The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-15
GENERAL BREvITIES.


lola. 90: KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
THE sexton of church in Pittsburp
has fallen heir to a fortune of $i0O, 600,
left him by relative in Ireland.
WOLVES are so PLENTIFUL and raven.
Gus about River Falls, Wis, as TO drive
many sheep-raisers out of the business.
"A back pension was recently OBJ
tanned for lady in Louisville, through
p. II. Fitzgerald's Claim Agency at In
Annapolis, Ind, amounting to e25SS.
So great is the rush to see Chief 10.
seph at Fort Leavenworth that the au.
thorities have concluded to issue q lin.
tied number of passes into camp pei
diem. r;s-el .ae =; Z II
Two fashionably dressed ladies Of
Brooklyn, and claiming to be respecta-
BILE, were arrested in that city the other
day for shoplifting. They paid their
fines of 800 each promptly. IS
In the Utah Legislature there are only
two members that have one. wife. All
the other SO are doubly blessed in this
respect, and some of them are consider
ably more than twice blessed.
The last French census, taken in
1876, the results of which are just made
psblic, shows an increase of 800, 900 in
the population in five years. The latest
previous census had shown decrease.
IT is believed by the Chinese that the
inventor of ink is charged with keeping
an account of the manner in which all
ink is used here below, and that for ev-
cry abuse of it he records black mark
against the offender. sre4af 81 81.
An English engineer, named Crooks,
one of the surveyors and explorers of
the Isthmus of Darien, died recently
from Injuries caused by q vampire bat.
He lay i'll with an intermittent fever, and
became so much weakened BY loss of
blood, drawn from him by the crea-
ture, that his system succumbed.
A YOUTHFUL couple drove into Kan
sas City the other day from Lenexa,
Kan, and got married. They had only
81 to fee the justice, but 81 went. They
rode to town on q load of hay. and
trusted to luck to sell it to pay wedding
expenses. They sold it just at dark and
went home rejoicing.
AMONG other big things California
boasts of a species of boa-constrictor,
which though seldom growing to the
size of the tropical reptile, yet some
times reaches respectable dimensions. A
hunter recently killed one in Treo Pinos
County that was 20 feet long, and which
stoutiy contested with him the possess
sion of fawn which he had killed.
Col. KNOX found rare bird at a
Japanese tea-house-a woman 20 years
old at least who didn't know the use of
a pin. "One of the party showed her a
pin-cushion she eyed it, and turned it
over and over, and when he drew pin
from it she continued her bewilderment
When its use was shown, an expression
of establishment crossed her face,
which changed to one of delight when
told that she could retain the bit of
brass"
DENVER claims to have " A Cesar in
Chains-One of the Ancient NOblemen
of Venice in Lunatic's Cell, !" the name
of him Cesar Consalis, a Venetian of 60,
and a coadjutor of Daniel Manin and
a'-..-e- neao w fin sar 6pcra company, ana
he has sung in various parts of the
country, once with Patti. His insanity
is not of violent type, except at times
when he is said to be rather obstrener-
GUS and unruly."
STRAsBURG Cathedral is undergoing
a complete PREPARATION, and German
hands are bent on effacing the memories
OF destruction by German shells. AID.
vantage has been taken of this proceed
ing to replace, or, as we should call it.
to I" restore" the slower injuries of time.
so that good deal more has been add
ed than was knocked down in August.
1870. Sculpture and pinnacles, can
opies and pedestals, the statues of EN-
perors having considerable promi-
hence, are being replaced or erected in
positions which may never before have |
been occupied. Most of the imperial |
statues are on horseback.
OLIVE LOGAN says it is terribly dan |
,erous for gentleman with character
md money to travel unprotected on an
english railway. No gentleman who
las any sef-respect permits himself to
'e left alone with lady in railway
arrlage, those compartment affairs,
7here poor man is wholly at the mer.
y OF any skillful and designing woman
7ho sees fit to take advantage Of his ex-
osed condition and make him a victim.
he woman pretends to be insulted and
hrleks for help, and the gentleman
ribes her to silence, knowing very well
nat his innocence is no shield whatever
such cases. The trouble of Valentine
aker has been too prolific of sugges-
ons.
A MOST singular and horrible death !
ccurred at Clarksville, Texas. It ap-
ears there had been bet made and
Re wager taken BY man from the /
ldian Territory, owner of q tame pet
Ear, for his beast to fight Texas dogs,
he fight came of, and the animal was !,
ken to GAINESVILLE. Among q crowd
children who surrounded him was a Il
gro girl aged six years, who struck
m on the head with a switch or stick.
his enraged him, and the bear, Selling IL
victim and using teeth and claws, ;,
angled the child in the most horrible -
amer. The rage of the animal was %
great that couple of men standing
ar were appalled, and dared not inter, 81
re.
AN exchange tells of a &c pumpkin-pie-
cial lately held in Willoughby. O. q
ION table in the middle of the yestv a.
the Methodist Church were MOS in :