The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-01-26
GENERAL BREvITIES.
KANSAS.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
LONDON gossips have an absurd story
that the Queen is going to marry Dis
raeli.
CHARLES CROCKER, one of the mil
lionaires of California, was newsboy
in Troy in 1885.
ASA PACKER is the richest of the 80
millionaires of Philadelphia, being
worth S12, 100000.
The naturalized voters in three coun-
ties of New York State-Erie, Kings and
New York-exceedt those who are native
born.
A SILVER three-cent piece which
lodged in the wind-pipe of a five-year-
old urchin in Cincinnati has been re-
stored to the currency of the country.
HERE is a new feature in fairs. A
Pacific Coast paper describes an Episco-
pal social in Carson, where "there were
billiard tables in charge of the ladies,
at four bits game"
The Overseer of the Poor saw several
people go into the Dime Savings Bank
at Elizabeth, N. j., during the late run,
and draw money, who, under complaint
of dire poverty, had been regularly re-
ceiving supplies from the city. They
were cut off from future orders.
THE street-car drivers of Montreal
are compelled to advertise their dishon-
esty by carrying cash-boxes slung
around their necks. The passenger
places the money on the lid of the box,
the conductor presses spring, and the
money falls ip. If the conductor touches
the money he is discharged.
The wife of a former commission
merchant of New York and the wife of
a man who had been ruired by the fail
ure of New York insurance company
were applicants for bread-tickets in
Newark the other day. One of these
women had been what is called Z" a lead
er in society"
THE West Union Qowa) Gazette tells
of a miser in that vicinity, worth thou
sands of dollars, who never allows his
wife candles or lamp of an evening,
compelling her to kindle shavings to
see if her bread is baked at night, and
doing out the wood to her by the stick.
The wife tried to leave him recently, but
the old man got control of their child,
and thus also kept the mother.
A BEDFORD Qowa) woman has sud-
denly lost and recovered her voice sew
eral times within the past two years,
her longest period of speechlessness be-
ing five months. She never suffers pain
or has the slightest premonitory symp-
tom, and her popularity is attributed to
occasional paralysis of the vocal cords.
THERE has just been made at Stock
ton, CAL, the largest pillow ever manu-
featured. 1t is designed to work in the
tules, and cuts furrow 35 inches wide.
The mold-board is eight feet long from
the point to the end. The pillow will be
attached to sulky, and will require
twelve stout animals to pull it.
Mrs. ABIGAIL GRIFFITH, of Boston,
aged 81, and daughter of a Revolu-
tionary soldier, supplies a certain num-
Der of people in her neighborhood with
their newspapers, going out in the
morning at and working until 6. Rain
or shine, hot or cold, she is always on
time with those papers.
DIR. CORNELIUS Fox writes in the
Sanitary Record: "There can be no
question in the mind of any one who
has taken an interestin sanitary subjects
that scarlet fever poison is disseminat-
ed by letters. Proofs of this accident
have been repeatedly afforded. The
outbreak of this disease in village
Post-office has presented itself to my
notice on two occasions, and in both
cases the disease has SPREAD
A VIRGINIA farmer has reported
rather an odd little incident that he has
seen on his farm He planted some
weeks ago timothy seed with his wheat.
The timothy failed to come up, although
the wheat grew splendid. A careful ex-
animation disclosed the fact that the
ants had gathered up all the grass seed,
and made piles of it at the entrance of
their underground home. All over the
field this had been done, and a great
quantity of the seed had been carried
across the road and piled up in the field
there.
A 5-YEAR-oLD child left its seat in the
Baptist Church at Grand Rapids, Mich,
walked up to the pulpit and up the steps,
and stood beside DIR. Graves, the pastor,
who turned toward the lad, saying,
" What do you want, my little man?"
The child innocently replied, ga glass
of water" The pastor poured out a
glass of water, the child drank it, and
left the platform. The incident created
considerable merriment among the
audience, which the child in returning
to his seat noticed, and, thinking the
people were amused at some mistake of
his, he made bow to the pastor, and
said, "Thank you, SIR" and went to
his seat, satisfied that he had not COM
mitted an improperly.
A NOTABLE exhibition of courage,
GOODNESS and skill was furnished by the
officers of the German steamship Her
mann on her last voyage to New York
A fire being discovered in the cargo near
the boiler-room, the speed of the vessel
was slackened, the Captain, summoned
from sick-bed, took command, a strong
force was quietly set to work, and in the
short space of 90 minutes, though labor
ing in binding smoke and with the pos
sibility of the fire bursting through the
deck at any moment, the men had over
come the daa ger. So efficiently and
coolly was the all-important task per-
formed that passengers within 20 feet of
the scene of peril knew nothing of what
was going on.