The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-13
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
THERE is more - q hog to every
man in Iowa This hr. The prospect.
i've hog crop is 1,64, ia.
A WOMAN in Polo Pinto, Texas, gave
birth to child ON Thursday, and on
SATURDAY. gaye birth to two more. .
MBs IBtx InbRsroN went up in q
balloon iron BsldMinsville, n. Y, and
came down in 50 minutes at McGran-
vile, 60 miles distant.
The Montreal RStness says that q
physician in that city is rsstoring the
faculties of an idiotic child BY lifting de-
pressed portions of its skull.
In an English experiment some grape
vines raised under blue glass grew in
the; PROPORTION Of 85 to 50 for vines
raised under ordinary glass.
NATHAN MINARD, of Salem, Con-
necticut, man 80 years old, and rich
miser, has had his coffin in his room for
20 years, and has dug his own grave to
save expense. IS
A MARrLAssD farmer put his pipe in
his pocket after smoke the other day,
and soon found himself afire all over,
receiving burns which caused his death
the next day.
In acknowledging resolutions Of re-
spect for Gen. Custer, passed by Hood g
Texas (Confederate) Brigade, at their
late reunion, Mrs. Custer says: &c I am
glad to tell you how much admiration
Gen. Custer felt for the courage and en-
durance Of The Southern army" ~
A DISPATCH from Victoria. Van
couver's Island, tells Of an Indian
woman recently seized, while bathing,
by an octopus, or devil-fsh, and drown
ed. The body was discovered next day
lying at the bottom of the bay in the
creatures grasp. q 1
SAN Francisco has the first and the
only endless wire-rope street railways.
The cars stop and start easily, and run
more rapidly than horse-cars. In east
ern cities the frost and snow of winter
would render them useless, but in San
Francisco they promise to entirely su-
persede horse-cars.
THOMAS JEFFERsoN's home is in q
ruinous condition, and long lawsuit
prevents any Improvement. The farm
is worn out, and the house-described
as " that marvellous conception of JEFF
ferson's, put in brick, mortar, and
wood, with funny little rooms, novel;
shaped large rooms, halls that go no.
where, and rotundas without purpose"
lis unoccupied.
Mr.. HUTCHINSON, a leading operator
on the Chicago Board of Trade, wished
to secure q certain estate for his son-in-
law, and bid 5000. Then he discov-
cred that there was a sealed bid in the
competition, and induced the assignees
to wait till he could put in a new bid at
higher figure. He subsequently learn
ed that in his second he had raised on
his son-in laws offer just $4,000 = g
A NATIVE Indian paper, the Snzabha
Sona0char, is eloquent in its denuncia-
tions of Aesh-eaters and wine bibbers.
English food, it says, produces I'M
natural heat. 1t has proved particular
ly injurious to the Bengalees, according
to this authority, inasmuch as it tends
to induce hypocrisy, aggravate gluttony,
and finally to cause premature death.
To suppose that it imparts physical
strength or inspires the heart with valor
is altogether a mistake. .E.-,..FA
A BOY named Henry Turner, who had
died of diphtheria, was buried at Orange
burg, Ind. When the funeral process
sion. left the house, q small pet pig the
child had raised, and had been devoted
ly attached to, followed the hearse con-
tanning the remains of its friend, and in
spite of theefforts to drive it back, fol-
lowed the whole distance from the house
to the burial ground, seven miles dis
tant, most of the way between the hind
wheels under the hearse.
VERMONT has a. law making rumsell-
ers liable for damage arising from
drunkenness caused by their liquor, and
under it q verdict of $1,000 has Just
been secured by Reedsboro woman.
Her complaint was for permanent inju-
ries received by being thrown from a
wagon in consequence of her husband,
who was driving, being drunk on
liquors bought of the defendants. This
was the second trial of the case in the
same court, the first having resulted in
a verdict of $1,82O for the plaintiff. 1.
was carried before the Supreme Court
Judges, and by them sent back to the
County Court on some technical error.
The defendants denied responsibility,
on the ground that the man had only
procured one drink of them, at which
time he was sober.
Nor long ago an officer of the Lon
don Board was crossing Convent Garden
Market at late hour, when he found a
little fellow making his bed for the
night in q fruit basket. "Would you
not like to go to school and be well
cared forp" asked the official. "No,"
replied the urchin. "But do you know
that am one of the people who are
authorized TO take up little boys whom
I find as find you, and take them to
schOol?" 81 know you are, old chap,
if you finds them in the streets; but
this here is not street. 1t is private
property, and il. you interferes with nv
liberty, the Duke of Bedford will be
down upon you. I knows the hact as
well as you.''
ENGLISH houses, even those belong
ing to the weather. classes, are never
elegantly furnished. The drawing-room
carpets, chairs, tables and sofas look as
though they had been in use for half a
dozen generations, and were old-fash-
Toned even when they were purchased.
Iron (ornauented with brass) bedsteads
are preferred to any in wood, and these
are almost always canopied with chintz.
In America ladies take pride in having
their beds neatly made, with pretty
sheets and pillow-shams, but here the
counterpane IL pulled mn in a carelese