The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-23

schOolmlSireS5 IN birmingham, Eng
land: "Miss X, can you allow our
Henrietta Georgiana to come home and
nurse Claudius Alfred while our Louise
Anne Victoria goes to dancing-school?"
IT is not the servant-girl who is under
arrest in Allentown, Pa, for opening
her mistress's letters, but exactly the re-
verse. The servant received letters
from her lover, and the mistress yield
cd to curiosity and read them.
A LETTER with $50 in it is among the
curiOsities of the Washington Dead let
ter Office. 1t was addressed thus:
Hoboken, snify. Tiddleywinks& Co.,
Pig dealers,
~ Hofensnipper's Terrace,
Cor Tfddeiekee Ave: and 40jth St.
Nantucket, Mass.
SOME commotion has been caused in
Paris by the arrest of 20 persons con-
demned by default some six years ago
for participating in the Commune. In
one case publican named Finet has re-
manned unmolested in his shop for the
last seven years, and was not aware of
his having been prosecuted.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS began his career
in the United States as runaway from
his English home, having obtained mon
ey BY forging his fathers name. He
became Professor of Languages and
Applied Sciences in the University of
Virgins, and was rated high among col
lege savants, but has just finished his
career as a peddler of apples in the
streets of Dallas, Texas, drunkenness
having ruined him.
The st. Louis breach of promise case
OF Foestlin against Barnes presents the
popularity of plaintiff who can not
understand English, and a defendant
who can not speak any thing but En-
glish. The former is q German girl.
and she declares that the man made her
understand by gestures that he wanted
to marry her. He replies that he was
only trying to tell her story in panto-
mime.
THE collectors of the fund for the re.
lief Of those who were made orphans BY
the Princess Alice disaster in the
Thames, after obtaining no less than
$780, 600 for that purpose, are at q loss
what to do with it. They can find only
IL persons thus bereaved, and, though
1t is proposed to educate them and give
them sum of money to start in life, it
is justly thought that $12, 800 q piece
would be an excessive sum.
The surgeon to the British National
Training School for Music advises that
pupil should be taught to sing as soon
as he can read. He adds, however, that
the lessons should last only for Is or 20
minutes, and that the range should not
exceed an octave. Children, he saws.
should not be allowed to sing songs ex.
cept those written within the same mod
crate range.
The Sultan is showing signs of an
earnestness and decision hitherto sup
posed to be entirely foreign to his ma
ture. He is willing to listen to un.
pleasant truths; and, in order to inform
himself concerning the true condition of
affairs, has ordered q number of reports
to be sent directly to himself, instead of
To his Ministers, who have always taken
care to let him know Just as much or as
little as agreed with their own private
interests.
THE hint which the s1esoish MESSENGER
gives in regard to asking the pardon of
sins is worthy the attention OF many of
the brethren whose voices are often
heard in the prayer meetings: "a great
many people are so used to ask God to
pardon their sins-with . jaunty air, as
II they were on special terms with the
Deity|that they look upon q transgres-
sion as pleasant and easy way of seek
ing Gods presence MANY -ho ofeor