The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-12-13

lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
MACON, Georgia, is anxious to be-
come an orange market.
ENGLISH aid-servants have shown
symptoms of rebellion against caps.
Col. INGERsOLL's vest has reached
the inordinate proportion of five feet in
circumference.
A GALVESTON school-marm Furnishes
her pupils by administering nauseous
medicines to them.
FLORIDA is more nearly out of debt
than ever before in her history, says the
Palatka Herald.
WILLIAM MARsTEN WHITAKER, an
English artist, was recently tried at
Warwick for sending threatening letters
to his mother, and althous h he declared
in his defense that he ha6 10 idea of ex-
ecuting bis threat, yet he vas sentenced
to ten years. penal servitude.
THE Nashville american says of Mr..
Taylor, the newly elected representa-
tive of the First Tennessee District ::
"He is young, almost unknown, alto
gether without political experiences
hard-working young lawyer, but a jovi-
i: Just and frolic-loving, anticipating
young fellow"
-Messrs. ID. Appleton & Co., of
New York, beg to warn the public
against party calling himself NJ. S.
Gardiner, who is representing himself
as an agent of Appleton & Co They
have no such person in their employ,
and are continually receiving COM
plants from persons who have been
defrauded.
The Columbarium, as the cremation
house in the cemetery at Gotha, Ger
many, is called, has been completed.
The town authorities have decided that
the collins for cremation are not to meas
ure more than 2.25 meters in length,
O.75 in width, O.72 in height. The
urns to be placed in the Columbarium
are not to have more than O.sO meters
in height and O.40 in diameter. The
cost of cremation will be about Sc.
The Troy IN. W Times says: "a
gang of sharpers is said to be quilting
the farmers in this and adj lining coun-
ties. Its mode of procedure is this:
An oily tongued, we'll dressed indiyid-
ual calls upon farmer, and, after ex-
patiating to considerable length upon
the advantages of a wonderful tanning
mill for which he is sole agent, prevails
upon the honest agriculturist to consent
to purchase one. The most remarka-
BILE property about the machine is that
it has contract accompaniment which
turns into a promissory note when it has
reached the hands Of the third party"
A YOUTHFUL couple in GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, celebrated Thanksgiving
Day by getting married. In the after
noon the young bridegroom thought he
would take his bride out for a drive.
But, unfortunately, having drank too
many tOasts in honor of the occasion as
to seriously interfere with his vision he
tried to drive over a post at a rafting
pace, and the bridal turnout came to
grief. The buggy was hauled off for
kindling-wood and the "happy couple"
had to be carried to the nearest DOCTORS
office, where the brides dislocated
shoulder could be set and the groom's
broken arm mended. They don't be-
lieve in bridal tours any more.
MANY New York ladies, according to
Hdrper's Bazar-some even among the
wealthiest- their own marketing
every day. They prefer to see what is
in the market, and to make their choice
themselves, and thus neither dealers nor
their own servants have much oppor-
tunity to take advantage of them; for it
is sad fact that those who are careless
in looking after their own affairs are
every way liable to be cheated. 1t is
not an uncommon practice for servants
who purchase meats, groceries, etc., for
their employers, to demand of dealers
gratulties to the amount of q certain
per centum on all goods ordered for
their employers. If the gratuities are
refused in any case, the servant goes
elsewhere to purchase. The results of
such practice may be easily imagined,
and it is well for employers to be on
their guard against such practices.
PUBLIC indignation has been aroused
to high pitch in San Francisco
by the action of a Judge who
has hitherto been held in much es-
TEEN. A savings bank having become
insolvent---a fact that became apparent
when the President blew his brains out
the depositors, as we'll as those resi-.
dent in the city as those living abroad,
we're DESTROYS of having the assets of
the institution, amounting to some &c.
OOO,OOO, placed in the hands of a certain
new board of directors; but, notwith-
standing the unanimous petition of the
parties interested praying for an order
to that effect, Judge Dwinelle directed
that the bank be placed in the hands of
receiver, and appointed as such re-
celver one OF h. own personal friends.
This was too righ-handed, however,
and Judge Dwi,elle will probably lose
more by this act than his friend will
profit.
JULES VERNE wrote the "Wreck of
the Chancellor" He described the
voyage of that vessel from Charleston
loaded with cotton. The cotton took
fire and in spite of the efforts to smoth-
er it the vessel sailed on with core of
fire. A somewhat similar case took
place last week. The steamer Zealand,
OF Antwerp, left Jersey City loaded with
bagged grain. While at sea q fire be-
gan to manifest itself by the smoke that
oozed out at every aperture. 1t was
found impossible to extinguish it. The
steamer turned around and put back
with all speed to New York with fire
that might as any moment destroy her
burning in the hold. On arriving at
the dock the upper layer of grain-bags
were removed and the fire burst out in
to flame. This was speedily extin-
guished by the fire companies at hand.
Thus doth truth make an effort to keen