The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-30

N. c., fair was the negro who got {
special premium on the cotton stall
bearing 425 bolls. Two premiums were
awarded to colored men.
Mr.. WARD, the British Consul al
Bremen, writes to his Government thai
carrier-pigeons are now used regularly
between the German coast and its con.
tiguous islands, where telegraph line.
do not exist.
A SKUNK got into the basement Of
Grace Church at Gananoque, Ont, ons
evening while prayer-meeting was in
progress, and the congregation was dis
missed without waiting for the benedic
don.
THE San Pedro orchard, four miles
from HOLSTER, California, contains
1000 fruit trees, embracing the al.
mond, ounce, nectarine, apricot and
other varieties, and the Enclosure meas.
ures over 400 acres. ''7
THAT large per cent. of the yellow.
fever deaths in Memphis were never re-
ported is shown by the fact that Super.
intendent Phillips says there were 1854
burials in Elmwood Cemetery, and the
total interments during the epidemic he
estimates at 5000.
PEDESTRIAN excursions are /" given -
now by the fashionable New Workers.
Luncheon Is provided at some of the ru-
raj houses ON the route BY the hostess,
and the "meet" takes place at her
house. What an improvement on the
old Sat homes " and solemn, dull re-
ceptions. a- - ~
New discoveries of gold have been
made in Siberia, near the source of the
Konnisar; and q nugget of gold, weigh
ing 147 pounds, the largest ever discov-
cred in Russia, and probably in the
world, has been found on the banks of
the Upper Toungouska, about 100 versts
above the rivers mouth.
TWELVE Austrian officers have been
selected to reorganize the Persian army
They have entered into an obligation to
remain three years in the Persian serv-
ice. The payment amounts to three
times the amount received at home. The
reorganization is to be analogous to that
of the Austrian army.
Boston policemen are compelled to
wear leather collars, the intention be-
ing to make them hold up their heads
in q soldierly manner; but the leather
rubs their chins, and the constraint
grows exceedingly irksome after few
hours. The policemen complain loud
ly, but the Commissioners say that
something is necessary as q check on
the tendency to slovenliness.
Mr.. ALBERT LEUTNER, civil engineer
in London, who is under q Contract
with the German Government, has en-.
gagged 10 raise and deliver in some En-
glish harbor on the LIST of August, 1879,
the wreck of the Grosser Kurfurst. If
the attempt to raise the ship fails, the
contract is void. The ship, according
to the explorations made by German
divers, has formidable leak, but is not
broken in two. Its bottom is upper
most. E-'
A WATCH about the size of an egg,
said to have been made by Russian
peasant, is now exhibited at St. Peters.
burg. Within it is represented the tomb
of Christ, with a stone at the entrance,
and the sentinel on duty. While the
spectator is admiring this curious piece
of mechanism, the stone is suddenly re-
moved, the sentinel drops, the angels
the women enter the sepulc6er,
and the same chant is heard which is
performed in the Greek Church at eve.
On the occasion of a recent festival in
Valencia, Spain, bull, which had been
ormented all day by displays of red
cloths, pricks of iron instruments and
knife cuts, was covered with spirits of
at night and set on fire. He
was tied by the horns to two strong
posts, but broke loose and ran in agony
through the city until killed by COM
passionate butcher. Valencia has long
been defined by Spanish poets as q
paradise inhabited BY demons"
The browning figure of the new Cap. |
itol-building at Hartford-the Genius of |
Connecticut-has been lifted to its per-
place on the lantern above the
copper dome. This figure is the statue
Of q female, IL feet 4 inches in height.
with spreading wings, and was design
ed by Randolph Rogers of Rome and
cast in bronze in Munich. Its weight
is three tons; it rests on marble pyra-
mid 275 feet above the ground, and is
securely fastened down with powerful
rods.
The Sultan of Turkey lately sent for
} Christian doctor of note at Constan-
;inople, and when the latter arrived he
found the Sultan with Bible in his
hand. 4" You are Christian, - said the
Sultan; "Swear to me upon this Bible
hat you will tell the truth. I wish to
Know if my lungs are affected, or if I
have any other organic trouble" The
ioctor took the oath, and then sound
ng the Sultan's lungs, found them
healthy, as also his general system, ex-
'ept q tendency to nervousness, for
which horseback exercise was pre-
cribed.
MRS. ANDERSON is on trial before a
ury of five members of the Trinity
Methodist Church, Chicago, for rent
ng her property to be used as q beer
arden. All the forms of judicial
rial are observed, and there seems to
70 no denial of the fact charged, the
cal question being whether she will be
xpelled from the church. One witness
estifies that he demonstrated with her,
nd urged her to lease the premises for
livery stable; but she replied that q
table was, to her mind, more obiec. ,
ionable than "a nice beer garden, ,
nth music and no bad smell" A,
The Bishop of Calcutta narrowly es- {
aped being robbed by gang of high !,
~ thieves while travelling through
laharajah Sindia' territory on vista
on tour . few days ago.. The driver I
the Bishops camel carriage and
mother servant were badly beaten, and I
hen the robbers turned their attention 8
ward the carriare: Init thew 6ecamn. =