The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-06-02
GENERAL HREyIfRs.

GENERAL RREvTIIRS.
PRoF. DAVIDSON. caught . spiders
web as it was!being spun. and found
that it was composed of % different
strands.
Two thousand sheep were lately sold
in Adelaide, South Australia, at % cents
head. This is the effect of the drought.
Drought and food are the curses of that
country.
Two Virginia City undertakes
fought in the street, the other day, Tor
the possession of q body that one had
laid out and the other had stolen. The
stealing undertaken kept the body, but
couldn't collect his bill.
The sea holds O,0OO, OOO, OOO, 600 tons
of salt. Should the sea be dried up.
there would be deposit of salt over the
entire bottom of the ocean $50 feet deep,
and if the salt were taken and spread on
the land it would cover it to depth OF
900 feet.
A GIRL screamed in a lecture audi
ence in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all
the other girls screamed. General con-
sternation ensued, and rush was made
for the doors, people were bruised,
clothes torn, and the room at length was
emptied. The first screamer had seen
a rat.
WHEN Russian army oficeror other
person of note is condemned to exile in
Siberia, he is first made to kneel on a
scaffold before the people, while the
epaulets and decorations are torn of, and
his sword broken over his head. He is
declared legally dead, and his wife, if
he is married, can, if she chooses, con-
slider herself widow. His estates are
confscated to the Crown. If his wife
and children follow him they can never
return.
THE old King of Gaboon, in Africa, is
dead, At the age of nearly 100. His ell
dest son, Adande, at once, on succeed
ing him, cashiered the 100 women at his
fathers harem, iberating so slaves, and
abolished the sacrifice of human beings
at religious rites. Admiral Ribaut and
staff, of the French squadron in the Gulf
of Guinea, assisted at the coronation
ceremonies. The Admiral gave the
King COW and bull by way of start
ing a herd of cattle for his Majesty.
A PAINTING which gives evidence of
being an authentic, original portrait of
theredoubtable Puritan Captain, Miles
Standish, has been discovered in B0s-
ton picture-store by Capt. a. NJ. Harri-
son of Plymouth. 1t is painted upon
wood, and bears the captains name on
the upper part. Artists and connois-
seurs have inspected it, and pronounce
it an original painting by Jansen, dis
tinguished English painter, and it is
supposed that it was painted in 1925,
when Standish went to England as agent
of the Plymouth colony.
THREE electric eels from the River
Amazon have lately been added to the
Westminster aquarium. As they require
to be kept at a temperature of between
20 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, it needed
some ingenuity to bring them from Liv-
erpool, where they were landed, to Lon
don. By placing the vessel containing
them on fOot-warmers, and telegraphing
ahead for changes of foot-warmers at
different stations, the water was kept at
uniform temperature of Is degrees.
The cells are lodged in a tank kept warm
by steam pipe passing under the
single.
ILL-GOTTEN gain is hard to keep. Six
years. ago one Hine, teller in the Ma
haiwe Bank, of Great Darlington, Mas
sachusetts, stole from the bank 1924 ZOO,
after which he absconded to California.
Afterward, being convicted, he was sent
to prison. While there it was learned
from his letters, which were opened by
the jailer, that one Barry, of Barring
ton, helped him to get away on the
night of the robbery. For this service
Hine paid him $1,000, with 81 500 of
which Barry's parents bought real estate.
This, as having been bought with its
money, the bank brought suit to recov-
er, and the courts have just rendered a
decision in its favor.
ALABAMIANs attach great importance
to the vast wealth of coal and iron the
State possesses, and from its develop
ments fondly hope for restoration to
their former prosperity. The coal fields,
covering an area of over 5000 square
miles, are almost untouched, and con-
tain some of the best and easiest mined
bituminous coal in the country. Rail
roads are handy, lands are cheap, and
the enterprising capitalists alone are
lacking. Some time in the future it is
predicted that Cuba and the gulf ports
will all be supplied with Alabama coal.
A NEW and fashionable diversion in
Baltimore among young ladies and gen.
tlemen fond of Notwithstanding is call
ed Hare and Hounds" and is now
played every Saturday. A young gen.
tlenan and lady well mounted are chos-
en- to represent the hales, and all the
rest play the hounds. The brace of
hares are given 10 minutes start, and
have sachels of white paper cut in small
pieces, with which they are expected to
mark their course. The ride is some
times five miles and back, by various
roads and lanes, and the first couple that
oyertakes the hares have the privilege of
playing that part in the next perform
ance.
Ed SIMMONS, of Oil City, Pa, who is
serving a sentence in the Penitentiary
for embezzlement, has petitioned the
Governor for release from the few re-
naming months of his term, that he may
go to California to head off q divorce
suit which his wife has instituted against
him there. The wife was young and
handsome, and it was to crafty her love
for fine clothes and jewelry, it is said,
that the weak but devoted husband was
led into crime. After his imprisonment
the wife went to awealthy cousin in Cal
ifornia, who has now induced her to
marry him. And it is to spoil this pro-