The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Does New Years come in this year OF
in the next?
The debt statement shows a decrease
during October Of 81, 069, 0l5.69.
Brick Pomeroy advocates the repudi
alton Of the national debt in full.
Jem Mace, of London, and Tom Allen
of st. Louis, are arranging for prize
fight.
"Mush and Milk Festivals" and Gap.
pie Butter Parties" are now the rage Ia
Pennsylvania.
Some of Daniel Webster's autographs
were sold in Boston, the other day, fol-
from eight to fifteen cents apiece.
The drift of modern splritualism tends
towards two great objective points-the
lunatic asylum and the State prison.
1t cost New York $4,000, to col.
lect $2S, OOO,0 of taxes. 1t costs New
Orleans 500, 900 to collect $2,0OO,OOO.
Two hundred and seventeen varieties
of Iowa apples are being prepared in wax
and plaster for the National Centennial.
The Setinel Dnaemocratic paper start
ed a. Denver by o. d. Macdonald and G.
P. Smith, is among the things that were.
When the Democratic editors tell the
truth: When the eastern and western
sections are misunderstanding each 9TH
er.
Ferney's Sunday Chronicle has come
out in favor of the third term, and makes
an especial point of the public school
issue.
If the bark be thickest on the north
side it will be a cold winter, if on the
south side it will not. Examine your
dogs and see.
One of MOOdy's strong utterances was
"DO you suppose there is a man in
Brooklyn who would have a photograph
of his heart taken?'
The past summer has been noted by
meteorologists as being cooler by five
degrees than the average season for more
than eighty years past.
The colored people OF Kansas City pro-
pose starting a weekly paper, to be called
the "Enterprise" The Enterprise will lie
devoted to the interests Of the race.
Disastrous floods are reported through
out England and Ireland. The River
Folka, near Dublin, has burst its banks
and submerged thousands Of acres.
The Chicago Board of Education Fri
day evening refused to restore Bible
reading as an opening exercise in the
public schools, there being only three
votes in favor of it.
Chicago, the largest grain market in
the world, handles 100000 bushels
annually, and has now in operation
eighteen steam elevators, with capacity
of 10, $50, 900 bushels.
The centennial of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, fought on the 18th of June.
1776, is to be celebrated by the Palmetto
Guards. Of South Carolina, by erecting
il $4,000 monument.
The only living descendent of Geo. d.
Prentice is a grandson of ii years of age,
who bears the same name. He is now
the South for his grandfathers
forthcoming book Of poems.
Carl Schurz has taken house in Thir-
ty-second street, New York city where
his family will live during the winter,
and where he will be found when not
absent on his lecturing tour.
The late New Hamshire census shows
that from 1922 to 1873, q period of 81
wears, one hundred and three persons
living in that State had attained an age
Of more than one hundred years.
Barnum adyertises the whole stock of
his hippodrome and worlds fair for sale
at auction, on November &c. Ifanybody
wants to get any Circassian girls or fat
women at halfprice, now is the time.
The old hell which called together the
Convention of ITS, in Rich
mond. when Patrick Henry uttered his
stirring sentence. Give me liberty or
give me DEATH" is still in use in Mar
linville, in that State:
The Rev. Mr.. Kalloch. of California,
of Lawrence, thinks there is no
more SIN in going to theatre than in
going to church festival, but that young
men should not 60 to either when their
washing bills are unpaid.
Dancing is said 70 be on the decline in
London, and polite society appears to be
acting on the hint given by the Shah of
Persia when he inquired of the Prince of
Wales, at ball. "Why don't you employ
servants to do this for you p
The cholera in the Neilgherry District
interferes with the mOvemements of the
Prince of Wales. The Prince arrived
1t Poonah, and had an enthusiastic re-
,eptiOn. 1t is doubtful if he can visit
Madras, owing to cholera in that Presi-
1ency.
The Franco American Union for the
erection of a Centennial statue in New
York harbor, is organizing a grand fete
TO take place at the Palais d'Industry
President MacMahon, the members of
MS Cabinet, many Deputies. and other
persons have subscribed to
he statute fund, and several of the prin.
,ipal cities of France have voted contri-
buttons.
The National Protestant