The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Edmund Law Rogers, of Balti
more recently exhibited before an as
sembly of dentists a complete set o.
false teeth that had been worn by
George Washington. The base plates
were of lead and perfectly flat. Some
of the teeth were of ivory and other,
had been extracted from living per
son.
The ways of auctioneers in differ
ent parts of the world vary greatly.
In England and America the seller
bears the expense of the sale, but
in France the purchaser pays the
cost, five per cent. being added to the
price he pays. In Holland it is still
worse, the buyer being required to pay
ten per cent. additional for the ex-
penses of the sale.
The beautiful marble bust of Har-
riet Beecher Stowe was recently un.
yelled in the library of the womcn's
building on the worlds fair grounds
by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who
placed on the white marble choice
cluster of pinks and ferns. Frederick
Douglas was present and read several
passages from Uncle Toms Cabin,
several copies of which, printed in many
languages, were placed near the bust
All who were present were saddened by
the thought that the beloved authoress
no longer can enjoy the honors be-
slowed upon her.
The story goes that Gen. Butler
had stormy wooing. The lady of his
love, Miss Sarah Hildreth, was school
teacher in New England. Becoming
tired of her profession, she went on the
stage, and this greatly enraged her
lover. She paid no attention to his ex-
postulations, but one night, when she
was playing in THE Lady of Lyons"
he suddenly appeared behind the scenes,
and gave her until the end of the play
to decide whether she would continue
to be THE Lady of Lyons" or become
plain Mrs. Butler, and she took the lat
ter and less conspicuous role.
-Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying, apropos of the dis
aster to the Victoria, that line-of-
battle ship like her is always exposed
to the danger of capsizing, being top
heavy. THE Victoria carried a mon
strous gun, weighing 10 tons The
largest gun we have weighs only sixty
five tons This tremendous weight
placed the ship at the mercy of the
waves as soon as the water began to
pour in. This accident only re-enforces
what have repeatedly said in my an
nual reports, that, however, it may be
for England, it is folly for us to keep a
large battleship cruising in time of
peace"
-Azaleas of every hue possible to
azaleas make the wooded island in the
worlds fair grounds a grand bouquet,
and those accustomed to see this deli
cate mountain flower in the pink-yellow
or white dress which it assumes in New
England, Virginia or California are
amazed at the many shades of pink,
crimson and orange and the parti-col-
ored varieties produced by cultivation.
Rhododendrons of the tall and drawfed
varieties, brilliant Japanese peonies
and masses of lowly growing pansies,
contented to bloom wherever they are
placed, give the island a festive and
summary appearance, attractive to all
pedestrians.
Old chests and trunks have q high
value as curios, and are largely taken
by the dealers in the like. As paper
was costly in the eighteenth century,
many such articles were lined with
newspapers then current, and if pleas
antries of the period are to be trusted,
even with rejected manuscripts. A
curious old trunk with pentagonal ends
recently turned up in the shop of a
dealer in old furniture. 1t still bore
weather-stained card showing that its
last delivery had been to somebody in
Pearl street It was lined with Phil
adelphia newspaper of 1913, and the
pages exposed bore the tax-list of that
year in pounds, shillings and pence.
1t is only within few years, one
might almost say months, that the wide
effect of the warm, moist Pacific winds,
called chinooks, has been known in
British Columbia and Alaska These
winds. corresponding exactly to those
that make England fertile country in
SAC VI hCCp Tic shO"
melted from the plains at the eastern
base of the Rockies, and they encourage
a magnificent growth of root crops,
cabbage, oats and grass a thousand
miles north of New York. Wheat does
not do well and berries are small.
though little attempt has been made to
cultivate fruit The winters are biting
cold, but dry, and the summer, though
short, is so hot that vegetation comes
@-.,+ Of the Garth with a rush,