochin, China, who
prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones. AT Terra
Gina guest will be asked whether he pre-
fers land or water eel In the West
Indies a large caterpillar found on the
palm tree is esteemed a luxury, while the
edible nests of Java swallows are so rich a
dainty that the ingredients of dish will
cost as much as Els. A curious taste pre-
walls in many parts of the world for clay.
According to Humboldt it is eaten in all
the countries of the torrid zone, but the
practice is also observed In the north, as
hundreds of carloads of earth containing
infusoria are said TO be annually consumed
by the country people in the most remote
parts of Sweden, and in Finland a kind of
earth is occasionally mixed with bread This
latter custom is more civilized than that
observed by the woman on the Magdalena
river, who, while shaping earthen vessels
ON the potter's wheel, put large Jumps of
clay in their mouths. In the same place it
is often necessary to confine the children to
prevent their running out TO eat earth inn
mediately after fall of rain. The Otomac
tribe of earth-eating Indians knead the
earth-a true potter's clay-into balls of
Eve or six inches in diameter, which they
roast by a weak fire until the outside Is
hard. They remoisten them when they re
required as food, and. according to monk
who lived twelve years among them, one
of them would eat from three-quarters of a
pound to pound and a quarter of this pc
culiar food in day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
NOTICE.

The public are hereby notified that Mr. w. A.
Pigman, who had formerly been in our employ,
is not now connected with our business. Since
the fire we have purchased a new stock Of
Drugs, etc, and have engaged the services Of
Mr. r. A. ROWLINSk1 who has been recently
with Osceola Butler, an experienced and skill
full Pharmacist, to take charge of our store.
Our friends and patrons can be satisfied that
our place will be supplied with everything that
is usually found In
A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE,
And that great care and caution will be exer-
cised in our business We have heretofore en-
joyed liberal share of the public patronage,
and trust that our endeavors in the future will
Justify continuance of the same, and any new
favors which may be extended us.
Respectfully, REID & co.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CON-
~ STRUCrION, Court House, etc, Savannah,
Ga October 18th, lb5S.-There will DO offered
for sale at public auction at site OF this build
Ing, at ,. Il. October 20, 1888 certain old
buildings now on said site to the highest bid
dsrs for cash, the successful bidders to remove
old buildings at their expense within thirty
DAYS, deposit check for S25 made payable to
order Of the Treasurer of the United States,
and to pay purchase money before removing
old buildings Further Information can be OBJ
tanned by applying to AUGUSTUS SCHWAABs
superintendent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENT A WORD.

ADVERTISEMENTS, Is Words or
more, in this column inserted for ONE
CENT A WORD. Cash IA Advance, edoA
insertion
Everybody uho has any 'cdnt 70 supply,
anything to buy or seP, any business or
Recommendations to secure; indeed, any trtsA
to gr,atiry, should advertise in this COLUMN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12

At the Harnett House, Savannah, Ga.
you get all the comforts Of the high-priced
hotels, and save from 81 to 90 per day.
Try it and be convinced. Home
,yo,ts.ndT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
Shoe Fly.

A good Fly Fan is household necessity,
and can he procured from Crockery House
of James s. Silva
A large stock Of Water Coolers and other
summer goods.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
0eorgia Illustrated.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper No.
1726 Sept. 29l contains a superb sixteen
page illustrated supplement Of Georgia.
Price 10 cents. For sale at Estilrs News
Depot. No. 2ll< Bull street
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
PROPOSALS. WANTED.

GTATE OF GEORGIA, EXECUTIVE DEPART
- MENT, ATLANTA, GA, Sept, ~, lsSS-Sealed
proposals for the purchase of the old capitol
building, and appurtenances. ON Marietta and
Forsyth streets, Atlanta, Ga. will be receivedup
TO II O'Clock NJ, TUESDAY, October %, 1888,
This building is five stories high above base
meut. Fronts 100 feet on Marietta street and
100 feet and inches on Forsyth. Complete gas
fixtures, vault in treasurer Office, engine and
boiler, tanks, ETC. all TO go with building. Pos
session given as soon as vacated by the state,
which is expected to be in April or May of 1889.
Bids may he made either for all cash. or part
cash, as bidders may prefer. Each bid must be
accompanied by certified check for $1,000,
payable to the governor of Georgia, upon some
bank of good standing, as a guarantee of com
plance with the terms Of the bid, should it be
accepted These bids arc invited, to be reported
to the General Assembly under authority of
section 10 of the act for the construction of the
new capitol. Said proposals to he sealed, ad-
dressed TO the Board of Capitol Commissioners
Atlanta, Ga. and marked proposals for pur
chase Of old capitol, and delivered at the office
Of the board Executive Office not later than noon
of October 3D. 1883. BY order of the Board of
Capitol Commissioners.
W. IL. HARRISON, Secretary
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12

Lewis 1866 whisky, Imported Brandy. choice
Cigars and the favorte brands of Bottled Beer
for sale by J. S. Il. BARBOUR,
New Houston and Barnard streets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
Thursday Oct. 10, at 4 O'clock P. M.

These dwellings were carefully designed with
a view 10 combine comfort and convenience.
The rooms are large, ceilings high, and are Sc
arranged as to secure sunlight and abundant
ventilation.
The houses are neat in appearance, well and
sodly built. They contain large parlor. with
bay window both stories, dining-room,
Kitchen, back piazza, store room, buffers
pantry, with sink and hot and cold water.
On the second floor there are three large bed
rooms, one smaller bedroom, with bath room
having hot and cold water.
There is water closet in the yard, a hydrant
and gas pipes through the house
These have been built as sample houses, and
are complete, affording an opportunity to,
secure a welI.built home In good locality.
The houses VIII be open for inspection on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from u N.
TO p. NJ. and from to 9 p. M
1t IL designed to sell these houses TO persons
desiring homes aud to offer such facilities as
will place IL within the means of q large num-
Der to own their homes.
Terms cash but should any purchaser so de-
sire arrangements can be made to borrow the
greater portion OF the purchase money on three
TO ten years credit.
Stockholders will find in this an opportunity
TO use their stock to excellent advantage.
For further particulars apply to the undess
signed or 10 the auctioneer.
iet NJ. J. SOLOMONs,
Secretary and Treasurer,