The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-09-14
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OREGON is the only State that has q
distinct exhibit at Paris.
SWIMMING can be mastered in two
days 4Properly taught. ga#z
Tn nails Of the right, hand grow
faster than those Of the left. lst
In English marriage notices the
brides pet names are put in brackets.
THE Chinese claim to have invented
the telephone in the year 1858.
NEARLY every theater in London and
Paris has been burned down in its turn.
THE divorced wife of q Danbury
Conn man is the hired nurse of his
seeopd, vifss baby.sIs 4 Q Z
A D1bGHTER Of Brigham Young has
become an actress, under the name Of
Cecile Grey.
In Georgia the young ladies are join
ing fox clubs and indulging in the ia
vorite pastime of Diana. g 81
L1GHrNInG struck II telegraph posts,
all in row, on the Macon and Augusta
Road the other day.
WHILE picking peaches on horseback,
Mrs. Miners Raplee, of Starkey, NJ Y,
pulled the reins SLIGHTLY, causing the
horse to rear and fall backward upon
her with fatal effect.
Two men hunting a squirrel near Al
toona, Pa, chased it into a tree-trunk,
and found, inside. the tree several thou
sand dollars in gold coin, which had
probably been hid there many years ago
by leading robber of the vicinity.
IT is only within the past six years
that the Japanese have attempted to
make use of the petroleum wells existing
within their domains. Now several re-
filming establishments are in operation,
and making kerosene oil has become an
important industry. "a A-'' -
The house in which John Knox, the
Scotch reformer, lived and died, is vet
standing in that part of Edinburgh
known as the old town. Extending
over the entire front is the inscription in
large Roman letters: /" Lufe God abufe
all, and vi NEIGHBOUR as vi self. ;"
"A BIBLICAL curiosity in the English
section of the Paris Exhibition which at
tracts crowds is the model of the Taber-
nacle as it rested during the wandering
of the Israelites in the desert. The ex-
terror and interior are constructed in
strict accordance with the details given
in the Old Testament.
VICTOR SAUNDERS was married in
Rockingham, Va, four years ago, and
on the next day killed a man.
He was sent to prison ON
conviction of manslaughter. His wife
got a divorce and married another man,
but she was widow when Saunders was
discharged, recently, and on meeting
they remarked. vr -.4f-E..r -f :,
SUCCESSFUL fishing cost John Scull,
editor of the Somerset (Pa.) Herald, his
life. After securing string of some
80 pounds of fish, be tied them to his
wrist and waded in the river with them.
Falling into deep hole, the weight of
the fish drew him under water, and, al
though an expert swimmer, he was
drowned.
THE boiler of two steam reaping-ma-
chimes exploded a few days ago at Ces-
son, in France, and six persons were
cut to pieces, while four others
were injured. The accident is attribut-
ed to the safety-valve being wedged up,
as is frequently done for the sake of
saving fuel by preventing the escape of
steam. = = y.
MRS. BOYER, an aged Waterloo
Mich widow, is so certain President
Hayes is her long lost son, that she has
started for Washington to satisfy her
self that she is right. Mrs. Boyer's first
husband was Hayes, and it is his son
who is missing and whom the mother is
certain sherecognized in a picture of
the President she recently saw.
CAPT. RICHARD S. TUCKER, of Wis
casset, Me-, has invented round and
saucer shaped surf-boat, about Is feet
In diameter, whic his propelled by an air.
COMPRISING machine in the center. 1t
can be made to travel about six miles
an hour by one man, the motive power
being obtained by driving the air against
the water between two parallel keels on
the bottom, and it can carry 20 men as
well as one. -.
The Car has ordered military tribu-
mails to be established throughout his
dominions for the trial of political Of
lenses. He found that the juries of the
regular criminal courts were too lenient
towards persons accused of revolution
airy attempts. In several cases prison.
ers indicted for murder were pronounc-
ed not guilty, if there was any evidence
OF political motives in the assassination.
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