The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-28
PASTE AND SCISSORS.

Eastern capitalists nave bought &C
acres of land near Pomona, Cal, and
will set out $4,000 fig trees. They will
equip the orchard with irrigation pipes,
bitches, etc. and put up extensive dry.
ing houses.
The engagement is announced of DR..
Paul Thorndyke, formerly of Milwaukee
but now of Boston. to Miss Rachel
| Sherman. daughter of the late General
W. T. Sherman. The young couple
met while in Europe.
II is related as curious fact that
Paris. with population of nearly p
! 800. 600 souls. has less than 100 negroes
will il its limits. Statisticians say
that the whole of France cannot muster
a negro population exceeding SO.
Statistics Of the sugar industry OF
| Cuba show that in the five wears, from
| 1856 to 1890 exclusive. the production o.
sugar and molassas was 3.9SI. lbs tons
| The exports for ten years, from 1880 &c
1890, were 6,35l, l39 tons, of which about
81 ID per cent was sent to the United
| States.
| \ foolish COW near Thompson, Ga,
| that got its tail caught somehow in q
| tree made trouble worse by going
around the trunk until she wound ur
| like a clock. She then became fright
ened, and giving a lunge, pulled the
tail out by the roots. Afterward the tail
was found as described by the animals
owner.
A valuable bird dog owned by o
Grass Valley, Cal, man was recently
shown parrot. He Immediately
pointed" when polly marched up in
front of him and said, You're a ras-
cal" The terrified dog turned his tail
and ran away, and is ruined for hunt
ing. as he cannot now lie induced to
point" at any sort of bird
Bishop GoOdsell, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, returned from a
seven months trip to China, Corea and
Japan. At Foo Chow the annual con-
ference was held and it was found that
the Methodist missions had 1850 men,
bers, forty native ministers and nine
Americans. In Japan the Bishop found
Christianity making more rapid prog
ress than most people were aware of.
There are 1000 communicates in prot
estant missions and 80 were gained last
year. He attributes the riots in north
China solely to political agitation.
The queen of China is really to be
pitied. At least, so say the Chinese
correspondents. As the very young
wife of her boy husband. she is entitled
to very large slice of royal good times.
But the Empress Dowager is a strong
minded lady and rules with an iron
hand. Sne is a woman of powerful
physique, strikingly handsome, and of
so firm and strong a disposition that all
other wills must be bent to her s.
When the emperor inadvertently does
something to displease her he is made
to regret it. and as for his poor wife she
has nothing to say att al.
Within thirty miles of New York in
the mountains OF Rockland county is
wilder life than can be found in most
states west of the Mississippi. There
are settlements of charcoal burners and
colonies OF Indians and negroes of mixed
blood that 1t would not be safe to visit
without a guide. In the woods west of
the village of RamapO, through which
Washington cut military road during
the Revolution. is settlement in which
the people show evidences of mixture
of races and quadroons with Caucasian
features and straight black hair and
red flush of the Indians are frequently
seen.
1t would be a difficult task to define
the laws of literary composite on.
Lowell vision of Sir Launfal, which
gave such an impetus to his early fame,
was composed in forty-eight hours,
while Gray struggled for seven years
over his famous '.Elegy." Goldsmith
wrote his Vicar of Wakefield with
rush while bailiff stood at the door
and DR.. Johnson looked over his shoul-
der. Among the more recent novelists
Marion Crawford is one OF the most
rapid writer's. His''Mr. lsaacs, which
established his rank as author, was
produce! in one month. He freqently
writes five newspaper columns in day,
while Stockton composes only tenth
as much. Ameli :sivers dashes of
her work at great speed, and Mrs. Cru
ger writes under high pressure, barring
the door to all mtruders.