The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
GENERAL BREyrrHs.

SINCE the siege of Jerusalem, A. D.
20, Israelites have not been in the habit
of fighting en- nsGsse. There are, how
ever, several battalions of them among
the Russian reserves now called out.
RICHARD and Sarah Gregory of Union
County, KY, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of their marriage the other
day, and said they didn't recollect ever
to have spoken q cross word to each
other.
The Pope has accumulated fund of
81, 0OO, 900, which is held by Tortonia
aud some French and Brussels bankers,
for the pay of ex-pontifical soldiers and
officials, and divers other purposes Incl
dental to the papal interest.
PROF. HITCHCOCK, the geologist, has
found at Wethersfield Cove, Conn.,, four
fossil bird-tracks measuring foot from
heel to toe, and proportionately wide.
which he thinks must have been made
by bird at least twelve feet high.
Two men traded horses on meeting
in the road in Newburyport, Mass, and
while making We exchange one of the
horses fell down and died. Then both
claimed the live horse, and they had
fight about it, with lawsuit to follow.
Mr.. BARGIs cowhided Mr.. Walther
in Richmond, Ind, and was fined 80.
Then Mr.. Walther cowhided Mr. .Bargis,
and was fined $25. The inference is
that Mr.. Walther, in the Judgment of
the Justice, was the hardest whipper.
The First National Bank of Mauch
Chunk, Pa, having obtained judgment
against John w. Young, at Salt Lake,
for $40, 474, Marshal Nelson has seized
the Salt Lake Museum, and the horses,
carriage, and household effects of the
late Prophets son to satisfy the de-
cree.
IT is q. current belief among the
peasantry of Normandy that if girl
treads upon the tail or the claw of cat
her chances of matrimOny are materially
diminished; and if she treads on both at
the same time it is an infallible sign that
she will not be married for at least four
years.
A YOUNG Englishman of large for
tune and so-called ''sporting' proclivi-
ties has been sentenced to one months
imprisonment at hard labor fer setting
three ferocious dogs upon an inoffen-
sive cat and letting them tear her to
pieces. As it was second or third Of
tense the magistrate gave him very
salutary sentence.
IT appears from a Blue Book just
issued respecting the great cyclone and
storm wave which visited certain dis
tricts in Bengal on the morning of the
1st of November, 1876, that the total
number of persons drowned was 10000,
and that the outbreak of cholera which
followed carried off $1,000, making a
total mortality of 10000.
A PIUTE recently killed his squaw,
and the Winnemucea SilUer State says:
"Indian custom makes the squaw prop
erty, as much as pony or a blanket,
and the right of the husband to kill his
wife is never disputed. As the authori-
ties never interfere with the tribal Gus
toms and regulations of the Flutes, no
official notice has been taken of that
act"
Mrs. sitter washed the shelves in
her husbands Philadelphia drug store,
and did not replace the bottles exactly
as they we're before. A girl came in to
buy mixture of castor oil and pepper
mint. Mr.. Sitter took q bottle from the
place where peppermint had been, and
mixed the castor oil with muriatic acid
by mistake. The consequence was the
death of child.
SCIENCE shows us that there is as
much condensed air in common apple
as would fill space 48 times as large as
the apple itself. The inside of the APP
pie consists of little cells, each of which
contains portion of the compressed
air. All which explains why hastily
eaten apples frequently have such a
bloating effect on the stomach.
BECAUSE of the numerous classes
there is greater variety of life in the
streets of Japanese city than in one of
America, says Prof. Griffis. Toxic
streets are named for trees, flowers, fish,
articles of food, trades, etc., and lived
at the corner of Brocade Street and
Congratulation Avenue. The crooked
est in the whole city is called Conjugal
Avenue.
A KAw Indian, named Doane, con-
victed of pony stealing, was publicly
flogged at the Kaw Agency, Indian Ter
ritOry. Seven braves were appointed
by the Council to do the flogging. and
the prisoner, after being stripped, was
led into a circle formed by the chiefs
and braves, and surrounded by the
squaws and pupils of the mission school,
and was whipped by each of the seven.
EVERY year witnesses curious sand
showers in China, when there is neither
cloud nor fog in the sky. The sun is
scarcely visible, looking very much as
when seen through smoked glass. The
sand penetrates houses, reaching
apartments which seem securely closed.
1t is supposed to be carried by whirl-
winds from the great desert of Cobb,
and the storms are indicitave of year
of large fertility.
In 1927 it was ascertained that out of
80 men who passed along a leading Lon
don thoroughfare, 10 had both hands
in their pockets and had 1. Not long |
afterward the wearing of gloves came |
into fashion; now that has gone out |
again, and the hands pass much of their
time in the pockets. Some years ago |
the present headmaster of Harrow
School (where Byron, Peel, Palmerston,
and many other celebrities were educat-
ed), ordered all the boys pockets to
be sewn up.
HUaHEs, mate of the schooner "Lo-
la, from Vallejo to San Francisco, saw
every thing clear for letting 60 the an
Choir in four fathoms of water the other
day, and sung out accordingly. Hewas
standing by the /" cathead'' at the time,