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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
First Block Of Tin.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 5.-The first
block of tin produced from an American
tin mine reached Pittsburgh to-day. II
weighs twenty-five pounds and was taken
from tin deposit near Hermosa, s. D.,
by the Glendale Tin Company. 1t has
been pronounced of excellent QUALITY,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14

The town Of Reading, Mass, was TO
ported on fire on the morning Of the It'll.
Much damage was done.
The steamship De Ruyter, from Ant
werp, went ashore at Scituate, Mass.
The crew reached land with considerable
difficulty. The vessel was valued at
$50, 900.
THE Monroe Eckstein Brewing Com
pany, of New York, has assigned. They
were rated at s., Zoo, 600.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
Jim Rfg1s In Jail.

LATHRoP, Mo-, March 5.-Jim Riggs,
charged with the abduction of Miss
Mayberry near here last summer, was
captured east Of town by detachment
OF the Protective Association that was
out scouting for horsethief, supposed
to be in this neighborhood. He was
lodged in Jail at Plattsburg.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
Baby Scald0d.

MARSHALL, Mo-. March "a baby,
aged fourteen months, of James Hell.
Ticker, section boss on the Missouri Pa
cific railroad at Stanhope, crawled into .
tub OF hot water while its mother Wa
washing and was scalded to death.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
Allison Reelected,

Dies MONIES, Iowa, March 5.-William
b. Allison has been reelected by the
General Assembly to the United States
Senate for the term of six years. The
term begins one year from to-day.
There was not dissenting Republican
vote
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Submarine Telenhnninr.

At the Newcastle meeting gave reasons
and experiments which led to the conclu
sion that telephOning between London and
Paris was practical. New and distinct
overground lines of four copper wires are
now being erected by the respective gov
ernments from each capital to the coast,
and new cable, the joint property of the
two governments, will be laid during this
year between the Kent coast and San
Gate to connect these two lines
There will thus be two metallic circuits
between the two capitals. The r, that
is, the product of the capacity (k) and the
resistance (r) of each circuit, upon which
the clearness of the articulation depends,
will be $780, indicating that speech should
be excellent.
A somewhat similar circuit has been es
tablished since October 1889, between
BuenOs Ayres and Montevideo under my
advice. The cables across the La Platte
are each twenty-eight miles long, for there
are two separate single wire cables, and
the total distance between the two cities is
$50 miles. Subscribers who have metallic
circuits in each city have no difficulty
whatever in speaking to each other from
their respective offices, although the k r il
as high as Il, 400
The cable across the channel will be a
four wire cable.-W. H. Preece in Elec
trical Engineer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Danger in Glasses.

By wearing too strong near sighted
glasses continuously the near sightedness
may be very greatly increased and dis
eased condition of the interior of the eye
caused, which may lead to very great
loss of sight and even total blindness.
Then, in other cases, wearing an eye
glass may do very much harm, because
we frequently notice people with their
eyeglasses tipped at various angles In
these cases that glass is acting as prism.
and is not doing the work it should, but
is causing strain upon the accommoda-
ton, which may be the starting point of
n lon~ series of nervous disorders. Again,
the wearing of either eyeglasses or spec
tacIes without rims may in some cases
cause very annoying and injurious symp-
TOMS from the colors due to the prls-
matte action of the edge of the glass. -
Medical Classics.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08

The terrible evil sSomnia has so
many different sour25zassuuriat the utmost
we can hope from any single artifice is
to afford relief from it under one special
form. l venture to think l have hit upon
plan which thus remedies a very com
mon mot aggravated) kind of sleepless-
ness, and, with your permission, will
endeavOr to make your readers who NAV
be fellow sufferers, sharers in my little
discovery. 1t is now, believe, gene
rally accepted that our conscious, day
light thinking processes are carried on in
the sinister half of our brains-i. e., in
the lobe which controls the action of the
right arm and leg. Pondering on the
use of the dexter half of the brain-pos-
sible in all unconscious cerebration, and
in whatsoever may be genuine of the
mysteries of pIanchette and spirit rap
pinG-I came to the conclusion Shared
no doubt, by many other better qualified
inquirers) that we dream with this lobe.
and that the fantastic, immoral sprite
like character of dreams is, in some wav.
traceabe to that fact.
The practical inference then struck me;
to bring back sleep when lost, we must
quiet the conscious, thinking, sinister
side of our brains, and bring into activity
only the dream side, the dexterlope. To
do this, the only plan l could devise was
to compel myself to put aside every
waking thought, even soothing and pleas
ant ones, ana every effort of daylight
memory, such as counting numbers or the
repetition of easy flowing verses, the lat
ter having been my not wholly unsuc-
cessful practice for many years. Instead
of all this, l saw must think of dream,
the more recent the better, and 90 over
and over the scene it presented. Armed
with this idea, the next time | found my
self awakening at or O'Clock in the
morning, instead of merely trying to ban
ish painful thoughts, and repeating, as was
my habit, that recommendable soporific,
Paradise and the Peri" l reverted at
once to the dream from which had
awakened, and tried to go on with it. In
a moment l was asleep! And from that
time the experiment, often repeated, has
scarcely ever failed. Not seldom the re-
suit is sudden as the fall of curtain, and
seems like a charm. A friend to whom
l have confded my little discovery tells
me that, without any preliminary
theorizing about the lobes of the brain, she
had hit upon the same plan to produce
sleep, and had found it wonderfully
effcacious. -Cor. London Spectator.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Politicians in Hayti.

Hayti suffers from a superiority of
politicians; the supply largely exceeds
the demand. The offices to which per-
quisites are attached are too few to sat
isfy the hordes OF rapacious time servers,
each anxious for an opportunity to steal
enough from the public funds to support
himself the remainder of his life in ease,
be it in France, if the sum be large
enough, otherwise in Jamaica or some
other neighboring island, or even in
Hayti. But once successful, he gener-
ally prefers to leave the country than to
remain and run the risk of being COM
PEELED to disgorge the fortune won at the
expense of his fellow citizens and his own
honesty.-Cor. New York Post.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
A Season In Washington.

This winterine in Washington il simnlv
fad that has become more or less q
fashionable 'chronicism. and | know
that 1t Is not enjoyed half as much as
some fashionable women would have one
believe lady who passes her summers
at Newport or Bar Harbor, and her win
tiers in France or Italy. with a season in
London thrown in. concluded to try
season in Washington. To the capital
she went, with a retinue of servants and
equlpages, and established herself in one
OF the new palaces that abound In the
northwest of the city. Two months
have completely cured her sSind Wash
lngton will hereafter be denied the light
OF her presence. She declares that there
are more vexatious causes to disturb
ones temper in Washington than in any
other corner of the earth. and that life
there is not worth the countless worries
one must endure to enjoy ~ it.
The servant question alone is one
which calls for special bill that even
congress might interest itself in. All the
servants in Washington are of the EASY
gong southern darkv type, with an in
dolence of manner and motion that TO a
nervous northern individual becomes in
time exasperating They have not lost
their knack of connecting toothsome
dishes, every imaginable kind of hot
bread, and other inviting things appre-
clated by southern epicures, but they lin
their own minds) stubbornly refuse to
encourage 8 O'Clock dinners and mid
night suppers. The old fashioned O..
O'Clock dinner, universally served
throughout the south, is, to their way of
thinking, a much more sensible way of
conducting this important item of "a days
history. Now, when one takes a fur
nished house in Washington, one must
necessarily take half dozen, more or
less, OF the above type of servants, and
this begins at once to unsettle any pro-
posed life of ease and contentment.-
Max Eliot in Boston Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08

ished his cutlass and commanded her r.
keep off she shot him dead in his tracks
lts the law of the sea-" she Quietly
remarked, as she turned to us. "Now to
rout out those Lascarsr'
But you won't kill themr' said orr
mate.
No, not quiter' was her grim answer
as she handed him the smoking revolver.
casting look at the dead mutineer
TO be sure that he was dead, she went
forward, took Delaying pin out of the
port rail and, going to the hatch. called
down:
''On deck here, every cowardlv man &c
you, and be quick about it. toor'
lhey came up one after the other and
as each man touched the deck she gave
nm crack over the head which made
nm see stars. They went down ON their
knees and begged for their lives and
after knocking them about in a liberal
way she finally agreed to extend nardon
Under her directions the mates BODY
was searched, and, as she had antici-
pated, all the money aboard the schooner
was found. She then ordered the bodv
hung overheard, and as it touched the
water one of the biggest white sharks I
ever saw seized it and bit it in half
While the Lascars We're cleaning the
deck the little woman ran down into her
cabin and brought up dozen bottles of
VINE, SIX boxes of cigars and a lot Of
dried fruits for US to take back 70 the
ship. Then she gave each of us a shake
OF the hand, and as we entered the vawi
she sprang upon the port rail, held fast
to the main shrouds with one hand and
shouted:
''Good-by and God bless you, CAPT.
Wheeler! I've got my craft back, thanks
to you, and I'll keep my eyes open after
thisr'
Then she jumped down and went to
the wheel and gave orders to get the
schooner on her course, and in a couple
OF hours the craft was lost sight of be-
hind one of the islands as it made for
the inside of the route. Two years later
saw the woman at Singapore, and she
still owned the schooner and was said to
have comfortable fortune in bank. A
year later [ heard that she had purchased
brig, and putting in cargo on her own
account had sailed for home.-London
Wit and Wisdom.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08

While the banto was gone to prepare
other things for us to look at the hostess
invited us to walk over the house. We
were shown the proper cha-no-ma, the
family altar, with its image of Buddha
in heavily gilt shrine, and the brass in
cense burner, flower vase and stork
candlestick, and the various living rooms
of the family. They were all scrupu-
lousy clean. the fresh looking yellow
mats giving a cool effect that was most
pleasing at this season, although highly
suggestive of cold and discomfort in
winter, for any means OF producing arti-
fetal heat were entirely wanting if ex-
cept the hibachi or braZier over which
the people cover when they are cold.
Habit stands them instead of furnaces,
stoves and fireplaces.
The feature OF all these rooms which
struck us most forcibly was the absence
of furniture and ornaments. The wood
work of the walls, sliding screens that
serve for doors and windows, ceilings
and staircases, was very deliberately
carved and evidently cost much money ;
but excepting kake- mono in one or two,
or bit of bronze, the rooms contained
nothing One felt constantly as if in
specting a new house, and disposed to
say: How comfortable this will be
when the furniture, pictures and hang
ings are brought inI'' Yet the family is
a very rich one and possesses treasures
of art that made us almost green with
envy. Professor J Z. Goodrich in The
Cosmopolitan.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

There are 1900 children excluded from
the New York city schools for lack of seat
ing capacity
Clement G. Morgan, the colored graduate
of Harvard, is lecturing in Connecticut on
the educational needs of the south
A manufacturing city modelled after
Pullman is to be built on 5000 acres of
land adjacent to Minneapolis.
1t is asserted that until the recent acct
| dent the Reading railroad had never lost a
passenger who remained in his seat
Queen Victorias fortune was increased
to the extent of nearly half million dol.
lars last year through the crowns share"
of estates that have reverted.
Iowa raises its school money by counties
More than S6,000,000 is raised annually.
Illinois appropriates 81 100000 as state,
and raises by local taxation 50, 100000
Frank Talmage, son of Dr. T. De Witt
Talnage, is studying for the ministry In
the mean time he is making arrangements
for lecturing tour that will take in most
of the large cities of the country.
Mr.. Stanley will deliver his first lecture
in New York in the Metropolitan Opera
house on Nov. IL. The subject will be
j THE Rescae of Emin, the Forests, the
Pigmies and the March Across Africa
The returns are not all in, but from the
large freshman classes entered so far as
heard from it seems that the increase in
college attendance the past four years has
been greater than that of the country's
population.
The gulf of Georgia is the body of water
| between the mainland of British Columbia
and Vancouver Island 1t is really north
ward extension of Puget sound 1t is a
sound or channel rather than a gulf, 100
miles in length, and at some points twenty
I miles broad
The Indian government has published a
return showing that in the years 1887, 1883
| and 1889 312 males and 1872 females were
tortured by Dacoits in the central division
of Upper Burmah. One hundred and eight
cen cases resulted in death.
A search for the oldest clergyman in
England shows that the Rev. John Elliott,
vicar of Randwick, will he 100 in three
months. He preached up to the age of 95
regularly, and occasionally last year He
goes to church now regularly every Sun
day, and occasionally visits parishoners.
Who gave the first kiss? Probably Adam
bestowed it upon Eve but the first record
ed Osculatory salute is mentioned in the
twenty-seventh chapter of Genesis, where
Israel kissed Jacob, supposing him to be
Esau.
In case of cremation, which is becoming
quite common, the funeral Grafton is pro
/ nounced at the church or dwelling, the
relatives conveying the corpse to the crem-
atory, where they occupy seats in the
chapel during the incarceration of the re
mains.
Joseph Medill, editor of The Chicago
I Tribune, is reputed to be one of the richest
newspaper men in the United States his
fortune being estimated at from 81 OO0, 900
to S5,O00,O00 He has three daughters but
I no son, to succeed him in the large bust
ness he has built up. He is Is years of age,
and spends from eight to ten hours day
in The Tribune office
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Care of Neglected Children.

One of the most original and courage
GUS attempts to relieve the afflicted was
made by Mrs. Cornelius Du Bots num-
Der of years ago, in taking twenty chill
dren, pronounced blind, from Randall's
Island. They were put in comfortable
house. well cared for and the best medical
attention secured. In less than year
seventeen of the twenty had their eye
sight restored. 1t was not disease, but
neglect, that had deprived them of it.
Imagine the joy of these poor little souls
that had been taught they 2ust grope
through life as in one long night. The.
light from seventeen pair Of grateful
eyes-what halo for the head of good
ANGEL
The next experiment will, to ears
polite, seem a more daring one. There
was at that time belief prevalent that
the itch was not only contagious, but
an incurable disease, and when Mrs. Du
Bots sent for twenty children who weFe'
suffering from it. RandaH's Island drew
a breath of relief. and society in which,
the brave woman was leader buried ltsl
face in a perfumed handkerchief. The
children were exceptionally depraved,
and in a state too disgusting 70 be de-
scribed. Care and cleanliness took the
place of fire and sword. the Gospel prac-
tically applied did the rest and twenty
healthy. happy and well behaved chii-s
dren grew up to call their benefactress
blessed. New York Press Every Day
Talk
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Where He'd Go.

The popular captain of Company G,
Twelfth Vermont regiment, was stroll
ing in the woods just out of camp one
day during the war, when he came upon
a member of his company sitting on the
stump of a tree and looking as though
he had fought his last fight. What's
the matter, Bill?" said the captain. ''Oh,
nothing" was the reply; Il am all right. :"
You look as though you had fit Of
homesickness. mo, sir, said Bill. With
some resentment, "nothing of the sort. )"
"Well, what are you thinking about?'
asked his questioner Il was thinking"
said the Vermonter, that | wished
was in my fathers BARN. SIN your
fathers barn! What on earth would
you do if you were in your fathers
barn?'' The poor fellow uttered long
drawn sigh and said: I'D go into the
house mighty quick. salem Witch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
Phosphorescent ToadstooIs.

Varieties of fungi, or toadstools, as
they are popularity called, which give
out light in dark place have been re-
ported from Australia and other parts of
the world. The appearance Of this in
teresting growth, as seen in Brazil, is de-
scribed by an English naturalist.
One dark night. about the beginning
of December, while passing along the
streets, observed some boys amusing
themselves with some luminous object,
which at first supposed to be kind o.
large FREELY, but, on making inquiry,
found it to be beautiful phosphorescent
fungus, and was told that it grew abund-
antly in the neighborhood, on the decay
ing leaves of a dwarf palm. Next day
obtained great many specimens, and
found them to vary from one inch to two
inches and half across.
The whole plant gives out at night a
bright, phosphorescent light, of pale
greenish hue, similar to that emitted by
the larger firefiies, or by the curious soft
bodied marine animals. The light given
out by few of these fungi, in a dark
room, was sufficient to read Youths
Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
InformatiO at Once.

A few days ago an employee of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
shops was standing at the side of the shop
facing on the tracks when he espied well
dressed, nice appearing man walking from
the south, and evidently counting ties
through lack of funds. Thinking that the
man must have been to the races and be
come broke he determined 10 have some
fun with him. When the traveller reached
point nearly opposite to him he insinuat
ingly called to him. and asked if he was
busted.
His solicitude awakened responsive
chord in the pedestrians heart, and he an
swered back that he would come over and
explain. He came, and in about two min.
utes after his arrival he had the shop man
so completely whipped that no other ex-
PLANTATION was necessary Then muttering
about carefulness of speech he left his vic
tim thoroughly satisfied in every respect.
and proceeded on his way.-Hartford Cou-
rant.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08

81 was talking with Mr.. Chamberlain
the other day" said Judge Tompkins,
who is practical man of our coal and
iron company. He made a startling
suggestion. Said he: The time NAV
come when all the iron mines of this
country will be abandoned The most
generally ditfused metal on earth is
aluminium. 1t is found almost invari-
ably in clay, especially in red clay. 1t is
now extracted from clay by very ex-
penslve and tedious process, at a cost Of
more than $500 a ton. Some one will
invent a process for getting aluminium
out OF clay by a rapid and cheap process.
Then farewell to iron mines
81 asked him what was the value of
aluminium.
He replied that it has three times the
strength of steel, and only one-third it's
weight This makes it, of course, the
most valuable of metals 1t was only
discovered in 1928. 1t is bright, and it
never furnishes. Louis Napoleon offered
So, 600 for a process for extracting it
from clay, and two small bars of alumni
mum were presented to him by French
chemist as the result. 1t was enormously
expensive, but Napoleon had works estab-
lished for extracting it, and he used it as
a substitute for the silver eagles that
were borne above the armies of France.
1t has all the beauty of silver, is more
lasting, stainless, and has only one-fourth
the weight of silver. The eagles of
France are thus made more respondent,
more enduring, and seventy-five per cent.
lighter in weight. You look out for
aluminium. Some one will yet invent
process for digging up common dirt and
extracting therefrom this best of all
metal Atlanta Constitution.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
New Thing in Stock Cars.

saw up at st. Charles the other day
a new thing in stock cars, which is as
much an improvement over the old kind
as the drawing coach is over the emf
grant car. The Humane society could
not have designed a more satisfactory
convenience for the brute creation, and
with this new idea to begin, the accom-
mediation of travelling stock will rapidly
advance to the comfortable stage. Cattle
and horses have always suffered tortures
in box cars, and | think every humane
man will rejoice to see endeavors made
to assist their condition on a journey.
These cars are modelled after the ordinary :
open box concern SO as to give plenty of
air. The floor is heavy and slanting, SO
as to afford drain. On top of the car
is tank, to which pipe on either side
connects. These run into four iron b
troughs, from which the animals can
drink fresh water at every stop, supplied =
from the tanks. By turning a crank the y
troughs are turned and the old water
thrown out. Above the animals heads
are two hay racks with sliding wooden
CRATES, which open and shut at the will t.
of the operator on top of the car. These ,
are great improvements for feeding and
watering the stock, and it only remains
for some genius to get the same number
of cattle into the present car as is the
custom and still give them room to lie
down.-A Stockman in Globe Democrat. 3
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08
The Birch Tree

The birch is capable of supporting a
much greater degree of cold than any
other tree. In the Old World its north
ern limit is II dogs. upon the west and
63 dogs. upon the east coast; in America
It's northern limit is GA degs. upon the
west and So dogs. upon the east. In
Germany the highest elevation at which
it is found is $500 feet above the level
OF the sea; in Sweden at 5000 feet, and
IN Lapland at 1,722 feet. 1t is worthy
OF remark that this tree decreases in
size not only as it advances toward the
north, but also as it proceeds southwark
beyond the limits of its native region.
1t attains its highest perfection and
greatest height in Germany and south
ern Sweden. The birch is not particular
IN its choice of soil or situation. and will
grow almost equally well in sandy,
rocky, dry or damp soil. London Gar
den is authority for the foregoing state
mpOtS