The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-01
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREvITIES.
ONE fly has 200, 600 children. ~
THE street railways of New York use
1900 horses
INDIANS never kiss their wives; kiss
ing is one of the Christian graces.
= NEARLY all of the Minnesota wheat
tests 60 pounds per bushel.
THERE are five lines of telephones
now in successful operation in New
York City.
THERE have Just arrived at Philadel-
phia for the Geological Garden three
Arabian sheep, the first of the breed ey-
er brought to this county,.
A TEN-MILLION dollar tunnel is to be
bored under the Apprentices, in connec-
ton with the projected railway from
Florence to mola, via Fiesole.
THE last proud step in the line of civ
il-service reform is an edict that Gov
eminent clerks shall pay their debts
just the same as every one else.
THE self-raking reaper gathered in
q rattlesnakes, 10 garter-snakes, and
one blue racer in cutting small field of
oats in New Carlisle, Ind.
Z a AsCHICAGo man has married three
sisters, and all are living. He took
= them in the order of their ages, lived
with each about q year, and then OBJ
tanned q divorce. There are three more
sisters left.
An English jury lately awarded $780,
500 as damages to be paid by the Great
Northern Railroad Company to a Mrs.
Bqrbridge, whose husband, q clerk with
D2500 . year salary and q prospect of
seS, $50, died from injuries received in
an accident last Christmas, when she al
SO sustained dreadful injuries.
A New ENGLAND philosopher has un-
folded new theory of the cause of the
appetite for stimulants. He says the
custom of dressing in black is response
BILE for the craving for drink, and that if
people would dress in white the sun
would furnish the nerves all the stimu-
. lants required.
1T is q curious circumstance that no.
bles in France could, before the revolu-
ton of 1889, engage in glass-making
without their nobility being suspended,
inasmuch as when the employments were
set down by engaging in which an aris-
tocrat lost his quality glass-makiDg was
either not known or q lost art; hence
the term in France, I" ntils-lbOmnses-
Ueryiers.''
THE Howard family of Bourbon Coun-
ty, Kentucky, in weight and height:
Father, feet and 200 pounds; his six
sons feet 8 to 6 liz, and average weight
219 pounds; the mother, nee Current, 6
feet and inch, weight 285 pounds; and
her three daughters from 6 feet to 6
eject inches, and weight $50 to 1865
pounds. Many of the relatives and de-
,scendants of those mentioned are nearly
all as large and tall.
GEN. MALONE, unsuccessful candi-
date for the Democratic nomination as
Governor of Virginia, was wounded
during the war. He weighs little over
100 pounds, and his wife was much dis
tressed when she heard of his misfor-
tune. Friends assured her it was only a
flesh wound. 81 know better,'' said the
wife; ssif Billy Malone has been struck
anywhere on his body by bullet, it
HOS ULOACu UOuc
An enterprising female was observed
in Dayton, Ohio. She had large basket
filled with provisions on her right arm,
and grasped an umbrella in her right
hand; her left arm encircled a water
melon; the left hand clutched porte
monnaie, and she carried her door-key
IN her mouth! Moreover she wore a
suit with long trail, and that trail she
tucked around the handle of her market
basket!
A wOODMAN in Austin, New, has
named his team of eight oxen after lead
ing citizens of the place. Every day he
is heard shouting to them like this, ex-
cept that he also uses profanity: I" Gee,
there, John Lyons; whoa, DR.. Sheri-
dan, you blamed lazy beast; haw, there,
Col. Price, or III break every bone in
Your darned lazy body; get up, Jack
Squires!" Then he whacks the minis
ter with the butt of the whip, and
throws stone at the bank president.
FROM time immemorial, it has been
the custom in the southwest of England
for farmers to throw back shilling (25
cents) on every 10 sacks of wheat and
every 10 quarters of barley they sell.
The custom is supposed to have its orr
gin in the fact that formerly the dealers
met the farmers at their inns when the
market was over and paid them, when
the farmer threw back the shilling for
drink. If the custom were abolished,
it is said that it would cost the largest
brewing firm in England $4,000 a
year.
q. ALBERT MEYN, of Boston, during II
years paid the premiums ON @25, 900 of
life insurance. The burden was too
heavy for his business, and was the
cause of his bankruptcy; but he strug-
gled hard and successfully to make the
payments, believing that by doing so he
was securing his family against poverty
after his death. Within two years one
after another of the companies in which |
he insured have gone to pieces, and
when he died, several weeks ago, all his |
policies were worthless. His wife and
children are penniless.
DURING a debate which took place
some time ago in Scottish town coun-
Gil, on question where much diversity
of opinion prevailed, bailie, among
other reasons in support of the measure,
stated that it would be of immense ben
eft to posterity. On hearing this the |
Provost, who headed the opposition, got
mp and said, /" I'm really surprised to |
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