The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-04
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
VIRGINIA CITY men beguile the mo
ments when the Stock Board is not il
session with matching $40 gold pieces
VISITING cards this season are to VAR
in size between 9 circus hand-bil and
street-car ticket.
LUCILLE WESTERN wants $1O,OOt
from the Milwaukee Times for accusing
her of being drunk on the stage.
CONNECTICUT isn't going to lose it
reputation as divorce-gralting State
Just yet. The Superior Court at Hart
ford has just ground out batch OF "a
AT Mars Bluff, S. c., last week, 8
farmers wife gave birth to five chill.
dren, all alive and hearty. The
sscrowd" consisted of three boys and
two girls.
THE money already left by visitors
in Philadelphia for accommodations
and amusements this year, is estimated
to have been not q cent less than $685.
100000.
In Algeria there is a river formed by
the junction of two streams, one COM
ing from a region of ferruginous soil
and the other draining peat swamp.
The acid in the latter, acting upon the
iron in the former, forms q true ink,
and the river is actually stream OF
good writing fluid.
A MEXICAN woman who lives near
this city, the wife of Juan Valencula,
says the Los Angeles Republican, has
been married 20 years and has borne
20 children, and expects to live long
enough to have Is or 20 more. The
lady is not 35 years old. Who saysthis
is not a prolific climatep
A WRITER in the London Times says
that his butcher sent him prime ribs of
American imported beef at ninepence
a pound. The meat was fresh and
tender, although perhaps not of quite
so fine quality as the best English.
He publishes the fact as an encourage
ment, not only to American exporters,
but to all countries where meat is cheap.
The lowest market price for prime ribs
in London is shilling pound.
A WHALE was killed IN the Chesa-
peake last week. The monster ground
ed in six feet of water on Occohannock
bar and made great exertions to get of,
spouting prodigiously at intervals, much
to the ediication of large company of
villagers. Length, 374 feet; weight,
about two tons; length of tail, 6 feet;
length of mouth, 8 feet.
On the person of a Chinese Thug,
arrested in San Francisco the other
day, was found a coat of mail made
of cloth, cotton batting and several
thicknesses of heavy bamboo paper,
so arranged that it would turn blow
of knife or change the course of bull
let. 1t was provided with pockets for
knives and hatchets, and a set of rings
on which to hang an iron bar.
The King of FIJI has just gone mad.
When his island was coded to England,
he proposed to present to the Queen
his trusty war-club, with which he had
Drained several hundred Of his subjects.
His latest manifestation of generosity
was manifested toward the President |
of the London Mission Society, to
whom, as token of esteem and respect,
he forwarded seven handsome young
women as wives.
A NEW healing agent has appeared,
whose efficacy is said to be only equal
ed by its agreeableness. The patient
merely sits in his easy-chair and
breathes compressed air forced into the
room by steam-engine. The inventor
says that this forces the air into the
minutest lung passages, increasing the
of the blood, and removing
distractions in the lungs. The dis
coverer asserts that the process will
cure all forms Of disease caused by de-
ficient respiration, and diseases of the
blood, such as scrofula.
The sense of touch is easily tested by
letting one person place the points of a
pair Of compasses at different distances
from each other on the skin of another,
who must be blindfolded. The latter
will then feel the impression as that of
one or two points, according to the SEN
sitiveness of his nerves. Thus it is
found that the most sensitive part is the
tip of the tongue, where the two points
are distinguished when two-fiftieths of |
an inch apart; and the least sensitive is
the back, where they are felt as one |
point at distance of two and two-third |
inches.
In the trial of Cote, ex-Cashier of
the Jacques Cartier Bank, now in prog
resss at Montreal, the evidence develops |
an astonishing condition of things. 1t |
is shown that the accounts of the Bank |
have been falsified and the returns to
the Government misrepresented to the
amount of 1871 1892. This enormous
fraud was rendered easy of perpetra-
ton by the peculiar circumstances of
the case. Romauld Trudeau, President |
of the Bank, is a man 20 years old and |
so blind that he could just manage to
sign his name, but could not see to read |
a line or figure in the statements and |
accounts rendered to him by the Cash
Ter. The latter enjoyed the entire con-
fidence Of the sightless old President,
who signed whatever was brought to |
him. 1t is no great wonder that there
was a " discrepancy" of nearly three
millions.
A Man Chloroformed and Q Safe Cleaned
Out-All In Fifteen Minutes.
The boldest robbery ever perpetrated