The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-09
THE lola REGISTER,
Published Every Saturday.


.0LA..-. - = 90 KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
The old-fashioned fireplace is one Of
the best ventilators for room.
For 100 years the Popes were SOW.
ereigns over portion Of the Italian ter.
ritory. ~ BE- ai-= t1 - ~
CAPT. BORON is to swim from
Europe to Africa, via the Straits of Glib.
raltar. 30. -
FOUR hundred and ninety acres OF
wild land in Coffee County, Georgia,
sold for 1924. a-''i'1
A 20O-PouND bear can hug q
new pork-barrel to splinters, which
takes q pressure of LOCO pounds. +.
A CURT Chinese aphorism suggests
that one days work is worth three to
time. =. ., : - E. :
SAYS Charles O'Conor: "No guilty
person should ever plead guilty, He's
got as many chances before a iury as 2
perfectly innocent man, 80 ~
THE seedless orange of Brazil is the
best in the world. It can not be ship
PED on account of the thinness of its
skin, and will not grow anywhere in the
United States. s,G '5l7Il
The position of the English women
engaged In Russia to teach, SAYS q wri.
ter In the Pail Mall Gazette is one of
comfort and dignity. They are hand
sonely paid and courteously treated.
ONE of JEFF. Davis's former slaves
died In New Fairfield, Ct, last week.
He was worth IS, 900, a tenth part Of
which he willed to the church which he
attended.
PAUL DU CHAILLu saws he has been
intenseiy amused in watching ship
loading up for Africa, with a cargo Of
missionaries on deck and a cargo of
place. n'
fRoF. NEwcoMB says: 4" So small is
the earth compared with the celestial
spaces, that if one should shut his ewes
and hire at random In the all, the chance
OF bringing down bird would be better
!nan that OF comet of any kind strik-
In Nubia, as soon as a girl is married,
her mother is forbidden by law ever
again to speak to her, under pain of be-
ing roasted on the spit. Here is an
opening for bachelors desiring to marry.
who have an overruling horror of the
prospective mother-in-faw.
BABY's PORTRAIT. '#
smooth and shiny head -..
With Tufts of golden spray:
face of mingled white and red, -f7
win cheeks where dimples play.
b TRe n sse- sss s,; Gpe ny WIDE csc
mouth where kisses hide, CYEs
And twenty pounds to hug,
RIDING on an ice.boat is celebrating.
but it is scarcely a healthy exercise II
carried to excess. A man who was en-
Joying sail on the St. Lawrence last
week lost control of his ice.boat by a
breakage in the rudder. The boat flew
along as straight rs an arrow at the
rate OF a mile a minute, and after going
several miles struck an old wharf. The
unfortunate rider was cut in two. a
RACHEL Fl. WHIP has gone to the
Ohio State prison for seven years. She
married an aged and wealthy widower
in Medina in the expectation that he
would soon die and leave her his prop
erty; but he continued in robust health,
and threatened to make will giving
her no more than the law compelled
him to. One night he awoke to find a
moose around his neck, and his wife
pulling at the rope, which ran through
q staple In the wall of the room. She
intended to hang him and make people
believe he had committed suicide.
PETER ROYAL, of Lee, Maine, is ITO
years old, has daughter who is 81, and
two sons, enc 80 and one 81. He used to-
bacco constantly until he was 100 years
old and then reformed and discarded
the weed, as 1t might affect his health.
He also gave up tea and coffee at the
same tender age. His hair, which has
been white, is turning black. He has
good health, and fair appetite, and is
SO well preserved that he thinks of get
ting married again.
THE flowers known as tritomas are
dangerous traps for bees. DR.. A. r.
Wallace says that the honey produced
by the flowers is very abundant, and
the bees enter the tube of the corolla to
get at it, but the tube, which is only
just large enough at the mouth to ad-
init the bee, tapers gradually, and so the
bee gets wedged in and can not extri-
cate himself. He suggests that bee
keepers should either discontinue tine
cultivation of the tritoma or select only
such varieties as have flowers large
enough to permit the free entrance and
exit Of the bees.
A MAN don't necessarily need to be
millionaire in order to live comfortably
n South America. Ernest Morris, the
voung BriEilian explorer, wrote from
he vicinity of Obydas, 675 miles up the
Amason, on Christmas Eve last, that it
vas q glorious moonlight night, though
'ather hot. Tigers came down eyery
light to drink under the palm. His
lays living in q comfortable house cost
him A cents, as follows: Fish 10 cents
ruit 2 cents; onions, 8 cents; rice. 4
,ents; butter and sugar, 10 cents; wine.
% cents; coffee, 5 cents; game, 10
'ents. There are no insects there, and
pleasant breeze tempers the heat.
TREES generally when interposed be-
ween dwellings and swamp lands have
,een known to exercise purifying in
luence upon the atmosphere, and are I
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