The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-08-18

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IcE-wArER ana dyspepsia are said Il
grow near sogether. 1905 sasr7ss5-
A GUILLOTINE that has cut of 22yW
French heads is exhibited in London
In Russia, when there is to be con
cert, the auditors carry their own bench
es and lights to the hall. $500 y .
In sandy soils the greatest force Of |
pile-engine will not drive pile NOR
than Is feet. f-gzsat
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, has been com
pletely deluged with peaches. Con
signees refused to take them out of tn
express Office, and they have been solo
for freight.
vANDERBILT's 100000 donation t.
his employees will give engineers abou
$14 apiece; conductors, 90; firemem, 81
brakemen, switchmen and yardmen, $3
HEREAFTER the Japanese will cele
brate the Fourth of July with festivities,
because on that day was fought the de.
cisive battle of Uyeno, in the contest
which resulted in the establishment Of
the temporal power of the Mikado.
AHMED PAsHA, who has been leading
to victory branch of the Turkish army,
is man who never drinks intoxicating
liquors or uses tobacco, which fact
makes him as odd a thing as white
crow among his fellows.
The Egyptians believed that their
souls, after many thousand years, would
reinhabit their bodies if they were pre-
served, hence the embalming process
and situation of sepulchres in places not
subject to the foundations of the rivers.
IT is proposed to bore a tunnel under
the Mediterranean from near Algeciras,
in Spain, to a point between Tangiers
and Ceuta, in Africa, distance of nine
miles. The cost is estimated at "a, 00O,-
600, and the promoters are said to have
raised considerable sum.
THERE is said to be living in Texas a
niece of Marshal Ney-a lady of good
intellect and an accomplished sculptor.
She arrived in Texas with fortune and
with Utopian plans which Texas did not
help to realize. Her life is quiet and
retired one near small town.
THE ''road agents" in the Black Hills
are humorists in their way. A gang of
them who recently robbed stage made
the messenger surrender the treasure
box, which contained $500, and then
told him that he ought to quit working
for company that did not carry more
money than fhaf ss .
Mr.. REYNOLDS, of New York, died
the other day, aged 50 years. An au-
topsy- showed that "the heart, the
stomach, the spleen and all the organs
and blood vessels that should be on the
left side, were situated on the right side,
and that the liver, gall, bladder, etc.,
were on the left. The stomach had two
pyloric openings. Mr.. Reynolds en-
joyed excellent health until his last ILL
nesS.n
JOHN HALL, a colored man, living at
Robertsport, Liberia, has written to his
son George, at Pottstown, Pa, of whom
he had not heard for twenty years, the
family having been sold apart. The
father is engaged in coffee-raising, and
has a grove planted for each of his sons,
whom he wishes to join him in "their
natural country!' He writes that to
emigrants from this country who mean to
stay, the American Colonization Socie-
ty will furnish a free passage, six
provisions, town lot, and five
or six acres of land when. they arrive at
MonrOvia.
One of the newspaper correspondents
writes from the White Mountains that
there is dearth of marriageble young
men in that region this summer, and the
few who are there are entirely devoted
to a young lady from the West, a reput-
ed heiress of several millions of dollars.
The same writer ungallantly asserts that
most of the brides travelling through the
this year are remarkable for
any thing save their beauty, while the
grooms who accompany them have cor
rugated brows and melancholy mien..
ST. PETERS Church, Rome, holds
81 900 people; Milan Cathedral, ST.
900; St. Paul's, at Rome, $4,000; st.
Paul's, at London, $1,000; San Petro-
MO, at Bologna, 400; Florence Ca
24,3OO; Antwerp Cathedral,
$4,000; St. Sophia's, Constantinople,
$4,000: st. Lateran, 22,9OO; Notre
Dame, at Paris, 1000; Pisa Cathedral,
$4,000; St. Stephens, at Vienna, 49,
400; st. Dominic, at Bologna, $4,000;
St. Peters, at Bologna, II, 400; Cathe-
dral of Vienna, 1000; st, Marks, at
Vienna, 1000; Sturgeon Tabernacle,
1000.
FAR from being a source of danger,
says the Telegraphic Journal, the cleo
trio telegraph must be regarded rather
as a cause of safety, as a network of
lines spread over country tends to pre-
vent an accumulation of electricity at
any particular point, by continually and
silently discharging it to the earth. This
is particularly the case in districts where
every pole has an earth-wire fixed to it,
from the top to the bottom.
That these wires effectually discharge a
lightning-fash has been seen in cases
where the wires have been terminated
within a few inches of the top of the
pole: lightning flash striking one of
these destroyed the portion of pole
above the wire, but at the point where
the wire commenced all damage ceased.
IT is really very discouraging that ac-
cidents will sometimes destroy the fruits
Of great enterprises. Two men of New
port, VT, encouraged by the high price
Of grain, resolved to 60 into the wheat
business. They accordingly, with COM
mendable enterprise, procured span of
horses and wagon and drove ten miles
at the dead of night to farmers barn
choosing this hour so as not to disturb
the farmer. By little perseverance
and with the assistance of q crowbar
they entered the barn and procured q