The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-05-26
GENERAL BREvITIEs.


more numerous in Philadelphia than any
other city of the country. About every
daily in the city has one or more of them
on its staff
THERE is more steamboating on the
muddy Missouri this year than there has
been any season during the past ten
years, the Black Hills trade being the
chief stimulant.
A WOMAN in Minneapolis parted from
her husband because she believed that
he did not love her, and then he killed
himself because she had deserted him.
Evidently they did not understand each
other.
If you toss penny fairly, and it
comes up heads three times running, the
chances for the fourth are still exactly
what they are at first-that, is exactly
equal. Gamblers deny this, but no
mathematician will.
A MINNEAPOLIS man asks $4,000
damages of a wealthy widow for not
marrying him. He says that she prom
ised to do so, and he gave up his bust
ness of iquor-selling to please her, thus
causing his bankruptcy.
A PHYSICIAN recently died at Ports
mouth, N. H., who graduated at Har-
ward and afterward studied in Paris, but
never had but one patient, for whom he
extracted tooth, receiving fee of %
cents. He was never married, and lived
to be nearly four-score years old, leav-
ing fortune of 100000.
A CHINAMAN in San Francisco was
interviewed bya reporter as to the prob
able issue of the conflict between hood
lum and Mongol in San Francisco. Re-
suit: "Allee thine hoolum blake tleaty.
Bime-by, mex yeah, Chin-C hinaman he
come; bling plenty men; heap fight;
shootee; kill hurdle! Smashee hoo
lum!"
RECKLESS drivers and their employ
ers are pretty severely dealt with in
Paris. Bazard, journeyman butcher,
lately Knocked down and ran over the
child of Nine. Geant. The child subse-
quentiy died, and Bazard has to pay $50
his employer being held responsible
for the same-and go to prison for ten
days.
In the fall of 1874, Mrs. w. S. Pool,
of Bedford, Nd, swallowed pin, which
afterward moved all over her body max
ing known its whereabouts by occasion
ing her intense pain and sometimes con-
vulsions. Last week it perforated the
skin of her throat and she pulled it out
A GERMAN-AMERICAN says that book
beer takes its name, not from a he-goat,
but from Einbeck, town in Germany
famous for its excellent lager beer.
Limburger cheese gets its name from
Limburg, in the Netherlands, and its
fragrance comes from the decaying in
testines of sheep, which are chopped fine
and mixed with the milk.
A MILWAUKEE lady, desiring to wash
her baby's face before its picture was
taken, was directed by the photographer
to the dressing-room, but she made a
mistake, got into the wrong apartment,
and gave the child bath of nitrate of
silver. Cyanide of potassium was APP
piled and the inky blackness reduced to
a rich olive brown, which will gradually
wear off.
ABOUT the hardest luck with LAWYERS
we ever heard of was that which recent
ly befell Louisville darky. He was
found to have 500 bill, and was not
unnaturally arrested on suspicion of
having stolen it. He got a lawyer to
defend him, and proved that it was his
own money, but his counsel wanted all
but 800 of the sum for his services, which
made the negro SO mad that he left the
whole with him.
ANDREW S. HoLENBECK, proprietor
OF the Franklin House in Waterloo, N.
T., has fish taken from Cayuga Lake
that no fisherman recognizes rs among
the known fishes. On Sunday night
the fish jumped out of the aquarium and
was apparently dead. In the morning,
to preserve it, Mr.. Holenbeck put it into
a jar of whisky, and there it remained
until morning. Then, looking at it he
found it alive. He at once returned it
to the aquarium, where it is apparently
as well as ever.
A CLAIM ninety-seven years old was
paid by the Treasury Department the
other day. 1t was originally for $4,000
worth of supplies furnished the Revolu-
tionary Army, and has been pending be- |
fore Congress and the courts since that |
time. Finally the courts had to give up,
and ninety-seven years. interest on S.,
600 was computed, which, with the |
principal, made nearly $4,000. The
amount was paid to the grandsons of
the original claimant.
THE descendant of French MARQUIS |
lately found a reference to treasure |
buried by his ancestor, but has not vet |
been so fortunate as to find it. The es-
tate was confiscated at the revolution.
Sir Simon Stuart, an English baronet,
was more fortunate. In 1888, in look |
ing through some family papers, he |
stumbled on a memorandum noting that |
1900 broad pieces had been buried bv |
his grandfather, Sir Nicholas, during the |
rebellion, whereupon he set off for the |
spot with his gardener and soon brought |
them to light.
One evening, at Edinburgh, there was
bet of copy of Paradise Lost be-
tween Macaulay and Jeffrey as to a GER
tain line of that poem. The next morn |
ing Macaulay came with handsomely |
bound volume. There" he said, sis |
your book; have lost; but have read |
it through once more, and l will now
make you another bet that can repeat |
the whole" Jeffrey took him at his
word, and put him on in passage after |
passage without once finding him at |
fault. This Lord Jeffrey told to Mr..
Hayward.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, the Gretna Green
most affected by clipping Kentucky |
lovers, Hospitality welcomed, and made |
one, the other day, Miss Annie Ferguson
and Ira p. Patterson, wealthy young
farmer of Mclean County, Ky. The
bride, who is described as beautiful
girl of 16, is the daughter of well-to-do
people of Davis County, and the day of
her marriage with Patterson was the
very one set for her nuptials with an