The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-29


lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREvITIES.
The Car has five physicians on hii
personal staff.
aS.ONE Russian soldier in the field costs
as much as Is Turks.
A POULTICE of red onions is the Ala.
bama remedy for snake bite.
PIERRE CARME, the French billiard
player is astonishing the natives in ia
pan:
The total number of persons support.
cd by Government in Madras and Mysore
both on relief works and gratnitously
ON account of the famine, is over a mil
lion and half.
The population of Egyptis a confused
mixture of Copts, Jews, Arabs of differ
ent tribes, and Turks. The peasantry
are the poorest people in the world in
the most fertile of countries.
THE horns of the Abyssinian OK are
nearly four feet long, and seven inches
in diameter at their base. The Abyssin-
ian buffalo is double the size of our OK
en-, and two will draw as much as four
horses.
ADRIAN PEREZ, of the City of Mexico,
wanted to kill himself. He was found
hanging in meson in that city, and the
cruel people who found him, not only
cut him down, but afterward sent him
to prison for stealing the rope he tried
to hang himself with.
ANN WILSON was courted 20 years
ago, in Bourbon, KY, by George NJ.
Gillespie, who afterward went to Cali
fornia, and she saw nothing of him again
until very recently, when he returned
with IL children by a wife who had
died, and renewed the courtship. Ann
accepted him. .ils.l4
THE Grand Duke Nicholas allows no
pilfering by the troops under his COM
mand. Any offender detected is tried
by court-martial and shot. So strictly
: Is the order obeyed that Gen. Zotoff
himself had to do without chickens for
some days because the Bulgarians re-
fused to sell him fowl for his private
table.
The following is q literal copy of an
address upon a letter recently mailed in
New York City: "For mister patrick
Davy Crarston, rhode Hand in the state
of neu york to be Handed to bridget o
flaherty ten be handed for her sister ann
madigan pautucket rhodd Hand teu re-
mann IN Inc post ofhs TIL called for mon
oay week
BISHOP DUBOIS, of Galveston, was
twice captured by the Indians. Once
the sayages tied him to . tree and were
preparing to burn him to death, when
ne pleaded with them, speaking the
Spanish language, and represented him.
sell as chief in the church, whereupon
shewas reieased. 60 = - -
MANI, of the African kings boast of
an unbroken succession in their families
Tor thousands OF years. They are alb
solute despots, except when controlled
by custom and religion; but in general
their government Is liberal and kind.
MOhammedanism is professed. but the
fetish superstitlons generally prevail,
and belief IN Witchcratt is general.
In suit at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for
damages for the bite of dog, the ia
ther of the sufferer testified that he took
q pair of scissors and cut off some of the
dogs hair, with which to cure the bite.
Apparently the jury. thought this did
not do much good, as they brought in a
Verdlct OF go and costs IN his favor.
KEW. I. T. G. SHELLMAN, of Clark
County, KY, has remarkable horse
known as Billy, which is now IS years
old, and can still trot his 9 or 10 miles
per hour with ease. He has travelled
all over that part of the State embraced
IN the hentucky Conference, excepting
the mountains, and shows no sign of
faaang. - - $50 = -
In Louisiana County, Va, a Miss
Munckies oied after painful illness.
ner sister came into the room where
inc Doqy was lying and threw herself
upon 'ne Deo In q paroxylsm OF grief,
anu rs was supposed at the time, faint
eo. Mnen ner 1rienas made an effort
~ revive ner IL was FOUND that she was
oeau'
HE new liquor law of Virginia inn
poses tax OF "a cents per drink on al
u maIt M IdS1ts anu one, ma. &. cent on
har of dr;uLs ' soId st FL .eas .ne num-
ost "a s - 4ho i S..a ~ oa.-ioom, anu 70
$500 - 'i ;o;e os .. sana: u:IAeePers
an ;rf-;n~nant ~ 49, u ss. us use seas as
tr;.I .ha sr;. Uns :, pason. Aiuer long
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A WRITER in the FOrtntghtly Revie,o
says that the cat is more sensitive to
rarified air than and other animal Or
ganism. Attempts to acclimatize it at
POtOSl. Bolivia. $4,000 feet above the