The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-05-20
GENERAL NEWS.

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Parson Brownlow wants Morton for
next President. IS
Moody and Sankey will storm Chicago
about the LIST Of June.
Americans introduced the first soda
fountain At the Paris exposition.
The oldest son and heir of the Khedive
Of Egypt is coming to the Centennial. {.
Hon. Martin I. Townshead, the comic
Congressman, is round-headed and stout.
The Adventists are again in the field
the end cometh in the Centennial year.
Seven hundred Turks and one hundred
insurgents reported killed in q recent
battle.
Statisticians tell us that 1926 per.
sons got drunk in England and Wales
last year.
Up to last Saturday $4,421 900 Of
silver coin had been discussed from the
Treasury.
Bret Harte wears little gypsyish hat
set jauntily sidewise on his struggling
iron-gray locks.
Mrs. Mella Dodd, residing near Bowl.
ing Green, KY, has reached the mellow
age Of ll6 years.
England never had such a display of
paintings outside the British isles as she
has at Philadelphia
Dom Pedro wore a shocking bad hat
at the Centennial, and so did Gen. Grant.
People talked about it.
One ola. T. Stewards rules was always
to keep posted as to what was in the
newspaper advertisements.
Minister, and next Governor, Orth, of
Indiana, is to have grand reception on
his arrival in Indianapolis.
Moses L. Swift of Reno, Nevada, has
been granted divorce from his wife on
account of her "mental cruelty"
The Presbytery of New York has re-.
quested all its ministers to preach his
torical discourses on or before July 4.
The condition of the Philadelphians
after the Exposition had fairly opened is
described as ''happy, muddy and tired"
The silk worm eggs raised in Kansas
and sent to France were found to be much
superior to those imported from China
or Japan.
The brokers in Philadelphia made
people pay ten cents for every bill
changed the day of the opening Of the
Exposition.
There's "no nonsense" about Count
Bismarck. He spends his spring vaca-
ton spading in his garden and planting
cabbages.
Provincial newspapers emphasize the
fact that ex-Gov. Wise, who is now at
tracing public notice, signed John
Browns death warrant.
A great physical change has come over
Brigham Young within the past few
weekes, and the doctors think that he
cannot live much longer.
Five new marble buildings will be
erected by the trustees of Girard College
on their grounds at Philadelphia, so that
the institution will accommodate 300
pupils.
There are upwards of 10000 women
in New York city employed in various
trades, and it is estimated that their ag.
gregate earnings amount to nearly $40.
00O,00 year.
The Government has just awarded a
pension, amounting to $1,000, to the
children of Mr.. Fultz, of Kanwaka,
Douglas county, who was killed during
the Price raid.
The Empress of India pays Lord Lyt-
ton, her Viceroy, $685. 900 a year, which
is a fair salary, considering the times.
At any rate, it is better than writing
poetry for living.
The Chinese question is beginning to
excite interest in British Columbia. A
dispatch from Victoria says a resolution |
passed the House, without debate, de-
claring it expedient for the Government
to take steps to prevent the provinces
from being overrun by the Chinese, to
the injury of the white population.