The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-02-24
GENERAL -BREyITIEs.

GENERAL -BREyITIES.
THE Chinese of California use water
melon seeds for food, and shipments Of
thousands of pounds of these novel pro-
visions are made from one town to
another.
The Nevada Legislature is about to
put check on the 200 or 800 wildcat
companies, that do great silver stock
business, with no actual capital. by tax
ing their multitudinous shares.
The elegance of new gambling sa-
loon in Nevada is not in harmony with
the rude habits of the gamblers, and as
each enters he is handed card on
which is printed, "The carpet cost %
yard-please use the spittoons."
The Adams and American Express
Companies employ about 5000 men,
1900 horses, 1900 wagons, and use
5000 iron safes. Their agents travel
more than 1OO, 900 miles daily, or nearly
$4,000, 900 miles yearly.
ONE of the newest attempts to cheat
the revenue that has been discovered
by the customs officers is the coloring
of white sugar dark brown or yellow.
Chemists say that the coloring disap-
pears after the sugar is exposed to the
air.
The discoveries of coal in Brazil have
not hitherto been very import ant, but
a set of mines in the Province of San
Pedro de Rio Grand do Sol appear to
be of considerable value. One of these
is in the hands of an English company,
which is about to construct q railroad
for conveying the coal. Another, also
in English hands, already has a rail-
road.
ISAAC WILSON, aged IA, James
Phalon, aged Is, and Eddie Wilson,
aged 8, all of San Francisco, inspired
by dime novels, plundered butcher
shop, and, with the money they got,
bought horse and shot gun and
started for the canyons, to be robbers.
Fir ding travel in the mountains rather
light, they returned to town, where
they were very soon arrested.
ENGLIsHMEN will sell their wives.
though the price has risen At Crowle,
in Lincolnshire, a certain william Lig
git,- "a pork butcher, sold bis wife the
other day for f40. The articles of sale
were drawn up at solicitors Office,
the money was paid, and the wife hand
ed over to the purchaser, Chapman
Pidd, landlord of the Fishmonger's
Arms.
The force of men now at work on
the Par.s Exposition buildings is to be
doubled this summer, and it is expected
that the time for the reception If goods
will be for an earlier period than has
been announced. Frenchmen are be-
coming more and more enthusiastic
over the matter, and predict the fair of
'1S will surpass any ever held in the
world.
THERE was a grand ball at Indian
Rock, D. T., short time ago. Among
the lovely girls who danced were Miss
Three Bears, dressed in beautiful new
calico worth 124 cents yard and trim
med with beads; Miss Bellyfat, the In
capapa chiefs daug liter, arrayed in
burkskin embroidered with beads, and
in leggins If scarlet cloth; and Miss
Antelope, Running Antelope's ruddy
daughter. dressed in a beautiful blue
blanket and black cloth gsipgs, with
her hair closely oiled to her head.
HELIoTYPES of exquisite lace are
taken on paper or silk for fans, and ,un-
less you feel of them with bare fingers,
you can't tell the difference between
the lace and the printing. If mar
row lace border is sewed to the edge
of the fan, the deception is complete.
This opens an extraordinary prospect
for future dress trimmings; lace
founces can be heliotyped on any col
ored silk skirt, and there will be no
ripping off or tearing in a crowd; lace
aprons can be made from the very cost
Hest OF patterns, and yet notcost much.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR, writing about
the probability of there really being
such things as "sea serpents, 3" says ii
is not likely that naturalists know all
the forms of animals that exist in the
oceans. He reminds us that the first
account of q giraffe was laughed at
that the orilla was for long time dis
believed in, and that those who origi-
nally described gigantic cuttle-fish
were regarded as liars. Mr.. Proctor's
conclusion is that the stories of "sea
serpents," therefore, are not unreason-
able.
A GENTLEMAN, while travelling with
his wife in a railway carriage from Co.
1ogne to Bremen, was startled by flames
bursting up through the bottom of the
compartment. He opened the window,
but could not make himself heard. The
smoke and flames increased He crawled
through the window and along the
slippery board until he reached the ten.
der, and succeeded in stopping the
train. 1t was not an instant too soon,
for, on running to the coupe and re-
leasing his wife, they found her dress
already sipged. The fire was caused,
it appears, by the coal boxes, with
which the carriage was heated, being
worn out.
A FIRM of umbrella-makers in Glas.
gov have lately filled an order for forty
sent as presents to African Chiefs
Some of the parasols-or palanquins,
as they are also called-are about thirty
feet in circumference, and the rest about
eighteen feet. They are covered with
a rich, variegated damask silk, fringed
around the edges, ornamepted at the
top with gilt balls, and lined with fin
ished cloth. The handles, which are
OF Lakewood, are armed with spikes
for tenting purposes, and bayonet
joint on each stick renders the whole
more portable.
ARUssIAN lady of wealth and beauty
has introduced fashionable sensation
in Paris. She has temporarily given
up driving horses in her carriage, and
% appears daily in the Champs Elysees
and Bots de Boulogne in low wagon,
to which are attached four donkeys in