The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-08
GENERAL BREvITIES.


Mountains, this summer.
The diving of bathers in upper Kings
River, Cal, revealed the fact that the
bed was richly covered with gold. Pre-
parati0ns were at once made to fiume
the river and begin mining.
THE community of Adventists at Dan.
vers, Mass, convinced that Saturday il
the proper day to observe as the Sabbath,
have given notice that hereafter they
win do no work on that day.
NINETY of the fat men who had q
clam-bake and dance at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, last week, weighed 20, $50
pounds, an average of 23Oa pounds
each.
A WOMAN book-canvasser st Bridge
port, Conn.,, makes her calls in stylish
turnout, consisting of q barouche and q
pair of gray horses, and provided with
q coachnan and iveried footman.
An Ohio man the other night dream.
ed he was going in swimming, and
shortly afterward verified it by getting
up in his sleep and taking dive out Of
the second-story window. The doctor
says he is getting on swimmingly.
The breaking up of the constellation
of the |" dipper" is prophesied by Pro.
lessor Richard A. Proctor. He thinks il
will begin to spill some of its stars in
about 4, 00O, 900 years-so it behooves us
to keep smoked glass ready.
MRS. BRECKENRIDGE, of Shelby Coun-
ty, KY, aged over so years, and whose
husband is fully 80, yery much aston
ished her neighbors and friends a few
weeks ago by presenting her liege lord
with fine boy, weighing Is pounds.
The equipments of some of the Rus
sian warriors suggests the splendor of
ancient knighthood. After the battle of
Plevna the body of a famous Circassian
chieftain, Prince Rubaninski, was found
on the field, with saber of solid gold,
hilt and blade.
The New York Mail says that
Tweed daughter, who married Magin-
mis- in 1870, and whose wedding pres
ents cost SOS, 900, is now living in abso-
lutte poverty, the bridal presents and
finery having all been sent to the pawn
shops.
LOrTA is spoken. of as the piainest-
dressed and demurest little lady that
goes to church at Newport. How the
preacher must laugh when he remem-
beers having seen her as Racketty Jack
on the stage in boys suit, smoking her
cigarette.
ABOUT 1928 the shipmasters of Port
land, Me-, formed society, in which
each member was numbered in the order
of his admission, and furnished with a
blue flag bearing the number in white.
This was hoisted ON passing vessels at
sea, and thus the members were able to
recognize each other at a distance. Of
the 200 members but two are now known
to be living, William Cammett, over 80
years old, and Joshua Thaxter, IS.
The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise tells
a big story of bad storm thus: "Mr.
Toffiemier, sheep-man who has large
flocks in Eastern Nevada, was in this
city recently, and gave an account of a
sand-storm in San Bernardina County,
California, which buried q flock of
sheep, 5000 in number, and their three
herders, who were Frenchmen, 20 feet
deep. He himself drove his flock over
the sand which covered those that had
preceded him and had persisted.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent in Bull
garia says: Curious, is it not, that MUIR
der and rapine should 60 hand in hand
with such peaceful and poetical oper-
alton as the distilling of the altar of
roses? Kazanlik is one Of the great
centers of this trade, and l to-day met
an exporter mournfully conducting a
host of this precious ware, which even
in the Balkans costs 90 piastres a
gramme, back to Bucharest, because he
can not send it by water to CONSTANT
nople.
ACCOMMODATION for Hindoo women
on the Eastern Bengal Railway is re-
ceiving unusual attention from the COM
pany. Special and retired waiting
rooms are to be provided at the princi-
pal stations, with screens placed across
the platforms leading from the rooms
to the reserved carriages. Sedan chairs
will be used in conveying female passen-
gers from the rooms to the cars, and the
present practice of reserving a particu-
Lar compartment by painting on the
door Preserved for native females''
REV. DIR. SAVERS, chaplain of the
British forces at Fort George, is what
the officers call "rattling good fell
low" and he in turn addresses them as
" my lads" Recently he wound up a
charity sermon in these words: "My
brethren, this is charity sermon I'm
and I want rupees, mind you
Il want rupees; not dirty pieces of pa
per in the bag with "Sayers, old cock,
how are you?" written on them. won't
have it, mind you've stood that game
long enough"
The two children appointed to carry
the trail of the Lady Mayoress at the
recent wedding failed of their duty, and
it began TO drag in the dirt as she was
passing out to the carriage. She drop
ped her husbands arm and picked up
her skirts. This was too much for an
old lady, who Indignantly observed:
50 She thinks more of her train than of
her husband" A precocious yonth
by turned round to the irate |
lady, and remarked: "Quite right, too.
dare say her husband will often neg
lect her to catch train"
JEFF DAvIs,s old coachman, the old |
colored man employed by him at the
lime of his capture, and who is now liv-
ing at Raleigh, N. c., says that Mr.. |
Davis was not disguised as q woman.
He was dressed in his ordinary cloth
ing, with cavalry boots, a waterproof
over his dress-c0at, shawl thrown over
his shoulders, and on his head q broad
brimmed white or drab Texas hat. Mr..
Davis went to the tent door and was or
Tered by the soldiers to surrender. He
replied that he would not; that