The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-23
GENERAL BREvITHs.

day.
BERTHA VON HILLERN walked SO
miles at Cincinnati in Is hours and 80
minutes. ~ @eHs
A GRADUATE of the Lancaster Pa.)
Girls High school has eloped with q
one-legged peanut vender.
A BLUE-RIBBoN carnival will be held
at Des Aoines, Iowa, in June, and 3d.
600 people are expected to attend.
GEORGE UTTER, of Lumberton, N.
j., died recently, after fit of hiccough-
ing lasting three days and nights.
DRIED and canned fruits and barrels
of apples are important exports to Great
Britian.-Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
A JERSEY CITY rag, bone and paper
picker, who died recently, willed his
property, amounting to SIC, 900, to
Queen Victoria.
WHITE whales are reported quite nu-
merous of the Georgia coast, and a
Capt. Clay has captured one which will
net him 81 900.
The Susquehanna River having failed
to yield a crop of ice this season, Balti-
more will draw her supply of 200, 900
tons from Maine.
A TOUR of Alaska is being made by
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vancou-
ver's Island, with the view of establish
ing missions there.
HATTIE EUCHER, q Buffalo IN. "
maiden of %, has lain in bed with her
eyes closed tightly for 20 weeks.
She eats when food is put in her mouth,
but never asks for any thing. Z.
A SPECIES of onion has been lately
discovered BY A. Regal in Central Asia;
in the hills near Kenedscha, which
proves to be the parent of that cultivat-
ed in our gardens.
WAS Galileo subjected to torture by
the Inquisition? is the principal histor-
ical question agitating scientific circles,
and the burden of che evidence goes
to support the opinion that he was.
PIUs IX. was once in this country.
He was shipwrecked on the North Car
DINA coast, near where the Metropolis
and Huron disasters occurred, and Just
before the wreck his vessel put in at
Norfolk for water.
FATHER GUILLAUME, q priest of Rus
sell Township, near Ottawa, recently
arrived at the Canadian capital convoy
ing train of IS cords of wood, the gift
of his Pensioners to the poor of the
city, without regard to nationality or
creed.
A SHORT, simple, and accurate meth
cd of computing interest is found in the
following rule, namely: Multiply prin-
cipal by number of days, and divide by
365. The quotient will be the interest
at per cent, and for any other multi
ply by the per cent. desired.
A PEORIA Oll.) woman has three
husbands living. She deserted No. 1
after Ii years of married life, and No.
2, after living with her three years,
traded her off to No. 3 for shotgun,
because she had fallen in love with the
latter and was bound to have him.
THROUGHOUT Minnesota,it is estimat-
ed, only half as much fuel has been used
the past winter as in ordinary seasons;
stock of all kinds has required but
about two-thirds as much feed as usual,
and fresh meat, butter and eggs have
been at times drug in the market.
IT would be considered high treason
against the dynasty of Gilman if the
Sultan ever wore any article of dress
twice. From the fez on his head to the
slippers on his feet he must have new
clothes every day of his life. Uneasy
lies the head of a man who breaks in
new pair of shoes every day, and has
two thousand wives.
THERE was negro marriage in Tai
ladega, Ala, few days ago, and soon
after the ceremony, rejected sutton of
the bride threw his arms around her
neck and inflicted upon her eight or
nine stabs, from which she died almost
instantly. He then mounted the court
house steps and proclaimed, 81 done
it; hang me or kill me, just as you
please, only bury me by Lies side.''
Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes met in San
Francisco after a separation of IL years.
He had been seeking fortune with
very moderate success, on the Pacific
coast. She had been living in Pennsyl-
vania. Did they rapturously embrace
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a revolver and fired three times at him,
and he knocked her down with cane.
It seems that he had deserted her, and
she had found him after long search.
GUsTAvE LABUTAT killed his wife in
New Orleans, because of jealousy. In
his account of the murder, he says: 81
then told her, your fate is sealed, but
will give you time to pray, and, God
bless her, she did pray" His first stab
did not kill her, and he continues: al
picked her up, kissed her, and said,
God bless you, I love you; you are not
dead; pray again, because 1 am going
to finish YOU She placed her arms
around my neck and said, Gustave,
love you.'" Then he relentlessly COM
pleted the murder.
THE editor of the Delhi Qnd.) Satu--
day Mers was assaulted on the street the
other day by Miss Emma Gist and her
mother, the former using a cowhide and
the latter club to good advantage, on
account of certain publications dispar-
aging to the young woman. He drew
his revolver and was only restrained
from firing by the interference of by
The women were subsequent
" fined for assault, and the journalist
has got to answer the charge of carry
ing concealed deadly weapons. ,
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