The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
GENERAL BREVITIES.

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GREAT BRITAIN has 5000, 600 Mus.
sulman subjects.
In October, %, no. 900 postal cards
were issued.
GAMBLING is illegal in France, but
still continues.
The Mikado will attend the Paris Ex-
hibition of 1878.
The Russian navy has 26 iron-clads,
which carry 164 guns.
The shop-girls of Boston number
nearly tenth of her population.
The new reservoir at Louisville, KY,
is to contain 100,000,000 gallons Of
water.
JENNY LIND has presented 10000
crowns to the Stockholm Academy OF
Liberal Arts.
A CANADA woman has just taken re-
veDge in novel way on female fellow.
boarder. She didn't abuse her, denounce
her, scratch her, or any thing of that
kind-oh no; she quietly took scissors,
went to the closet and cut up the hated
ones best silk dress into strips of good
size for making rag-carpet.
THE figures of the Massachusetts
State census Justify the theory that the
foreign-born population of that State is
more prolific than than the native. The
average number of children of the ma
tive mother is 3.52, while of the foreign
born it is 4.91. The rule is probably
general, in New England at least, if not
in the country.
Mr.. LYMAN JENNINGS, of Athol,
Mass, has given $1,000 to that town
under somewhat singular conditions.
He is to be paid the sum of $40 year
during his life, and after his death his
wife is to receive $3.50 and his three
children, Mary, Nathan and Addie, S12O
a year each during their lives. The
property is then to revert to the town.
This is life investment, but the town
has accepted it.
THERE is not in the English peerage
a ineal male descendant of one of the
Earls or Barons created by the Con-
queror or his immediate successors, the
Norman Kings of England, nor a male
descendant of a Baron who was at Run
nymede, either for or against King
John, nor of any peer who was at Agin-
court with Henry ", and only one,
Wrottesley, who can claim male de-
scent from Founder Knight of the
Garter.
In the last thirty years the amount of
the worlds capital invested in railroads
has increased from $3.50, 100000 to
Sl1, 430, 100000, of which the United
States has spent S., 800, 100000; Eng
land, $3.50, 600, 600; France, $1,000
100000; Germany, S1,1OO, OOO, 600 ;
Russia, S1,25O,OOO,OOO. In 1s45 the
total investment in railroads was but
S545,0GO, 900, England's share of which
was SS20,000, 600, and that of this coun-
try S90,000,0O0.
A SUBSTITUTE for gunpowder has
been invented in England. 1t consists
of little powdered charcoal and finder
wrapped in paper impregnated with
a chemical combination of chlorate,
nitrate, prussiate, and chromate of
potash. The advantages claimed are
that no danger of explosion exists ex-
cept from actual contact with fire, the
interior of the firearm is not soiled, less
smoke and less rebound are made than
with gunpowder, and less damage takes
place from humidity.
A NEW mint at Bangkok was lately
opened by the King of Siam. At 5 p.
M. he repaired to the upper hall and
lighted sacred tapers, and then the
priests worshiped for two hours. The
next morning he relighted the tapers,
and high priest recited the five COM
mands. These are: Do not kill, do
not steal, do not commit adultery, do
not speak falsehood, do not drink strong
drink. The King sprinkled with sacred
water the new mint machinery, and
with his finger rubbed flour from con-
secrated cake on parts of it.
The biennial report on the progress
OF Oregon gives the whole population
of the State in 1875 as about los, 900,
against $1,000 in 1870, but, though the
growth of population is slow, a pro-
digious amount of wealth is produced.
Nearly 100000 acres of land are under
cultivation, 5,250,000 bushels of wheat
are raised, over 100000 bushels of
other grain, /, 1868, 900 pounds of wool,
1,555, 200 pounds of butter, besides A.
800 barrels of salmon and $4,000 cases
OF canned salmon, the salmon fishery
alone being valued at S2,OOO,OOO a
year.
M. MACHADo, a rich Portuguese,
who died some time ago in Paris, had
fifty pet ravens, and was also in the
habit of daily feeding number of 9TH
ers who came punctually to his balco-
ny. He desired in his will that at his
funeral his body should be laid in the
spacious and handsome room occupied
by his pets. At his death his order was
obeyed, and as neither the domesticated
ravens nor the outsiders had received
any food that day, they gave vent to a
constant and most dismal series of
croakings, which gave a most grotesque
character to the scene.
THE Royal Humane Society of Eng
land has presented testimonial to Ed
mond Erskine, aged Is, who saved two
little girls, aged respectively 10 and IL,
from drowning at Southsea on the 18th
of July. The two children rolled down
an embankment which slopes down sud-
denly to the sea, and were at once in
deep water with rapid tide. Young
Erskine, without taking off any of his
clothes, plunged into the water, and
after swimming short distance came
up with the girls after they had twice
sunk. Selling them by the hair he pull
ed them both on his back, and in doing
so was severely bitten in the hand by
one of them; but he swan toward the
shore as well as he could, having only
recently learned to swim. He was join
ed by another youth, who took one of
the children from him, and they ulti-
mately got both of the girls on the side
Of rock, when gentleman named
Cowan came to their assistance, and
they were landed in safety.