The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-15
GENERAL BREv1TIEs.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
A WOMAN committed suicide in o po-
lice cell, in Paris, by swallowing two
wedding-rings.
THE State of Virginia offers bounty
of 81 for the scalp of every gray fox,
and $1.50 for red ones.
THE Australian eucalyptus tree grows
from 60 to 20 feet in IA years, and it is
q remedy against malaria.
BRIGHAM YOUNG was the father of
Sc children, A of whom are now alive,
and he leaves Is wives, counting Ann
Eliza.
A GRAND participating match is one
of the features of the Union Fair Asso-
citation to be held at Villisca, Montgom-
cry County, Iowa, commencing Oct. 2.
The physical statistics of the Boston
public schools show that the children of
American parents are taller, heavier
and healthier than children of foreign
parents at the same age. ptsA
BARTON, VT, is cuItivating q second
Bertha Won Hillern, in the person of a
5-year-old sgirl, who recently walked
20 miles in one day, and showed no
signs of fatigue at the completion of ner
task.
A YOUNG Kentuckian who was struck
on the knee by baseball several
months ago has died from the effects,
after severe suffering. The awful warn
ing comes late in the season, but it may
be of use yet.
The British Government has decided
to break off all connections with native
religious ceremonials at Baroda.
Formerly official residents were expect
ed to attend the Gaekwar in the State
puttee, but this has been stopped.
STRAw's POINT, N. H., has a hotel
keeper who is too sharp to let guests
get ahead of him by any such dodge as
dying. A man who engaged board I'M
til a certain Monday died Saturday, and
the landlord has compelled the execu-
tors to pay full board over Sunday.
DURING the recent illness of Mr..
Carey, telegraph operator at Martins
vile, Miss, the Office was managed en-
tirely by Mary Short, who is only 10
years old. She sent messages and
trains, and received orders for con-
ductors from the train-dispatcher's of
flee without hesitation or delay.
A PRETTY Indiaa squaw does not ex-
ist among the Sioux-they are all fat,
short, stumpy and ungraceful in move
ment. The tall, slender Alfaratas and
Wanitas are purely creatures of romance
and far removed from these fat squaws
with their faces painted in vermilion
hues, and their short skirts and homely
moccasins.
Mrs. HANNAH LANE, aged 80, a
seamstress, having no permanent resi-
dence, was taken with an epileptic fit in
Central Park, New York, and fell to the
ground unconscious. While in this
state she was stripped of her clothing
by thieves, who carried off even her
shoes and underclothing. She was
rescued in a precarious condition.
A WELSH engineer has invented an
engine of warfare which consists of a
cannon SO arranged as to discharge a
sharp sword blade crosswise in the di-
rection of the enemy, the knife being SO
poised in its course through the air as
to cover the whole space in q longi-
tudinal direction described by the blade
itself. An eight-inch ball would carry
a sword IA feet in length 600 yards,
moving down every obstacle in its
path.
BEFORE any body turns to alcohol for
strength let him understand that the
limit of moderation is the daily drink
ing of an ounce and half of the stimu-
liant; and this by strong, healthy
man. That is to say, he must take no
more than one of these small doses; less
than third of q pint of brandy; or less
than half pint of the stronger wines,
like sherry and port; or less than q
pint of the weaker wines, such as claret
and hook; or about pint and half Of
beer.
JOSEPH DUMoND murdered a woman
and two children in MERGED County,
Cal, and a reward of $500 was offered
for his delivery to the authorities, 'sdead
or alive" Two white men and two In.
dams started in pursuit. The fugitive
was tracked to his hiding place, where
he had made breastworks of logs. The
pursuers advanced incautiously, and
Dumond killed the Indians and one OF
the whites with his rife; but he fell
MORALLY wounded, and his body was
carried away by the only survivor of the
conflict, in order to secure the reward
THE New Bedford and Billerica,
Mass, two-feet-gauge railroad, the first
of the kind in this country, has been
completed, and the first trips showed
that the road is inferior to none in speed,
smoothness, and safety. The road,
which is eight miles long, has cost but
$50, 900, including buildings, bridges,
and equipments. The latter consists OF
two locomotives and II cars, the former
weighing but II tons each, while the
passenger cars, carrying half the mum.
Der of the standard cars, cost but one
quarter as much.
The city of Marking, in China, is
now lying under the prospective doom
of starvation from the drought, and
prayers printed ON yellow. paper cover
every wall. Not long ago the town was
visited by severe confagration, the in
jured victims of which are subjected to
the additional horror of being doctored
by native physicians. "The idea, +" says
a correspondent, ''of attempting to cure
burns by making the wretched sufferers
drink castor oil, and then amounting
them with oil in which rats had beer
burned alive and pulverized oyster
shells, is certainly the very height Of
tragic farce" a
ALVIN ADAMS, the founder Of the
Adams Express Company, recently de.
ceased, was born in Woodstock, Vt, in
1904, his parents being very poor. In
1885 he could find only mental employ.
ment in Boston. Afterwards he estab.