The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-09

GENERAL BREvITIES.
MANY gallants in the time of Eliza
beth and James wore earrings.
| ASTRONOMERS assert that $4,000, OOO
suns belong to our armament.
In the days of Abraham the relative
value of gold and silver was one to
eight.
NAPOLEON believed that whoever pos
sessed Constantinople could govern the
world.
IT is authoritatively stated that men
talk too much for the good of their
| health.
A NORTH CAROLINA cat eight years
old is the proud mother of 12O other
cats.
THERE are three men living in the
same neighborhood in Nash County, N.
c., that have 40 living children.
ELECTRoPHoToMICo means
photographing objects enlarged by the
microscope by the aid of electric light.
PARTIES are being organized in Lon
don to make excursions to Russo-Turk-
ish battle-fields as soon as peace is de-
clared.
THE Liberian Exodus Association of
South Carolina report that 100,0O col
Ored persons have signified desire to
emigrate to Liberia.
THE White Sulphur Springs (Va.)
property is to be sold at auction in
August next. A million of dollars, it is
stated, must be realized in order to sat-
isfy mortgage creditors.
In the Treasury DEPARTMENT. ON a ST.
600 salary, is Miss Esther Alice Meikle-
ham, who is great-granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson, and granddaughter
of John Randolph, of Roanoke.
ANEGRO voodoo doctress in Dallas,
Tex, says that she came to this earth
on pinions and that her god, in his dis
pleasure, took the wings away from her,
and she is awaiting the growth of anoth-
er pair to fly away again to glory.
A VERMONT widow of 60, with 10 chill
dren, has married boy of 16. Before
the ceremony her eldest son, man
aged 35, knocked down the prospective
bridegroom. However, the happy
youth won't have any mother.in-law
SIxTY-FIvE of the 81 lives lost at the
Ashtabula disaster have been paid for
by the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railroad Company at rate averag-
ing $4,000 apiece. The most expensive
life cost the company $4,000, and a
newly married couple were appraised at
only $1,000
AMERICAN palace-cars are now to be
found the world over. When King Os-
car opened his road in Norway last Oc-
tober, he travelled in Il carriage built by
Jackson & Sharp of Wilmington, Del,
on the model of one exhibited at Phila-
delphia, which was bought by the En-
peror of Brazil.
A BILL for the suppression of tramps
is before the Maryland Legislature. 1t
provides that any wandering, INDECENT,
and unemployed person may be sem
fenced by a Justice of the Peace to six
months imprisonment. The tramp
thus dealt with is to be put to work
but before the committal he may have,
if he demands it, a trial by jury.
A HYDE PARK VermonD school
ma'am is in trouble She undertook to
break her pupils of using tobacco by
sleeping up number of old pipes and
giving some of the resulting matter to
the offenders, which not only made the
little boys very sick, but their parents
very mad, and seriously impairs the
usefulness of the school.
Mrs. JAMES II. LATTY, who recently
died at Des Moines, Ia, was the wife of
the Sheriff of that county, and once
when a noted desperate broke ont of
his cell she collared him, marched him
back and locked him up. At another
time she took noted criminal from Des
Moines to Fort Madison Penitentiary
without any assistance.
JOHN GREEN, a newsboy on the New
York and New Haven Railroad, was
blown from train going at full speed
near Mt. Vernon, n. Y, while going
from one car to another, and carried |
over a fence at the bottom of an en-
bankment, about rs feet high, but es-
capped with some severe cuts and bruises.
THE male line of Montmorency, which
dates back to the end of the tenth CEN
fury, and has produced six Constables
of France, 10 Marshals, and four Ad-
mirals, has become all but extinct by
the death, on Jan. IA, in his 10Th year,
Of the Due de Nontmorency Beaumont
Luxembourg. The deceased leaves two
married daughters and an unmarried
brother, Charles, Comte de Montmo-
rency.
THE term grisette meant, originally,
q sort of gray cloth; then garment
made of such cloth; then the wearer of
such garment; and, finally, a woman
Of low condition, whose circumstances
'nly allowed her to dress in inexpensive
At the present time, by
some means or other, the term has in
France acquired distinctly unfavorable
to the injury, no doubt, of
many who, although grisettes, are hon
st and virtuous. {
DURING II years Albert Meyn of Bos- !
on paid the premiums on $25, 600 life
Insurance. This burden was the cause
# his bankruptcy; but he struggled
lard and made the payments, believing
hat by doing SO he was securing his
annily against poverty after his death.
Within two years, one after another of
he companies in which he was insured {
AVE gone to pieces, and when he died, \
everal weeks ago, all his policies were
worthless. His wife and children are 9
'eAniless. q
The GOODNESS of Canada is one OBJ !
ectionable feature of life in that region, Q
ut Capt. Graham, wealthy ship owner
q Montreal, says that he can readily do :
way with that discomfort. He finds .
hat the chief cause of the low tenn :
erature is the current of water from :,