The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-16

4dE pKluUCIS u O68 0OlQ68, xOW0y
have organized brass band.
DEER horns increase in size each year
until old age, and then diminish.
LIGHT from the north is more injuri-
GUS to the eyes than light from the south.
SYLvANUs BRowNER, residing near
Westville, Wayne County, Ind, stuck q
package of 800 in q stove-hole for safe
keeping. When the cold snap came the
family put up their stove without think
ing of the greenbacks, which were
burned.
PATRIOTIC Italian gentlemen are do
ing their utmost to stimulate trade in
their country by teaching the people to
learn to make many things hitherto inn
ported. One nobleman has been with
this view investing largely in machinery
at the Paris Exhibition.
The miners and the farmers of Cali
fornia have begun q controversy of great
consequence. The mining operations
in several counties have ruined great
areas of farming land by choking the
rivers with debris, which cause them to
overflow, and cover the alluvial valleys
with mud. Test lawsuits have been in
stituted.
The bulletin board of the medical
school of Paris often contains ten or
dozen appeals each from q mayor of
some town, begging doctor to come
and settle in his locality, guaranteeing
board, providing horse and carriage,
and Offering sum of from two to six
hundred dollars year above receipts
for practice.
HUNDREDS of Thousands of peasants
in Italy are without work, and those
who are employed arc glad to labor IL
hours day for 10 cents and food, which
invariably consists of dry black bread
at 10 q. m, and aqua sale soup at the
close of the day-the said soup being
bowl of hot water sailed and favored
with few drops of olive oil.
EDDIE BIERY, of Allentown, Pa,
found his dozen years SO weighty q
burden that he hung himself in his ia
TIERS barn. Some time ago the family
narrowly escaped being poisoned with
arsenic that some unknown person put
into pudding, and it is suspected that
the suicide may be a sequel to the poi
soning.
The shortest will ever presented in
the Surrogate's Court in Brooklyn was
this of Susan COTS: 81 give all to my
children, and after they die it will 20 to
my husband" But it was declared
void, because it entailed property for
more than two lives in being, there be-
ing three children alive at the testatrix's
death.
The Russian Inralide puts the num-
Der of troops engaged in actual fighting
during the last war at 282, 900 infantry,
81, 1000 cavalry, or S19, 900 men with l.
288 field guns. The artillery used 2O4,-
923 charges, and the infantry and caval-
~ 1O,057, 764 cartridges. The Turks
are reported to have lost altogether
nearly 10000 killed and wounded.
A FEW days ago fisherman, near
Sioux City, Iowa, saw a box floating on
the surface of the water. He secured
it, and it proved to be water tight, and
contained an infant several weeks old, |
provided with a bottle of milk and suf- |
ficient clothing to keep it warm. There
is no clew as to how far the little waif |
had sailed, or to whom it belonged.
THE Comtesse de Bassanville, editor
of the "Almanach du Savoir Vivre,"
tells ladies how to avoid crows feet {"
around the eyes. The receipt is simple
to close the eyes for at least ten min
utes every five or six hours, and thus
rest the muscles of the face. OF course
there must be an equally efficacious way
10 keep down the wrinkles about the
chin.
DIR. j. M. PEBBLES, at the Watkins
Convention, related that in his Eastern
travels he met Brahmin priest who re-
used to shake hands with him for fear
IF pollution, because, as he said, Amer
cans eat hogs. Why" said the
priest, I" l have heard that in America
hey put hogs flesh in barrels and eat
t after 1t has been dead six months.
SALMON, in the course of their trav-
lis, 60 from fresh water to salt, and
back again to fresh. In fresh water
hey are troubled by q certain kind of
parasite which is killed off when the fish
axes to the salt water; and in the lat
er they generally become infested with
mother parasite of which they are in
urn relieved when they 60 back to fresh
water.
The bodies of Beethoven and Schu-
'ert were rec ntly taken from their
raves at Vienna, when Schubert's skull
vas found to be the more perfectly
ormed of the two, its delicate, almost
proportions contrasting strik-
ngly with the great, thick, bony skull
4 Beethoven. The "bumps " of mu-
ical talent were found in neither where
he phrenologists locate them.
AT dinner recently given in Paris by
,mile de Girardin to the Russian Grand
luke Constantine, Arsene Houssaye of. !
BRED toast in praise of wine. Mile.
arab Bernhard, the actress, replied
y toast in water, and closed her Gu !
)gy by quoting the Duchess de Tongue !
lille, who once said, "What q pity that
is not sin to drink water?'' The lady
1ought that little sin always added .
est to an enjoyment.
CANADIANS are protesting against the :
,minine importations of the benevolent
nglish lady, Miss Rye, and the British :
has prohibited more chill !
rem being sent at present. The Secre- =
ny of the st. Georges Society of :,
oronto reports the labor market fear. =
lily overstocked for both sexes. /" Our Z
irls' and boys homes" he writes, ),
are filed to repletion because situa- =
ons can cot be found for the children. =
here are hundreds longing to get back = =
England" y
TIE large and increasing English =
'lony in Virginia receives notable ad- " !"
ton in Viscountess Milton, widow of :
g eldest son of Earl Fitzwilliam, who :.