The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

EACH convict in the Ohio Penitentiary
costs the State one dollar and four cents
aWeek.
PHILADELPHIA has Sabbath ALI
ance, recently formed, for the enforc-
ment of the Sunday laws.
A Boston bachelor owns a dress-coat
which he has loaned to % bride-grooms
to get married in.
The Keokuk Northern Line Packet
Company has banished the bar from all
its boats. These bars have heretofore
,netted the company 1900 year.
A LITTLE more than 10 years ago the
Japanese army were still using bows
and arrows and wearing armor; now
the soldiers use breach-loading rifles.
i THERE were five steamers, go ships
and 10l other vessels built in Maine last
year, the aggregate tonnage being 49,
308 tons. This is an increase over 1875
and 1876. -l-f
In England, the women always pur-
chase the groceries and provisions for
the family; if man should attempt
such a thing some housewife would pin
dish-cloth to his coat-tail.
AN Indiana farmer missed S60-lb.
hog and found him, after 35 days, under
box that had fallen and caught him
under it. The hog lived, but he only
weighed 200 lbs. when found.
IT is the opinion of an intelligent dali
ryman that there is difference of two
quarts of milk day between COW
comfortably housed and the same one
exposed to the cold for half the day, as
we see them.
A BALL of waste cotton saturated
with coal oil, rolled in sulphur, and
fired under a tree, did not burn rap
idly, but sent up dense smoke which
killed all the bark-lice with which the
tree was infested. So says Pennsyl-
vania fruit-grower.
A BROOKLYN girl, who had supposed
she had caught rich husband, found,
upon inventory, that he wore hired jew
elry, owed for his clothes, and was be-
hind on his board, and that he couldn't
lend her s. to consult a lawyer about a
divorce.
JUDGE WEsTBROOK, in charging a
Grand Jury in Utica, n. Y, remarked:
" No matter whether lotteries are at a
church fair or festival, whether at q
charitable fair or festival, they are for
hidden by the law, and are misdemean-
ors."
ANOTHER illustration of the fact that
inventors seldom realize the benefit of
their own inventions is the recent death
OF John Young, the inventor of the
clothes-wringer, at Amsterdam, N. Y,
in comparative poverty. He once sold
a conditional right to a Boston firm for
$4,000, when he might have realized
100000.
THE japanese appreciate the advan-
tages OF the railway. There are now
10 trains daily each way between Toxic
and Yokohama. The third-class car
riages are usually full and often crowd
ed. They are almost exclusively occu-
pied by the middle and lower class
Japanese. Foreigners generally ride
second-class; the first-class carriage is
seldom occupied.
The Philadelphia Museum is honored
by the gift from her Majesty the Queen
of England of a fine linen damask nap.
kin, bearing the rose, shamrock and
thistle, and the royal monogram in the
corner, the yarn for which napkin was
spun by her own royal hands. Another
gift from her Majesty is a banner
shaped fire of black cloth, en-
broidered with yellow and violet silk,
the work of her Royal Highness the
Princess Beatrice.
A SINGULAR case came up before the
courts at Philadelphia, the other day,
that of a woman, who was thrown to
the floor of street-car in Philadelphia
by its jolting violently againt bumper,
breaking her knee-cap, was granted
O., 800 damages by jury, but the case
has been appealed to the Supreme
Court. 1t came out on the trial that the
woman, who was standing in the car,
was unable to grasp a strap, as she was
too tight-laced to permit of her raising
her arm. ...-
~ PROVIDENCE, r. l., has an Enoch Ar
den case. Some 80 years ago John
Fletcher left his wife and child to seek
a fortune in the gold fields of Australia.
After several years his letters ceased,
and he was supposed to be dead. Since
then his wife has married twice and
twice been widowed. Some time ago
Fletcher returned to this country and
went to work manufacturing gas in a
wooden mill at Saco, Me-, where his wife
recently found him and now they are
living together again in Providence.
s A RECENT burglary in Baltimore was
a remarkably skillful and successful
crime. The burglars dug through a
brick wall into a jewelry store at night.
The safe containing the most valuable
part of the stock was on a platform,
and with gas burning brightly. A
screen was placed in front of it, and the
burglars thus worked undetected, while
a confederate in the street was ready to
give warning of danger by jerking a
string. Compact but powerful machin-
cry, afterward abandoned, was used in
breaking the door of the safe. Watches
and diamonds worth $4,000 were car
ried away. r. {. -s-.-@ -,.
THE Wilmington On. CO. Star
voaches for the following story: Mr..
Norment, a well known politician of
Robson County, was engaged in fish
ing in Lumber River, using hook and
line, when by some means he lost over
board valuable gold ring which he had
worn upon one of his fingers. The wa
ter was deep and the bottom of the river
was soft and muddy, SO of course no at
tempt was made to recover the lost
trinket. Nine weeks afterward he was
again fishing in the same locality, when
he caught large trout, which he took
home with him, and, upon opening the
fish preparatory to cooking it, he was
astonished to find in its stomach the
identical ring which he had lost over
board more than two months previously.