The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-11-24
GENERAL BREYTTHs.

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and is the father of q newborn child.
~ The public gardens of Paris have
been overrun with spiders this autumn
careful observers fnd them tEustvofthy
barometers, as they extend their web
making in pleasant weather, and con
tract it when storm is coming.
INaSouthern Russia . rinderpest ha'
broken out among the cattle. So ma
lignant Il the disease that hundreds o.
thousands of cattle have died, and II
many villages scarcely COW or an o.
is left to the impoverished inhabitants
:. SWEDEN has consented to give up tt
= France her only colony, the Island O
st. Barthelemy, one of the Antilles
= The island has already belonged tt
France, and Sweden now finds it to hel
interest to cede it at the price of &c, O0t
francs. -,-.-
IT is recalled that diphtheria was intro
duced into the region in most virulen
Z form some % years ago by the exhuma
Z don Of q corpse at West Haven, Ct
Nearly every body who inhaled the odol
from the grave died of the disease, which
bafiied the best physicians. n y
HENS eggs hatch in from 10 to 21
days; turkeys, from 26 to 20 days
ducks, 20 days; guinea fowls, from q
to 81 days; pea fowls',2s to 80 days;
geese's 80 to 80 days. Fresh eggs will
hatch one or two days sooner than those
two or three weeks old.
The farmers of Prince Edward Island
are rejoicing over the largest crops ever
raised and safely housed by them. All
the crops are good, but the yield OF
wheat and oats is much above the aver
age. Potatoes are, as usual, very fine
in quality, and as to the quantity, there
is no room for complaint. a
A CHINA paper states that during an
outbreak of cholera on board the Gus
toms cruiser Fei Hoo, one of the crew
was saved, while in dying state, by
the novel experiment of placing him be-
tween the boilers of that vessel. This
ektemporized Turkish bath completely
cured the patient.
ABOUT two years ago, in Fayette
County, Iowa, q team was frightened
by dog, causing it to run away and
seriously injure the driver. Suit was
brought for damages against the owner
of the dog, (which was settled few days
ago, the plaintiff receiving $500 dam
ages 8 49,
MAJOR LEADER, a correspondent of
the London Telegraph in Turkey, who
has Just died, had an adventurous ca
reer. He sold out his British army
commission and served in the French
German war on the side of France;
thence won Majors shoulder-straps
in the cause of Don Carlos. He was
handsome, dashing, sprightly soldier,
a graphic, graceful writer, and native
of the Emerald Isle.
THE old saying that ga mare is a
horse but horse is not a mare" has
been put in legal shape by decision
in the Baltimore Criminal Court. Two
young men were tried on an Indictment
sfor the larceny of mare valued at
800, but the evidence showed that the
: animal was horse and not mare, and
: the defendants were acquitted. They
aMefe, however, convicted of stealing a
bswagOn.ssrOz
. The Khedive of Egypt has the first
choice of all the slaves that still are sold
freely in his dominions, and has no
!. preference for any particular hue, from
Circassian to Nubian. The war has
ruined the slave trade this year, and
$500 Circassians were sold at $500 and
pretty Somali girls at $50, at the great
Tanta fair, their owners preferring to
=.reslize ON them at any price rather than
hold them for future delivery at posi-
BILE advance. -
THE United States Minister at the
Hague says there has not been a bank
: failure in Holland for the last 40 years,
while there is no such thing on record
as the failure of fire insurance COM
pany. The railroads grant no free
passes, and pilfering officials are scarce
1y even heard of. Dishonesty of any
kind or failure N business means pub
lie dishonOr. Four millions of people
live within an area of 10000 square
miles, q fact unprecedented in any other
country, and all appear to be prosper
GUS and happy.
mr.. E. D. POWELL, of Richmond, Ky,
went into a pasture recently to look at
stallion, and climbed the fence for the
purpose of getting near him, when the
animal, who proved to be vicious beast,
seized Mr.. Powell by the thumb of the
right hand, tearing it off and with it one
of the Iigaments running up to the
elbow. He then seized him by the arm
above the elbow and dashed him to the
ground, tearing the flesh from his arm
with great violence. Mr.. John Hughes,
who accompanied him, rescued the
PROSTATE man, driving the stallion off.
A DECISION of much interest to the
gambling fraternity has just been made
in New York. A stranger was recently
enticed into . gambling den in that
city and Aeeced, and the District Attor-
eney, having found by experience that
conviction on the, charge of swindling
was almost impossible, indicted the
men for larceny. 1t was commended that
there could be no larceny in the case,
as the victim gave up his money volun-
tarily but the Judge charged for con-
yiction, and the Jury brought in ver-
dict of guilty. The case was promptly
taken to the Court of Appeals which
has now confirmed the decision Of the
lower court. 'lss' - 7a'ei
II ALLEGHENr's talk is about the at
tempted elopement of pair of lovers
who belonged to the wealthiest families
in the city. The respective parents
were IS full of hatred IS the Capulets
and Aontagues, and would not sanction
q marriage. Romeo went ct night I'M
derneath Juliet's window. She let
down q. string TO which he attached
rope ladder, which was then speedily
placed In position. Juliet descended,
and had barely reached the ground
when herfs&her popped his head out of
tho window. BE climbed down the lad