The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-06-30
GENERAL BREyITRs.

ARTIFICIAL flowers are used in but
ton-hole bouquets in New York. They
are perfumed
A New HAVEN, (Conn.) sexton
boasts of having assisted at over 81,
thousand funerals.
Texas JACK has gone to the Yellow.
stone Park for q three months hunt
with Captain E. Bailey, of the British
army.
The royalty of rs cents on each pas
senger to Mount Vernon, netted $27 ,OOO
to the Association Last year.
The big guns in the BROOKLYN Navy
Yard have been named "MOloch.h
Lucifer'' and g Satan, - notwithstand-
ing the protest of the chaplain.
The cook of the Carleton Club, Lon
don, has recovered $125 damages from
newspaper which intimated that his
dinners spoiled digestion.
MULLER & LUX, of Lower California,
have farm IS miles in length by 20 in
width. One single straight fence on this
property is IS miles long.
ALBERT GRANT, the ruined London
Spectator, built q house which cost
him, together with the grounds, mil
lion and a half of dollars. He is de-
PENDANT in eighty-six law suits now.
MOTHERs-IN-LAw should raise mon
ument to the late John B. FELTON,, of
San Francisco. He left one-half of his
property to his wife, one-quarter to his
mother-in-law and one-quarter to his
children.
AT a recent fashionable marriage in
New York the bride walked over mat,
stretched from the door of the church
to the altar railing, fashioned of ever
greens, and filled in by lilies, roses and
violets.
The two parties to a suit which has
been pending in the Supreme Court of
North Carolina for 10 years past died
on the same day last week, and were
buried within twenty feet of each other.
Case suspended until the Judgment
Day.
SPECTATORS are quick to take ad-
vantage of earthquakes. When the
news of the destruction of Iquique, on
the Peruvian coast, reached London
there was sudden advance in the price
cfnitrate of soda-the principal deposits
of which are near that coast.
No wonder the London ladies have
such admirable compilations. During
the last week in May the Astronomer
Royal reported that in London the dura-
ton of registered sunshine was 1875
hours out of the lila hours that the
sun was above the horizon.
THE old dispute, whether the name of
the Prophet of Islam should be spelled
Mahomet or Mohammed, has been set
tied at last. The Oriental scholars say
that it should be spelled Muhammad.
1t will still continue to be pronounced
in accordance with individual taste.
Mrs. A. T. STEWARDS gift to Garden
City, Long Island, the new city founded
by her late husband, will be cathedral,
to cost about 100000. The total ex-
penditures for the building and the per-
manent endowment of it will be in
the neighborhood of million and a
half of dollars.
IT is said that the late General Ad-
miral Ward, of China, who was a native
of Salem, Mass, bequeathed his fortune
of S10,000,000 to his Salem relatives,
but, as he was Chinese subject, the
money went back to the source whence
it came, though his father spent eleven
months in China in vain effort to bring
the officials to terms.
SUIT Is pending in Indianapolis
which involves the title to 200 acres of
LAM, jim that city, occupied by about 500
persons, and worth $3,OOO,OOO. The
property formerly belonged to the late
Gov. Noble, and it is claimed that the
Iouyc Df ha -. A.
settlement and division of his estate.
IT has become understood in diplo-
matte circles that England is negotiat-
ing with Turkey for the purchase of the
island of Crete. By this Turkey will
acquire large sum for war purposes,
and England will acquire another inn
portant maritime position in the Med
iterranean. Engineers and scientists
are now exploring the island, with a |
view OF reporting to an English COM
pany upon its mines and other resources.
This company will aid in the purchase
by paying the British Government a |
large sum for lands and rights.
BISHOP QUINrARD, of Tennessee, on
his visit to West Point, gave the follow
ing incident of his experience al the bat
tie of Perryville: 81 stood upon
mound between the Confederate artil-
lery, under command of Capt VIM. w.
Carnes, on my right, and the Union
guns, commanded by Col. Charles C.
Parsons, on my left. Afterward, when
l became Bishop of Tennessee, the first
person l confirmed was Capt. Carnes,
and | ordained Col. Parsons, who gave
up the military life, as a priest of the
Episcopal Church,
A CURIOUS result of Arctic exposure
was observed in the case of those who
were absent from the Alert for long
sledge journey. The hair on their faces
bleached nearly white The loss of
color was gradual, aid, although MOTTO
ed, was never alluded to, each one i'm
agining that his companions hair was
turning gray from the effects of hard
ships and anxiety. 1t was only after
their return to the ship that those pos
sessing boards and mustaches discovered
the change of hue in their own hair
The color gradually returned in about
three or four weeks.
DELAPLAINE, Charge d'Affaires of the
United States at Vienna, says the Sheik
III Islam has recently sent delegation
of Doctors of Law to the Cherif Of Nee
ca, direct descendant of the Prophet,
for the purpose of demanding funds
from the Treasure of Islam, to be ap-
piled in the defense of Islam faith. This
treasure is formed from annual offerings
of pilgrims, which are accumulated in
the Kasbahi of Mecca. The Cherif of
Mecca receives on an average $1,000. 600
francs in annual offerings. One offer
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