The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

GENERAL BREVITIES.
A MOOSE from Nova Scotia, that ca
trot q mile in harness in 2:2O, is anus
ing the novelty-seekers in Philadel
phia.
A MONKEY that can say 'spapa,
s'mamma," and stBrazil," is going Il
the Paris Exposition to vindicate Oar
win.
PINE logs sunk in the water at Nan
tucket Sc years ago are SO well pre-
served that their ''smen of pine" is still
distinct.
TIE first dense fog of the season il
London occurred on the 18th of Octo
Der. Artificial light was necessary
throughout the day, street traffic wa
impeded, and that on the Thames al
most entirely stopped after two fata
accidents had occurred.
A BOSTON grocer told a 2OO-pount
widow that she could have barrel o.
his flour if she would carry it home. tt
his dismay, the widow '.yanked" down
a barrel, placed it on q wheelbarrow
and started home with it, followed by 6
noisy crowd.
AKENTUcKYr picker lately bought
a bundle of scrap wool for IS cents
and inside he found two mustard-b xes
containing a $500 United States bond
and six 800 bonds, with coupons at.
tached and due for $62 more.
A TUSCALOOSA girl got even with her
mother the other day by marrying the
elder brother of the mothers second
husband. As the wife of the elder
brother she takes precedence, but treats
her new sister-in-1aw with patronizing
politeness.
A CITIZEN of Woonsocket, Rhode Is
land, was supposed to be dead, but at
ter remaining insensible for five days,
his consciousness was restored, and it
was supposed he would recover. The
physicians pronounced it a case of pro-
longed congestion of the brain.
AVERY beautiful and useful fabric
can be made from spider webs; and q
regular branch of industry might be es-
tablished. in the manufacture Of it but
for the fact that the fighting propensi-
ties of spiders always get the better of
their industrious habits when they are
collected in large quantities.
Mr.. HEATING, of California, thus
wrote to a widow: "Methinks some
times when lay awake in the morning
and think of thee, fancy / see the can
opy of heaven open and a bright vista
appears from it, and 10! l see thee, my
angelic girl" She weighs 100 pounds,
and has sued him for breach of promise.
A MANUFACTURING company of
Waterbury. Connecticut, have present
ed to the French Centennial Commits
sion, through General Hawley, fac
SMILES of set of gold sleeve buttons
which were presented by the predeces-
sors of the firm to the Marquis of La
fayette, when he visited this country in
1924.
AN Englisman, several members of
whose family had been sick with ty-
phoid fever, had a room re-papered, and
found that there were no less than twen-
ty-five wallpapers already on the wall.
The presence of this mass of decompos-
ing paste and paper sufficiently account
ed for the disagreeable smell that was
always noticeable although drains and
water-closets were well trapped.
SEVERAL firms in San Francisco at
tempted recently to form "corner :"
in grain bags, but they overestimated
the wants of the market and made q
serious miscalculation in not allowing
for the use of the bags a second time,
and the paper of one of the interested
firms has gone to protest. The ring is
said to have more than 5000, 900 bags
on hand.
A BREWER in Denmark of the name
OF Jacobsen has set apart the sum of one
million crowns (about $500, 0OO), one
half of the interest of which is to be ap-
piled in continuing the chemico-physi-
illogical laboratory established by him
in connection with his brewery. The
other half is intended to promote the
study of the natural sciences, mathe-
mates, philosophy, history, and Ian
guages.
AN English Company has proposed
to Governor Smith, of Georgia, to put
on first-class line of steamships be-
tween Savannah or Brunswick and Liv-
erpool at once, and keep them running
steadily, provided the State will give
them bonus of $4,000 a year for
three years. They guarantee besides
that they will land 5000 immigrants
per month on our shores.
PRACTICAL Joking out in Nevada is
as dangerous as robbing bank in more
eastern communities. A facetious fell
low, who drew a great crowd about
him in Virginia City, the other day,
under pretense of iberating q lot of
rats for a dog to kill, but who, instead,
wickedly let loose an odoriferous skunk,
was hunted all night by a gang with
vowing dire vengeance.
About 100 persons had their clothes
ruined.
In Vermont they off with the new
love and on with the old. "a man and
woman, who were divorced from each
other twenty years ago, we're remarked
one day last week. Since the dissolu-
ton of the original tie the bride had
been married once and the groom twice.
They met one noon, failed to recognize
each other, were introduced by a mu-
tual friend, and were remarked the |
same evening""
AT the sale of Cooper, Bailey & Co. 8
menagerie in San Francisco, last week,
the elephant Betsey was knocked down |
to Adam Forepaugh, of Philadelphia,
for "a 900, he having offered that bid |
by telegraph. The sacred COW and calf |
went for $32 so; laughing hyena, IS;
white camel, $50; red camel and calf,
s47; African bear, $3.50; rare birds,