The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-07-14
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ALL Asiatic women ride horsebacl
astride.
The average measurement of the foo
OF a Chinese female is four inches.
A ABOUND watermelon sold In Key
West, Florida, at auction Tor e3. 90.
NEWTON County, Ga, boasts of . la
dy Sc years old who recently presented
her husband with twins. - -
THE latest umbrella is packed in
hollow stick. The carrier touches
spring, and the umbrella shoots ont ant
spreads itself. 1t is called . rhabdoski
dopheros. -
PARsNIPs 81 feet long, from top o
leaves to end of tap-root, and beds !:
inches in circumference, are among tn
late vegetable productions of Escambs
County, Fla.
The Board of Health of Milwaukee
Wis, has appointed a person to test thu
various fancy drinks made and sold al
the retail bars in the city, allowing hin
two months for the purpose.
WHILE a compositor on the Montreal
Witness was setting up an advertise
ment of lost canary a few days ago
the bird flew in at the Office window
This shows the value of advertising.
STUFF that only used to be consider.
ed fit only for lining to dresses is now
extensively made up. into outside rigs,
and is pronounced stylish. This would
seem to indicate that the times are moi
as flush as once.
The happiest women in Russia are
the wives of Greek Church priests.
These ministers are forbidden to marry
second time, and if the priest becomes
widOwer, he retires to monastery.
Consequently this renders the wife Sc
cure in the devotion of her husband all
her life.
The sorry spectacle was presented in
a New York court the other day of q
woman of 20 seeking legal enforcement
of her maintenance from a husband to
whom she had borne five children, and
who had abandoned her to restitution
in her old age.
CHICAGO has had a grand butterfly
ball, attended by about $50 children
100 little girls and so little boys-the
Oldest of whom was probably about IL,
and the youngest had arrived at the ma
ture age of 4. These were all dressed
up as nearly as possible in the latest
fashion of the butterfly court, each
cherub being provided with superb
pair of wings. 49, 3
A SINGULAR drowning accident oc-
CURED at Grand Lake, Nova Scotia, re-
Gently. An English girl named En-
NETT, aged u, sat on a log at the shore
of the lake to battle her feet, and getting
into day dream did not notice that the
log had floated out into the lake. Sud-
denly realizing her position she lost
presence of mind and sprang into the
water. Strange to say, this is the sixth
child her parents have lost by drowning.
A MOUNTAIN at Saint Foy in the De-
partment of Savoie, France, has fallen.
Some days previous indications of the
state of the mountain were observed by
the inhabitants of the districts, but be-
fore they had time to retreat the first
crash took place, destroying several
hillside hamlets. After the first disas-
trous movement of earth series of
landslips took place, totally burying
several other small villages. The num-
Der of hamlets which have disappeared
in ruins is about ten, and the rumbling
noise with which each additional fall is
is heard at distance of
eight miles. The inhabitants have been
able to escape with their lives, but the
loss of property is enormous.
THERE was picturesque brigand of
Sicily named Leone. He had COM
price placed on his head
something like $5, 00O-and was famous
in all the country for his daring ex-
PLOTS, and his charities, more imagin-
airy than real, to the peasantry. His
dress-we presume, in the absence of
authentic Information on the subject
was richer and more variegated in hue
than that of our old acquaintance, "Fra
Diavolo," but his fate was not happier.
1t has become the painful duty of the
upright journalist to record the fact that
this romantic rascal was shot down in
his tracks like dog some three weeks
ago, and his career of infamy thus
brought to an abrupt and untimely end.
IT is not good for the honest agricul-
t1lrist to make an enemy unto himself of
the small boy. One of the fraternity in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently
learned this to his infinite disgust. A
few days since he made preparations to
NOW the grass in vacant lot in the
rear of his house. He had scarcely
made half a dozen sweeps before his
scythe came in contact with something
that knocked the edge off the entire
length. A careful survey of the ground
disclosed the horrible fact that hundreds
of pieces of telegraph wire were stuck
into the ground all over the field. 1t is
rumored that the victim of this bit of
irony has been searching the dictiona-
ries ever since for words in which to
suitably express his emotions.
A BEAUTIFUL young gentleman, living
near Bolton, won the heart of an En-
glish maid who worked in . spinning
mill. The happy day was set-May
Goth by the calendar the bridal
procession formed. At the church gate
the tempter came. An acquaintance
whispered to the bridegroom that he
ought to fortify himself for the solemn
ceremony. The bride pleaded, the
bridesmaid frowned, the 'best man"
swore, but the bridegroom crossed the
street and drank two glasses of whisky
in public house. The bride, finding
that he tarried, sought him out, and
summoned him to the altar. He would
not bulge. She appealed to her friends
to drag him into the church. They
seized him and carried him into the
church-yard, where he broke loose from
them and ran down the street with q
crowd at his heels. They cut his new
silk hat into shreds, rolled him in the
dust, and beat him with umbrellas and