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

man.
IRON WHIRLwIND, Good Toned Metal
and Feeble Bear, distinguished Indians,
are visiting st. Paul.
A COMPANY is organizing in New York
to do church singing by the telephone.
This will do away with expensive
choirs.
A New YORK milkman has been fined
$50 and sent to jail for 80 days, in the
hope that he will come to show his pump
some mercy.
THERE is place in Maine called Ked-
dybemps,i it having been christened after
all the words ending in shook, coggin
and goggin had given out.
THE Young Mems Christian Union of
Boston has consented to assume all the
duties and expense of sending poor chill
dren into the country for a weeks vaca-
ton during the heated term.
A GEORGIA negro twisted mules
tail to urge it over fence. The small
attendance at the funeral next day show
ed that the people didn't care if he did
twist the mules tail.
A CHICAGO hotel-keeper is opposed
to guests with rome ladders, for it is
plainly impossible for the cashier to be
always on hand at the bottom of the
ladder to modify the speed of the part
ing guest.
A STREAM of water forced by a steam
fire-engine through a one-and-a-quarter
inch nozzle struck man in the mouth
at Nashville, tearing his gums, and sep
arating the flesh from his cheek-bones.
A NEW YORK druggist has six calls
per week from women who want to sui
eide. He gives them powders in place
of poison, and they are terribly sick, de-
sire to live, and do live, and some of
them marry rich coal merchants. 1
A CONVICTION physician was sued for
damage for putting impure vaccine mat
ter into the arm of a child, from which
it died. A Judgment of $1,000 was
awarded, although another child was
vaccinated at the same time and did
well.
DIR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN invented
and constructed three clocks, and one
of them is owned in the Old Kings
Arms Inn, in Lancaster, England. 1t
has only three wheels and strikes the
hour. 1t is to. be sold at auction in Nay,
with other historical objects.
The hobby of Boston professor is to
reconstruct the week, giving it only five
days, called Oneday, Twoday, Three
day, Fourday and Godday, or the Sab
bath. The shortening is intended to
make more days of rest, and the change
of names is for the purpose Of discard
ing those of heather origin.
The history of the Second Zouaves,
one of the most distinguished regiments
in the French army, has been published.
1t states that during the 10 years of its
existence no less than POO of its officers
and 5000 privates have fallen in battle.
THE new jury law of Florida provides
that when in any case, civil or criminal,
knowledge of reading, writing and
arithmetic is necessary to enable a juror
to underSta the evidence to be offered,
he may be challenged if he does not pos
sess such qualifications.
A PORTION of the great meteor which
passed over northern Vermont a few
weeks ago is reported found near the
town of Jay, embedded about four feet
in the earth. 1t is said to have the APP
pearance of iron-ore, lava and soapstone,
and to weigh about two tons. Report
says this is the largest aerolite ever dis
covered in this country.
THE company that published the cata-
logues of the Centennial Exhibition lost
100000 in the enterprise, and have sued
the Commissioners for that sum, baSlng
the claim on violation of contract. The
stockholders in the Globe Hotel and
Opera-house Company lost about a
quarter of their investment, and most of
the other great hotel ventures near the
grounds were equally unfortunate. The
restaurants within the grounds, the city
theaters, and the regularly established
hotels came out of the Centennial season
with enormous profits:
SIG. FRANCISCO BOTTA, of Genoa,
has invented a terrible engine of war,
with which one or more ships can be in
stlntly destroyed. The Italian journals
say that the experiments already made
with the missile have Welded the most
brilliant results, and assert that even a
whole fleet can be Immediately shattered
into fragments by the extraordinary in
vention. Sig. Botta communicated with
the American Consul at Genoa, but the
Consul advised the inventor to personal
ly negotiate with the United States Sec
rotary of the Navy if he desired to offer
the great missile for sale to this nation
One of the stories which Judge
Davis's acceptance to the SenatOrship
has revived has, for good story, the
unusual advantage of being true. A
farmer had failed to comply with GER
tain technical requirements in relation
to land, and shark was about to snatch
all that he had. The sharks attorney
was arguing the case before Judge
Davis, then on the Supreme Bench in
the State of Illinois. Judge Davis said
to him, Indignantly: "Your client is
trying to steal that mans farm! And
he can't do it in my Court" "Then,"
retorted the lawyer, 4" will carry it up
to the full Bench of the United States
Supreme Court and see if law is law"
Sir, l will be there before you!" roar
ed Davis, and. oddly enough, fortune so
decided his destiny that he was able to
keep his word.
THE Covington (Ky) Ticket says:
A letter received from X. L. Baker, of
Alexandria, KY, by Mrs. Geo. Thomp-
son, of this city, announces that he has
gained the long pending suit in the U.
S. Court, for the Mefford heirs, this city,
by which Mrs. Geo. Thompson, Mrs. c.
VonGundy, Mrs. j. NJ. Herbert and
Capt. Thomas Mefford fall heir to the
snug little fortune of $4,000 in
money and real estate, $50, 200 of which
is deposited in the First National Bank,
of Marietta, Ohio, which bears interest
from date of deposit. The money was