The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Gladstone is going to write book on
Marriage"
Victor Emanuel has a holy horror
of speech-making
Texas is looking hopefully forward to
three penitentiaries.
Gen. Longstreet has gone to sheep
raising in Georgia.
Colfax has $4,000 worth of lecture en-
gagements on hand.
1t is announced that Miss Thackeray
will visit America next year.
Over sixty different nations including
Japan, now burn American kerosene.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company
elected new directory ON Wednesday.
At the request of the Emperor Prince
Bismarck is to take six months vaca.
ton.
Tennessee proposes to purchase Il coal
field and set its convicts to work in the
mines.
The Pope gave audience to and adj
dressed an American deputatioa last
week.
| The widow of the late Confederate
General Stevens is clerk in the Patent
Office.
Elizabeth Caly S,anton's son is
farmer in the West and gr:lsshoprer
sufferer.
The Democrats of the first Connecticut
d strict have nominated Geo. II. Land
e for Congress.
Philadelphia people cat peanuts. Six
hundred thousand bushels were consumed
in that city last year.
Cen Banks doubts if Shah :pcare ever
existed, but then. an old politician isn't
expected to believe anything
a steam ship company is being form
At regular intervals between B.,s:sn and
liverpool.
Isaac Dickinson, one of the Negro
Jubilee singers Of Tennessee. is studying
for the ministry at the University OF
Edinburgh.
Superintendent Wallace il still of the
opinion that Charley Ross ia alive. though
possibly in charge of people who are not
aware Of hi; identity.
The comptroller of currency h. called |
upon national banks FIR a report OF their |
condition ut the close Of business on
Monday, the FIRST of March.
Samuel W. Allen of Nevada is believed |
to he the greatest herdsalan in the world. |
His ranche is eighty miles long, and he
owns 250,0 head OF cattle.
The late Adj. Gen lorenzo Thomas, !
who was NJ one time President ,Iohnson's
Secretary of War al enterim, died in
Washington in the I'D year of his age.
NJ. Geor-c Wil!;aa, Curtis has con-
scented to deliver the Grafton mt Concord
on April 10 next, when the centennial
anniversary of the Concord fight will be
observed.
Fifty se:cn Louisville firms unite in
thanking Hon. L. p. Pollard for his &C.
ton in behalf of the citizens OF Arkansas,
with whom they have close business re-
lations.
The Grand Jury IS now being drawn
at Salt Lake. Poiygamists, or those ex.
pressing conscientious scruples about
finding indictments against p"lygamists
are excused.
The public debt statement shows a
decrease during February of $50, S0!. S3
coin in the treasury, S756. 2G0. S3 currency.
In treasury, $l0,3l9, 067, coin certificates
So, $50. 400, deposits for legal tenders,
~, 500, 800.
Political econmoy Is practiced in New
Hampshire by renting out the basement
Of the State House as hennery to the
janitor of the building, who is now doing
a lively business in tile poultry line.
The Washington Star says that whisky
can be easily obtained at one of the Cap.
itol restaurants, provided one is willing
TO drink it from cOffee-cup set in a
saucer and garnished with spoon. Can
these things be!
Morse's bill, repeating the railroad law
If last winter, passed the House of Rep
BIZ 81 tn 80. The bill ap.
pointing one commissioner with advisory
luties only, indicating great change in
popular sentiment in Minnesota.
A bill to abolish treating has been
Introduced into the Illinois Legislature.
t provides that any man found guilty of :
skiing another man to drink any intox.
eating liquors shall be fined not less =
han $40 nor more than 800.
An old law prohibiting masked balls q
las been revived in New York. The
'ther evening the Grand Opera ball,
regarded as the climax of the
eason, took place at the Academy of
iusic, and the prospects Immediately
were of success as brilliant :
5 ever achieved. At the last moment.
owever, Mayor Wickham interferred
" resurrecting the almost forgotten law
nd tnstructing the police to forbid the
ntrance to the building of any persons