The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-10-21
GENERAL BREv1TIEs.

LICK, the late California millionaire,
was one of the most skilled mechanics
in the country, and there are many
things in the Lick House which were
constructed by him. In the dining
room the ornamental work at the bases
of the pictures and mirrors was all con-
structed by him, with the aid of q ma
chine which he invented, but which he
never had patented.
A YOUNG man who was engaged to
be married recently committed suicide
in Cincinnati, and the mother of the
damsel whom he was to wed brought
in bill against his estate of Sl28 for
board and $50 for wedding expenses
incurred by the prospective bride. The
court allowed 500 of the account, and
the matter was finally settled by the
payment of $85.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD boy, son of Mason
Sage, of West marlborough, VT, was
lost in the woods last week, ard had q
play spell with two black bears. They
came up to him as he sat on the grass
in an open glade and smelt of him. He
patted them on the head, thinking they
were dogs, and then they walked away
into the forest. Their footprints dis
closed that they were the "dogs :" the
boy told about encountering.
WITHIN few weeks there has been
published in Berlin the Journal of Cooks
and Housemaids. The paper contains
a number of reports regarding employ
org uho looly nv, thar h,,ffor opI o., 30 >.
from servants, who speak to them i'm
politely, and in other ways give offense.
Names are given, and large number of
subscribers to the paper have pledged
themselves not to engage in the service
Of any woman who may be exposed in
it as much as three times in a year.
THERE is q centennial clock on ex-
hibition at Philadelphia, which the in
ventor says will not have to be wound
but once in hundred years; giving
the most accurate time, telling the
month of the year, the day of the month,
the day of the week, the hour of the
day and minute of the hour. If any
body should buy one of these clocks and
it should stop after running 80 years or
so, and meanwhile the inventor should
die, how is that swindled person going
to get redressp
A NEW variety of street music has
been introduced in Paris. A piano on
q low truck is wheeled into the court
yar1 of house, woman takes her seat
on the music-stool and plays different
pieces with as much self-possession as
if she was seated in q drawing room,
while boy an 1 girl, probably her chill
dren, collect money from the bystand-
ers, or pick up the sous thrown from
the windows. The performance over,
the player arises, the instrument is
closed and covered over with q cloth,
and a stout fellow drags it off to some
other house, where the pieces are re-
peated.
The estate of Kersalaiin, in Brittany,
for centuries occupied by the ancient
and wealthy family of Kernel, is soon
to be sold by auction. The last tenants
of the old and picturesque chateau were
widowed mother and her two sons.
The eldest, Olivier, was Mayor of the
Commune, and the youngest led the
quiet life of country gentleman. Both
became attached to a young servant
girl of the establishment, and Olivier,
having reason to believe that his broth
er obtained the preference, shot him
He was condemned TO the galleys fol-
life, and soon died of mingled remorst
and fever. The mother, crushed will
grief, soon followed. Hence the auction
AN eccentric old gentleman who late
ly died in Paris has forbidden in his viii
that priests should officiate at his funer
al, or that his heirs, or any body else
should follow his corpse to the grave
The will observes that persons invited
to funerals are often inconvenienced by
being withdrawn from their business
through necessity for showing respect
to the dead and his family. 1t wishes
to spare them that Inconvenience. 1,
also says that such guests, though
wearing q melancholy aspect at the
residence of the dead, become very
cheerful on the way to the cemetery
when in the first carriages, and some
times uproariously SO at the end of the
line.
JUDGE PHELPS, of the Covingtor
County (Ky.) Court, issued rule, 6
few days ago, requiring Mr.. Tony
Burns, executor of Mrs. Mary Kennedy
under will probated eight years ago
to appear and settle his account as such
The next day Mr.. Burns appeared q,
the Office of the County Clerk, and in
answer to the rule, presented Mrs. Ken
nelly, the testatrix, herself. When the
Judge recovered from his establishment
he learned that the will had been pro
bated while Mrs. Kennedy was lying
apparently at the point of death; thai
Mr.. Burns had it probated before hel
death, in his anxiety to despatch bust
ness, and Mrs. Kennedy subsequently
recovered. He was called on to settle
up some yeers ago, but made some dill
atory motion at that time, not being in
a hurry to reveal the ludicrous position
he had placed himself in.
ONE of the hottest regions of the earth
is along the Persian Gulf, where little
or no rain falls. At Barhin the arid
shore has no fresh water, yet com
paratively numerous population con.
trives to exist there, thanks to copious
springs which burst forth from the bot.
tom Of the sea. The fresh water is got
by diving. The diver, sitting in his
boat, winds great goatskin bag around
his left arm, the hand grasping its
mouth; then he takes in his right hand
q heavy stone, to which is attached s
strong line, and thus equipped he
plunges in and quickly reaches the bot.
tom. Instantly opening the bag ovel
the strong jet Of fresh water, he springs
up in the ascending current, at thu
same time closing the bag, and is help
ed aboard. The stone is then hauled