The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-17
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Ex-senator Matt Carpenter is stopping
in New York.
Silver has been discovered in Tazewell
Co., Virginia.
The Governor General of Canada will
sail for England May LIST.
A man named Noah was drowned by
the late food in New York.
There are only thirty-seven daily pa
pers in all England Ireland and Scotland.
The report that the Emperor of Brazil
proposes to abdicate is pronounced un-
true.
Nearly every steamer leaving England
is loaded with spice for the United States
trade.
This month 10000 men will be put to
work on the Philadelphia Centennial
buildings.
Great Britain has but 15O, 526 acres
planted in orchards. Illinois alone has
twice as many.
The President appointed v. v. Smith
of Arkansas, United States Consul to
st. Thomas, West Indies.
Theodore Tilton is to enter the lecture
field under the management Of the
American Literary Bureau.
A Chinese young lady was recently an
applicant for a vacancy among the
teachers of San Francisco school.
A carriage and span of horses have been
presented to Cardinal McClOskey by
some of the prominent Catholics Of New
York.
London has more jews than Palestine,
more ScOtchmen than Edinburgh, more
Irish than Dublin, more Catholics than
Rome
A fire at Gloucester, N. j., April IL,
burned the Washington house aud three
other buildings. Loss, $l5O,OOO; partly
insured.
The Emperor of Russia will 60 to Ems
in May, and it Is possible that the
EmperOrs of Austria and Germany will
meet him there.
Gov. Leslie. of Kentucky, is a candi-
date for the United States SenatOrship
from that State. The Hon. James Il.
Beck is his rival.
President Grant recently purchased
$40,G worth of real estate in Prince
Georges county, Nd, a few miles from
Washington to use as n stock. farm.
A recent decision of the supreme court
at Washington is to the effect that an I'M
truthful answer Of an applicant for
life insurance policy vOids the policy
even if the question is an immaterial
one.
A Chicago man thinks that the worst
speller ought to get the dictionary and the
winner should have q "wreath Of sOrrel,
or some other garden sass, like them
Greeks"
Mr.. Pullman has issued orders to the
of his cars to permit
people to purchase tickets without regard
to race, color, or previous condition of
servitude."
The Republican gains on the popular
vote in Cleveland is 1,50O. The DINO
cratic majority last year was $500. An
other united effort will extinguish what
Is lett OF That majority.
The average Gorilla of Central Africa,
now points to Stanley and his band OF
explorers, and pathetically reminds to his
grandchildren that cit is what they may
one day expect to come to-"
At certain iron works at Sheffield,
England, iron nails are now cut by
means of circular too:hless disk of iron
which is driven at the rate Of from 1000
to 5000 revolutions per minute.
The French government has sent in.
strGctiOns to its consuls to summon, for
the last time, all citizens abroad, liable
to military service, to have their names
at the various consuiates.
The British lion and the Russian bear
are drawing so near on the Eastern
question that they begin to chate against
zach other. 1t is only question of
lime how soon the collision must come.
The dogma of papal infalibility is too
much for the Catholics of Poland $50, 900
If whom have, on that account, with
lrawn from the Romish church and
oined the orthodox Greek denomination.
Ex-senator Brownlow is preparing an
answer to Andrew Johnson's recent
peech in the Senate on southern affairs.
answer will be published
simultaneously in his own paper at
Knoxville and in the New York Tribune.