The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-01-06
GENERAL. BREvITIEs.

SlATf GHouSdnu IuuaueIpnl8 ldWl.
lies, it is said, will soon break phouse-
keeping and return their Centennial
visits.
FLORIDA has young lady named
Neuralgia. Her mother found the name
on medicine bottle, and was capt.
waited with it.
A MAN at Keokuk has cut out and
pasted in ascrap-book accounts of ], 100
different boiler explosions, and now he
wants to sell the collection for $500.
IT is remarked as little singular by
a student of Biblical paintings that all
the patriarchs arc represented as being
bald. 1t should be remembered, how
ever, that most of them married young.
NEW HAMPSHIRE is the only State
that requires its Governors and 1egisla-
tors to be Professionals, and its Consti-
tutional Convention, now in session,
recommends the abolition of the reli-
gious test.
In Springfield, Mass, tramps who get
lodging and breakfast at the city's ex-
pense are put to work in the streets four
hours next day. One morning Is of q
party of 20 broke and ran, thus escap-
ing work.
The MISSIONER picture e. Soldiers
Playing Cards ~ that was sold at the
Taylor johnson sale for $11, zoo, meas
ured only eight by ten inches. 1t sold,
therefore, at the rate of $l37.50 for
each square inch.
Mr.. GEORGE B. HAMILTON, of Du.
buque, Iowa, is sure of enough -four to
last his family through the winter, how
ever the rest of US may be situated. He
holds, at present, 100000 bushels of
wheat, or one-thirteenth of the visible
supply in the States and Canada.
A CHINAMAN, who was recently ar
rested for burglary in San Francisco,
was found by the keeper of the prison
inhaling the gas from the burner, and
nearly exhausted. When he was taken
into the open air, he languidly opened
his eyes and said, "Me likee muchee
die.'
ALL physicians in Texas, under the
new law, are required to appear; before
the county board of examiaers, appoint
ed by the District Court, and stand an
examination in chemistry, anatomy,
physiology, and materia medica, before
they can have legal assistance in col
lecting their bills.
THE Tuscaloosa Times says that there
is on exhibition in Marion, Alabama, q
child born of negro parents, whose body
is one-half white and the other half
black. The white portions are white
as alabaster, the dark part black as the
ace of spades. One-half of the scalp
and hair is perfectly white.
THE Imperial hunt, which takes place
in tract of country to the north of
Corea, in China, every three years, for
the purpose of supplying the Imperial
table with dainties and of exercising
the soldiers who take part in it, is to be
abandoned for the present, on account
of the impoverished state of the ex-
chequer.
IT is not generally known that Della
ware had the largest trees on exhibit
ton at the Centennial. One of the Sec
tions measured 21 feet in circumfer-
eHce and another 10 feet, and while
California can produce taller trees,
there were none that drew so much in
circumference as the trees from dimin-
utivc Delaware.
ONE Chinaman so seriously injured
another in Nevada that death was ex-
pected. The Chinese company to which
both belonged decided that, in case of
death, the murderer must give the rela-
tives 81, 900 and pay all the cost of doc
toring and burial; and in case of recov-
cry he must settle with the physicians
and pay the injured man the amount of
lost wages.
ACCORDING to an English authority,
redness of the nose in both sexes is pro-
duced by inattention to the common
rules for preserving health. With men,
the bottle is the predisposing cause;
with women, and especially the young,
tight 1acing. An unnatural pressure
on the waist and chest obstructs the
circulation, and causes stagnation of
the blood in that prominent and import
ant feature, the nose.
A SAN FRANCISCO young lady re-
ceived an invitation to attend the thea
ter the other evening just as the China
man came for her wash. She hurried
ly made out list of the washing, and
answered the invitation. Then she
sent the list to the young man and kept
the answer to his note. There was
soon q very much confused young man,
very much mortified young. woman,
but no theater-going for either of them
that night.
An English lady has had curious
experience in the use of gas globes
made of toughened glass. Precisely
one hour after the gas was put out one
of the globes burst with a loud report
into number of large fragments, and
these in turn continued to break up of
themselves into smaller pieces until
there were none left larger than filberts.
The globe bore the stamp of N. de Ia
Bastie, the celebrated Continental
manufacturer of tempered glass.
THERE is very simple way of avoid
ing the disagreeable smoke and gas
which always pours into the room when
a fire is Lit in stove, heater, or fire.
place, ON a damp day. Put in the
wood and coal IS usual; but before
lighting them, ignite handful of paper
or shavings placed on the top Of the
coal. This produces current of hot
air in the chimney, which draws up the
smoke and gas at once. Not one per-
son out of fifty ever thinks of this ex-
pertinent.
SAwDUsT is q dangerous material
wherewith to fill spittoons, nor is it
wholly safe substance to strew upon
floors. Several cases have recently
been noted where CONGREGATIONS have
been caused by cigar-stumps igniting
the sawdcst, which smoldered slowly in
the receptacles. unperceiyed. and final. |