The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-07-21
GENERAL BREyTrIEs.

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THE robber Of birds nest in New
jersey is sent to jail for 60 days.
PRESIDENT HAYES slept under q quilt
in Rhode Island that had not been used
since President Washington gathered it
about his form one cool night at New
post just after the Revolutionary war.
Two brothers in Baltimore and 8
years old, have been arrested for steal
ing door-keys. They had string of
over 100 keys, and when they were lock-
ed up they asked for some chewing-to-
bacco and cigars.
A NUMBER of deaths from the bite of
locusts are reported in various parts of
Virginia, q notable case being that of q
child of Mr.. Warner Connolly of Broow-
neal, who was bitten by one of these in
sects and died in Is minutes.
One of the gentlemen who shook
hands with the President in Providence,
r. l., was May D. Mason, who was 80
years old last May. It was mentioned
as a notable incident that he had also
shaken hands with General Washing
ton.
THE authorities of Japanese village,
unable to detect midnight r0bber,
called on the inhabitants to indicate
their suspicious by ballot. Fifteen bal
lots bore the same name-the others
were blank. The distrusted man was
SO astonished that he confessed and
went to prison.
One Col. Boulder is about to COM
mence suit against the United States to
obtain possession of Mare Island, Cali
fornia, now used by the Government as
a navy-yard. Plaintiff alleges that the
title of the United States to the island,
which was an original Mexican grant, is
unsound, and that he holds the only
valid title.
Two persons testify through the
newspapers to having been cured of con-
sumption-one by drinking all the lemon
juice, with little sugar in it, that he
could digest, and the other by eating all
the salt he could without nausea four times
day. Probably their diseases were
more of the stomach and the blood than
of the lungs.
An epitaph on tombstone in Green
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, reads:
Beneath this stone my wife and /,
Back to back together lie,
More blest than when in life's short space,
We lied like others face to face,
Now free from trouble, free from fear,
If she should scold could not hear;
When the last, last trump the air shall I'LL,
If she goes up then I'll lie still.
THE Safety board of the Town of Ca
naan, Conn.,, in 1776, sentenced Hannah
Capron to be publicly whipped; 20 lashes
on the naked body, to be branded on her
forehead, wear a rope around her neck
during life; and to be whipped 20 LASH
es every time she was seen with the rope
off, because she had left her husband
and taken up with Joseph Lincoln. The
Safety-board of the Town of Canaan
did nothing whatever to Joseph Lincoln.
ANILINE is the most costly ingredi-
ent in Fourth-of-J July lemonade. Some
times when business is dull, the artist
don't want to color an entire tub full,
he slips vial from his pocket, and sly
ly puts few drops in his sample glass.
The unsophisticated granger, taken cap
tive by the rich color, invests his nickel.
The lemon skins, purchased at the
rate of Is cents bushel from the
corner saloon, are also an element of
deception. 1t is, in fact, skin I"
game.
SINCE the establishment of the free
baths in New York, infant mortality has
decreased nearly one-third. 1t is dis
covered that ample applications of salt
water are among the best remedies for
the ills to which the first year of baby
life is heir. This fact, isolated from the
great benefits derived by older people,
is encouraging the authorities to extend
the facilities, and large number of new
baths have been constructed to accom-
modate the poorer classes.
BOSTON has doctor who scalds him.
self in order to demonstrate that an ap-
plication of any neutral alkai, like the
bi-carbonate of soda, will stop the pain
and effect speedy cure. The alkali is
spread over the surface burned, which
is then to be covered with a wet wooden
cloth, and the only care necessary is to
keep the cloth moistened until q cure is
effected. In case of slight superficial
burn the application of common soap
will generally be sufficient to effect a
speedy cure. -
A VESSEL has been chartered for Prof
Nordenskjold's next scientific expedi.
ton, which will start from Gothenburg,
Sweden, in June, 1878. King Oscar
contributes $4,000 crowns Ga crown is
about Yankee shilling) from his own
purse, but a Gothenburg merchant
named Dickson, friend of Norden.
skjold's, bears the main expense. The
Professor is going the northwest pass
age and out into the Pacific through
Behring's Straits, thence skirting Asia,
and home by the Red Sea, Suez Canal,
Mediterranean, etc.
Mr.. DUFFY, of the Stockton House,
Cape May, has made it possible fol
visitors to order entrees at dinner and
get them served properly. This he has
done by simply placing figure opposite
stead of bewildering the unfortunate
colored waiter by asking him for Ger.
velles de veau a Ia Tartar, all you need
do is to demand confidently "Some Of
No. g." Cry out for No. and you ge,
tendron a la Dufour; ask for No. and
you get naacar0ni a la Mlanaise, and SC
on to the end of the chapter.
ALLIeAToRs are hunted in the night
for the same reason that deer are hunted
in the dark. A blazing torch of pitch
pine knot attracts the reptile, and, as he
swims up to investigate, his little bead
like eyes glow like Goals and make al
excellent target for rifle. That is tn,
only weapon used. A bullet through
the creatures skin renders it worthless
It is difficult to pierce the hide, however
as the back and sides are horny ant
bullet proof. This horny substance is
when it can be easily transported, mad
into glue.