The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-05-04

GENERAL BRRVITIES.
JAcKsoNvILLE, Florida, has had
hot wind-storm.
GAS pooty as q new coffin, is Caro-
lima utterance of admiration.
A COMPANY has formed to make
speaking dolls on the phonograph plan
A HIaaANUM Conn couple have re-
Gently been married for the third time
after being divorced twice.
A WASHINGTON letter-writer says
Mrs. Hayes refuses to allow card-playing
in the White House.
WHILE out hunting near Knoxville,
Tennessee. recently q pack of hounds
attacked flock of sheep and killed %
IT Is an odd circumstance that the
bark Azor, which has Just taken colo.
nv of freedmen from Charleston for Ii.
IBERIA, used to be q SLAYER.
MINNEAPOLIS is the last town started
in Colorado. 1t is located Sc miles
northwest of Canyon City, near the
mines of the Rocky Mountain Mica
Company.
ABOsTON variety theater advertises
the special engagement of "Jennie
Franklin, the famous daring shot, and
principal in the recent terrible catas'
trophe and innocent killing of a woman
on the stage at Pawtucket."
A LAWYER in q Keokuk Qowa) court
room disagreed with his colleagues as to
the management of case. He stood
up, had an officer bring him glass OF
water, and then, with much dignity,
washed his hands, saying, " Your Hon
or will please bear witness that wash
my hands of this affair."
ACCORDING to Gov. Emory, of Utah,
polygamy is on the decline. It is at
tributable neither to missionaries nor to
bibles but to the growth among Nor
mon women of taste for extravaganza
and dress. The result is that the aver
age Mormon finds it about all he can do
to maintain one wife.
SOME soldiers who visited Animas
City, Col, few days ago rescued q
Mexican boy who has been a slave of
the Navajoes for Is or 16 years. The
Navajoes would not give him up but the
boy wanted to 60 to his home again
and the soldiers made up their mind to
take him if they had to use force, and
consequently the Indians gave him up.
A BRUTAL mother threw her 5-year-
old boy from a bridge into the river at
Milwaukee the other day, and leaned on
the ratings to watch his death strug-
giles, exclaiming:" If your father won't
support you, drown!" The child's
clothing buoyed him up until the horri-
fed bystanders could rescue him. The
woman was promptly arrested.
Two Franklin (Mass.) lads, u and
IA years old, respectively, the sons OF
prominent citizens, had their heads
turned by dime-novels the other day,
and started out with two pistols and a
little money to seek adventure. After
tramping 10 miles, supping on fried
moss, and spending nj ht in the woods,
however, they were glad to return home.
EVERY lady should subject her toilet
powder to this test: Place teaspoon
full of the suspected powder in a glass
and add the juice of a lemon. If effer-
vescence takes place it is an infallible
proof that the powder is dangerous, and
its use should be avoided, as it will ulti-
mately injure the skin and destroy the
beauty of the complexion.
A BABY has lately been born near New
Bremen, o., with three eyes and only
one ear. The eye and ear on the right
side of the face are correctly placed, but
where the left ear should be is nothing
but smooth and solid flesh, and the ex-
ira eye is about midway between where
the ear isn't and the other eyes. The
eyes are perfect in sight and action, and
the boy seems healthy and bright.
THE penalty for theft in Japan is
graduated according to the amount
stolen-inverting the rule common in
England and America. No punishment
is inflicted if the thief is able and willing
to pay for the property stolen, or if his
friends will do it for him. Suicide is not
uncommon. A man is considered to
have right to take his own life if he
chooses. The number of convicted
criminals is surprisingly small, averag-
ing less than 10000 year, and of these
about ffteen-sixteenths are males, the
sexes being very nearly equally divided
in the entire population.
In the american Naturalist for April
Edwin A. Barber collects further evil
dence of the solar worship in North
America. Summing up, he finds YES
tiges of that form Of fetichism in the
ruins of Toltec and Aztec temples and
pyramids, and in the statues which were
placed within them; in the traditions
and observances of the semi-civilized
tribes at the present day; in the hero
glyphics and symbols of most of the
tribes ancient and modern; in the
positions of ruined stone houses, and IN
the orientation of the dead in graves.
AN Oakland (Cal) paper has this
PERSONAL" "She is coming, the
belle and heiress, Miss Jenny Latrelle,
the handsomest girl in the Southwest
having the finest figure, the smallest
foot, the sweetest voice, the blondest
hair and the velvetiest brown eyes ever
done up in one packages coming to
Oakland to spend few months with her
relatives. She is said to be q most
charming singer and amateur actress,
and manages horse like q Di Vernon;
and. moreover, is lonely orphan with
$1,500, 900 in her own right-a real
bonanza. Such q distinguished visit has
not been made since the Queen of Sheba
visited King Solomon"
~ L.