The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-24
ALL SORTS.

The Olathe Mirror says creek mud viii
cure snake bites.
Entomologists continue to quarre
about the home of the grasshoppers.
Moody and Sankey will visit the U. S
about the middle of next month.
| Queen Victoria will visit this country
during the Centennial exposition in
1876.
A new order has been issued to pre-
vent prospecting parties from going to
the Black Hills.
The Great Eaestern will plough the
briny deep between Liverpool and Phil.
adelphia during the Centennial.
The New York Herald runs a special
train every Sunday to Niagara Falls,
carrying nothing but its papers.
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association will be held at
Topeka, August "a, %, &c and 81.
A report prevails that Judge Fisher,
U. S. Attorney for the District of Co
lumbia will be superseded by ex-Gov.
Wells, of Virginia.
The Leavenworth Commercial wants a
city physician appointed. Such an Off
Ger would be fully as beneficial as some
others which she has.
July returns to the Department of
Agriculture at Washington show an i'm
provement of the cotton crop in all the
Southern States except Texas.
An item has been going the rounds of
the press, that eating an orange before
breakfast will cure drunkenness. A
Kansas editor says he knows better. He
has tried it.
A machine for pressing coal dust into
fuel was recently put in operation in Pa.
The machine gives perfect satisfaction
and will utilize millions of dollars
worth of dust which has heretofore been
wasted.
The Wyandotte and Kansas City Coal
Mining Company has sunk hole AIS
feet in depth. Salt water is thrown out
to height of fifty feet. We hope this
water may be utilized, and the price of
salt reduced.
On the night of the Sth inst. a daring
attempt was made to rob the express
car on the Vandalia railroad. The rob-
bers were unsuccessful. The engineer
was killed. Large rewards have been
offered for the capture of the villains.
Colorado is to be State on and after
July 1, 1876. She is consequently known
as the centennial State" The popula-
ton of the State at this time is probably
about 10000. The area of the State is
about rs large as New York.
The Yale College geological survey
now being made in this State will fur
nish many very interesting facts when
the report is published. The party has
discovered and sent home some of the
largest and most interesting fossils ever
found on this continent.
Much is now said concerning the Kelly
motor, ANEW machine, which will sup
ersele the use of steam, gunpowder and
if it will do all which the
inventors claim. No ire or chemicals |
Are used. The world is anxiously awaiting
the issuance ofthe patent and publicity of
The secret is desired. We are not yet
quite ready to believe in the concern.
Us altogether too good thing.
When you go to the polls this fall, vote
for representative who will work to
have the statutes revised. In order to
learn what the law is, one must now
look through the general statutes and
seven ANIMALS. The general statutes are
already out of print. These several vol
umcs of statutes should be revised and
published in one well indexed volume.
Henry Thompson. of Iowa, the man
who married his step daughter has been
senced to ten years imprisonment under
the laws OF that State. This should re-
mind some people that they had better
get an abstract Of title to their marriage,
md know that it is legal. We know of
l certain couple in this county whose
marriage by the laws of this State is in
void, and punishable by i'm
prisonment. They would do we'll to
-ectify their innocent mistake before
some enemy makes complaint.