The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-03-03
GENERAL BREyIr1Es,

chat the doorstep of house belonging
to q man suspected of beating his wife,
chaff being the result of threshing.
THE grasshoppers haze gone to
China, where q column eight miles long
and mile wide recently darkened the
sky. These pests and the drouth spoil
ed Johns crops, and now he is shiver-
ing with the thermometer below zero.
ONE of the ancient customs in Swed.
isb funerals is that a small looking
glass is placed ir the coffin of q spin
ster, SO that when the last trump sounds
she may be able to Look to her hair be-
fore going before the heavenly tri-
bunal.
ADVERTISING is a good thing, but
when prominent grocer recently car
ried to y funeral an umbrella on which
was painted conspicuOusly the business
Of his house, and held it over the
preachers head while he read his
prayers, the bystanders thought be
was running the thing into the round.
FLORIDA, if all repurts are true, has
had a nice streak of luck. A party of
English and German capitalists have
purchased 3,COO,OO0 acres OF the Fiori-
da Stale lands, and are organizing
an emigration company. The money
pad for these lands, it is said, will pay
off the State debt and leave balance in
tie Treasury.
EXPERIMENTS show that the amount
OF meat obtained from the domestic
animals varies greatly, some yielding
as much as 80 per cent, while others
give only so per cent. The average is
calculated at SO per cent. on the live
weight # beef cattle, while sheep give
but AZ to As per cent.
If any man has heretofore failed to
rec gnize the necessity of saving, let
him look around and observe t, e con-
dition of men over fifty who are with
out means and seeking employment
No one will take them. eve can get
plenty of young men, why take old?"
people say. "Why in the world do
you Keep that old fellowp" asked a
hotel proprietor of his head waiter,
who had retained q man past fifty, an
excellent worker, in the plate room.
This is the prevailing feeling.
ONE day on the Boulevard Pereire,
Paris, a mad dog started in pursuit of
a velocipede, mounted by q boy of IA,
nameh Dupraty, living in the Boule-
ward No. Is The chase was terrible,
one, and ended in the fall of the boy.
Happily it was In the iron of the veloci-
Pede wheel that the teeth of the mad
bulldog closed. There ended
the first act of the drama. The second
follows: In an impulse of passionate
Joy on seeing her son saved from SO
great danger, Nine. Dupraty pressed
her lips to the wheel of the velOcipede.
Some of the hydrophobic virus had re-
manned on the iron, and after an agony
of a fortnight the poor mother died,
raging mad.
SOME firms try to economic by TAX
ing out advertisements occasionally;
they might as well take down the sign
over their doors. Advertisements
should be continuous. Any idea of dis
continuing them for period, however
brief, with the view of saving, is a mis-
take which leads only to disappoint-
ment and loss. 1t involves not onlyt he
loss of the time during which the ad-
vertisement ceases to appear, but the
additional loss of the time required to
bring the public interest up to the point
at which it left off The proverb, tout
OF sight out of mind" is nowhere more
applicable than in the case of an adver-
tisement.
A HUGE swindle has Just been report
ed from the north of Ireland. Mr.,
Devlin, q Justice of the Peace, Chair
man of the Poor Law Guardians, Presi-
dent of an Orange Lodge, and an os.
tentatious convert. of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey, has fled from Cookstown,
leaving liabilities to the amount of
$500, 600. He had risen from the posi-
ton of a herd-boy to that of merchant
and land owner, and seems to have rob-
bed every body in the most impartial
manner. Priests, parsons, school
masters, farmers and lawyers are among
his dupes, and he did not even spare
his own relations. He is said to have
sold his lands to six different purchasers,
besides mortgaging them to several
banks. He dealt similarly with guam
tify of dummy stores which he repre-
sested to be flax, but which in reality
were bales of rubbish, "faced" with
that material.
THE Washington correspondent of
the Cleveland Herald tells The story of
Charles O'Conor's wooing in the fol-
lowing interesting paragraph: The
young and beautiful widow of Commo-
dore McCracken of our Navy returned
from abroad after her husband g death;
and finding her financial affairs in
comp icated state, went to Mr.. O'Con-
or to get his legal advice in disen-
tangiing them. Mr.. O'Conor, upon
examination, discovered that the Com
mOdore had died insolvent, and the
beautiful widow was left to the cold
mercies of selfish world without a
penny to call her own. This he was
obliged to break to her, whereupon she
held up her hands in piteous dismay,
crying: "Oh, Mr.. O'Conor, what
shall doP who have lived in luxury
all my life -" Madam" said the great
lawyer, "the best advice can give
you is to marry me-" Whereupon they
were married.
The late Lord Tweedale was q fine
swordsman, and in the Peninsula. he
had a special saber made for him of
extra length and weight, wherewith he
slashed away in q very heroic fashion.
He was q great boxer, too. One day
when he was driving, gigantic coster-
monger, riding, as is their wont, upon
a barrow behind the most diminufive
donkey possible, stopped the way. On
being called upon to move, he fatty re-
fused, and jeeringly offered to fight for
the road. Lord Tweedale, nothing 10th,
got down, and fought him there and
then, according to science, and in five
minutes reduced him to pitiable state.
The costermopger then gave in. and.