The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-04-07
GENERAL BREvITES.

the Justice allows defend
ants to 60 free until the time for their
trial, on their personal recognizance.
He says that he has never known one
to fail to return at the appointed time.
No country on earth, says the Gains
vile S0uthr0n, can show iron equal in
quality to that of Hall County, Ga. We
have the magnetic ranging from GO per
cent. to 80, and that of the hematic from
Sc to 60. Recently q discovery has been
made on Wahoo of vast body of the
aphydrous sesqui-oxide of iron, which
yields 20 per cent.
SINCE the establishment of the French
Republic, nearly all the flags furnished
to the army have been of wool, through
motives of economy. Byway of assist
ing the unemployed workman of Lyons,
an order has been given for 100 regi-
mental flags Of silk, and future orders
will be for the same material.
QUEEN VICTORIA is far from well.
1t is formally announced that her health
is such as to preclude the possibility of
her enduring the heated atmosphere of
crowded rooms or the fatigue of long
ceremonials. The prostration which
they induce is such as many persons
suffer on sea voyages, and the discharge
of her snerous political and official du-
ties taxes her strength to the utmost.
MADAME Cora, of the Cora Troupe,
which has been having an excellent run
at the Cape of Good Hope, conceived q
violent dislike to Miss Alice Wren, 3
member of the company, and in q TT of
passionate jealousy strangled the young
lady to death. Miss Wren was resi-
dent of Buffalo, and sister to Fred
Wren, the comedian. Cora was con-
victed and sentenced to death, but the
sentence was commuted to three years
solitary confinement.
JoCKo5a pet monkey in the United
States arsenal at Sommerville, Ga,
came to an untoward end last week.
Jocko had been in the habit of watch
ing the artillerymen. One morning he
slyly approached the piece used for fir
ing salutes, and pulled the lanyard.
The charge did not explode at once.
Jocko darted to the mouth to see what
the matter was, when suddenly report
was heard, and Jocko's remains were
scattered over the sward.
THE Modoc Indians, now numbering
81 males and 63 females, are located on
very fertile tract containing 1000
acres, in the northeast corner of the
Shawnee Reserve, Indian Territory.
They have engaged energetically in
labor during the past year, and, as re-
suit, have large and valuable crop on
their farm. The Government has ex-
pended 1882 for their schooling for 10
months, which is under the supervision
of the Society of Friends.
A CHINAMAN habitually entered the
rooms of Chinese women in San Fran
cisco, inundated them by firing his
revolver, and then demanded money,
which they always gave. He carried
on this audacious kind of robbery for
several months. At length his coun-
trymen resolved to stop it. They did
not 60 to the police probably they are
not accustomed to get much help from
that source-but they waylaid him one
dark night and hacked him with hatch
cts until he died.
The plan of burying the dead in
wicker caskets, and only foot or SO
below the surface, is gaining much
favor in England. The inventor, Mr..
Seymour Hayden, has more applica-
tons for these caskets than he can sup
ply, and in many cemeteries they are
used almost exclusively. On the other
hand, cremation is becoming more and
more unpopular, result probably due
to the growing favor in which this new
invention is held.
A LETTER from Hull, England, writ
ten by q young lady to q relative in Gin
cinnati, relates surprise the Hull FAM
lily had the previous Sabbath, and the
relation of which she had no doubt
would equally surprise her cousin. ''We
had roast of American beef for din.
ner!" The writer states that it cost
three pence (six cents) per pound less
for like cut Of English beef, and that
her father had to 60 to the butchers
three times before he could be waited
on, so great was the crowd waiting to be
served. "And the beef is just as good
as our English beef"
SUCH marvellous effects as are pro-
duced by blue glass! In fact, the only
recorded instance of failure to cure BY
the blue glass treatment is the follow
ing: A man who said he had been
lame for some time, and walked with q
cane, was placed in a blue-glass sun
bath, and left to himself in the room
for an hour, at the expiration of which
he was found by an attendant, fast
asleep, and with one leg of his panta
looms rolledu up. The leg was a wooden
one, and the patient stumped off, NUT
tering that he "knew it was q confound-
ed humbug all the time"
Few persons, says DR.. Elliott Coves,
of the United States army, in the
american Naturalist, realize what an
enormous number of birds are killed in
this country by flying against the tele-
graph wires. He estimates that not
less than several hundreds of thousands
of birds are annually destroyed in this
way. In the course of an hours riding
on the road between Denver and Chey-
enne, along which runs q telegraph
line, DR.. Coves counted upon the ground
the bodies of a hundred birds which
had thus unwittingly slain themselves,
and actually. witnessed one case of the
killing. Along some particular stretches
of wire the dead birds averaged at least
one to every interval between the poles.
d" Given, 100 dead birds to three miles of
wire, all killed, perhaps, within week;
or given, three birds seen to strike and
fall in an hour, how many" asks the
writer, "are annually killed by the
telegraph wires of the United States P"
THE Pope now leans rather heavily
upon his stick, and has lost to q great
extent the nobly erect carriage which
distinguished him but q few years ago.
His voice, too, is weaker, and his artic-
ulation less distinct. But his eye is vet
wonderfully bright and keen, and his