The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-04-14
GENERAL BREyITHs.

California a street sign which came very
near being an excellent palindrome. 1t
reads: ssS. Gilligs-Yreka Bakery"
Now try it backward.
The pipe which Capt. Josiah Williams
of Kittery, Me-, left on his mantelpiece
just before his death, 81 years ago, still
remains in that position, the family not
allowing it to be removed.
LADY in hoop, taking tea, with pug,
and a negro attendant-Dresden group
fetched $3.50 in London lately; pair
of candlesticks of the same ware, $500.
Weight in Dresden china means good
deal more than weight in gold nOw-a-
days.
woman can pin on a mans collar the
first time trying, when the very same
pin, if engineered by man, would
double up and run backward to stick in
his thumb.-WOman's Journal.
WILLIAM DELAHANTY, who murdered
his brother-in-law A years ago in Stone
carty, Ireland, has made full confess
sion of his guilt. At the time of the
murder Delahanty was arrested, but was
discharged for lack of evidence. His
demeanor while making his confession
was that of a sincere penitent. He
sought no mercy at the hands of the au-
thorities, and desired that the law should
be fulfilled in his case to the letter.
THE Berlin editors have hard time
of it as a general thing, and are forced
to be very choice in their language.
One of them was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment the other day for
calling the triple alliance ga superanu-
ated phenomenon As the German
Emperor belongs to the triple alliance
he had the journalist prosecuted for de-
famation of character.
WOMAN's pluck in matters of the
heart receives powerful illustration in
the case of Miss Mary Wheeler, of Ann
Arbor, Mich, who is engaged to Mr..
Lilly, stationed in Yokohama, Japan,
translating the Bible. He could not
leave his work long enough to come
after her all the way, so she has gone to
meet and marry him at San Francisco.
THE latest intelligence locates the
buried treasure of the renowned pirate
Captain Kidd is classic locality of
Brooklyn known as SO Grow HILL" 1t is
said that from time to time during the
past 20 years the negroes who inhabit
that region have perseveringly dug hole
after hole, but with the exception of a
''cullud pussOn" by the name of John
son, none seem to have been very sue
cessful. This negro, it is said, recover
ed sufficient of the buried treasure to go
down to Charleston and start hotel.
NJ. POLIAKOFF has discovered, in the
Soorgoot, on the Obi and Tobolsk, an
instance of the reversion of the domestic
dog to wild state. The woods of the
district shelter companies of these dogs,
which hunt the reindeer and other wild
beasts, and, driven by hunger, descend
upon the flocks of the settlers, creating
great havoc among them. The habits
of the animal are similar to those of the
red Highland wolf (Canis Alpinus) of
Eastern Siberia; but, on close eXamina-
ton, it is found to be identical in all re-
spects with the common dog of Tobolsk,
save that the body is somewhat longer,
and the legs comparatively shorter.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that two
United States flags stand alone in a cor
ner of the great hall of the Propaganda
at Rome. The story is that in one of
the Italian rebellions, the leader of the
insurgents planted his cannon before the
Propaganda, intending to destroy it.
The frightened Papal authorities begged
Minister Cass to save the building by the
power of the American flag; neither the
flag of England, France and Austria
would be respected, but the American
flag would. After much hesitation, Mr.
Cass publicly removed his consulate to
the Propaganda and raised the flag OF
our Union over its roof. The chief of
the insurgents swore he would not fire
on the flag, made his cannon ready and
moved away. The Propaganda was
saved, and the flags have this honor for
: the good they did in time of peril.
The cost of the French Government
is far less at present than under Louis
Napoleon. In 1870 the Emperor, the
Senate and the Chamber of Deputies
absorbed 80, 1885, APO francs yearly. In
1877 the President of the Republic, the
Senate and the Chamber require but
11,736, 700 francs. In addition to the
25,0C0,000 Il year received by Louis Ma
poleon, there was also the revenue from
the palaces, chateaus, farms and sheep
walks of the State, which now reverts
entirely to the State for public use.
Each Senator, in NapOleon's day, had
$4,000 francs a year, and each Deputy
5000 francs. Senators and Deputies
are now paid but 5000 francs, both re-
ceiving like sums.
ODE TO AN ORANGE.
Delicious fruit! Full fain would / believe
Thy golden globe it was that tempted Eve,
For any man that looks upon the map II
There, when our primal pair had finished weed
And rat around buoolic,lly feeding,
She cried, 9" Dear A., il this you call q sin, it
Must be you mean because the Djuice is in it."
Though her profane defendants say. - The
For il, fair fruit. thy theologic core
Held seeds Of sorrow for the race before,
30 still. alasi thy very treacherous rind
Both physical and mOral-which is woree-
For he who rose to pray sits down to curse.
MADAME ANNA BISHOP appears to be
a sort of female Wandering Jew. -
She has travelled longer and further than
any other woman living, or who ever
has lived. She has visited every city
and town on the civilized globe where
there are half a dozen savages who can
be charmed with song. She has been a
prominent figure in the musical world
since 1839-all her early contemporaries
are dead long ago. Living memories do
not go back to the time when Madame
Bishop was not singing somewhere. She
must be pretty well worn, but still she is
singing, and the papers of South Africa
were recently praising her g Norma. -
She has several times traversed Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America,