The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-10-28
GENERAL BREy1TIEs.

IHE MlkaQO OF Japan mas put on MS
heather garments and struts around in
a nobby suit of plaid, like en- American
swell of the day.
A FUND of $780, has been raised in
England to aid Jewish mechanics in
Palestine to erect houses outside OF
Jerusalem, and encourage those who
express desire to follow agricultural
pursuits.
MosT of the exhibitors at the Centen-
NAL have reaped harvests by the sale
of their goods. The Turks and the
Russians have pretty nearly sold out ;
the Chinese and Japanese have stuffed
their pockets, and the English and
French have done well. Our own ex-
hibitors have not disposed of many ar
ticles, but are counting on great profits
in the future.
THE sole male heir of the late James
Lick is described as a tall, rawboned
man about so years of age, with stringy,
iron-gray beard and hair, wrinkled,
care-worn features and generally
smashed-up appearance. He has gone
to California and will contest the will,
and, probably, if successful in getting a
share of his defunct relatives money,
will no longer look stringy and care
worn. He certainly ought not.
THERE are twelve million Christians
in Turkey, number nearly equaling
one-third the population of the United
States, and being fully one-third of the
population under the control of the
Porte. So suspiciously are they watch
ed and guarded, and so carefully pro-
hibited from any share in any military
organization, that their number makes
them, after all, in no way formidable
in opposition to the military power of
the Moslems.
WHILE demolishing a part of the
medieval Notifications of Regensburg,
Bavaria, recently, the workmen uncov-
cred a corner of the wall which sur
rounded the old Roman city of Reg
mum. Two of the stones were sculp-
tured, one being the figure of a chief
tain debating to secretary, the other
a horse with man holding him by the
bride. Fragments of pillars and hewn
stones were found near by, supposed to
be the remains of a palace.
EVERY one has heard the story of the
Edelweiss which grows in the Alps in
such dangerous places, that the Swiss
lover, at the risk of his life, procures it
for his sweetheart to show her his de-
votion. 1t is very pretty legend, but
it will have to be gathered to sleep with
the story of William Tell, for there is
no truth in it. One doesn't need to
balance himself on the edge of q chasm
to get the flower, for it grows where q
child can pluck it in safety.
As Bishop Tuttle, of Montana, was
making his annual visitation last July a
ranchman and his wife brought their
family to be baptized. Among them
was fine baby boy OF six months.
When the Bishop asked the names of
the children the mother gave as the
baby's name "Bishop Tuttle." The
Bishop mildly suggested that his first
name was Daniel, but the mother could
not be driven from her resolution, and
the baby was accordingly baptized Bish-
op Tuttle Curtis!
A LEAD-BoRING insect has been OBJ
served lately in the lead chambers used
in sulphuric-acid works. 1t has a pow
erful biting apparatus, and attacks fresh
pine wood, seeming to prefer this to
other kinds, and easily makes its way
through it to the lead walls of the cham
bers. In making its passage through
lead it produces perfectly round hole
which is contracted conically in front.
The issuing soaps and acid, however,
Immediately kills it as soon as the plate
is perforated. 1t does not enter old or
dry wood.
Mrs. BROOKS, who made in butter q
model of the head of the dreaming
''lolauthe," gave some exhibitions of
her work before committee of ladies
and gentlemen in the Judges Hall on
the Centennial grounds, a few days
since. She took about Is pounds of
butter, ladle and spoon and a piece of
wire, and with looking glass before
her she consulted the lights and shad-
ows and contour of her face, and in .
little while human head and face was
successfully finished to the satisfaction
of those present.
THERE was a severe drouth in China,
recently, and the Celestial mind at once
jumped to the conclusion that some
thing had disturbed the harmonious
relations of heaven and earth, and they
must be set right again. So the gov
eminent decreed that no animal should
be slain for three days. The conse-
quence was that the discord was ad-
justed, and the rsin descended copious-
ly. 1t was merely peculiar form of
prayer, and it's Christian doctrine that
prayer will bring rain.
THEY have persistent thieves in Ore
gon. A lady received S120 in Portland,
the other day, and was soon after &C.
costed by two men, who demanded the
money. She managed to evade them,
but they called twice, during the night,
at the house where she was stopping,
but were frightened away. The next
day, she set out for her home on horse
back, and was stopped by her indefati-
gable followers, and this time escaped
by a strategem, leaving them 50 as a
return for their protracted labors.
BoRoDA BEwA, a Bengalee woman,
finding it more easy to run away than
to pay her arrears of rent, concealed
herself in the house of friend. Her
retreat being discovered, she was seized
by her creditor, who dragged her un-
questioned through the streets of the
suburb to his own house. He applied
a red-hot brass ladle to her cheeks,
shoulders, knees, back and thighs.
This was done in the presence of four
witnesses, also his tenants, who made
no effort to interfere.
THE mock autioneer has new trick.
He buys up a lot of horses of
small value, and advertises them as
from the stables of some noted horse
fancier lately dead or bankrupt. He
is aware that the average buyer knows