The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-06-23

GENERAL BREyIIIKs.
GENERAL SHERIDAN Is sorry his twin
are not boys, and Mrs. Sheridan say,
there are some men you never Cal
please.
A New ENGLANDER writes home from
the Black Hills that there are Is many
wise men going out every day - thert
are fools coming in.
ALoNDON correspondent says that d
Lord Derby's last reception there were
ladies present carrying jewels worth
f3O, 900 on their heads.
In Paris colored costumes are coming
into vogue for evening wear by gentle
men, the customary suits of solemn
sables being silently abandoned to but
lers and walters.
The equality in point of numbers Of
the sexes is most nearly attained in
France. For every 1000 men there are
1,OO7 women. The other extreme is
found in Paraguay, where there are
2,O89 women for 1000 men.
Mrs. PIERCE, of Eastbourne, Eng
land, has pair of baby twins. Mrs.
Pierce was born without arms, wears
her wedding-ring ON her toes, and does
her housework with her feet.
THE Turkish Minister at Washington
is said to have on file over 1000 appli-
cations for commissions in the Turkish
service from American officers in the
late Union and Confederate service.
SIR RICHARD ARKwRIGHT, inventor
of the cotton-mill machinery, Turner,
the painter, Lord Tenterden, Chief-Jus-
tice of England, and Lord st. Leonards,
Chancellor of England, were sons of
BARRIERS.
By the New York law uncles can
marry their nieces, provided the niece's
father was the uncle's half-brother, the
two having the same father but different
mothers, or the uncle's half brother was
the-or words to that effect.
COOKED snails are said to possess the
power of restoring tone to the coating
of the stomach when badly injured BY
strong drink. The sale of snails is q
source of much profit to the peasants of
Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, and the flavor
is said to be more delicious than that of
oysters.
MAYOR BUTLER. of Portland. Me-
can do a wise thing in a witty way. He
refused to indorse the bill of $50 for an
aldermanic feed and returned hin
"The City of Portland, Dr., for 100 CT
gars'-with the comment: 1.-THE CITY
of Portland does not smoke.'
A YOUNG girl in Meridian, Cayuga
a sister in ALBANY last fall. and the ca
nary has lust found its wav hack tn ito
old home. 1t came to the door of the
house in an exhausted condition, and
being admitted to its caoe SEEMED 70 no
happy.
AN Alabama man refused tn accont
certain bank bills rendered him hoconse
the mules engraved upon them were not
properly geared. He said that the on.
graver had put the breechino mon the
lead mules instead of those af the wheoi.
which made verv Grave stete Of affs;,s
in going down Grade
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a week. The first London cIrS wss
founded in 1870. and there are now Al
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