The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-11-17
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

GENEkAL BkEvlT1ESs
WASHINGTON swarms with mendi-
cants.
THE mocking- bird makes his omelet
of ants eggs.
Col. HARPER has refused $60, 600 for
Ten Brock.
AMERICANS travel all over Europe
without luggage, and this is another
thing that surprised foreigners.
A SPANISH lady of rank is collecting
the photographs of Spanish beauties to
be sent to the Paris Exhibition.
REPRESENTATIVE BAKER, of Indiana,
has introduced in Congress bill to pro-
tect farmers from patent-right swindlers.
THERE is a man working in a Des
Moines coal mine who has been mem
Der of the Legislature from Jefferson
County.
EIGHT hundred and fifty-two thou
sand four hundred and thirty-eight
farmers in Great Britain own less than
an acre each.
THE Galveston News says the work OF
clearing titles to the stolen lands of the
Kansas-Texas ring will produce FIVE
thousand lawsuits.
ONE dollar put at compound interest
upon the day Columbus discovered
America would amount in 1879, to the
paltry sum of Sc, 24O, 100000.
The authorities in France have de-
creed that railways may only transport
live animals distance of 1875 miles in
twenty-four hours.
sTHE Ancient Order of the Sons and
Daughters of Moses of the United States
and the World at LARGE" is the rather
comprehensive title of Washington
colored society.
AN Artesian well at Anamosa, Iowa,
has been abandoned. Water had not
been struck at !, 200 feet and $1,000 had
already been sunk in the enterprise.
The Chicago Post estimates the net
losses of the different baseball clubs
this season as follows, Chicago, 200
St. Louis, $4,000; Hartfords, 1880;
Louisville, $1,000; Boston, $500;
Stars, $4,000; Indianapolis, $4,000 Te-
cumseh, $1,000; Milwaukee. $4,000.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE BONHAM, a lady of
independent means, died recently near
Lewes, England, at the age of 1902. She
leaves MISREPRESENTATION and a
daughter aged IS. She enjoyed good
health until quite recently, and had great
repute for her generosity to the poor.
The Dallas (Texas) Herald tells of a
man being bitten by skunk recently in
Tarrant County, and of the excruciating
pain suffered by him in consequence.
Twelve hours later large drops of per-
spiration appeared on his face and a
white froth on his lips, in which condi-
ton he died.
THIRTY years ago Coleman Stevens
jumped from a train of the New York
Central Railroad, leaving his wife
aboard. They had been married only
few months, and no reason was APP
parent why he should desert her; but
she was unable to find him until last
summer, when she learned that he was
living in San Francisco, where he had
amassed fortune and married again
Mrs. Stevens has sued for maintenance.
In lecture on "War" John Ruskin
declared that the existence of wars in
the civilized States was wholly the fault
of women. 81 must tell you this, :"
said he, eff the usual course of war, in
stead of unroofing peasants houses and
ravaging peasants fields merely broke
china upon your own drawing-ro ia
bles, no war in civilized countries would
last week"
GENERAL MILES, when on the field
- hnf In H. oil
is by no means an insignificant figure.
An admirer says that during his last
successful fight, "finely mounted, he
rode from first to last, guiding the en-
gagement. Weighing nearly 200
pounds, he sat on his charger like a
centaur, his brown mustache and side
whiskers, slightly mixed with gray,
adorned features that are heavy but
pleasing, and were overshadOwed by a
broad-brimmed slouched drab hat. A
wide blue ribbon encircled its crown,
with blue streamers behind. He wore
a red blanket frontier shirt, and black
neck-tie, its ends floating over his
shoulders; outside the shirt a buckskin
coat, short at the hips and carelessly
buttOned; the light blue trousers of a
private soldier, with black stripes down
the seams, and coarse boots, completed
his ATTIRE
CHICAGO brags of the champion ram
bling boy. He is only 10 years old and
they call him Charley La Vine. He has
been kicked across the continent and
back, is still in good condition, and has
evidently pluck enough to be kicked all
over the United States for the pleasure
of rambling. Charley has mother who
has never been able to put her finger
on her boy with accuracy since he was
able to walk. He ran away from home
a dozen times before he was years
old, and lied and suffered and lived a
little starving vagabond. As yet he has
always returned home when tired. He
is at home now-after six months alb
sence. He made the trip to San Fran
cisco and back this time, and endured
great hardships. The conductors kick
ed him off the train at every station, as
he expected when he started without
nickel. He boarded the next train and
waited for the next kicking. So he was
kicked to San Francisco and back, and
he is now at home lying up for repairs.
He will not black boots and sell papers
long before he is off for another pleas
ure trip.
WALKING Girls of Nevada.