The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-04-21
GENERAL BREvITIES.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
A SON and daughter of Flora Temple,
the renowned mare-racer, are among
Bonner's trOtters.
The total number of persons who EN-.
igrated from the United Kingdom to the
United States, from 1915 to 1876, was
5,467,075.
AN estimate of damage to French
property and to France through the late
German invasion places the figure at
$50, 957, 155 francs, or about 1921 739 >
439.
A DISEASE has shown itself in India
and Ceylon among the leaves of coffee
plants 1t does not actually destroy the
plant, but weakens it, and thus imperils
the crop. 1t is causing great anxiety.
1T is estimated that the fruit crop OF
Texas for the present year will be great,
larger than ever known before in the
State, while the wheat crop will be 10
per cent. less than last year.
The total emigration from the United
Kingdom during 1876 was 1922, and
the immigration, S1,647. This is a
smaller excess of emigrants over immi-
grants than for any year since the Irish
exodus began.
A MAN who threw an egg at the Eng
lish Vice-Chancellor lately, and OF
whom that functiOnary made an exam
pie by committing him for contempt,
proves to have been an American, and
is supposed to be as unsound as his egg.
The WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union of Massachusetts has 102 auxiliary
organizations and 10000 members.
There is vice-President in every coun-
ty of the State. The reform clubs OF
men in Massachusetts are 120, and en-
roll 10000 members.
Ar the close of last month the noun
tains around Messina, Sicily, were COW
cred with snow, a very rare event in
that country. The winter in Europe has
been mild, but the weather last month,
almost everywhere, was tempestuous
and severe.
A CIvIL-sERvICE college has been es-
tablished at Constantinople at the in
stance and under the patronage of the
Sultan. Mussulmans and others will be
admitted without distinction. 1t is in
tended as training college for future
civil servants, including diplomatists.
AMONG the many objects of interest
at Hatfield House, the seat of Lord Sal
isbury, is the bed occupied by Queen
Elizabeth when she visited his ancestor,
Lord Burleigh, her Prime Minister.
The furniture of the room, including the
carpet upon which she trod, is also pre-
served.
AT u recent concert in Paris new
composition was on its first performance
loudly Kissed. The conductor thereup-
on turned to the audience and said: 81
am not at all surprised that you Kissed
that piece, for you do not understand it
| shall therefore repeat it at the next
concert
AN English gentleman travelling in
one of the petty States of Germany dur
ing the days of the Electors, at time
when nobody was considered any body
unless decorated or titled, passed tri-
umphantly about the country by the
happy thought of inscribing on his card:
"Elector of Middlesex.
1NAsMUCH as the cost of living in
England is estimated to have increased
at least % per cent. since 1887 land Queen
Victoria's civil list remains what it was
then, it follows that she is more than
100000 year poorer, SO far as that
source of revenue goes, than when she
came to the throne.
The various German pOtentates re-
Gently united to present a Joint souvenir
to the Emperor William upon his
eightieth birthday. The eccentric King
of Bavaria refused at first to participate,
and was induced to do so only by the
urgent remonstrances of his friend the
Grand Duke of Baden.
MIsTREss-"I really must inquire,
Timmens, why the tea comes up SO weak
of an afternoon? Parlor Maid-'sWell,
it should not, mum. Cook she put in
a spoonful fer 'erself, and spoonful fer
myself and a spoonful fer the parlor;
and as you rings as we finishes, l fills up
the teapot myself with bilin' water!''-
Punch.
IT rarely happens that father and son
follow SO closely in diplomatic career
as the present and the late Right Hon.
Sir Edward Thornton. The late Sir
Edward graduated, as did his son, at
Cambridge, and entering diplomatic
service, was for some time British rep
resentative in Brazil, sworn in 1916 a
Privy Councillor, and nominated &C.
B. in 1922. His son was Minister at
Brazil before coming to Washington,
and, like him, is Privy Councillor, and
no doubt will before long be gazetted
G. C. A., being at present K. C. b.
THE will of the Baron de H. r., who
died last month in Paris, says: 81 leave
all my fortune, consisting of 100000
francs, to the bold man who will. i'm
presence of notary and another wit
ness, administer to my wife so blows with
a stick. In case no one should fulfill
these conditions, devise my property to
the State for charitable uses In order
to avoid trickery on the part of nv
eventual heir, declare the legacy void
in case he should espOuse my wife. !"
The will will be contested by the Baron
ess as the work of a lunatic, although
her husband was of apparently sound
mind on making it.
OK the recent occasion a the Emper-
or of Germany's birthday, the Processes
of Ratibor and Hohenlohe presented an
armchair to him, upon which they had
embroidered with their own hands so
full-blown cornfowers-as many bios
SONS as the Kaiser counts years-and a
number of buds, symbolical of the years
to come, which Germany wishes may be
added to his life. The Empress, Crown
Prince and Princess, Grand Duke and
Duchess of Baden, and all the Emper-
or's other near relatives brought gifts of
the most costly and tasteful description.