The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

densation outside of an ice pitcher after
having been toyed with by the fingers
OF children
During the revolutionary war the
people of New Hampshire took an act
i've part Their men were engaged in
many important battles. from that of
Bunker Hill to that of Yorktown, and
were particularly distinguished for
their bravery in the battles at Benning-
ton, Bemis' Heights. Saratoga and Mon
mouth.
The crew of an Austrian barque
abandoned their vessel in the Atlantic
because they thought the bones which
formed part of the cargo were those of
human beings brought from the battle
fields of Egypt, The crew. believing
tina: the vessel was haunted by spirits
of the departed warriors, determined
to desert her
The new orange cups have APP
peared in various forms The original
variety had a circular rim with prongs
that held the orange in place Another
variety has silver spears at each side
/ that pierce the fruit Still another has
| a set of turbine wheel forms in the bot
! tom. with which the orange is screwed
and held fast.
Mrs. Hanna Chard. nearly all of
whose forty-eight grandchildren and
one hundred and forty-two great-grand-
! children helped to celebrate her one
! hundred and fifth birthday last week.
/ at Terrell. ~ j.. takes great comfort
/ in her pipe, but she does not overin-
| dulge in it. She allows herself just
four smokes a day.
| -TIairspring wire for watches weighs
/ one-twentieth of grain to an inch.
/ One mile of wire weighs less than half
pound. The balance gives five vibra-
| tiOns every second. 800 every min
ute. $4,000 every hour 49,, 900 every
day and lj1, GS0. 900 every year At each
vibration it rotateS about one and one
| fourth times, which makes 1871 100 900
revolutions every year.
The emperor of Germany drinks
nothing but Mexican coffee. and a
years supply is sent to him regularly
after every harvest from plantation
in the state of Michoacan, which lies
on the Pacific coast of Mexico about
midway between the United States and
Central America. There is large
German colony there which has been
cultivating coffee for many years.
"A proposed law that any new build
ing erected in London shall have its
front not less than twenty feet from
the middle of the street has brought
out the fact that there are in the heart
.,r 81, Ia
less than forty feet broad. If the prin-
ciple were generally applied. on plan
of reconstruction of streets. land to the
value of about forty millions of dollars
would be sacrificed.
An exchange gives an interesting
account of the manufacture of hair
pins. They are made by automatic
and very complicated machines. The
cooled wire is put upon drums and be-
comes Strengthened as it feeds itself to
the machine. 1t passes along until it
reaches two cutters. which point the
ends at She same time that they cut it
To the length required This piece of
Il wire then slips along an iron plate
until il reaches slot through which
it is pressed into the regular shape.
The hairpinS are then put into pan
and japanned, after which they are
heated in an oven with a temperature
OF from 800 to 400 degrees.
In the United States we are apt to
consider our railroad rates as lower
than those of other countries. and this
is proba bly, true of freight, but in pas
senger rates the Indian railroads go
far b low ours The government: re-
port on Indian railroads for the wear
ended March 81. 1898. which has lately
been issued, gives the average rate on
all freight at 1.O23 cents per ton mile:
our rate for 1S92-93. according to the
Interstate commerce commission re-
ports, was @. sos cents. Our average on
passenger business, however, was , 126
cents per passenger mile. while the In
dian railroads charged only GAG cents.
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Among the first gold finds made by
NJ de Morgan in Egypt below the brick
pyramid was a massive breast orna
ment, bearing in the center the formal
name of Nser-Tesen H.. supported by
two hawks, one hawk with the crown
of Upper. the other with that of Lower
Egypt on its head The characters
that spell the kings formal name are
inlaid with carnelian, lapis lazuli and
turquoise. and the entire front of the
ornament is decorated in similar fash
ion with these precious stones The
under side has the same cartouche
and characters. but engraved or chased
in the gold. not inlaid. 1t weighs thir-
ty-seven and one-half grams and is
thought the finest as well as the oldest
piece of gold jewelry ever found in
Egrpt-N. Y. Times.
A Pre- Raphaelite is a follower of
a modern school of art that professed
to follow the artists who fiourished be-
fore Raphael; it advocated study from
nature delicacy and minuteness of
workmanship. and an exalted concep-
ton of the subject. The founders of
the schOol-which is wholly British
We're RuSlin. Holman Hunt and Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. Ruskinism is about
the same as Raphaelitism The
Renaissance is the name applied to the
'rebirth'' of classical learning in
Europe after the fall of Constantinople
in i453 and to the results of that new
birth. as shown in the impetus given
to painting, sculpture, architecture,
and all forms of refinement An I'm
prcssiOnist' is follower of modern
school of art French in origin, which
aimed to suggest an effect without
elm boratiOn of details The painter
Edouard Manet was the founder of the
school.