The Iola register., 1878-10-26
KANSAS
GENERAL BREvITIES.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
ONE-FOURTH of the human race die
before 5 years of age.
SERPENr-sKIN boots for ladies is q
novelty originating in Paris.
NEPTUNE is now the brightest star,
but it takes strong telescope to see
him.
Ar barbecue at Silver Creek, Ca,
"a sheep and 80 oxen and hogs were
roasted.
A BEE-MAsTER at Kerwick, England,
Extensive sale of livestock, compris-
ing not less than 140, 900 head, with un-
limited right of pasturage." The trick
succeeded admirably.
A MAN and woman went into the Of
fee of Vermont Justice, took an oath
in this form, "What we say to each
other shall be the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the TRUTH" and depart
ed, presumably to do the talking truth
fully.
REV. H. P. PECK, of Napa, CAL, got
license to marry supposed widow,
and applied to several clergymen to per-
form the ceremony; but, according to
the local newspaper, they learned of
several impediments. Mr.. Peck had a
wife in St. Louis, and the woman had a
husband in Oregon.
AT a recent meeting of the London
Horticultural Society, drawing was
exhibited of Virginia creeper which
had encircled a bottle weighing three
ounces with one of its tendrils, and car
ried it from the window-sill on which it
was standing, several feet downward to
the level of the window below.
THERE are now 10000 young Califor-
mia brook-trout in the ponds at the New
York State hatchery at Mumford, with
which the Fish Commissioners expect to
stock the public waters to some extent
in the course of few years. The CAL
ifornia trout is a rapid grower, and a
remarkably gamey, handsome fish.
A NEW and fatal disease has broken
out among the hogs in Cedar County,
Iowa, a'rI is carrying them off in large
numbers The symptoms are swelling
of the he'd and blindness, followed in
some cases by the breaking out of sores.
Usually the animal becomes mad with
pain or something else, and runs until
totally exhausted.
PETER BIBEAU, of st. Johnsbury,
Vt, a young man of 20, recently al
, lowed himself 70 be operated upon at
an entertainment by a mesmerist named
Carpenter. He is now thought to be
fatally ill with stoppage of the bowels
as result of the "inf1uence," and his
father has sued the professor for 90, 900
damages for trespass on his sons body.
In Germany $4,000 acres of land are
devoted to raising tobacco. The Gov
ernment derives about $3.50, 900 revenue
a year from the product, the tax being
about so cents per hundredweight The
duty of 50 per hundredweight on tobac-
co imported in the leaf, 1926 on that
imported in other forms, and S15 on
imported cigars yields about So, 900, 900
annually.
ALL the clergymen of Washington
have united in signing an address to the
public deprecating expensive funerals
as an extravaganza to be deplored un-
der any circumstances as subtle source
of social and national evil, and especial
ly SO in times of bereavement and in the
presence of death, that solemn reprover
of human pride and vanity.
A BERLIN paper has a cartoon of Bis
marck as master forger in q sword fac
tory, with the leaders of the various
parties in the Reichstag bringing him
the swords they have been making
wherewith to combat Socialism, each
weapon having on its hilt the name of
one of the amendments to the bill.
"The blades are equally good" says
Bismarck; call you have to do is to
agree upon the best shape for the han.
The Russian journals have recently
spoken of band of malefactors which
infests the district of Paulovsk, in the
south of the empire, and which is said to
number more than 200. The chief is
peasant girl of remarkable beauty. She
commenced her career with the forgers
who produced the false rouble notes.
The Government is so anxious to get
hold of the amazon that it has offered
a reward of Sc, ,25O francs for her cap
ture.
A MOST horrible threshing machine
accident is recorded by the Welland
Cont Tribune. A boy of 16, named
Kimar, who was cutting bands on
threshing-machire, slipped and fell into
the cylinder. The machine was being
driven by q ten-horse power at the time,
and the unfortunate victim was at once
drawn in bodily, being disemboweled
and mangled out of all human shape,
and, horrible to relate, some parts of
the body actually passed through the
ANOTHER of the class of murders in
troduced to France by Billoir, in which
the victim is cut in pieces in order to
prevent identification, has occurred at
Boulogne-sur-Mer. The separate limbs
of an old woman have been found on
the shore, under circumstances which
show that she had been murdered and
afterward thrown into the river. The
police have already found circumstances
which will lead to the discovery of the
criminal, a passenger having recog-
nized the head of the woman, and fully
described the man who was in her COM
pany Immediately before the crime was
committed.
AT Meadville, Penn, few days ago,
Prof. L. d. Williams died and was pre-
pared for burial. While the family
were taking last look at the remains
of him who had been beloved husband
and father, the widow, who had borne
her affection with much apparent forti-
tude, gave way to q flood of tears, and
sank ffom the arms of her son a corpse
beside the coffined remains of her hus-
band, Their aces were s5 and 60 The