The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-06-16
GENERAL BRsvIrnEs.

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STANLEY argues that the African girls
are the ones for economical young men
t0marry. They spend little or nothing
for clothing.
GOLD bonnets are one of the last ex-
tremes. They are made of straw, which
Is then stepped in bath of gold. The
trimming consists of . large velvet bow
and humming-bird.
The streets in front of employment
Offices in San Francisco are so obstruct-
ed with men seeking work that business
firms lately petitioned the Chief of Po-
lice to keep passage clear.
MEssRs. JAMES r. OsGOoD & Co., the
Boston publishers, have put up . tele-
phone for use between their. counting
room and their printing office. This is
the first instance of the practical appli-
cation of the new invention.
A WOMAN hermit has lived in Twenty
One-Mile Desert, Nevada, for 10 years,
and in that time has not left her hut ex-
cept to procure the bare necessaries Of
life at small trading-place on the Car
son River, distant eight or nine miles.
She lives in sqhalOr and extreme pow
erty.
THIRTY leading citizens in Colfax
County, Neb., are learning lesson of
respect for the law from William Sears,
supposed murderer. Several years
ago they formed mob and drove him
from his home by threats to hang him.
Now he returns, and sues them for $780,
600 damages.
A FARMER in Ohio was prevented six
weeks ago from cutting his throat with
a razor. He said he would starye him.
self. He has since been kept alive on
such liquids as he could by pretext be
persuaded to swallow. He has had his
coffin made, and it stands in his house
ready for use. - odI
A GROVE of the great trees of the 70.
semitic has just been explored, 1t is of
an altitude similar to that of the other
groves, 5000 feet. Instead, however,
of being only a;cluster of 40 trees, it is
a six-mile-square collection of 10000.
There are trees in it estimated to be
from 100 to 1000 years old. ~
APARIs grocer offers for sale small
bits of macaroni, for use in soup, which
are stamped with the image of Napole-
on LII. instead of, as ordinarily, with
the letters of the alphabet. When the
macarOni swells the features enlarge
until the nose, moustache, and profile
OF the late Emperor stand out in relief.
The Rev. DR.. Tying, Jr., of New York
City, in a sermon recently, said: 81
dislike to see dried-up old woman af-
fecting girlhood, or young miss trying
to be an old girl, affecting maturity
before she has it." He added: "There
are 200 more single women in this
city than there are single men. 1 am
thankful that the stock of old maids is
not run OUT
A WELL known San Francisco gam
bier, Henry Lederer, met his death in a
violent and mysterious manner. A po-
lice officer heard a pistol shot about
midnight, and saw Lederer fall from
third story window. A few seconds at
terward a light was extinguished in the
room, and a carriage was driven rapidly
away from the house. An unaddressed
love letter in German was in Lederer's
room.
THE Ottoman Empire, inclusive of
the tributary States, comprises, accord
ing to Baron de Worms, $4,000, 900
Turks, 800, 900 Arabs, 6OO, 900 Tartars,
TurkOmans and Zingarees, $685. 900
1900, 900 Greeks, 4,SOO,-
GOO Bulgarians, 100000 Servians and
300, 600 Bulgarians protesting the Mo-
faith. In Servia there are
450, 900 Roman Catholics, and 100, 900
in Albania. Altogether, the total popu-
lation reaches 50, O92, O68, but this is in
elusive of nearly. 11,OOO,O 900 Nubians,
5,OOO, 900 Egyptians, and {, 1000, 900 Rou-
Greeks and Servians.
1T is estimated that coffee, both beans
and leaves, are drunk by 100000 of
the human family. Tea of all kinds is
used by 500, 0OO, 900, and opium by AGO.
600, 600; alcohol, in its various forms,
by 50O, 0O0, 900 of the human race. To-
bacco is probably used by seven or eight
millions. These startling facts
indicate a large proportion of the race
using some substances that are either
stimulants or narcotics. The work of
the Psychologists, in the future, will be
to determine the true place in nature of
these substances, and indicate where
their use ends, and abuse begins.
WINETTA MONTAGUE, the actress, a
few days before her death, dictated for
the Dramatic Nevs the following: 81
first met Walter Montgomery in Boston,
Mass. Some time after was travelling
in Europe with one of my sisters, and I
again met him in London, England.
Here, by earnest persuasion, he induced
me to leave my husband, Mr.. Taylor,
and live with him. He had limited at
such thing in Boston, but never pro-
posed it. AgsanSk the entreaties of my
sister, left my u Eful husband for Mr..
and marriage took place
on September 50 1871. After three
days of life with him, discovered that
he had wife and child living. One
day Mr.. Montgomery saw me talking to
her. He went straight home and COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself"
The first of the drink-registering ap-
paratuses, which a new law says must |
be used in all Virginia bar-rooms, has
been put in operation in Richmond. It
is wooden box, about q cubic foot in |
size. On one side is crank. and on
another dials like those of gas meter. |
The barkeeper turns the crank once |
round at every sale of q drink, q bell |
strikes and the dial registers one. The
object of the device is to determine the |
of tax to be collected at the rate
Of one cent on every drink. Although
. heavy fine may be imposed for neglect |
to use these machines properly, or for |
with them in any way-and
there are officers whose duty it is to de- |
tect such offenses- belief is that they |
will not answer the purpose, because |
drinkers will generally connive at viola
lions of the law.
A RUSSIAN criminal condemned to