The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-03-27
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Egypt
A man is in Jail in Polk county, Iowa,
for stealing Bibles.
The Carnival at Rome. this year, went
of very quietly.
The spelling match is the latest cpl.
demic moving westward.
Snow-shoe clubs are popular organize
tions just now in Canada.
Baltimore proposes to abolish tele.
graph poles in the streets.
A bill to punish baggage smashing is
before the Missouri Legislature.
Vice President Wilson is en- route for
New Orleans for short sojourn there.
In thirty.two counties in Missouri,
lO,6O2 sheep have been killed by dogs.
Nantucket was without mails for
twenty days, owing to the ice blockade.
Ninety-three per cent. Of the teachers
in the Chicago public schools are females.
Mr.. James Anthony Froude has re.
turned to England from his Australian
trip.
Bayard Taylor succeeds William Orion
as trustee Of the New York Tribune As
ISOLATION.
Sweden and Norway had colder
weather in January than for many years
previously.
Foreigners are now admitted into the
interior of Japan, if provided with spe-
cial passports.
Holland now has 1900 windmills in
operation, at an estimated annual cost
of$4, 100000
According to Senator Jones, 10000
more persons settled in California last
year than left it.
Chess is now managed by distant play
ers, by means of postal cards. A cent q
move is cheap enough.
The American colony in London is
said to have very largely increased with
in the past year or two.
The average corn crop of the Union
one year with another, is nearly one
thousand millions of bushels.
Thirty-four Yale students were recent
~ arrested and fined for stealing signs
from store and house fronts.
Edward Eggleston finds salary Of
e, 900 quite an inducement, and recog
nizes call to Boston church.
Senator Ogglesby, of Illinois, one of
the war governors, is going to take q
hand in the Connecticut campaign.
Elder Joseph Smith, son of old ORGAN
al Joe Smith, is lecturing on Mormonism
in Illinois. He denounces pOlygamy.
The meeting of the International
Congress of Geographical Science, at
Paris, IL to be held on the first of August.
1t is said that Ben Butler has been re-
tanned ~ counsel for the Pacific Mail
company at a salary Of 81. 900 per year.
The colored people of Boston have
invited Gen. Butler to accept q public
reception and lie ha, CONSENTED. to do 10.
Four hundred millions of persons have
been carried by the London Metropoli-
tan Railway Company without single
accident.
Georgia has s3,3ls colored persons who
own property. They have 33S, 769 acres
of land, and their property is valued at
$6,OOO,O0O.
The aged people of Philadelphia are
dropping of very rapidly. Last week
thirty-one died who had reached or
passed tour score years.
The legislature of California has re-
Gently passed law preventing the pay.
ment of different salaries to school teach
ears on account Of sex.
On the 18th Of January it showed for
two hours at Bellianeb, in Upper Egypt
something that it is supposed never
happened there before.
Donald Mckay and the Warm Springs
Indians, who have been wandering in
New England, are now fed and lodged As
paupers in Fitchburg, Mass.
The first child christened in St. Pauls
Cathedral, London in III years was the
infant grandchild of Bishop Piers Claugh-
ton, Archdeacon Of Londop.
The trustees of the New York Catho.
lie schools have made q formal claim
upon the board of education for . por-
ton of the public school fund.
The State geologist of Wisconsin is
said to have received his appointment on
the understanding that he shall find gold
in some portion Of the State.
The Compulsory Education bill before
the Minnesota Legislature, which re-
quired fourteen weeks of school attend
ance was defeated by the Democratic
vote.
Old John Robinson, the famous show
man, is the Republican candidate for
mayor Of Cincinnati. If elected he will
diminish the license fee for all the
SHOWS"
The Agassiz Memorial fund is now 30
large as to give to the committee in
charge of it the assurance that the original
amount contemplated, 5000 will
soon be raised.
The students of Aberdeen University
have decided to invite Mr.. Gladstone to
become candidate for the Lord Rector
ship. since Prof. Huxley declines re-
election.
A process Of toughening glass by heat
ing it to redness and then cooling it in
,il has been discovered by Frenchman,
md is now attracting attention in manu-
circles.