The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-05-12
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

with tOOt.
PEOPLE who have never reflected on
their eyes, probably do not know that
4O0, 000, 100000 wave lengths of light
strike upon the retina in single sec.
ond.
JERRY SCHOOLING, State Treasurer
of Nevada, was married in San Fran
cisco last week, the bride being his for.
mer wife, from whom he had been
divorced for upwards of u years.
PoNGo, the gorilla of the Berlin aqua
rum, looks like little colored boy, has
soft and pretty hands, swings on ira
peze, drums on the floor, drinks claret
and water, and has as good manners as
many cherished members of society.
THE first regular telephone line has
been put in operation between the place
of business of C. Williams, Jr., Boston,
Mass, and his residence in Somerville,
a distance of about three miles. Mr..
Williams states that it works well, and
that conversation can be carried on
by it nearly as well as if those convers-
ing were in the same ROOM"
In the language of the tramps, the
letter "H" on the gate-post means that
the residents will give the caller hand
full of grub s.Sr that he will get seat
at the table; as M that he will get a
square meal, and &c b. that he will
get the "grand bounce" Now that the
secret is out, let every householder HE
himself to his gate-pOst and dig in let
tiers deep and that can not be misunder-
stood the mystic sign &c b.! Here at
last is the complete solution of the tramp
problem.
AMONG the Pueblo Indians, when a
girl wishes to marry, she tells her father
what young man, if he accepts, must
pay for the loss of the bride. In the
Pueblo almanac, every year must be a
leap-year. Paying for the bride may
appear to be the most difficult part Of
the ceremony, but rs you can buy a
wild-eyed POcahontas for an old blanket,
broken-bladed knife and a red cotton
handkerchief, the strain on the old
mans pocket-book is not SO fearful af-
ter all.
PHOEBE Brown, a cat-lOving old maid
of London, has lately died, aged 60, af-
ter life of touching devotion to the OBJ
jects of her affection. For Is years she
lived in one room, and Systematically
fed no less than dozen eats. When
from old age she was no longer able to
work, she starved herself and pawned
every thing she could in order to keep
her feline pets alive. She refused to
send for doctor when sick, and was
found dead in her bed one morning, sur
rounded by cats and kittens.
1T is Mrs. Mary Clemmer's opinion
that the size of the IA ears and seven
noses of the Cabinet is something re-
markable, and she makes that observa-
ton palatable by saying that IS You new
er saw man who amounted to any thing
for action who had little pinched-up
nose, ears, or month"; Speaking of
Acknowledgement Devens, she declares
that he is reported to have said to a Wis
itor: You see in me the biggest fool
in Massachusetts. l left place that
suited me exactly for one that does not
suit me at all.''
TIrUsyILLE, Pa, is in wonderful
state of excitement over a case of misce-
genatiOn. A handsome white girl, named
Emma j. Reed, who is only II years of
age, was married to James E. Waters, a
cook at the Parshali House, whose color
would discount ebony. Emma had late
ly been keeping company with prom
lnent oil merchant, whom she expected
to marry, and to whom the family sup
posed her engaged. He put her aside,
however, when she said she "would
humble him." and became desperate in
her disappointment. She made the ac-
quaintance of the colored man, Waters,
and their marriage was the result.
The longest lived people, according
to the Jewish Chronicle, are the Jews.
Among them, it remarks, 'shereditary
disease is very rare; scrofula is scarcely
to be found, their freedom from inter
marriages preserving the initial purity
OF their blood. Their exemption from
infection in such scourges as typhus,
cholera, the plague, has often been re-
marked, but it is attributed to the scru-
pulOusneSs with which the vast majority
attend to the hygienic prescription of
their ritual.n The average length of
life, according to the Chronicle, exceeds
the Christian average by five years.
A GENTLEMAN has Just died in Paris
who owed most of his celebrity to the
quaint manner in which he managed to
disembarrass himself of his creditors.
No sooner did dun present himself
than he was ushered into a room hung
round with variety of mirrors, some
convex, others concave, etc. In one the
unfortunate creditor beheld himself with
head as fiat as a founder, in another
his featares were nearly as sharp as
knife, in third he had several heads,
and in fourth he was upside down.
Here he had the broad grin of a clown,
there the long drawn visage of an I'M
dertaker. On one side of the room he
saw himself all head and no body; on
the other side it seemed as if dwarf
had put on the boots of giant. No ap-
plicant, however pressing, was known
to resist this chamber of horrors for
more than quarter of an hour.
ACCORDING to the Almanach de Gotha,
the number of towns in the world which
contain 100000 inhabitants or more
amount to 1856. Of these, 4S are in the
British Empire, Is in Germany, 9 in
France, Z in Russia, and Is in the United
States. The cities containing million
inhabitants or more are reckoned at nine
in number, London, of course, leading
the way, Paris coming second, and New.
Yord plus Brooklyn third. Berlin is
fourth and Vienna fifth on the list, each
OF these capitals having rather more
than million of inhabitants. Four
Chinese cities-Canton, Siangtan
lHounan), Siangfou (Chensi, and
Tchautcheoufou Foukian) -complete
the list of the millionaire cities, il the
expression may be permitted. Pekin,
by the way, which our fathers credited
with population of 1000, 900, is now
Understood To have about 900 600 In,