The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-09
GENERAL BREvITIES.

GENERAL BREvIT1ES.
The average dandelion produces
1900 seeds.
The roots of Indian corn run to q
perpendicular depth of seven feet.
In Lynn, Mass, there are 5000
voters, and of these $500 are shoe
makers.
A NEW Krupp cannon sends ball
through the heaviest armor plate ut
eight miles.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has a cocoa
nut plantation of 10000 trees, all bear
ing.
HORSES can easily be lead out of a
burning building by throwing harness
over them.
HATHAWAY, the Fall River defaulter,
is occupied in gliding picture-frames in
Concord prison.
CARRIER PIGEONS never eat when on
the wing, and return from long fly
nearly starved.
A-socIETY and subscription list have
been started in London to encourage
the planting of the salubrious plane
tree in all tie SUBURBS of the city.
In some English coalpits it is found
necessary to force down $780, 900 cubic
feet of fresh air every minute to supply
the needs of the workmen.
Two small boys were lately sentenced
in q London police court to 8 days. i'm
prisonment for stealing an onion valued
at penny.
A WRITER in Land and Water tells
how an exasperating donkey was kept
from braying by q weight appended to
his tail, for it seems that donkey al
always must lift that appendage when
braying.
A FEW months ago the City of Cera,
Venezuela, was destroyed by an earth
quake. 1t is now about to be rebuilt, but
upon an entirely new cite in the plain
below, where several villagers escaped
unscathed, while every town on the hill
side was overthrow.
THE yellow fever pestilence has af-
forded persons who desired to do so a
chance to be thought dead, for it was
easy to get their names fraudulently on
the death roll. Many fugitives from
justice ere known to have ehdeavOred
in that way to stop pursuit.
THE chief ct band of 200 brigands
in the district of Panlovsk, in South
ern Russia, is neutrality-suspicious.
peasant girl, and the Government val
ues her head at $4,000 francs-from
which it may be inferred that she wears
her own hair
F. S. c. SMITH, of Enfield, Conn. has been
trying his hand at raising big apples, and
produces an COX Heart weighing "a
ounces. 1t only takes AS such apples
to fill barrel, and the tree has borne
annually for the past 20 years, this years
yield being about 10 bushels.
Mr.. MARTIN was on his way from
Madison to GAINESVILLE, Wis, to marry
Miss Foster, but he CHANGED to meet
Miss Cobbe, whom he had once known
and loved, and straightway married
her, leaving Miss Foster and her we'd
ding-guests to wait in vain for his COM
ing.
AMONG the scanty recommendations
of Cyprus is the quality of its 10000
mules, which are considered the finest
bred in the Levant, and have been much
used of late in all Eastern war opera
tions. There are $4,000 asses in the
island, and only about 1000 horses, i'll
looking, hardy little ponies. Horned
cattle are few, but sheep abound.
. A SUNDAY-sCHOoL convention at Shoe
Heel, N. c., was brought to a tragic
close by the sudden death of Rev. DR..
Baker, one of the most prominent min
listers in the State and 80 years old, who
fell back while in the midst of a glow
ing description of the joys of heaven,
and expired with the words, 81 have
preached my last Sermon
In his Health Monthly for October,
DR.. Foote, speaking of dress, says:
Dress, one of the most important ad-
juncts to health, has degenerated into
q tyranny, lettering the movements and
weakening the constitution by its heavy
weights and compressions. Fashion
dictates, and woman will follow be-
cause the fiat of fashion is generally
artistic and it is her nature to love the
beautiful.
DIR. AYREs, the British Government
Surgeon at Hong Kong, does not find
that opium-smoking in moderation does
harm. On the other hand, in his ex-
perience, leaving off the habit at once
is not attended by bad consequences,
even where it has been persisted in for |
years, and as much as two ounces have
been taken daily. There is much ex-
aggeration as to the evils of opium
smoking which is often COMPOUNDED with
opium eating.
The Key West Ola Key says: sour
fishing smacks report stream of fresh
or poisonous water along our bay coast
from two to ten fathoms out, that kills
all the fish in its range. They report
sailing for 200 miles through dead fish,
covering the sea as far as the eye could
reach with all the varieties. Immediate
ly on the shore the water is salt and
natural, while less than a mile off it ap-
pears of a read brick color"
IT is said that diamonds are CON-
paratively low Just now, and that q
very respectable pair of ear rings can
be bought for 81, 600 or 81, ZOO. The
finest stones are set in the simplest pos
sible manner. A diamond, or an
emerald, or big pearl, or possibly two
or three together, will have narrow
band of silver to form . bracelet, SO
that they may glitter freely upon the
wrist. A necklace is similarly formed,
and for ear drops the setting is alto
getber concealed, SO as to give the
greatest effect to the gems.
THE Milwaukee (Wis.) procession
which was attending the remains Of DR..
Mainrod Risch to the grave was sadly
demoralized by bull which escaped
frnm a butcher who WAS taking II | !,