The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-11
GENERAL BREyITIES,

600.
WEALTHY ladies now have models of
their figures made by French artists,
and leave their models with their dress
makers.
SOCIETY is nicely graded in China.
Water carriers must bow to fruit sellers,
the latter to tin peddlers, the latter TO
merchants, and the merchants must
bow very low to constables.
A NEGRO witness in trial the other
day was asked what he was doing in
certain saloon at q certain time. He
explained that he had gone there to
''change his breff." The explanation
was accepted.
The territories of Russia in Turkes-
tan cover AGO, 900 English square miles,
or space as large as the Austrian En-
pire, Germany, and Belgium combined:
But the population is only $500. 900, or
less than that of Switzerland.
The other day a man was hung at
Tanna-Fort, near Bombay, for horri-
BILE murder, and made rather q notable
observation in Gujerati. Standing un-
der the drop, he whispered to the exc
cutioner, ''In one minute what q lot
shall knowi"
The trousseau for Miss May, who is
to marry James Gordon Bennett, has
arrived from Europe, where it was col
lected at an expense of $50, 900, accord
ing to the gossips. 1t is said to be the
most beautiful and elaborate ever pre-
pared for an American lady.
ALONG the Virgin River in Nevada
are some of the most remarkable salt
formations in the world. They are in
fact mountains of crystal, extending for
more than 80 miles. The salt lies I'M
der shallow covering of earth, and is
raised by blasting. Most of it is per-
fectly pure, and so clear that fine print
can be read through foot of it.
Scarcely less wonderful are the salt
wells in the same section; one of which
is IS feet in diameter, and of great
depth, filled with water so salt that
person bathing in it will float on it like
cork. The indications are that this
region was once occupied by a great
salt lake.
Two bellies of Reading, Pa, lately
ca home from Philadelphia shorn of
their wealth of raven tresses. After
they had taken in all the points at the
big show and had made many pur-
ehases before they knew it they had
spent all their money, and what was
worse had lost their return excursion
tickets. They had no friends in Phila-
delphia and no time to write to Read
ing. They therefore resolved to make
raise; SO they skipped away into q
barber shop and struck bargain for
their back hair. The shaver offered
1915 each for what they had. In a
short time they were nicely shorn, and
thus they were able to get back to their
native land.
LUCY HOOPER, writing from Paris to
the World, tells how the ex-Empress
Eugenie's claim to beauty was estab-
lished. As a young girl, at the Court
of Madrid, she wore the flowing dra-
perry fashionable at that time, and which
was unfavorable to the display of her
exquisite figure. One day she fell into
the lake and was taken out insensible.
The then wet dress chung to her, and
her reputation for faultlessness of form
was never afterward questioned. The
same writer says: "To her great cred
it be it said that, after she became En-
press of the French, though she presid-
ed over one of the most dissolute courts
of modern Europe, the breath of SIAN
der never dared assail her. Her mar.
ried life was far from being happy.
Like a true Spaniard, she was passion
ately jealous of her husband, who GER
tainly gave her ample cause.
THE Czarowitch of Russia, who is
about to visit Vienna, Berlin, and Lon
don to endeavor to secure unanimous
action of the great powers in the East
ern problem, belongs to the war-like
"Old Russia" party, instead of the in
ternal development party favored by
the Gar. The German influences at
the Russian court are regarded by him
with dislike and disfavor. He is far
from being friendly with his cousins,
the Prussian Princes, and during the
late war was frankly out-spoken par
tisan of France, while his father was
well known to have sympathized With
the Germans. He is of medium height,
very solidly built, and possesses far
more enterprise and energy than his
father. In March last it was reported
that the Car was disposed to retire
from the throne, being weary of the
cares of Government, and to appoint
the Czarowitch Regent. Should war
now be declared, it is very probable
that this intention will be carried into
effect.
THE population of Constantinople,
with the suburbs, is now estimated at
SOC, 900, and the burden of vessels clear
ing the port at about 1000 tons. The
Roumelian railroad connects the city
with the northern provinces, passing
through wonderfully rich but wretch
eddy cultivated country, and before
long there will be more direct rail-
road communication with Europe by q
line meeting the Ruschuk-V arna Rail-
road, and crossing the Danube at Cur
gievo, to join the terminus of the Rou-
manian trunk line. Pera, thanks to
frequent fires and foreign residents, bids
fair to blossom into a pleasant place for
aChristian to dwell in. Two-thirds of
it was burnt in 1870, when 8, 200 houses,
including the British Embassy, were
destroyed. 1t is not being. rebuilt on
the former site, but large town is aris-
ing around the spot where the old town
stood, and about Galata, covering q
wide area, A very important Christian
city is probably destined to grow up
here, under the auspices of the embas-
sizes which cluster on Pera's heights.
BIOLOGISTS are coming to the conclu-
sion that the age of the earth has been
greatly overestimated; that the changes
of surface formation and life have been
going on for much shorter period
than the 300 million years generally &C