The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-02-17
GENERAL BREv1rIEs.

Rowland BALL is an auctioneer in
New York.
A SMOKED ham weighing LIP pounds
was exhibited in store at Memphis,
Tenn, a few days ago. The pig from
which it had been cut weighed LILO
pounds, and had been raised BY plant
er in Mississippi.
THEY are boring q tunnel mine
through the very backbone of the
Rocky Mountains, and find good ore at
q depth from the topmost point greater
than has been attained by any other
mine in this country.
AT Chaplain Junction, near London,
no less than $50 trains pass daily, their
rate of succession during the busiest
part of the day being IS trains per hour,
or one every 48 seconds. At this point
their are Ii lines of railway, and one
alone has IS "points !" or switches,
with thirty interlocking signals, all con-
trolled from single "box."
Ara Paris masquerade ball bier
was brought in by procession of peo-
pie, who, leaving the candles, walked
solemnly out. The masqueraders chat.
fed the man who was lying on the bier,
and one, more ventureSome than the
others, lifted the pail, disclosing q
corpse, with dagger through his heart.
The French are always funny.
THE wife of the late DR.. John C..
Lord, of Buffalo, was of Indian extrac-
ton, and when she went with her hus-
band, after their marriage, to an asso-
citation meeting, she took her dogs and
gun and hunting equipments with her.
When asked to attend the woman's
prayer-meeting in the morning, she
said, 81 couldn't think of it; am 60.
ing hunting-that's what came for. -
TIE sum total of railway lines
through the principal countries of the
world now reaches a distance nearly
fourteen times the circumference of the
globe, or one and half times q Jour-
ney 10 the moon. OF this total the
United States lines exceed 1855
miles; Great Britan's, at home and
through her foreign domain, &c. 1O1 ;
Russia's, in Europe and Asia, 3d. 14 /;
those of France, 30,779; and of the
German Empire, Is, S99.
A THIEF enter d Bob Johnson's coal
shed at Pontiac, Illinois, the other
night, but while filling his sack was
surprised by the entrance of another
robber, bent on a similar errand. Each
supposing the other to be the owner of
the coal, a sharp fight ensued, in which
both were badly mangled, while John.
son sat unconscious before his stove,
warming his toes and figuring up the
days profits.
A NEW way of spelling, called i" base
ball fashion," has been introduced
into some of the schools of the country.
Sides are chosen as in baseball, with q
pitcher and catcher on each side One
side spells at a time. The pitcher on
the first side pronounces the words for
the other side, and the catcher on the
first side stakes up" and corrects a
word when mispelled by the other side.
Every word that is spelled correctly is
tailed for the side that spelled it, and
every misspelled word is called out, If
spelled correctly by the opposite side.
Three out, all out. The scholars say
it is lots of fun to spell in this way.
SOME years ago crack-brained boy
named O'Connor presented harmless
old pistol at Queen Victoria, as she was
leaving Buckingham Palace. He was
imprisoned for few months, and then
sent out to one of the colonies where
employment was found for him. Late
ly he announced his determination to
return to England, and his departure
was telegraphed to Scotland Yard, Lon.
don. When O'Connor landed, two de.
tectives were appointed to watch his
movements day and night. They lost
sight of him one morning, and were or.
dered to hurry to Buckingham Palace,
where, sure enough, O'Connor was
found within the gates. How he got in
is as great mystery as the first time
The young man is now safely lodged in
a lunatic asylum.
DIR. DE LOOs declares that vegeta.
bles are capable of taking up metallic
particles from the soil. Consulted by 8
family suffering from lead poisoning,
he found that they lived in the neigh
borhood of a place where the manufac.
ture of white lead had been carried Oh
some years before, and that they ate Of
vegetables grown on the spot. DIR. De
Loos thereupon examined specimens OF
red beet, endive and carrots, and found
lead in all. In a beet weighing 65C
grammes he found the equivalent of 8
centigramme of metallic lead; in SIX
carrots weighing together 272 grammes
he found II centigrammes Of lead
The ashes contained traces of copper
which, he thinks, existed as an impuri
ty in the lead.
PULvERIZED diamonds are in some
parts of India reputed to be the least
painful but the most active and infalli
BILE OF all poisons. Rubies, however
reduced 10 powder, are, it seems, con
sidered to be rather beneficial to thu
health than otherwise. At least sucf
is the opinion of the ex-Gaikwar o.
Baroda, who, according to one of the
Indian papers, is now engaged in re
pairing his constitution, and, with this
view, is in the habit of eating rubies il
the form of a fine powder sprinkleC
over cakes. His Highness entertains 8
very high opinion of the medicinal
qualities of rubies taken in this form
and expends a considerable portion o.
his income in buying these gems fol
conversion into physic. He also takei
other precious stones, not as pills, bu
as powders, to assist in the restoration
of his health, and has engaged larg'
number of native cooks, who have or
ders to leave no stone unpowdere(
which, when mixed with confectionery
may be eaten with advantage.
CONSIDERABLE connection has beer
caused at the Brighton, England, Aqua
rum by asingular escapede of young
alligator, which had been placed, with
three or four older specimens, in {