The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-22

Published Every Saturday.
lola. KANSAS:
GENERAL BREVITIES.
THE harvest in Spain in wheat, fruit,
and wine has been so magnificent that
it is estimated that half can be exported.
AT Landorff, N. H., is the grave of a
Mrs. Bronson, who lived in three CEN
turtles. She was born in 1899 and died
in 1901.
LORD BLANTYRE, brother-in-law OF
the Duke of Sutherland, has dispatched
eight surgeons to the Turkish army at
his own cost.
QUININE is now so high in price in
Europe that doctors are using instead
the liquid solution of strychnine, and
find it nearly as efficacious and much
cheaper. ssJ ...,5s
DIR. Mort, President of the Union
College, once summed up the character
of student in this sentence: Young
man, you never get mad but you make
fool of yourself"
A LARGE mushroom is said to have
forced its way through twelve inches OF
concrete covered with thick layer of
asphalt in the floor of the Savings Bank
Department of the General POst-Office
in London.
FRANK BEAN, q Baltimore negro, was
dressed and war-painted as an Indian,
and employed as walking advertise
ment. His impersonation of the savage
was realistic, for he drank too much
fre-water and cut policeman's scalp
with his tomahawk.
A MAN in Chattanooga has genuine
pearl, which was taken with five others
of various sizes from muscle from the
Tennessee River, near that city. It is
very lustrous, and appears to be of good
quality.
THE Gnebas, a tribe on the west coast
of Africa, Christianized by the late Bish-
op Payne of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, are described as being indus
trious, intelligent, and possessed ofwon-
derful facility for acquiring foreign Ian
guages.
ONE result of the interest taken in
rifle matches in the last few years is that
the principal ocean steamers have es-
tablished rifle ranges on their decks,
and instead of playing Switchboard and
pitch, passengers now amuse themselves
by firing at targets.
A FRENCH paper speaking of the diff
ference between the French and the
Spaniards, says that in France ninety
five out of every hundred murders have
money for their object, while in Spain
love is the cause of ninety-eight out of
every hundred crimes.
THE Central Pacific Railroad pro-
poses building tower on Red Noun
tain, on which, with telescope, a man
can see all around the snow sheds from
Blue Canyon to Cisco. With the assist
ance of the telegraph, a fire can be an
nounced without loss of time.
A BOY named Cole, in Bradbury, N.
H., recently received reward of 1926
for restoring a lost pocket-book. His
employer, farmer, claimed half the re-
ward because the pocket-book was
found on his land. Cole was discharg.
ed because he refused that demand.
NATURALIsrs about the British
Museum are making money by selling
Colorado beetles at five shillings apiece.
The bugs are thrust through with a pin
and fastened in pill-box. A bushe1 at
five shillings apiece would be more
profitable than potatoes.
An Austrian clerk has been convicted
OF defrauding the Bank of Paris of
Sill, 800. The fraud, as in too many
other cases, was only discovered when
he went off for his holidays. London
banks now often insist on clerks taking
holidays, even when they do not care
about doing SO.
THERE is rivalry between the two
Coroners in Covington, Ky. A woman
was terribly injured in fight, and it
was supposed that she would live only
a few hours. One of the Coroners i'm
paneled jury, ard waited in the
house all night with them for her to die;
but she recovered.
A DISCUSSION is in progress in the
medical journals respecting indigestible
medicines. The assertion is made that
doses are given often without regard to
whether the patients stomach is in con-
dition to digest them; and, if undigest-
ed, they not only fail as remedies, but
may do positive harm.
AT Moulton, Appanoose County,
Iowa, resides George Singly, 1O5 years
old, who has been a resident Of the
State IS years. He is hale and vigor-
Gus, and hesitates not to walk five miles
a day for exercise. His father died at
ITO years of age and his mother at 1O5.
DIR. w. r. BARTLETT, of New Haven,
treats in the September number of the
SGnitGrtGn of the causes of disease in
country homes. The causes are bad
air, impure water, improper food and
clothing, unsuitable dwellings, and ex-
haustive occupations. More attention
is now given, DIR. Bartlett SAYS, to
healthful conditions. of life in the CITY
than in the country, although the coun-
try is more favorable to health if right
conditions are observed.
A GENTLEMAN who dined at the sea-
side with Theirs when he was President
relates that after dinner the distinguish
ed Frenehman fell asleep in his chair.
He was then gently seized, neck and
heels, by his wife and sister-in-law, and
conveyed to a couch in an adjoining
apartment, where he slept for two hours.
This nap was part of the Presidents
daily routine, and he generally awoke
from it with all his faculties in brilliant
play.
Is this foreign country Russia
leather is made in Connecticut, Bor-
deaux wine is manufactured in Cali
fornia, French lace is woven in New
York, Italian marble is dug in Ken
lucky, Marseilles linen is produced in