The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-01-12

| lola. KANSAS
GENERAL BREvITIES.
In the Commune of Rivols d,Adda, in
Italy, . woman has given birth to quin'
triplets, all living. A year ago she bort
four children at . birth.
A CARGO of Cinnamon has been ship
ped from San Francisco to San Carlos
Lower California, to develop the copper
mines at that place.
The American workmen who went to
New South Wales, Australia, wish they
hadn't. Hardly dozen of one party Of
1852 are earning as much as they did al
home.
Nor less than $4,000 acres of land
have been leased for oil development
and speculation in Allegheny and neigh.
boring counties of New York during the
past few weeks.
TELEPHONES are to be put into every
grammar-school in New Haven to estab-
fish communication with the high-school
building. II they work satisfactorily
they will become permanent.
TIE engagement of Miss Terry, of
Fifth Avenue, New York, to Baron Al
bert Blanc, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Italy to the
United States, is announced. The lady
is of Cuban parentage, handsome, and
highly accomplished.
The boring of the channel tunnel be-
tween France and England is to be done
by the French railway company, the
Chemin de Fer du Nord, and the South
eastern and Chatham Railway Compa-
MES of England. The two latter will
bore for half the distance from the En-
glish side, and the former the same dis
lance, about ten and half miles, from
the French side.
KENTUCKY youth sent to New York
for some visiting cards, and received in
return some of the transparent kind,
which, when held up to the light, reveal
the outlines of donkey. Unconscious
of this feature of the card, the young
man gave his sweetheart one, and was
much astonished to hear her say that she
didn't want his photograph.
MARY CLEMMER says that Mrs. Murat
Halstead, wife of the editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, and s'the mother of
IL children, looks to be no older than
SIS, and her Titan hair, which has been
a theme for painters and poets, is feet
long, and, when flowing loosely, trains
behind her on the ground like a robe of
gold"
HUMMING-BIRDs were supposed, even
to Bufon's day, to live on the nectar Of
flowers, but it has now been proved that
they eat insects also. A gentleman in
Jamaica who kept some found they
must have insect food, and the absence
of it has probably been the cause of their
dying on shipboard. 1t is suggested
that some ants nests shall be in their
ships commissariat in future.
CHARLES NAPIER, an Englishman of
good standing in science, has been test
ing the theory that alcoholic drink is
with animal food, but not
with farinaceous. He announces, as the
practical result of many experiments,
that vegetable diet is q remarkable
help to the cure of drunkenness. He
mentions the case of an old man, whose
constitution had been shattered by re-
peated attacks of delirium tremens, and
who was cured of his appetite for liquor
in seven months by eschewing meat.
Dr.. B. w. RICHARDSON, who opposes
the opinion that alcohol is food, says
that he finds fatal dose to be in the
of one dram of fluid to each
pound weight of the warm-blooded ami
mails. In a man weighing 12O pounds,
dose of 10 ounces would certainly be
fatal, unless scientific means averted
death. The only advantage he allows
TO alcohol in its action on the animal Or
ganization, is the effect produced in the
first stage of its use.
HE rich Mexican surrounds himself
With the comforts of life, according to
MS own peculiar ideas of comfort. To
iress well, and bedeck himself with
gold and silver and ornamental trap
pings, gewgaws, gimcracks, any thing
pretentious; to smoke cigarette every
10 minutes, to eat plain food served
With all manner of seasonings; to sleep
half the day and carouse three-fourths
Of the night; to bet all his loose change
IN cock and bull fights and at three-card
monte, are few attributes of the Mexi-
IAN idea of high and luxurious living.
PARK WHEELER, of Syracuse, N. Y,
sx-COunty Treasurer, has been sent to
prison for Is years on a charge of for
gerry. "Judge," he said to the magis-
rate who sentenced him" Judge,
I'm Park Wheeler now for the first time
n five years! am sober man now! |
say to you had rather 90 the State
prison and rot there than to be placed |
Jack where have been during these
ears of inebriety and crime! You ask
have any thing to say why sentence
hould not be pronounced on me. If
here be corner of your heart, Judge,
where there is clemency, extend it to-
ne; it not, give it to me and I will take
t like q mani'
0. d. MINAR, q Goshen, Ind, man,
las obtained an order Of court for the
ale of the entire city of Ludington,
Itch, under q Judgment against
seorge w. Ford ct al. The suit upon
Vhich this judgment was obtained was
ounded on the representations of an old
nan, who claimed that he had been de-
rauded out of the land on which the
ity is situated, but had no money to
ay the expenses of contest. Minar
} an ex-detective, and, becoming salts
ed of the business of the old mans
lain, he Interested himself in the case,
nd, at the end of two years, has the en-
ire city under the Sherif's hammer.
iinar and his protege will make about
rs, 600 out of the transaction.
A WASHINGTON landlady, whose gas
ills have increased at ruinous rate
wing to the recklessness with which
or guests play cards and read novels at
light, resolved last week to give every
,ember of the household q practical