The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-03-10
GENERAL BREyITRs.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
PIoKING pockets at funerals Is fash
iOnable Eastern amusement.
THE President of the Swiss Republic
gets a salary of $500 per year, and
thinks it too much.
/ MARDI-GRAS seems to make man
dry. One Memphis saloon-keeper sold
800 kegs of lager during the festivities.
ORDERS have been issued on the New
York Central Railroad to give three
card monte men q grand jump into the
first ditch.
THE Order Of Caucasians, q work
ingmen's association, anti Chinese in
principle, is spreading rapidly through
out California. It is q secret order,
with membership of over $1,000 at
present.
So severe has been the cold during
the present season that the eucalyptus
trees, planted upon the shores of Lou
isiana bayous to counterfeit the mala-
rious atmosphere, have been seriously
injured.
FREEMAsoNRY is growing rapidly in
England. The Grand Lodge was es-
tablished in 1717, and there are now
1900 lodges and nearly 100000 men,
bers in England and Wales. In Scot
land and Ireland there are over 1000
lodges.
RICHARD A. PENNBLL is in training
in New York for the performance of the
extraordinary feat Of holding q 1000
pound cannon in his hands while q
blank cartridge is discharged from it.
Undertakers are buying front seats for
the exhibition.
SALvINI, the actor, married in q very
romantic fashion. He had been COM
missioned to take q packet to q poor
sewing-girl in London. He saw and
loved. She became his wife, and, as
the mistress of his splendid mansion, is
now treated with the distinction due a
Princess.
THE South American Republics, des-
pite frequent domestic political over
turns, are apparently prosperous Even
Bolivia, that isolated and little known
Republic, is about to build q line of
railroad which will connect La Paz, the
capital, with a seaport town on the
narrow strip Of land which is Bolivia's
only frontage on the Pacific.
ELLA B WASHINGTON, great Grand
niece of the Father of his c. untry, sues
Waiter S Church to recover $13, 900,
which she alleges he has withheld from
her as collector of 800, 900 due from the
State of New York for relics of George
and Martha Washington. She was
formerly wealthy, but losses entailed
by the war forced her to cell these rel
les.
THE heavy man of Altoona, Pa, is
Eli Green, who weighs 406 pounds
For number of years he has not slept
in a bed. Up to some six years ago he
was employed as locomotive engineer
on the mountain division, Pennsylvania
Railroad, but owing to his obesity and
tendency to fall asleep while running
his engine it became necessary to dis
charge him.
A CALIFORNIA woman, Mrs. Jennett
B. Frost, having won q suit for the pos
session of 200 acres of land in the Dis
trict Court, on which an appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court, dismissed
her attorney and pleaded her own case
before that high tribunal. According
to the reporters, she ''anslyzed its mer-
its in clear and musical tone of voice,
and summed up logically and forcibly."
Decision reserved.
CoREA is afflicted with q terrible
famine. All the rice in the country has
been consumed, even that intended for
seed. The Corean Government has in
past times prohibited its subjects from
buying or borrowing rice from the Ja-
panese under penalty of death. But in
the present emergency the Government
has not only removed the prohibition,
but is itself arranging to procure rice
from Japan in exchange for cotton
cloth.
POTTsTOwN, Pa, boasts one of the
greatest natural curiOslties in the coun-
try in sits ringing rocks, which are
situated in a wild spot, cover about one
acre of ground, and are perfect mass
of confusion, being piled together as if
they had beenupheaved by an eruption,
and get their name from their property
of emitting sounds as rich and deli
cate as the finest music-box" when
struck with hammer, the different
rocks giving every note of the octave.
The Presidential controversy is draw
ing to a close, and journalism in Maine
is taking fresh start. "Can q clam
walk?" is one of the innocent themes
which the editors are now discussing.
A gentleman who went by rail from
Rockiand 20 Bath, emphatically asserts
that just TIE other side of Wiscasset he
saw string of CLANS march
ing along, single file, in the wake of the
train. He says they were not walking
very fast, but only at snail pace.
Two women and man are under
arrest in Philadelphia. They comprise
the Charity Relief Association. They
hired house, put out sign, collected
money from benevolent persons and
pOcketed tke proceeds. They are said
to have operated in the same manner
in other cities. The man processes to
be clergyman, and looks like one.
The women are glib, pretty and accom-
plished in the trick of getting subscrip-
tons out of susceptible men.
The German Government is busily
engaged in terrifying both banks of the
Rhine. Some time ago two ironclad
sloops were sent up the river to Stras-
bourg; but as it has since been found
that the banks of the stream are too
high TO admit Of their commanding
the adjacent country, they have been
sent back to Coblentz. Other meas
ures have, however, been adopted,
among them the construction of . tete
de pont by every railway company car
ruinn q hridno oxron thu Rh;no po.