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The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Luce Was Tight.

An anecdote is told of Rear Admiral
Stephen B. Luce. U. S. N, the author
of the text book on seamanship which
has long been the standard at the
Naval Academy. When Luce was
midshipman he made cruise to the
Mediterranean in the old Constitution.
AT Villefranche the Constitution
anchored near the British man-of-war
Bellerophon. the ship on which Ma
poleon the Great was a prisoner after
the one hundred DAYS and before st.
Helena. The officers of the American
and of the British ships exchanged the
usual courtesies. There was an inter-
change of cabin. ward room and steer
age dinners. One evening, just before
dark, the Constitutions midshipmen
returned from dinner with those of
the Bellerophon. The Constitution
contingent was feeling very well in
deed, Midshipman Luce particularly
so. After the Constitutions spar deck
was reached. and the returned diners
out were about TO 90 below, the officer
of the deck stopped Midshipman Luce
and sternly said:
Young man, l believe you are
tight"
With great gravity and emphasis
Luce replied: Sir, if Stephen B.
Luce, how can he be tight?" That
was the last heard of the incident
officially, but not so otherwise.-M T.
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THEY RE OUT OF STYLE
The maiden frail and airy.

The maiden frail and airy,
She who emulates tbs fairy,
Has by Dame Fashions stern decree become
passe of late
Her charms which once deligbi .
Now are almost wholly sighted
n fact, the fIa. lie maiden's very sadly out
of date.
We used to bow before her.
But no longer we adore her;
Her baby ways and heiplessness our hearts
cannot beguile.
The pale Angelic creatures
Lily-white, sun-guarded features
We do not now appreciate because they're out
Of style
Within the present summer
We have met a fair newcomer,
Who does away with helplessness and all that
sort of thing,
Who's an adept ut rowing,
Swimming, tennis, feL cling, llrowing
And walks most any distance with an easy,
pleasant swing.
She's graceful, strong ani agile,
Not the least bit pale and fragile:
she doesn't paint because her face may catch
shade of tan;
She's neither weak nor stupid,
But she's just the girl that Cupid
With honest joy can join for life with any
lucky man.
-[Chicago Post.
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knew, fatherless; be, no doubt, had good
reasons to suspect that her mother cared
little for her, and saw plainly that she
was, or soon would be, a sighted ano
friendless thing in the household. But
l made no remark, l slipped my cognac
with an distracted air for few seconds,
then / asked.
"How was the Count buried? Your
narrative interests me greatly"
''Oh, the priest who was with him saw
to his burial, and believe, was also able
to administer the last sacraments. At
any rate, he had him laid with all proper
respect in his family Vault myself
was present at the funeral"
started involuntarily, but quickly re-
pressed myself.
"You were present-you-you-. .
and my voice almost failed me.
Ferrari raised his eyebrows with look
of surprised inquiry.
"Ot coursel You are astonished at that?
But perhaps you do not understand. l
was the Counts very closest friend, closer
than brother, may say. Itwas natu-
raj, even necessary, that should attend
his body to its last resting place"
By this time had recovered myself.
81 see-I scer' l muttered hastily,
"Pray excuse me-my age renders me
nervous of disease in any form, and l
should have thought the fear of con-
tagion might have weighed with you.
"With me-" and he laughed lightly.
81 was never III in my life, and / have
no dread whatever of cholera. / sup
pose / ran some risk, though / never
thought about it at the time-but the
priest-One of the Benedictine order
died the very next day."
"Shocking!' murmured over my cof-
fee-cup. Every shocking. And you
actually entertained no alarm for your
seif?'
"None in the least. To tell you the
truth am armed against contagious i'll
nesses by a conviction i have. that
am not doomed to die of any
disease. A prophecy'-and here
cloud crossed his features-"an odd
prophecy was made about me when was
born, which, whether it comes true or
not, prevents me from panic in days OF
plague"
"Indeed!" said, with interest, for this
was news to me-"And may one ask
what this prophecy is?-"
''Oh, certainly. 1t is to the effect that
shall die violent death by the hand of
once familiar friend. 1t was always
an absurd statement, an old nurses tale,
but it is now more absurd than ever, con-
sidering that the only friend of the kind
ever had or am likely to have is dead
and buried-namely Fabio Romani."
And he sighed slightly. / raised my
head and looked at him steadily.
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"a thousand thanks!' ne answered
gaily.-'I will show you my poor at
tempts with pleasure should you
find Fanything among them to
crafty your taste, | shall of
course be honOred. But, thank
heaven! am not as greedy of patronage
as | used to be-in fact l intend resign
ing the profession altogether in about
six months or So"
Indeed! Are you coming into for
tune?" | asked carelessly,
"Well,-not exactly" he answered
lightly-'I am going to marry one
that is almost the same thing, is it not
Precisely; congratulate you!" said
a stGdiously Indifferent and slightly
bored tone, though my heart pulsed
fiercely with the torrent of wrath pent
I'D within il. l understood his meaning
we'll In six months he purposed mar
rying my wife. Six months was the
shortest possible interval that could be
observed, according to social etiquette,
between the death of one husband and
the wedding Of another, and even that
was so short as TO be barely decent. Six
monthS-yet in that space of time much
might happen, things undreamt Of and
undesired-slow tortures carefully meas
rred out. punishment sudden and heavy!
Wrapped in these sombre musings 1
walked beside him in profound silence.
The moon shone brilliantly-groups OF
girls danced on the shore with their low
ers, to the sound of flute and man
doline-far of across the bay the sound
of sweet and plaintive singing fioated
from some boat in the distance, to our
earS-the evening breathed of beauty,
peace and love. But my fingers
quivered with restrained longing to be
at the throat of the graceful liar who
sauItered so easily and confidently
beside me. All, heaven, II he only
knew! If he could have realized the
truth, would his face have worn quite so
careless smile,-would his manner have
been quiteso free and dauntless? Stealth
lily glanced at him,-he was humming
a tune softly under his breath, but feel
ing instinctiyely, suppose that my eyes
were upon him, he interrupted the mel
ody and turned to me with the question,
'You have Travelled far and seen much,
Conte?'
81 have"
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doing any great damage. We heard
the mems shouts OF alarm, but before
any one had turned out 1t was all over
with him. A jugaur had been hidden
in the treetop, and ss the tree fell hs
came apoard with it and at once sprang
upon the watchman. He had the man
by the throat and was sucking his blood
as we turned out and finished him.
We dreaded the snakes more than all
the rest, as they were to be met with on
the water as well as on the shore. Go
where you would, you could not run
amiss OF them, and every species SEEM
ed more inclined to fight than run. On
one occasion we came to a beautiful
stretch of shore, and the naturalist and
botanist were landed from my boat. We
lay for them at the bank, under the
shade of a great tree and as soon as the
boat was secure the men stretched
themselves out on the twarts to sleep.
had brought along fish line and
double-barreled shotgun. Not caring to
accompany the gentlemen in the walk
ashore, [ proceeded to cast in my hook
and await results. Ten minutes had
passed and we were all Aery quiet, when
| felt sudden thump, followed by a
yell and struggle. On limb ten feet
over our heads, a boa constructor had
been lying. He selected the man lying
on the forward thwart for his victim.
and made dart for him. That serpent
had never seen yawl boat before, and
he made a very natural mistake. In
trying to fling his coil around the sailor,
he included the twart in his grip. 1t
was moment of excitement. You can
judge OF the power he possessed when l
tell you that he almost lifted boat and
all clear out of the water, and the only
reason he didn't pull us up to the limb
was because the thwart gave way under
the strain and flew up as il sent from a
spoingbOard. The sailor didn't get
caught but he felt the folds of the ser
pent. heard hiss in his ear, and rolled
overheard into the water. The others
leaped ashore and was left alone in the
stern of the boat with the snake almost
arOve me.
When the serpent discovered that
he had piece of board in his coils in
stead of live sailor he let it drop and
began looking about for another victim.
The sailors called to me to hurry ashore
but knew that he would drop on me if
| made a movement to do so. | cooked
the gun and held it ready to fire, while
the men ashore, who could see him bet
ter than could, kept me informed of
the serpents movements. He crawled
from bench to bench, seemingly con-
fused, but at length he came back to
the former spot and made ready for a
dart at me. l got sight Of his head as
he waved it to and fro, and by lucky
shot, blew it to pieces by heavy charge
Most OF his body at once fell TO the
earth, but his tail had such a grip on
the limb that four of us could not pull
it loose. He measured twenty-three
feet long, and evidently had the mus
cular power to crush the largest OK
n. Y. Sun.
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WOMEN INVENTORS,
Bright, Little Anna l.. Diggs Writes
About Them,

! | was pleased 10 learn that among
omen inventors, Kansas and Ohio
women have taken the lead during the
past two years.
hope that every time the labor saw
ing ice cream freezer is called into re-
quisition to make the cream for alli-
ance picnics this summer that the
young man who turns the crank so cas-
lily will think how much harder his
task would be if women had not in
vented that labor saving crank. Mrs.
| Nancy johnson invented and patented
the ice cream freezer; she lived in
| Washington all her life, and only died
| last year, aged seventy-five years.
have always thought it a great
shame that Mrs. Catherine Greene, wife
of Nathaniel Greene, should not have
had the credit really due her as the in
venter OF the Gotten gin. Mrs. Greene
vas born lover of machinery. She
conceived the idea of the cotton gin
while on a visit to her Georgia planta-
ton watching the tedious process OF
cleaning cotton. In those good old
days women who had aspirations be-
yOnd the rule OF three, crewel work,
and the consultations was considered
out of her sphere. The elders Of those
days had not thought of charging wom-
en- with waiting to sing bass, but they
did not protest against their upsetting
the laws OF nature by "trying to crow
like ROSTERS" Imagine Mrs. Greene
as a Kansas girl, graduated at the State
University and voting at the last city
election in Topeka Under such condf-
Ic IN hot Oh, 10,
given over the beloved child OF her
brain to be fathered and mothered by
Eli Whitney?
The whole list of the inventions by
women would take up many columns.
Mrs. Geneva Armstrong, lady who
owns farm in western New York, in
vented machine for feeding cattle on
trains.
tioU OF Miss Ann Manning, of Plainfeld,
New Jersey. She also invented ma
chine for turning out complete horse
shoes.
Among inventions requiring scientif-
Is knowledge, Mrs. Mary f. WaltoH
5 eminent: she has taken out patent
for England and the United States
Of a smoke burner which not only con-
sa@lnes the smoke OF furnaces and loco
motives but also all offensive and dam
gerOus oders from factories and gas
works.
Icannot vouch that any of these
women can sing base, but suspect they
are sufficiently intelligent and patriot
ic to put little slip of paper in bal
lot box, when that same bit of paper is
cast to determine what sort of men
shall make the laws effecting their own
inventions.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Good Flowers to Have.

Good seed OF choice varieties can be
bought at five cente packet. Suppose
you have fifty cents to expend in seed.
This will get you ten kinds. If you
want the best, you can hardly do better
than to select the following: Asters,
balsams. phlox, petunias, stock, CALI
opsis, sweet peas, mignOnette, morning
glories and pansies. All these kinds
are good boomers, healthy and easily
cared for. The morning glOries can be
planted by the porch and about the
windows, where they can be trained up
on strings. The sweet peas should be
given a trellis or hedge of brush to
Chamber over. They grow three or four
feet high and therefore should be plant
ed in the background.
Asters do not come into bloom till
late in the season, therefore IL is well to
plant them among the earlier bloomers,
so that there need be no beds without
flowers in the earlier part of the season.
You can set them between the balsams.
These plants are quite tender, and the
first frost kills them, but the aster is
hardy enough to stand cool fall weather
and after the Dalsams have been killed
they will have the beds all to them
selves. The balsams will furnish the
beds with summer flowers, and the
aSters, which are growing while the
others are blooming, will take their
places later on. Calliopsis grow to the
height of about two feet, petunias about
eighteen inches. Phlox and mignonette
stand about a foot high, while the pam
sizes are low-grNing things. The cata-
logues will give you the height of most
plants, and you can arrange them &C
cordingly, in case you select other kinds
than those named in this article
Christian Union.
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the pensive mood into which he had fal-
len, and smiled.
Loved him? No! Certainly not
nothing so strong as that! l liked him
fairly-he bought several pictures of
me-a poor artist has always some sort
of regard for the man who buys hisworks.
Yes, liked him well enough-till he
married"
"Ha! l suppose his wife came between
you? He flushed slightly, and drank off
the remainder of his cognac in haste.
Yes" he replied briefly, 'she came
between us. A man is never quite the
same after marriage. But we have been
sitting a long time here-shall we
walk?''
He was evidently anxious to change
the subject. | rose slowly as though my
joints were stiff with age, and drew out
my watch, finely jeweled one, to see
the time. 1t was past nine o'clock.
Perhaps" said addressing him, "you
will accompany me as far as my hotel. /
am compelled to retire early as rule, i
suffer much from chronic complaint of
the eyes, as you perceive" here touching
my spectacles, and can not endure much
artificial light. We can talk further on
our way. Will you give me a chance of
seeing your pictures? / shall esteem my
self happy to be one Of your patrons"
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burnous shot with silver, Smyrna rugs,
amber necklaces and earrings, and while
he fingered the pretty jewels, the floss
silks, and fine stuffs Kadour thought
only of Yamina The Orient had re-
gained him completely, but more by the
means of habit and the influence of the
atmosphere than by genuine heart bonds.
Toward evening the train of mules
laden with couffins all puffed out with
treasures, turned down the street of the
faubourg, when before the door of the
Arabian bureau they found their way
obstructed by a greater crowd. 1t was
a party Of immigrants who had just ar
rived from France; no preparation had
been made for their reception and the
unfortunate strangers were vainly en-
treating aid and seeking information.
Some of them were hopelessly sitting on
their baggage, exhausted by their jour-
ney, and annoyed by the curiosity of the
crowd, while, to add to their misery,
night was coming on, increasing with
its darkness the desolateness of the un-
known land. Kadour looked at the
exiles mechanically, but he was on a
sudden seized with a strong emotion as
he recognized the dress of the old peas
ants, the velvet bodices of their wives,
and the women's long hair, of the color
of the ripe harvest In another minute
his forgotten dreams had become a
reality, for he saw before him the soft
features and golden hair of KateL Yes.
there she stood, with old Rippert, her
mother, and all the little children, far
away from the saw mill on the ripping
Sauerbach which still flowed past the
abandoned home.
"Kadour!"
"Katell"
He turned pale and she blushed
slightly.
In few minutes the exiles' difficulty
was settled. The Kaid'5 house was
large and the immigrants were welcome
to install themselves therein until their
little portion of land was accorded
them. Quickly the mother gathered up
her children, who had begun already to
play with the little natives; pell nell
they were all put up in the couffins among
the silks and precious stuffs. and katel
laughed merrily at finding herself
mounted in such grand style on an Arat
mule. Kadour laughed too, but less
heartily, and with a sort of suppressed
delight.
As night was falling round and the
air growing cool, he wrapped his former
nurse in beautiful striped burnous, one
of tie wedding presents, embroidered
with pearls, and with its soft folds fall
ing around her and the fringe glisten
ing brightly, she sat motionless and
smiling, looking like a blonde hour
escaped from the harem.
AS Kadour gazed OF her thousand
mad projects crossed his mind. He
would break his troth with the Aga's
daughter and marry Katel-none but
Katel for him. And some day they
would be returning from the city, oil
alone in lane of oleandefs, she Snliil;;sfg
at him on the mules back, he holding
her bride as at present Eagerly, still
dreaming, he gave the signal for the
departure of the train, but Katel
stopped him, saying in her soft voice:
wait a minute. Here comes my
husband.
Katel was married. Poor Kadour.-
1.-The Epoch.
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An Old Woman's Eccentricities.

Mrs. James McKeen, an old lady in
Lewiston, who was recently taken to
the insane asylum. had been very &C.
centric for years while working in the
cotton mills, and a number of stories
are told of her pecunarities. At one
time she had lot of cockroaches in
box near her looms which she would
feed regularly ever day. Whether
they ate the food provided them by
their benefactress is not known, but
she took good care of them and they
increased in numbeos until at last the
superintendent discovered them and
had them removed. The old lady
cried bitterly that her pets-and who
ever had such pets before-were re-
moved. They say she used to drop a
silver coin in the canal each day,
which she said went to feed her hus-
band and boy who were drowned at
sea. Her boys clothes. which she car
ried under her arm, she never parted
with. Each morning she took the
bundle to her work, and each night
returned with it.-Bang0r Commercial.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Spontaneous Combustion of a Tree.

One of the sacred "tallow trees"
standing at the entrance of the grounds
which surround the mansion of the
emperor of China spontaneously ig-
nited in some of its upper branches
and burned to the ground Dec. IA.
Scientists say that the tallow tree
often fires of its own accord, but the
superstitious Chinese take it to be an
esiI eGHn, and are greatly excited
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

DR.. Goropins of the French Academy
once made a professional examination
of 1S-year-old girl who was 10 feet 4
inches in height. She was probably
the tallest woman of her age that ever
lived. ----.-=----
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
CHAPTER XII.

HE sheltering darkness OF
the spectacles / wore pre-
vented him from noticing the
searching scrutiny of my
fixed gaze. His face was
shadowed by a tinge of mel
ancholy; his eyes were
thoughtful and almost sad.
"You loved him well then
in site of his foolishneSs?"
l said.
He reused himself from
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

Every pulse OF my being thrilled with
Indignation at the indifferently chill way
in which he, the man who had fondled
her and pretended to love her, now spoke
Of the child. She vas, as far as he
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-06
They We're Americans.

Edinbureh Scotsman.l
Some time since three tall Ameri.
cans-Mr. Robinson. six feet high,
and tho Rev. Phillips Brooks, six fee,
two inches high, both Of Boston, and
tho Rev. Dr.. M'Vicker, SIX feee fou,
inches high. Of Phil.delphiA--made, in
company, trip to England.
En- ruto they determined tbs.
whrn they should reach England they
would travel apart, lest three such tall
men together might provoke remarks.
But. arriving n we'll known town
!" Yorkshire. and learning that 4 leo.
ture WAS to be- delivered to working
men on "America." tho three
determined TO DO present. Entering
the hail separately they took seats
apart.
AZ the lecture proceeded, hi. utter
ignorance of America soon became
manifest to the three Americans.
Finsiiy, however, . statement. CON
corning the size Ut Americans was
too Absurd to be endured in silence.
The SPEAKER hsa barely time to
conclude . sentence ASSERTING th,t
Americans are pr"verbisIly short Of
stature. naver exc eding 1t the utmost
i've feet ten inrhes, when M. Robin.
son arose and said:
my friends, | am an American.
and. a. YOU see. measure fully six
feet. II there is any other American
who happens just now to no in the
house. ! request HIM t., stand Up"
An expression Of surprise VAS fol-
lowed by roa.s Of laughter a. the Rev.
Phillips Brooks rosa aud said:
Il am an American, aud nv siz~,
six feet two inches, occasions no par,'c.
ular remark in America. II there il
any other American il tho house l in
turn request him l.. stand up."
After = lapse Of few seconds, in
order to give the lecturer . little time
to recover himself, Dr.. M'Vick.r
slowlv rsis-d his majestic figure to its
full height OF six feet four inches, and
btgsn-''l am an Am"
hut this was too much, ani no
'onld Mt get anv further. The
audience had Loot all control Of them
'e'ves, and the epesk-r's disappear
ance from the stage brought the
To . premature close.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-06

Vice Grand, John Gibson and other
brethren went to Gem. Deceased
Was also . member Of the Kniehts 81
P>th'as order. He will be buried b.
these societies. He had half brother
living at Bou"tiful. Utah, who was
.pprised Of the killing BY telegraph.
y is NOT known whether hs had sny
other relatives. He was . man Of
good repute aud stood high in the -.
teen Of his employers, Msssrs. Finch
and Campbell.
Stowe, the slayer, l. q vigorous
Young msn Of about rs years. He
had hut recently joined the Miners
Union and had only worked in the
Gem mine 70 days. Flo had. how
ever, previously worked in the Frisco
mine above Gem. from which, Va ase
informed, he WAS also discharged.
"a cnroner's inqu-ss was held here
yesterday afternoon ard verdict rem.
derrd in ACCORD with the ahove facts.
A preliminary examinations will prob.
ably take place TODAY.
Two letters, written on Thur.day
evening and addressed to Montana
p-rs""s. wore found in the prisoners
cabin. They were taken ~ VIZ Ar
9vl~. A. thev were apparently writ
= n after his di.charg. from th.. mine
i is Thought thew may throw some
light on his intentions.