The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-22
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

A MICHIGAN Judge decided that oys-
tiers are fish.
In 1852 Texas moved 65, 652 bales of
cotton; in 1857, SOC, 7S5.
CHINA had coins 20 centuries before
there were any in England.
THERE are 500 convicts working on
one North Carolina railroad.
THE United States now use more
postal-cards than any other nation.
"YUNG NEE LUX SHUN Fun" is the
title of the new San Francisco Chinese
theater.
MUsCATINE, Iowa, now uses coal that
is taken from mine in the very midst
of the city. 1t is said to be of good
quality.
Mr.. LYMAN, geologist to the Japanese
Government, reports that the Island of
Yesso probably contains hundred and
fifty thousand million tons of coal not
yet explored.
Two-THIRDs of the trade of southern
Russia and one-third of that of northern
Russia is in the hands of the Jews, the
richest of whom is Simon Iscarlotivitch,
of Odessa.
To remove foreign bodies from the
throat an English naval surgeon recon-
mends blowing forcibly into the ear.
Powerful reflex action is produced, dur
ing which the foreign substance is ex-
PEELED.
BONNER has one hundred and one
horses upon his stock-farm at POUCH
keepsie, N. Y. 1t is said that he made
recently trial of speed with one of his
S-year-old colts, who showed mile in
2:17.
JOHN BRIGHT said, lately, that ssyou
might almost as well ask aspider to give
up weaving his web, or to destroy that
he had woven, as to ask the great body
of lawyers to- consent to a simplicity
and purificatfon of the law"
NEURALGIA diseases of the head are
now referred by many physicians to
misadjusted eyeglasses and spectacles.
Of course this is not always the cause OF
neuralgia pain, but in many cases it has
been proved to be so.
COLUMBUS, O., has wonder. A
lock of hair, cut from the head of DIR.
S. Hulsey's 18-months-old boy, which
was two inches long at the time of the
cutting, is now over six inches long,
with every sign of life. For IA years il
has lain in the family Bible, carefully
folded and marked, and it retains its
original color, though the boy hair has
changed materially.
The officers of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad have
specially directed their freight agents
not to receive live poultry for shipment
unless the coops containing the same
are constructed high enough to permit
the poultry to stand up "without
crouching," and with the stats on the
top SO arranged that they can put their
heads out. Agents are also requested,
in slowing coops in cars or depots, NOT
to pile one on top of another and there
by cause unnecessary suffering.
The Charlottesville (va.) Chronicle
SAYS: "a farmer living near Charlottes-
vile, informes us of the curious opera
tions of those industrious little insects,
the ants, in one of his fields. A few
weeks ago he sowed timothy seed on the
field with his wheat. The wheat has
come up nicely, but examination shows
that the grass-seed has been carefully
gathered by the ants and deposited in
piles at the entrances 10 their subter-
ranean abodes. With = view to q plen-
tlful supply Of food during the winter.
all over the field are these little mounds
of timothy seed, and q great deal of it
has BEEN carried across the public road
and deposited in an adjoining field"