The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-09-28
GENERAL BREvITIES.

well made shirt.
THERE are 1900 commercial travel
ers in the United States.
THERE are 60 known varieties of oys
tiers throughout the world.
A CITIZEN of Lyons scratched (.
match; piece of phosphorus got undel
the nail and caused death.
A LONDON TTmes advertisement
"Lost, a set of artificial teeth; supposed
to have been dropped in the neighbor.
hood of Hanover Square,"
SWITZERLAND does not impose CAPT.
tai punishment for murder, and the or.
binary penalty for that crime is from
I've to six years. imprisonment.
Two conductors of the London,
Chatham and Dover Railway are to be
tried for manslaughter in causing the
recent fatal disaster at Sittingbourne.
A YOUNG man in London lately OBJ.
tanned a verdict for 10 shillings against
a man who sat down on his hat. This
furnishes valuable precedent.
A GIRL says that when she dies she
desires to have tobacco planted over her
grave, that the weed nourished by her
dust may be chewed by her bereaved
lovers. There is poetry in the idea.
AN inmate of the Robertson County
Ky.) Poor house, Mrs. Sally May brier,
claims to be lis years old. She saws
during the Revolutionary War she fire.
quently nodded bullets for the soldiers
of the Continental Army.
Ex-Gov. ENGLISH, of Connecticut,
was visited by a tramp, the other day,
who begged for an old pair of shoes,
and, after receiving them, returned in
an hour or two and asked for 20 cents
to pay for getting them mended.
GAS light as cork" or. "to float
like CORK will not do as SMILES any
longer. Deer's hair is only one-fifth as
heavy as cork, and experiment has
proved its marked superiority as a ma
terial for the construction of life-pre-
servers.
PHILADELPHIA's Permanent Exhibi-
ton is still open, occupying the main
building of the International Exhibition
OF 1876. Concerts and balls are the
chief attractions, and the receipts for a
year have reached within about SIC, 900
of expenses
The Post-office Department has ruled
that husband has no control over the
correspondence of his wife. If she re-
quests the postmaster not to place her
letters in her husbands box, it is his du
ty to comply with her request.
NINE. EMILIA MoNTALENTI. the d.
rector of the Industrial School for Girls
In Milan, Ita'y, has sent samples of the
artistic work of her pupils to the Paris
Exposition. They consist of laces, en-
broideries and paintings on enamel.
LEWIS WEBB, of Buena Vista, Ga.
has been paralyzed and destitute of
feeling in his legs and feet for eight
years. He can not feel hot iron when
applied to his feet, but if a cat touches
them ne Immediately has prickly sem
sation.
AN interesting and worthy young Ia.
dy In London was addicted to the habit
OF reading in bed by the light of a can
die. The first public mention of that
young lady appears in connection with
verdict of accidental death rendered
by coroner's jury.
The first weeping-willow in England
is said to have been planted by Aiexan-
der Pope. He received present of fips
from Turkey, and, observing a twig in
Inc basket ready to bud, planted it.
from his stock all the millions in Eng
land and America are believed to have
sprung.
YELLOW JACK has no terrors for the
American office-seeker. The Washing
ton Euent'ag Star says that there are a.
ready applications for the positions of
Postmaster at Memphis and Grenada.
recently made vacant by the death Of
the former incumbents.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio. is warmed
and lighted by its natural gas wells. The
gas gives flame that almost rivals the
electric light in brilliancy, and it costs
SO little that the lamps in the city streets
are kept burning day and night. 1t is |
used In private houses and factories
alike, and cooks steak or heats a fur
mace.
ON buying ticket on the Midland
Railway, England, the traveller is given
bill OF fare, and is expected to order
what he wants to eat on arrival at a GER
tain station. He puts his name and the
number of his ticket on his order, whick
Is telegraphed on, and he finds a table
spread for him, with the viands as or
dered.
The Superior of the Trappists at Sept
tonds, Department of the Aliier, France,
has purchased land in Pennsylvania for
200 monks from Sept Ponds, Mount
Mellary Oreland) and Mariasteil. The
monks will themselves erect monastery
and other buildings.
"BUFFALo BILL explains his shoot.
ing OF boy in an upper gallery of
Ford's Opera house at Baltimore the
other night, by saying that his aim was
not SO good as usual that night, and that
he thought his rifle was loaded with on.
" sufficient powder to shatter the glass
balls at which he had been firing.
WHILE Miss Maggie Lewis Of Glen
don, N. T., a robust young woman of
L., was passing q cup of coffee at table
the other day, she felt tickling sensa-
lion run the entire length of her right
arm, and suddenly the arm and hand !
became numb and perfectly dead, her
hand closed, and the strongest man in
own is unable to open the fingers.
Dr.. DIo LEWIS has appeared in a new ]
.ole-as defender of the "heathen
1hinee." After spending the last three ]
,ears in California and studying up on
he race he took part in discussion of G
he Chinese question at Boston on Sun
lay evening and claimed that the celes-
ia!s are physically, morally and men,
ally superior to any other people.
In an editorial article on the recent :
development Of the velocipede, the Lon !;
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