The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-03-31
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GENERAL BkEvlT1ESs
SOME of the Mormons say that the
death of Brigham Young will put an
end to polygamy, as SO different elders
are waiting for his shoes.
The graves of Andrew johnson and
his wife are unmarked by headstones,
and the grounds are in the same condi-
ton as at the ex-President's burial.
The enormous number of 400, 900
pilgrims is expected in Rome ON the
occasion of the Episcopal Jubilee Of
Pope Plus. Ninety Thousand will 60
from France alone.
In the town records of Reading, Pa,
is the following: "Voted. that the
Town present to James Syk six acres of
land in some part of the town where it
will least damnify the neighbors.
The San Francisco millionaires are
building themselves grand residences.
Mark Hopkins's will cost $4,000, 900 ;
Charles Crocker's, 81, 800, 900. Leland
Stanford has expended $4,000, 900 on
his new home.
Dom PEDRo's daughter opened the
Brazilian Parliament in q speech 80
pertinent and pointed and pretty and
pithy that the younger members want
ed to vote an indefinite leave of alb
sence to the old man. Moral: If you
don't want to>be missed when you go
away, leave a pretty Miss in your place.
Mr.. GORDON CUNNING, the Scotch
lion hunter, is to be married in April to
Miss Eames, a Washington belle.
Among the bridesmaids will be the
daughters of Secretary Fish and Sir
Edward Thornton and the Misses Thay-
er, of Boston. The brides dress is be-
ing made in Paris.
Two girls at Otto, Woodbury. County,
Iowa, scared up deer while walking
along the road, which, in its flight, be-
came entapgled in a stout wire fence.
While enc of the girls stood guard over
the animal the other went to house
near by and borrowed q revolver, with
which they dispatched the prisoner.
A vAPoR bath every week is one of
the necessities of the Russian peasant,
and in some parts of the country it is
taken in the household oven in which
the bread is baked. In all cases the
operation is pushed to the extreme limit
of human endurance-to point, in
fact, that would produce congestion of
the brain in those unaccustOmed to it
and yet the peasants in winter often
rush out of the bath and roll themselves
in snow!
ENGLISH critics of America have be-
moaned for years the low tone of moral
ity exemplified in wooden nutmegs, but
the British swindler is not far behind
his Connecticut congener. just now
he is in the bird business, and as spar
rows are cheap he paints them in imi-
tatiOn of canaries, l0ve-birds and other
valuable specimens of the feathered
tribe, reaping rich reward for his
artistic efforts. Verify, rascality is of
no race or cline.
A RUNAWAY girl and her lover were
riding past Casey Station, Tenn, when
the stern parent galloped to the front
on a mule and pulled her out of the
wagon. Putting her on the mules
back and taking his place behind her,
he whistled to his steed. "Sally, if
you love me slide Off" whispered the
lover. Wrigglng out of her fathers
grasp, she did so slide. Then the lover
fought with the unnatural parent, and
triumphed over him, and the mule ran
away with the two spoons.
PIKE, the latest Chicago murderer, is
a curious specimen of anatomy. He is
pupil of the dreamy school, and has
his existence between some combina-
ton of misfortune on the one hand and
awhole congregation of mysterious and
superstitious ideas upon the other. Be-
tween the two he lives, and has grown
his hair long, his whiskers likewise, all
over his face, SO that when he moves
you have to take second look to see
what it is. Some say that he is crazy
on Spiritualism.
THE custom of feasting at a funeral
still prevails in Lehigh, Berks, Bucks
and Northampton Counties, Pennsyl
vania. When rich farmer dies
preparations for the feast begin on 8
grand scale. Oxen are killed and the
fatted calf is brought to the block, fowls
are slaughtered by the hundred and i'm.
mense supplies of bread and pastry are
provided. On the day of the funeral
banqueting goes on from dawn to night.
fall. Sometimes as many as 500 mourn.
ers attend country funeral to eat the
baked meats.
JULES JAN1N's duel with Dumas peri
was singular. Half an hour was occu.
pied placing the parties in position.
Janin asserted it was positive murder
for Dumas to select the sword, not
knowing how to use if. Janin predicted
he would spit him as a woodcock, and
regretted he couldno swallow him like
that bird. Dumas then selected pistols,
being able to snuff out a candle at 80
PAGES; but then, he remarked, it would
be positive murder for Janin to use q
pistol, never having had one in his
hand in his life. The antagonists
laughed, shock hands, and remained
friends ever afterward.
But a few years since German emil
grants to Texas founded town in one
of the most beautiful western localities of
that State. They called it New Brunfels.
1t has grown to be a flourishing manu-
featuring place. Three hundred hands
are employed in the wooden mills
These mills have recently added i'm
proved machinery, and will manufac-
ture broadcloth as well as army and
navy goods. There will now be no ex-
cuse for the Western Texan to dress in
home-spun. Sam Houston, Crockett,
Travis and Bowie would be astonished
to see what those Germans have done
for that portion of Texas, which was
but little while ago bowling wilder
ness.
On the arrival of the steamship Bal
timere, on Wednesday, says the Balti-
more Gazette, the Custom-house officials
suspected that parsonage named