The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-11-10
GENERAL BREVITIES.


GENERAL BREvITIES.
HUEY brothers, farmers, of Manches-
ter, Wis, began threshing their grain
and discovered after smashing their
machine two or three times and greatly
endangering their lives that some
scoundrel had put old iron scraps into
nearly every sheaf.
FLORIDA oranges this season are re-
markably thin skinned and unusually
sweet. It is said that the fruit from the
same trees last year was thick skinned
and more acid, and that drouth pro-
duced the latter, and much rain the
former condition.
AT the Brubaker Settlement, Clare
County, Mich, there resides girl with
feet 153 inches long. The country about
there is fortunately being rapidly clear
ed up, and she can get around without
damaging the standing timber much.
ANEW style of postal card is now
used in Germany. 1t consists of two
cards of the ordinary size attached to-
gether, each having postal stamp.
These double cards are furnished by the
Post-office, and sent for the purpose of
facilitating the return of answers.
BENEVOLENT Boston has new no.
ton. She intends to establish lunch
closets at the. public schools where each
of the pupils can have cup of milk and
q piece of bread and butter at recess.
If the children are consulted about the
matter they will admit that this cup
board business is the one element of
success that the schools have long
THE wife of All Fat was the belle of
Chinatown in Carson, Nevada. Quong
Hing coveted her; and to get her he
hired five Cinnamon to make pretcnce
of fighting in the street when All Fat
was close by and to kill him in a way
that would seem merely accidental The
plan was successful, and the husband
was fatally wounded by what seemed to
be stray bullet.
A NEW safety cannon, that shoots an
anchor from ships in distress, has lately
been tried at Bremerhaven. From q
cannon with diameter of five inches an
anchor weighing II pounds was shot,
attached to double rope 2, 400 feet in
length, and weighing thirty-two pounds,
to a distance of 800 yards; by which a
stronger rope was pulled on to the ship,
with which ship and men could be drawn
ashore.
A NUMBER of convicts in the Peniten-
tiary at Carson attempted to break out
the other day. They seized Mathew
son, Deputy Warden, and holding him
before them to intimidate the guards
from firing, made rush for the gate.
Mathewson three times ordered the
guards to fire. They finally obeyed,
severely wounding Mathewson and two
of the convicts, when the others sur
rendered. No escapes. -s.s
ALETTER from New York says that
more women dry-goods merchants are
buying goods at the great jobbing
houses this fall than was ever the case
before. Women bought of one firm
$4,000 worth of goods in one day.
"Their purchases were not large, but
very discreet and discriminating. They
knew exactly what they wanted, and
paid cash or its equivalent
TIE San Francisco Chronicle says
that California would be better off with
out her gold mines, and argues the
point as follows: "There are {, 900 peo-
pie in San Francisco alone who live d.
rectly or indirectly from the purchase
and sale of stocks, averaging in their
expenses $4,000 year. Here are, then,
So, 10000 which their possessors do
not earn, but which is earned by their
victims. Mining is no unproductive in
dustry, but the value of its products are
more than eaten up by the gambling
speculations which it stimulates"
THERE is prisoner in the Fort Mad
ison, Iowa, Penitentiary, Graham by
name, though he calls himself seen.
Deathbell,' % who, in 1860, was sent up
for 20 years on charge of criminal as
sault, the witnesses against him being
his wife and another woman. The wife
subsequently, confessed that she had
sworn falsely, and his daughter that he
had been wrongfully accused, but no
steps have been taken toward establish
ing his innocence or securing his release.
He is now man of So, paralyzed and of
weak mind.
E. A. EBERLE, an actor of over 20
years experience, was seen to be strange
ly at fault in his part in the Albany
Theater few nights ago. He had the
reputation of being ''letter perfect"
but on this occasion he was at a loss for
words, went on and off the stage at
wrong points of the play, and gave the
audience the impression that he was
drunk. At length he advanced to the
footlights and said: 81 don't know
what is the matter with me, but 1 GER
tainly am not drunk never drink any
thing intoxicating. was perfect in
my part at rehearsal this morning, but
now / can not recall a word of it." He
retired, and another actor read the rest
of his part. His trouble was paralysis
of the brain and there is not much hope
of his recovery.
The book trade was highly esteemed
in ancient times. The shop of libra
rian in Athens was q place of meeting
for the idle and for wits. There the
author of the latest publication gave q
public reading of it; literary, artistic,
and even political matters were dis
cussed without the slightest molestation
on the part of the police. Hence the
taste for and the price of books went up.
Pythagoras's treatises were sold for
9,147 francs for single copies; it was the
material upon which books were writ
ten that made them then so dear. The
prices fell when the secret of parchment
was found out. At Rome the book
stores were kept in perfect order and
with certain elegance, like our own.
Inscriptions and notices covered the ex-
terror of the shops; inside the volumes
were carefully classified on shelves,
called nidi.