The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-13
GENERAL BREvIrHs.

LEGISLATIVE authority has been
granted for laying a pipeline for the
transportation of petroleum from the
oilfelds in West Virginia to the Ohio
River. a ri ts:
THE collection of paintings belong
ing to Milton S. Latham, of San Fran
cisco, was sold at auction in New York
recently, realizing the large amount OF
$100,O5O. s
AUSTRALIA is strange country.
Some trees there shed their bark instead
of their leaves, oysters grow on the out
side of the shell, and one animal lays
eggs, suckles its young, is web-footed
and r0osts in .. tree. 1i ~ = q
A BRUTAL mother threw her infant,
but few months old, from the car
window of a rapidly moving express
train near North Garden, Va, the other
night. The child was picked up in a
dying condition, and the mother, a
beautiful, high-born, but half-crazy
young woman, is under arrest.
Mr.. EDIsoN's wonderful invention,
the telephone, is Godsend to the Chi
neses who, unlike other nations, have
never used the telegraph, because they
have no alphabet. The London Specta-
tor learns from q private letter that the
telephone is already in use over soc
miles in China.
A PIECE of gun-wadding was the
means of tracing out reprobate who
shot neighbours horse in Chickasaw
County, Iowa. 1t was printed piece
of paper, and was found to match. Sc
that it could be read, with the wadding
of ready-loaded gun in the hands Of
the suspected criminal. 3u
j. o. EVANS, of Piermont, N. H., lost
fine steer in a SINGULAR manner few
days ago. He had chopped a hole
through the ice in his trough to allow
the cattle to drink, and, as the water
was low, the steer had to force his nose
clear to the bottom. In so doing he
caught his horns under the ice, when
the water ran in and drowned him.
On one side of the river Weser low
Dutch is the vernacular, and on the
other side high Dutch. Those who
speak the latter claim to be the pures,
of Germans, and to this day seriously
object to being called 'Dutch," in q
Hollandese sense, although enthusiast
cally favoring the annexation of Hol.
land to the empire of WilhelmI.
One who has great deal of expert.
ence with the Russian army says sit is
wonderful how the Russian soldier loves
to sing. He sings when he is happy,
when he is sad, when he works, when
he walks-he is always singing. On
the battlefield he even marches to death
with Russian song upon his lips. They
are brave set of men and loyal to their
hearts core"
VICTOR HUGo's novel, "The Histo-
ry of Crime" closes prophetically as
follows: "Some day, before long, the
seven nations which contain all human
ity will ally themselves and be blended
and lost, like the seven colors of a
prism, in radiant celestial arch; the
prodigy of peace will appear, eternal
and visible above civilization, and the
dazzled people will contemplate the
immense rainbow of the united peoples
of Europe.
PROF. TYNDALL on Spontaneous
Generation: "My sole care has been
that the potency of truth should be vim
dicated; and no denier of the potency
of matter could labor more strenuously
than have done to demonstrate its i'm
potency as regards spontaneous genera
ton. While expressing, therefore, un-
shaken sbelief in that form Of smateri-
alism' to which I have already given
utterance, here affirm that no shred OF
trustworthy experimental testimony ex-
lists to prove that life, in our day, has
ever appeared independently of antece-
dent life."
Who found the biggest chunk of gold
ever raised in California? is question
sometimes asked. John j. Finney, one
of the Shasta County pioneers, now re-
siding near French Gulch, uncovered in
the early times of California about 10
miles from Downieville, in Sierra Coun-
ty, a chunk of solid gold that weighed
5,120 ounces, but, not being compact,
it was broken in taking out. This is
probably the best days work ever done
by a single miner. Like nearly all old
pioneers who have handled fortunes,
John is still prospecting for the hidden
wealth.
A DOCTREss writes to the Australian
Star that more quarrels arise between
husband and wife owing to electrical
changes affecting their nervous systems
by occupying the same bed than by any
other disturbing cause. IS There is moth
ing" she says, ssthat will derange the
system of person who is eliminative
in nervous force like lying in bed all
night with another person who is almost
absorbed in nervous force. The absorb
er will 60 to sleep and rest all night,
while the eliminator will be tossing and
tumbling, restless and nervous, and
wake up fretful and disheartened. No
two persons should habitually sleep to-
gether, according to this authority; one
will thrive and the other lose.
IT seems to be open to doubt whether
the Pope who has just been elected
should not be styled Leo XII. instead of
Leo XIII. There have, it is true, been
twelve Leos elected as Popes before him,
but one of these, Leo VIII, held his po-
sition by very questionable tenure,
and is not generally admitted by good
Catholics to have been genuine Pope.
He was elected by the authority of the
Emperor Ohio, an opposition Pope,
Benedict v. being elected by the Coun-
Gil. He is held BY some Catholics to
have been legitimate Pontiff; but Bar
onius treats him as an intruder, and the
point has never yet been satisfactorily
decided. His career was altogether q
melancholy one, as was also that of his
rival, Benedict ", who died in exile in
July, 965, having been deposed by the