The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-27
GENERAL BREVITRs.

GENERAL BREVITIESs
THERE is revival of velocipede rid
ing in Boston, and the sport is becom-
ing fashionable. Twenty-three riders
recently made the trip to Squantum and
back together.
w. II. PELToN sued the city of Hop
kinsville, KY, for 81, 500 damages for
injuries received by falling over pile
of stone. After long litigation he has
been awarded $1,000.
Angler CHACE, the Fall River
(Mass.) defaulter, when in the Senate
in 1868 sat next seat but one to Lucius
w. Pond, of Worcester, who is now in
the State-prison.
THE Bonanza men, Flood and O'Bri-
en-, are proposing to erect 1,OOO,O 600
hotel in San Francisco for women, after
the plan of the Stewart establishment in
New York City.
"WHAT was the most forcible line
that Grattan ever uttered, Calhoun"
said Daniel Webster. "This,' said
Calhoun, quickly: I" Short-lived, indeed,
was Irish independence. sat by her
cradle-I followed her hearse."
The Duke of Sutherland, who owns
a million acres in Scotland, has obtain
ed leave, his heir consenting, to disen-
tail his estates in that country. They
have been in the family five or six CEN
turtles.
To have the negative of his sweet
heart on his arm was the freak of a
brilliant North Carolina youth. The
arm had scratch upon it and the cyan
ide of potash struck in. 1t began to
swell and for twelve hours his life was
despaired of.
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines:
God gives the grazing OK his meal,
He quickly hears the sleeps low cry;
But man who tastes his finest wheat
Should Joy to lift his praises high.
SALMON culture is becoming very ex-
tensive in Germany. Under the aus
pices of the Deutscher Fischerie- Verein
1000, 900 salmon eggs are Matched annu-
ally and distributed among the various
rivers of the empire.
The native press of India has been
muzzled by a recent British enactment.
Certain of these Hindoo papers, circu-
lating among the more ignorant classes,
are much given to seditious utterances,
and it is to curb these that the law has
been made allowing the Government to
exercise censorship.
In order to cover the expense of sup
pressing the late rebellion, which
amounted to $42 ,000, 900, the Japanese
Government has resolved to issue S27,-
100000 in paper money, and to make
large savings in the ordinary civil ex-
penditures. The national debt of JAP
an at present amounts to $3.50, 000, 900.
NAPLES has got rare kind of Duke
for Mayor. His name is San Donate;
he is very fat, lavish with the public
money, great on Improvements, is hail
fellow well met with the lazzaroni, and
never talks any thing but in the most
common Neapolitan patois or jargon.
Meanwhile the street swarm with young
pickpockets and old robbers.
The discovery of the iquefaction of
all gases was made as early as 1928 by
Mr.. Perkins, who in brief notice in
Thomson's "Annals of Philosophy" of
that year, and in a more elaborate pa
per, intended to be read before the Roy
al Society, and published in the "The
Philosophical Transactions of 1926,
distinctly claims that he had effected the
liquefaction of atmospheric air and
other gases. The apparatus he employ
ed was much like that used by NM. Pic
tet and Cailletet.
A VIRGINIA paper says that Judge
Mclaughlin, of Staunton, in that State,
has decided that in the eyes of Virginia
law a marriage between blacks and
whites stands on the same footing as an
incestuous or polygamous marriage, an
olfense against public morals which the
law was made to protect; and the fact
that such a marrige was made in anoth-
er state does not render the contracting
parties less guilty when they return
within the jurisdiction of Virginia and
live rs man wife.
A GREAT prehistoric burial ground
has recently been discovered at Crem-
men, not far from Berlin. Numerous
urns and ash-jars of varied forms, all
containing ashes and bones of burned
human remains, have been found. The
urns are mostly round in shape, and
stood some two and half tothree feet
below the surface, upon large slab of
stone; they were surrounded by round
stones, and each was covered with fiat
stone lid. The antiquities will all be
deposited in the Provincial Museum of
Berlin.
UNDER the title of "The Gardener
Bird" the London Gardeners Chronicle
gives description, with an illustrative
wOodcut from an original sketch drawn
on the spot by Signor Beccarri, of a
bird which is not only an expert archi-
tect, building nest like the bower bird
of Australia, but is also gardener, lay
ing out garden in front of it. The
bird is native of New Guinea, and
makes nest of the stems of an orchid.
In front of the nest dressed lawn of
moss is formed, on which the attentive
husband places day by day, for the de-
location of his mate, flowers and fruits
of bright colors and pleasing flavor.
THE most beautiful Indian girl, &C.
cording to all accounts, now living, and
one who by reason of her beauty, in
telligence, and spirit, has attained to q
unique influence which is acknowledged
among the warriors and defended by
twenty fiery brothers and cousins, is
Etisca, the " white Forehead of the I'm
capapas." Etisca is Sitting Bulls niece.
She is only Is years old, straight as an
arrow, 1.-THE as serpent, soft as nero,
and eyed like fawn. Her gayety is in
corrigible. At the battle of the Rosebud,
where Custer was overwhelmed, and
when she was mere child, she laughed
necessarily in the midst of the carnage.