The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-07-06

note paper.
CENTIPEDEs have four distinct eyes
on each side of the head.
The penmanship of the ancients was
slow, careful, and plain.
THE haircut of the period is but one
degree from scalping.
MEN originated artificial hair and
women adopted it in 1880.
A SCIENTIST says angleworms do not
suffer when put on the hook.
IT is said that an eucalyptus in the bed
will rid it of mosquitoes.
THE magnet possesses the power to
kill small insects and plants.
ACCORDING to the latest dictionaries
there are 43, $50 words in our language.
GENERATING steam power by the rays
of the sun has been successfully tried in
India.
AN ancient book described the ETH.
opians as persons with one foot large
enough for parasol.
KEY WEST, Fla, is excited because
they have located the treasure of Capt.
Kidd in the neighborhood.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Road has
been convicted and fined $3.50 for rum
ming Sunday trains through Mineral
County, w. Va.
FRUITFUL Mrs. D. A. Dood of Hum
boldt- County, Ia, has just given birth
to her 22d child; there have been seven
pair of twins in the lot.
VIENNA has 100000 Jews. The lead
ing banks, business houses, newspapers,
81, 60 lod hxy
them. The prettiest women in the city
are said to be Jewesses.
GEN. CHARLES LEE, who had the
honor of being sworn at by the father
of his country, used to say that the
Declaration of Independence contained
only two grammatical sentences.
ONO farmers are receiving circulars
which run as follows: "SIR-You are
req tested not to use, in taking your grain
or grain crop off, a reaper or mower,
I'm Ter pain of having them and barns
destroyed by fire."
As an illustration of the present value
of horses in England, strong farming
and dray horses brought at the late
Howden horse fair $3.50 to $3.50 each;
harness horses $500 to $3.50; handsome
carriage horses $3.50 to $500, and hum
tiers from $3.50 to $3.50.
A CHILD was called as a witness in a
Charleston court. The opposing law
yer asked her if she knew where liars
went when they died, and objected to
her testimony because she answered no.
swell, that question has not been set
tied by any body satisfactorily" said the
Judge.
THERE are few positions more envia-
BILE than that of the English Judge. A
salary of S25, 900 year, with pension
of $4,000 on retirement, are pickings
for which French or a German Judge,
who does much the same work for about
$4,000 or $4,000 year, must long with
all the strength of his judicial mind.
THE dwelling of Thomas C. Perrin,
at Abbeville, S. c., was burned recent
w. 1t was in this house that the last
official act of the Confederate Govern
ment took place. Davis and his Cabi-
net passed the night there on their re-
treat from Richmond, and it was there
that it was formally determined to dis
band the Government.
ONE thousand three hundred and
seyenty-eight pieces of skin, taken from
the arms of friends, have been engrafted
on the head of Mrs. Jonas Hay, of
jamestown, N. Y, who lost her scalp
by her hair catching in the mill ma
chinery in which she was working.
Mrs. Hay is rapidly recovering, and is
now able to ride out.
SOME people believe they can think
faster on railroad trains than anywhere
else. the theory being that the rapid
motion quickens the action of the mind.
Some influence of that kind may have
affected man and woman who met for
the first time while travelling from FL
mira into Pennsylvania. They sat in
the same seat, fell into conversation,
were irresistibly attracted toward each
other, and at the end of seven hours
were married.
A PHILADELPHIA saloon exhibits as
one of its attractions South American
rat, weighing Is pounds and larger than
a hedgehog, which is more than a
match for any dog that tackles it. A
German brought it from its southern
wilds; there is but one like it in the
country, at Central Park, New York,
and the officers of the Philadelphia 70
illogical Garden are trying to secure
this specimen. Its favorite diet is pea
nuts.
A DIVER made an inspection of the
wreck of the Grosser Kurfurst few
days ago, and found that the vessel
was in two distinct halves, one half ly-
ing keel uppermost, and the other half
having a mast standing. The diver
thinks the ship received twist when
her boiler exploded. He said that the
side of the ship is torn away for about
90 feet, but that the depth of the breach
is not more than three or four feet at its
widest part.
A FRENCH authority, accounting for
the wOndrous increase in the manufac-
ture of watches by the Americans,
makes this remarkable statement:
"During the civil war Grants soldiers
were paid dollar per day, and they
all bought watches. Europe not being
able to supply them, the Americans in
vented a method of making watches
without watchmakers, and, beginning
with the military, have monopolized
the watch trade ever since"
ARCHIBALD OWENS, a notorious
smuggler on the Pacific coast, deter
mined that he would be revenged on the
San Francisco customs officers for seiz-
ing five bottles of cologne he was bring
ing on the sly from British Columbia.
He swore that he would give them all
the scent they wanted, and they found