The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-08-25
GENERAL BREyI1rIEs.

GENERAL BREYITIES.
SETH Green says that fish never
sleep. -. s''
OREGON has acquired 1000 immi-
grants this year. tA2 :
FINLAND has more blind than any
other country, in consequence of the
huts having no chimneys. FJ nsii
A LEADING hotel in New York has the
Lords Prayer printed entire on its daily
bill of fare. Hta a4
Ex-Gov. PAcKARD's wife has Just
presented him with pair of twins, on a
fair count. aI5t &,
MorToEs in worsted to hang on the
walls are out of fashion now, ladies'
You must paint pottery.
Two brothers in Lansing, Mich,
weigh exactly 2l0A pounds each, and as
sert that they have not differed a half
pound in weight at any time in several
years. fg.a go cga
THE famous Kentucky natural bridge
over Caney Greek, Ia Elliott County,
broke in the center of its arch few
days ago, and fell in magnificent ruins.
DIR. THEODORE w. FISHER, of Bos-
ton, reports eight cases of insanity that
have come under his observation dur
ing the last two months, all caused by
undue religious excitement growing out
of the Moody and Sankey revival.
In Vermont the latest, in the amuse-
ment line, and one very popular among
the. farmers, is the sscorn roast" The
gctter-up invites his friends, builds q
large fire in the yard or field, around
which all gather and proceed to roast
green corn on sharpencd sticks. Songs,
stories, and jokes are sandwiched in I'M
til WEAKNESS drives them into the house.
ACCORDING to the statistics published
by the Ministry of Agriculture of Italy,
the harvests have been unusually album
dant. The vineyards and olive trees
are exceedingly promising, except in the
provinces of lCatania and Palermo and
in certain parts of Lombardy, where the
vines suffered from storms, but this spe-
cial loss will be more than compensated
by large cropof rice.
A GERMAN paper proposes the gener-
al use of what may be called postal-card
ink, for messages which are sent on
such cards, or otherwise unsealed. A
solution of nitrate or chloride of cobalt,
or chloride of copper, mixed with a lit
tie gum or sugar, produces a stmagic
ink" which is made visible by warming,
either by holding against the stove, or
over a burning match. Potassium fer
rOcyanide in solution may also be used
but this requires developer, for which
either copper or iron sulphate may be
employed. With the former the writ
ing will appear in brown, and in the
latter in blue color. - u -,
An ancient burial-place was discover.
ed in Selby, England, in 1857 and, at
a depth of six or seven feet, several cot
fins, formed of the trunks of trees, split
i'm two and followed out, were exhlm-
ed. One of these, now preserved in the
Museum ut York, contained the skele-
ton of woman; and near the neck
were lying seven beads, of graduated
sizes and oval shape. In the center of
the skull small round hole was detect
ed, resembling the perfOration in. the
skull of Roman lady recently discOv-
cred in an old cemetery at York. In the
SuLliuci VI 1otVs vi 1uC ICOuAuuuk Va q
house in Selby, some Is or 20 other tree
collins were disinterred.
A BOY, while fishing in a Wisconsin
lake, the other day, felt a nibble, and,
drawing his hook toward the. shore, OBJ
served half-gallon fruit-can trailing
on the bottom. Having secured the
vessel, he was greatly surprised to find
that large catfish had taken up his
abode therein and remained until his in
creased dimensions did not admit of
egress. He had evidently Topped
around in his tin parlor until a hole was
made in the rust-eaten bottom, through
which his tail protruded. In this con-
dition the catfish had power to navigate
from one place to another, and must
have been regarded by his aquatic neigh
bors as kind of iron-clad monitor. b.
Mr.. FORBES, correspondent of the
London NeUs, and an old soldier, thinks
the Russian soldier incurably addicted
G. to plundering, and adds: "The only
soldiery l have ever seen who could be
trusted to restrain this impulse, are the
North Germans, proper. Poles, Bayar-
ians, and am sorry to add, Saxons,
are all ready to take avail of the for
tune of war. As for the British SOL
der, he has not the slightest conscien-
tious scruples against rObbing a church,
let alone a shop"
TOWING on the ocean ought to be
a paying business at the rate of COM
pensatiOn awarded the National Com
pany for taking the Inman steamship
City of Berlin into port. On her voy-
age to Liverpool in June it will be re-
membered the Berlin broke her shaft
when 600 miles from Queenstown. The
Spain took the disabled vessel in tow,
by request, and safely reached port.
The Inmans offered $1,000 salvage for
the service. The owners of the Spain
thought the sum was not sufficient and
applied to the courts, which have award
ed them $4,000.
IT is frequently thrown out at tall,
lean men that they can eat more than
their shorter fellows because they have,
physiologically, a greater capacity. The
assertion, however, like many other
reckless generalities of science, is not
confirmed by actual test. One day last
week, in Brooklyn, two colored men
one a tall and lean, the other short and
already fat-ate on wager. Bread.
sausages, eggs, beef, buns and ham were
furnished unstintedly. There was a
good deal of quiet work done for a
while, but the tall, lean man was the
first to ask for q rest, and the short, fal
fellow won the wager having eaten II
pounds. From this time on deal gently
with the thin, and let the fat man beal
in mind that to him that hath shall bt
given. - 80, - q.
FROM statements made at q public
meeting in Madras the other day, it ap
pears that the famine area in that mar,