The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-05-19
GENERAL BRRYITIIS.

Otnef GAY at Rising raWns 1cuu.-ahu
his wife hadn't married another man.
TWELVE years ago McKim murdered
Norcross on q railroad track near Hol-
lidaysburg, Pa. The railroads.&c. at the
immediate spot is marked on the end
with a cross. When the tie rots, the
new one put in its place is marked with
a cross by the workmen.
THERE is said to be young girl in
Clinton, Canada, whose eyesight is as
good as any body's by day, but when
night sets in she becomes blind, and has
to be led around. She is in good health,
and the cause of this singular phenome-
non is a mystery.
SHERRY is getting into bad repute in
England, because Of the adulterating
practices of the wine-dealers. During
the last four years the decrease has been
234 1862 gallons in 1874, 150,0O3 in 1875,
BIG, Alp in 1876, and in the first two
months of this year $4,000 gallons.
The French settlers of Dakota offered
up their supplications last week for de-
liverance from the grasshopper pest.
They erected high staff, upon the top
of which was fastened a cross, and to
and from and around this cross they
marched in solemn procession, offering
prayers, incantatiOns, etc.
PASSENGERS are not allowed the sweet
privilege of jumping off and on railway
trains in motion in England, as they are
in this blessed land of the free. A young
man in London lately, who had to jump
or lose his train, was arrested for the Of
Tense, fined and soundly reprimanded
by the Judge.
Nor long since, native custOm-hOuse
officer in TOkia, Japan, referring to
Queen Victoria, called her M o Cfe-
male king). This grievous offense was
made known to the British minister,
who insisted that the poor man should
be sentenced to 80 days in the chain
gang, but the matter was finally COM
promised by the payment of fine.
AFTER all, canary birds cost some
thing. 1t is a mistaken idea that they
give free concerts. Canary seed is i'm
ported into this country from Asiatic
Turkey, the Barbary States, Sicily,
Spain and Holland, and during the first
four months of the present year our inn
portations of canary seed footed up over
two million pounds. .Ehe Eastern war
has IS bulled " the price of canary seed,
which is now held at $3.50 and $500 per
bushel-an advance of over IS per cent.
within few weeks.
| All SIN, "the child-like and bland, ="
has been detected in Systematically sup
plying the celestials of San Francisco
with the necessary staple of opium, free
of customs duties, and seizure Of sew
eral thousand dollars worth has just
been made The drug was packed in
tin cans precisely, similar to those ,lseal
in the Importation Of nut oil from
China, and to complete the deception,
all the cans. were besmcared The
oil, giving the impression that they were
filled with that commodity
A LARGE party of Texas bunalo-hunt.
ers, who lately tried to- recover some
stolen horses from the Indians and pun
ish the thieves, found the rascals in.
, trenched in a singular and perfectly i'm.
I pregnable natural fertilization. This
) Indian lair is a canyon iabont 40 miles
long and wide in proportion. 1t is dense
, " covered with Spanish cactus; only
one place of entrance is known, and the
redskins occupy that place. In the
midst are peaks, from which they car
overlook the country for miles.
n A NEW restaurant has been discov-
cred in Paris where meals are served up
for six cents, and which is chiefly patron.
lied by rag-pickers, thieves, and poor
artists and litterateurs who have not YET
learned to make money. The bill OF
fare consists of ragout in the morning
and soup in the evening, which is eaten
with iron spoons chained to the rough
tables. The six cents are paid on en-
trance, and credit is unknown, and the
master owns two houses in town and his
wife has valuable diamonds.
The water supply of San Francisco is
running alarmingly short. In view OF
4 calamity so serious, the water compa-
ny has imported 5000 meters, and il
proposes as a check on extravaganza
waste to charge hereafter so much a
gallon. The calculation is that this pol.
icy will save fully 80 per cent. of water
usually consumed. The price of water
in San Francisco is three times as much
as in New York. The metric check will
greatly increase the bills, while it de.
creases the quantity to the house and the
} factory.
Nor long since love affair of a some.
what romantic character took place in
the royal family of Servia. The wild.
owed Lady Won Blaznavatsch, q niece OF
Prince Milan, fell in love with her rela.
. tive, Michael Bogitjewitsch, cousin OF
the Princes. Such marriage was moi
permissible in orthodox Servia, so they
crossed into Hungary, and were. mar.
ried by the Roman Catholic priest al
J Wcisskirchen. So much feeling was
caused, however, in Servia by their mar.
riage that they have since left that coun-
try forever.
MARY COLE, the seventh daughter
of Snake Mary" a notorious fortune
teller who has been preying on the cred
ulous colored folks of Brooklyn, was ar
rested for theft from one of her dupes.
A sick girl, whom she had promised to
magically cure, was ordered to cover
her head and remain perfectly still
meantime the seventh daughter OF
"Snake Mary" appropriated all the
valuables in the room and decamped,
warning the anxiues mother as she pass
ed out that if her daughter was disturbed
the spell would be broken and she would
die horrible death.
The California papers are much ex-
ercised over the recently enacted desert
land law, the ostensible intent of which
was the reclamation of large areas of
land in that State and the Territories,
but which they claim is only subscribing
the interests Of speculative land grab
bers. The trouble arises from the loose
construction put upon the law, so that