The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-18
GENERAL BREvITHs.

GENERAL BREvIT1ESs
An old resident of Midway, Mass,
was sent to the poor-house the other
week, on the same day that his son laid
the foundation of fine house for his
own use in the most aristocratic part
of the village.
A LACE pincushion in the Woman's
Pavilion at the Centennial, lined with
white satin and covered with point
gauze lace, required the labor of three
women for over four months. Some
of the Mechlin lace on exhibition in the
same department is SO fine that . yard
weighs but four pennyweights.
MRS. EWING, of Jersey City, died re-
Gently from what her attending ply
sicians claim to be an attack OF hydro
phobia. In August last, Mrs. Ewing,
while playing with kitten, was bitten
in the thumb, the animals teeth per-
forating the nail. No evil effects were
felt from it until recently.
THERE was not q honey bee in Cali
fornia previous to the discovery of the
gold mines, and now there is not q To-
cality suitable to the industry where it
is not to some extent prosecuted. Two
hundred thousand pounds of honey
were shipped from that State to New
York in one consignment, recently.
A JEALOUS Baltimore husband, P. j.
Tracy, swallowed morphine after writ
ing to his wife: cit is for you that
have done this, and when am dead
you can do what you like about marry
ing Schlutter." Mrs Tracy got the let
ter, but before she had time to marry
Schlutter her husband had been pump
ed free of the poison.
By the last official report of the Hart
ford insurance companies ii
was shown that 212,467 peo-
pie have their lives insured in
that city. These lives are insured for
$3.50, OOO,0 900 altogether, and the prop.
erty insured in the fire companies is
S645, GAG, 900 more, SO that the total
risk which Hartford carries is in round
numbers 81, 1O0,00O,0O0.
EVERY young man in the Sioux ma
ton carries pocket mirror, either OF
glass backed with quicksilver or OF
some shining metal; but an Indian
maid is not permitted to look at re-
Election of her race, even in the brook.
for this is the masculine privilege. Al.
most every thing the Sioux brave owns
is "wakan," or sacred; but nothing
that the squaw possesses is so esteemed.
The valley of the Pc, embracing
Piedmont and Lombardy, is marvel Of
successful irrigation. An agricultural
authority estimates the irrigated sur.
face at 100000 acres. The increase
on the rental produced by irrigation is,
at very moderate estimate, %, $780,
600 a year. The length of canals OF
irrigation in Lombardy, including the
great lines and their first-class branches,
exceeds 1850 miles.
NEVADA has 10000 people and one
desert. The desert covers 80, 900 square
miles of territory, and is a poor place
to hunt ducks. When a man starts a
farm in Nevada, he builds q cabin and
then fences in all outside. Out of this
he generally gets about forty square feet
of dirt in which to plant rutabaga and
four beans. In the spring he moves
back East.
A LONDON authority announces that
it is proposed to introduce round in.
stead of square-shaped playing-cards,
as being more easy to manipulate while
dealing, &c. Also, that instead OF
merely having the suits colored black
and red, they are to be red (hearts),
green (diamonds), black (spades), and
yellow (clubs). This will certainly help
to keep the several suits distinct.
THE Cincinnati Southern Railroad
bridge over the Kentucky River is rap.
idly approaching completion, and is
said to be notable triumph of me-
chanical and engineering skill. The
bridge is LIPS feet in length, divided
into three spans of 375 feet each, and
286 feet above wafer. The scenery in
that locality is the grandest in Ken
lucky. The bridge and surroundings
have been photographed by Cincin-
natl artist.
THERE is an eccentric gentleman in
Virginia who is haunted with the idea
that he will die in the poor-house, al
though he is in comfortable circum-
stances at present. He has erected a
handsome marble shaft bearing his
name, in the cemetery of that institu-
ton, blank spaces being left to be filed
in at his death, and now only waits for
fate or destiny to strip him of his proper
ty and make him q candidate for his
expected position.
THE town of Ipswich, Mass, is all in
a f1utter over the supposed finding of
the lopg-sought treasure of Capt. Kidd
at Castle Hill. As the story goes, a
man had dream, a few weeks since,
and in it saw large tree, which had
grown up since he last visited the spot;
under that tree gold was buried, over
which wers six cannon balls. A man
to whom this was told has visited the
spot, dug up the ground, and found six
cannon balls and some gold.
JAPAN is making progress in political
and social economy. A new census on
accurate principles is about to be I'M
dertaken, and the codifcation of the
laws of the Empire is under way. The
Yokohama letter in the San Francisco
AtIGS, from which we derive the above
information, adds: "Japan possesses
two small railroads. Both of them, il
is only justice to state, are remarkably
well managed and singularly exempt
from accident.
TIE following story is from Evans
vile, Indiana: A couple Of years ago
a young man, in despair because the
girl he loved had given her heart to an
other man, sat down under q tree, in
Blankford's Grove, and shot his life out.
The girl married, and now her husband
has disappeared in such q way as to lead
his friends to believe that he has drown.
ed himself. Disappointment in bust
ness has wrought ruin in his mind
that the love of the woman could not