The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-08-24


Published Every Saturday.
lola. /: KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
AwRITER on Cyprus in 1776 COM
plains of its being terribly infested by
asps.
A scHooL-FIGHT, quite fairly con-
Quoted, was fatal to q delicate boy at
Sheffield, England, lately.
IT was officially stated, in the British
Parliament, that the number OF deaths
from the famine in India reached the
appalling total of 1, 1850, 600.
THE watch and chain which a man
lost two years ago while fording the
river near Port Washington, o., was
found in large fish recently caught.
DIR. Foote, in his Health Monthly for
August. says: Ice water is better for
January than for August. If you think
You must drink it, partly fill your
goblet with the water from the ice
pitcher and add an equal quantity of
water from the WATERFALL or the faucet.
BURGUNDY is the only section of
France that has escaped the scourge of
phylloxera, which is paralyzing the
wine industry of that fair land. The
wine yield.since the war has been very
good, but now 81 departments have
been despoiled by the phylloxera' and
the damage is estimated at $500, 0O0,-
600.
THE warm weather does not seem to
agree with the wax and stearine status
of the Paris Exposition. One figure of
a stearine goddess is spoken of, the
right arm of which was stretched forth
with an imperial gesture. Il has grad-
ualiy dropped, until i nov appears to
be scra1ching the goddess knee.
MRs. MCCHBnEY, Cleveland CO.,
paralytic, had one of her thigh-bones to
snap asunder when about to sit down,
and, as the doctor was moving her to
her bed after setting it, one OF her arms
broke in two; when that was fixed, an
ankle gave way, and the doctors despair
ofkeeping the woman together.
A TRAIN on the Union Pacific being
stopped for some hours in Nebraska
by a wash-out the other day, the passen-
gers invited two ladies-a pianist and
an elocutionist-whow were on board to
give an entertainment in the Pullman
car. Tickets were sold and the enter
tainment came off to the great delight
of the storm-bound pilgrims.
C.,r NJ .~urNprpv ON Enul;eh
army officer who served as correspond
ent of the London Times throughout
the Franco German and Turko- Russian
wars, has invented plan of protecting
gunners and cannoneers while working
field artillery by means of iron shields,
portable, and put into position by Sec
lions. He contends that his plan in
creases the destructive power of light
artillery enormously, rendering it pro-
portionately the superior arm of the
military service.
"THFRE is little doubt" says the
London Lancet, :" that many of the re-
ports quoted as to the unhealthiness of
the climate of Cyprus are much exag-
gerated. There are marshes in some
parts of the island, and, of course, their
inevitable accompaniment, intermittent
fever, of a somewhat severe type. The
success that has attended the planting
of the Eucalyptus Globulus in Algeria
should induce the authorities at Cyprus
to try the experiment in that island
also.n
WILLIAM O'NEILL, Familiarity known
as "Nan the Newsboy," and now a
young New York pewsdealer of 21,
has regular passion for saving life,
and has already rescued II men and
boys from drowning for which he has
received S25 and silver medal. When
he has nothing to do evenings he walks
along the docks to see that none of the
'longshoremen get drowned who fall
asleep near the water, and he would be
perfectly happy if he could get place
in the life-saving service.
SOME Welsh citizens of Liverpool are
aggrieved because the Town Council
has declined to give Welsh names to
new streets in that city. The native
residents think that there were some
grounds for the action in the difficulty
of pronouncing such phrases, for in
stances, as Cefncoedycymmer Place, or
Pontystycyll Terrace, or Yetradyfodwg
Street, or Blaenllechan Square. There
is said to be bard at Anglesea, whose
address, on his visiting card, contains
nearly 100 letters, and begins with
Pwllgwynllanfair.
MRS. CLoRINDA NEWELL, of South
ington, Conn, has q tree-toad which
she has kept in a fruit jar (Which she
leaves open) for over a year. A small
wooden ladder, placed in the jar, ena-
bles the creature to ascend to the top
whenever he chooses; and of this priv
ilege be avails himself whenever damp
or rainy weather is coming, climbing to
the top round and singing his loudest.
Although she has offered him various
kinds of food, she has never seen him
eat any thing. As q barometer, this
tree-toad is great success.
AN English company has obtained
from the native rajahs the cession of the
northern part of the island of Borneo.
The district is known by the name of
Sabak, and is about the size of Great
Britain. The country is stated to pos
sess great mineral riches, consisting not
only of gold and diamonds, but also of
the more useful metals, iron and coal.
The soil is suitable for the cultivation
of coffee, and tea has already been
grown to some extent by the natives on
the hillsides of the mountains, which
are 1000 feet above the sea level.
The forests contain palm and cinnamon
trees in profusion.
As Jacob Lands, of Erwin, N. Y,
was twisting the wisp around sheaf of
wheat, large rattlesnake sprang out