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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-05-25

1892,
Jan. s..David Chamberlin corn cobs... g 90
req. 6..James A. Kline, supplies for
snerlH. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. o %
of coal. Observation-Disclosures. 100 rs
kulh Il johnson, g. Y Ids wood. II SO
Hall, Trewin Il Rittenhouse,
ollcloth, shoes. soap, candles,
blankets, comforts. .......... SO 90
march I. VIM. ID. Ham, Gaming chairs
for eurrogatee office. ..,.... 2 rs
John NJ. HYDE casters and re-
pairing table and office chairs. 8 45
Ewood Humphrey, gr. tons Of
coal. ............... 20 %
Smith Bros. & Co., spittoone
court house and Rnrrogate's
oiice. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s so
Philip Weller, stove and fixtures 80 IL
VIM. E. G.eeu, clinker cutter
for furnace and rods for
court houee. 40
Theo. Bells, loads OF wood. IL 90
James A. Kline, supplies for
court house ................. Ga
April SIP. /. Nevins, carpet, looking
glass, ioweng, ETC. .......... 20 II
Ewood Humphrey, 10gr. tons
coal SO SO
Geo. Plnn, doz. brooms. \ 10
May johannes j. Losey. ice for court
house. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Il 10
j. p. Bodme & Sons, lock, keys
lime brnsh basket, etc.,. o 25
Elwood Humphrey, 10 gr tons
N # f e Ssssf, soap and candle. Ti iss
pump, etc .........,.... sO
JAS. A. Kline, oil, channels,
Hall, TrewIn s Ritten6oase, -
basket OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 90
], lSSa... ;,..,s..........s... TO 90
Standardization. 2ss so
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-05-25

1892. TEMPORARY LOANS PAID.
JAM 4. 10 notes 90, 600 each. ...... s57, 900 90
Loans for Election Sept &c. 1890. 1856 90
Nov. 1890. -. $3.50 SO
:. Freshet expense....... 1000 90
:" ....... 4,20o on
s7s,os5 SO
1891. TRANSPORTATION OF PRISONERS.
Aug. s..w. II. Lake. Sheriff. ......"-.. $50
Feb. o.. .........,., 40
............. $40
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
EXPLORER BY INSTINCT.
Some of the Earlier and Less Famed
Journeys of Columbus.

Some of the Earlier and Less Famed
Journeys of Columbus.
Besides the mental labors of Column
bus in early life in chartography, so
favorable to an intellectual develop
ment of which the influences were
brightly apparent everywhere around
him, he repeatedly engaged in prac-
teal voyages, thereby gaining expert
enee and training in the art and Office
of an accomplished navigator. Thus
he sailed up to the extreme north and
down to the southern limits of the
lands then known, visiting Guinea and
Iceland.
The scientific purpose of all these
voyages is found fully set forth in the
notes written by Columbus himself,
which tend to demonstrate the inhab-
liability of the various zones of the
planet far beyond the bounds then as
signed by popular superstition to the
existence of human life.
Il sailed" he said, according to a
writer in the Century, ''in the year
1477, in the month of February, hun
dred leagues beyond Thule island,
whereof the austral part is distant sew
enty-three degrees from the equinoctial
and not siXty-three, as some say, and
it is not within the line which bounds
the occident, as Ptolemy says, but is
much further to the westward; and to
this island, which is as large as Eng
land, go the Englishmen with wares,
especially those of Bristol; and at the
time when l was there the sea was not
CONCEALED, but there were very great
tides, SO much so that in some places
they rose twice in the day twenty-five
fathoms in height and fell as much"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
lmnromptn Speeches.

James Russell Lowell is recorded as
saying that he always liked to prepare
his impromptu speeches. At dinner
gives to Mr. Longfellow during a visit
to London. il was agreed that no sci
speeches should be made. After the
fruit and coffee had been discussed,
Admiral Farragut arose and protested
that they could not dream of parting
without hearing from Mr. Gladstone.
Mr.. Gladstone began by assuring the
company that he was OF the mind OF
Lord Palmerston, who said: Better a
dinner of herbs where no speaking is,
than whiteba and oratory Herewith. u
His remarks" developed into an elo-
quent Grafton. He had read the works
of the American poet, and quoted pas
sages from several of his poems, and
concluded by paving a splendid tribute
TO Mr.. Longfellow's attainments. The
subject of this superb panegyric was
deeply touched, and replied without
rising in few happily chosen phrases,
pref2ced with the remark that in his
case the pen was mightier than the
tongue, and that he could not make an
extempore speech.-Youth's Compan-
ion
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

The word ''caravel" comes from the
Italian car a bella; and with this
ethnology it is safe to suppose that the
name was applied to those vessels on
account of the grace and beauty of their
form, and finally was applied to the
light vessels which went ahead of the
fleets as dispatch boats. Nevertheless,
we think we have very authentic data,
perhaps all that is reliable, in the letter
of Juan de la Casa, Columbus pilot.
From his drawings and the descriptions
of the days runs in the part marked
''incidents of Columbus log" it is as
certained that these vessels had two
sets of sails, lateens for sailing with
bowIines hauled, and with lines for
sailing before the wind.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
An Object Lesson in Futilitr.


They were talking about futility,
and for some reason known only tc
each other failed to agree. Finally she
asked:
well, now, suppose you give me an
example of what you call futility?"
"All right" said he. Multiply
3,946 by 721."
She took her little gold pencil in
hand, and seized piece of paper, and
after few minutes of diligent figuring
announced the result.
1.-TWO million eight hundred and
forty-fye thousand and sixty-six," said
she.
divide that by two" he continued.
Zone million four hundred and
twenty-five thousand five hundred and
thirty-three, said she.
''Nery WELL" said he. Now ado
seven to that, and then subtract l, 400,
$40, and tell me what you get"
The result is zero" said she, after
figuring little more.
We'll, that's what l call futility,
said he, with laugh. You've covered
a sheet of paper with figures to arrive
at nothing"
Whereupon she became so angry tina,
she refused to argue further on the
subject-Harper' Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

his son Diego IN the monastery OF Las
Cuevas.
In 1886 they were exhumed-thoseo OF
father and son-and transported across
the Atlantic to the island of San Do
mingo. which had been named by Co
lumbus Hispaniola and was the princi-
pal settlement OF his own discoveries
in his own time.
In 1896, after the cession of San Do
mingo to the French. they We're again
dug up and placed in the cathedral of
Havana. There they now repOse under
apeculiar monument. There is claim
that the real remains were not re-
moved.
There would be poetic justice in
placing the tomb of Colurh bus in San
Domingo, the island with which his
greatest activity as a discoverer is as
sociated, and the place where with the
timbers of his wrecked flagship be
built the first European habitation in
America. The chains placed on him by
Bobadilla during his Imprisonment,
and which he declared should be re-
moved by no less authority than that
of his royal master and mistress, he
kept in his study afterwards as a men,
orial and ordered that they should bo
buried with him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

ready fully planned in the latter years
of his exuberant youth. Moreover,
crediting his contemporaries as we
should, the incompatible pilot dis
played two traits capable of turning
the head will not say of Dona Felipa
but of every woman-eloquence and
personal attractiveness.
His many graces captivated her
senses, his eloquence her mind. Felipa
Muniz, daughter of Philippine Pere-
trello, and Christopher Columbus were
made one. in conformity with religion
and law, in holy indissoluble wedlock,
in the year 1471. The year following
their union a son was born to them
who was baptized in Lisbon and named
Diego
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
THE WIFE OF COLUMBUS.
She Was a Member of a Noble Italo-PoI
tIguese Family.


Columbus allied himself by marriage
with an Italo- Portuguese family. She
whom he was to choose and take to
wife was named Felipa Muniz Pere-
trello.
she belonged to a noble house asso-
ciated with Dom Henry. of Ariz, in his
explorations and discoveries as well be-
cause of their family station as by the
grace of the infante.
Laws like those which in chemistry
govern the affinity of combining atoms,
in social intercourse produce personal
affinities. The greatest of all discover
ers was himself destined to wed the
daughter of discoverer.
Columbus often went to mass on Sun
days aud other obligatory days. His
residence in Lisbon being near the con-
vent of All Saints, he resorted thither
to perform his devotions, and in his as
siduous attendance there it was his
fate to be attracted by Dona Felipa
Muniz until he sought and obtained
her in marriage.
The affection of Columbus for the
young Lusitanian doubtless possessed
practical features also in view of the
sailors desire to live for the realiza-
tion in his riper age of the work al
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
COLUMBUS DEATH,
He Expired Robed in the Sombe- Habit
of "a Franciscan,


of a Franciscan,
The great world-finder, to whose
memory much honor is due and given,
was in his time variOusly known as
Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Colon
and Christophoro Colombo. Colon is
the one which appears on the inner lid
of the small leaden case which contains
all that now is left of the mortal part
of the great navigator.
He, worn out with age, hard work
and bad treatment, died on May 20,
1906, at the age of seventy, and was
buried at Valladolid, in Spain.
The Feast of the Ascension was the
day of his death; and he died robed in
a Franciscan habit, as his beloved
queen and protector had done.
The cold and heartless Ferdinand
gave Columbus a grand funeral, think
ing to do himself honor by it, and
seven years afterwards he reared to
Columbus a marble tomb, whose in
scription has since become famous,
both for itself and the memory of him
who lay beneath.
His remains were afterwards taken
to Seville and placed with the body of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
COLUMBUS VESSELS.
The Flagship Santa NIaria-How She Was
Built and Equipped.

The Santa Maria was the largest of
the three vessels in the little feet of
Columbu a reproduction of this YES
sci was launched at Carraca, Spain,
June %, 1892, and her appearance at
the time is shown in the accompanying
cut
This vessel was built at the expense
of the Spanish government at the ar
senal of Carraca, siXty-three days be-
ing taken for the construction of the
vessel. under the direction of Engineer
Leopold Puente, of Wilke. Her length
between perpendiculars IS D. 60 meters;
length over all, 29. 10 meters; extreme
beam, 9.S6 meters. The hull weighs
127 tons; it has five decks and main
mast, foremast, miZzenmast and bow
spirit. The armament consists of six
falconets and two lombards, the latter
being on the main deck.
The Spanish committee having the
matter in charge made careful exami-
nations of all obtainable data to insure
that the three vessels reproduced by
them should be in every detail which
could be definitely determined exact
copies of the original Columbus vessels.
In connection with this subject a
Madrid periodical says:
"a great deal of data of very varied
character has been obtained, but moth
ing that would give the exact details
sought, because, doubtless, the vessels
of that time varied greatly, not only in
the form of their hulls, but also in their
rigging, as will be seen by an examina-
ton of the engravings and paintings of
the fifteenth century, and as there was
no ship that could bear the generic
name of 'caraveL' great confusion was
caused when the attempt was made to
state, with scientific certainty, what
the caravels were"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
Wonderful Exnerience.

The awe with which the small boy
looks upon a retired mariner is proba-
bly, due 20 the marvellous experiences
the mariner remembers to have had.
An example of this extreme marvellous
ness came up recently in the course of
a conversation between lad of six and
an ex-sea captain.
Capt. Skaggs, did you ever get your
leg bit off by a shark?" asked the boy
Did ], sonny?" he replied. did 1?
Well. rather. Dozens Of timesr'-Har-
per's Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
COLUMBUS

Columbus, guiding star,
Through trackless seas afar,
To where there lay
A continent unknown,
Reserved for freedoms 5 own,
With darkness overthrow,
The worlds new day.
Through grand. triumphal arch
He led the onward march
OF this new age:
Here IN this new found land,
Which stores OF wealth command.
Inspired to purpose grand
Beyond presage-
To commerce he gave wings,
To realms Of science swings
An open door;
He broke the old worlds chains,
And linked the new domains,
With progress which remains
ForeveTmore.
His faith such deeds hath wrought
As are with grandeur fraught
To men inspire:
Cut loose from ages past,
To future he held fast,
Nailed Cross 10 tOpmost mast,
To lift man higher.
Four hundred years have sped,
Since he the vanguard led
To our new coasts;
ulustrious his name.
With still increasing fame,
To whom, in glad acclaim,
Join our great hosts.
Rev. J. b. Smith, D. D., in Christian In
irer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

From a portrait in the Marine museum, Madrid.
have recently sought to prove that his
moral conduct would not stand the high
test of a comparison with that of a
New England Sunday school teacher.
He was really so devoutly religious
that his signature is a cipher, said to
mean "Servate-me, Xristus, Maria,
Yosefus, Christoferens.
In his later years he suffered from
gout, ophthalmia and other maladies
which his many hardships brought on.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
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Xpo fERENs
SIGNATURE OF COLUMBUS.

The oldest engraved likeness of Co
lumbus appears in a Latin literary
work by Paolo Giovio (Paulus Jovius.
in Latin form, dated 1915. This wood
cut is thought to have been copied from
a picture which Jovius had placed in a
gallery of notable people which he had
formed in his villa at Lake Como. The
collection is now scattered but the por-
trait is known to have figured in it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
Man and Fish.

On board the schooner Dauntless re-
Gently party of yachtmen We're dis
cussing tarpon fishing, and the strength
of Il man compared with that big fish.
Commodore Colt claimed that with a
rod and line he would land the best
swimmer in the party. Ollie Adams, a
powerful swimmer, disputed the asser-
tion, so it was decided to settle the
question at once. One of the sailors
made strong network of cord, which
was placed around Adams shoulders.
The line was fastened to his back, and
Adams dived overheard. Colt held the
rod, and commenced to play his human
fish. In half an hour Adams was
brought alongside the Dauntless ex-
hausted. 1t took Adams a whole day
to recover from his effort, but Commo-
dore Colt did not feel the effects of his
exertions beyond little soreness in
his side, where the rod rubbed against
it-N. Y, Advertiser.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
Would BE Worth a Fortune.

During a severe storm on Columbus
return journey from the new land he
had found he, feeling that his frau ship
must go down, committed a narrative
of his discovery to the sea. What a
rich treasure it would be if It could be
fished mp in its oil and tar envelope to-
day and given to the world.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

In the generally accepted historical
pictures he is represented as possessed
of mustache and pointed beard.
At thirty his hair was quite gray. He
was temperate in eating, drinking and
dress, and so strict in religious matters
that for fasting and saying all divine
offices he might be thought professor
in some religious order.
Notwithstanding all he has done for
this country some American writers
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
TIE SANTA MARIA.

The same lateens serve for this double
object, in bending the sails half way
and hoisting them like yards by means
of top ropes. Instead of having the
points now used for reefing, these sails
had bands of canvas called bowlines,
which were unfastened when it was
necessary to diminish the sails.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
Columbus, second Voyage.

The oldest record of Columbus sec.
ond voyage to America, which occu-
pied the time between September, 1893,
and June, 1894. is a manuscript of the
middle of the sixteenth century in the
Academy of History at Madrid. 1t is
the narrative of DIR. Chanca, the physi'
clan of the expedition.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
PORTRAITS OF COLUMBUS.
They Are Almost as Numerous as tn,
Sands ny the SeRshore.

eanus ~ tne SeasnOre.
The numerous portraits of Columb bus
presenting such wide extremes of ap-
pearance as to seem absurd, yet have
enough features in common to provide
good material for creating a mental
picture of Columbus. In person he
was tall and shapely, long-faced and
aquiline, and had very pale gray eyes. In
early life his complexion was very fine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
A Natural SuppositIon.

''Cruickshanks is passionately fond OF
bicycle-riding.
''Yes, l faneied as l saw him take
header last evening that he must be
heels over head in love with it"-Truths
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21

MAN wants the earth. but it is the house
keeper who gets the dust-Rochester Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
REpIUR

taste and on principle; he may be added
to the list of great men who confined
themselves as far as possible to vege-
table diet and preferred water to wine.
He was scrupulously careful of garb
and person, even when he wore the
garb uf an associate of the order of St
Francis, as he did whenever circum-
STAGES permitted.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-24

An incumbent Of West End chapel used
to relate that on paying an Introductory
visit TO a lady Of his congregation he found
her enthusiastic in her praise Of the ser
mons Of his predecessor, who had lately
been promoted to deanery Fully sym
pathizing with the encomiums lavished on
the translated preacher he remarked, "How
you must have delighted in his societyW
81 am thankful to say" replied the lady
"that | did not know him"
This unwillingncss to be brought into
contact with her public instructor was a
true instinct. 1t often happens that, while
"A mans speeches or writings are weighty,
his appearance in society is contemptiblc
and as people are largely influenced by per
sonalities, the most brilliant arguments
and lucid rhetoric Of such "A one are robbed
Of half their effect if his audience is nc
quaintcd with him in his weaker moments.
London Saturday Review
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-24
How Pipe Lines Are CIeansed.

As the oil flows through the underground
conduits the paralliHe in the fluid is scpa-
rated, and this residuum incrusts the sides
of the pipes and proves a serious hindrance
to the free passage Of the current Of oil.
The device that is used to remedy this
evil is a knife about two feet in length.
with a sharp edge that is constructed cx-
actly like thread Of "A screw. Indeed the
knife itself resembles q huge headlrss
screw more than anything else; il is always
slightly smaller in diameter than the pip.
it passes through. When the thickness OF
the crust Of paranine renders cleansing
necessary this instrument is inserted in the
first link Of the huge iron chain far of i'm
the oil fields. It receives its motive power
from the stream Of petroleum, which it ac-
companies all the way TO Philadelphia, re-
volviug rapidly as 10 hurries along, and
Soraping the channels clean from overypar-
ticle Of para1inc
1t turns and twists and clcau-cs in this
manner throughout it's whole long Jour
ney finally dropping from the pipes in the
midst Of the vast stream Of petroleum
that empties continuously into the recciv
ing tanks at Philadelphia It's edges, TO
be sure, are duller than when it set out
upon its expedition but otherwise It's CON
ditiOn is perfS,t 10 is Immediately ship
ped back to the fields, when il is sharpcncd
again and laid away until future paraGine
accumulations require once more its valua-
bic services.-Philadcl Record
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-24
AIways Somebody Too Lnto.


There is always somebody who is lust a
trilo too late. 1t is certainly interesting if
not instructive to the other fellows Yet
it is an incident of every minute in the
metropolis, where life is a daily and mo-
mentuy scramble.
You see it illustrated more or less hu-
morously every time you take an elevated
train, every time u ferryboat leaves its slip,
every time "A limited express or any other
train pulls out Of station, every time an
ocean steamer leaves her pier There is
always somebody rushing up and down at
the last moment frantically waving hands
or yelling, just in time to be left behind.
Ask the scornful but yigilant officials.
Scarcely an elevated train leaves plat
form but one or more persons, male or fc-
male, dash up the stairs and fly past the
ticket window, and at the risk Of life or
limb attempt to board it. And how mdi-
crously angry and disappointed they look!
Another train is within sight due in one
or two minutes; but that doesn't alter the
matter-it aggravates it. just as your
ferryboat leaves the slip there is always
somebody who runs the gantlet of the
main gates, comes tearing down the drive
way, with or without ticket, and, with a
wild whoOp, tries to leap the rapidlyyawn-
ing gulf between the bridge and the deck.
There is another boat in five or ten min
utes, but what of that2 The bitterness of
being too late warrants the risk.-New
York Herald
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-24

The tenderness with which recent years
Of legislation has treated woman has
placed her in an cnyiable position before
the law. The old English notion that hus
band and wife are one and that one is the
husband docs not prevail i'm this state. A
woman today may hold such public offices
as school trustee and notary public and
may be admitted topracticc law and medi-
cine. II is no longer necessary for a hus-
band TO join in "a wifc'- decd of real estate,
and when acknowledging q conveyance OF
real property she is no longer taken behind
a door out Of her husbands sight and hear
ing, and solemnly asked by a magistrate
whether she has signed the document with
out any fear or compulsion Of her said hus-
band. She is permitted TO dispose of her
property by will or deed just as if she were
single.
While all these privileges have been &c
coded to her, she is shielded from the disa-
greeable duties Of civil life The law will
not allow her to sit as a juror, hence she
does not have TO follow an engine to fires
for five years to obtain frcman's certif-
cate eXempting her from jury duty, nor is
she forced to invent excuses and tell gaudy
fabricatons to judges TO avoid what is con
sidered an undesirable part of citizenship
New York Times.