The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-30
GENERAL BREvITES.

GENERAL BREVITIES.
CHICAGO had, in 1877, % murder
and &c suicides.
The newly elected Marshal of tn
Russian mobiles is Count Bobranski, ,
smart young fellow of %.
THE new German iron-clad gunboat'
have very venomous names-Wasp
Viper, Bee, Scorpion, GEat. t
IT is noticeable that the shoulders O
ladies who hold up one side of theil
dresses are becoming very uneven.
A NEW YORK surgeon says his prac
tice has increased one-third since the
Introduction of velocipedes and roller
skates.
REPUBLICS are not always ungrateful
Years ago Congress gave the widow Of
President Tyler the franking privilege,
and she uses it to this day.
SMALLPOX has carried off per cent
of New Mexico's population the past
year, about II per cent of those attacked
dying, and the Indians suffering most
THE largest mileage of any railroad
in England is that of the Great Western,
2,0Sl miles. One of its tunnels cos,
S5,000,000. The recklessly extravagant
Brunei was engineer.
A YOUNG man in New York, who had
lived in certain boarding house for
many years, received a legacy from the
landlady as mark of appreciation for
his tolerance in never complaining
about his meals.
JOHN LAWS wedding-day, in South
Bend, Ind, was enlivened in an unusual
way. One of his discarded sweethearts
went to the hotel where he and the bride
lodged, called him into the parlor, and
shot him.
BUILDING and loan associations are
popular in Cincinnati, and about $685.
0C0 a week is paid into them, or in
round numbers, three and third mill
ions of dollars yearly about thirty
thousand persons.
THERE are now ~ postmistresses in
the United States, one of whom, Miss
Nina Hodges, in the Des Moines Post.
office, is said to have handled and paid
out 81, 000, 900 and not a cent has fallen
short.
NEAR Providence, R. l., a bed OF
soapstone has been discovered, from
which Indians long. ago fashioned rude
dishes. Many of the finished and un.
finished articles were lying under a
mound, together with harder stone axes
for hewing them out.
THE contest over the will of Mathew
Russell, the Stephenville CO., misel
, who died in a howell a few months ago,
leaving $4,000 of his $50, 900 to the
State of Ohio, has been compromised
Ohio taking $50, 600 and leaving $50, 00(
to be divided among heirs.
THE Collectorship of Customs fol
Alaska is an anomaly among Offices
Though $500 place, the Washington
authorities had to advertise for mar
to fill it, and then wait humber o.
weeks. The last man got enough o.
Alaska in "a hours, and came back by
the same ship. 1t is to be hoped the
new man will like the country better.
CHARLES FIFE, sane, though moi
overnight resident of Auoka County
Mimi, has just escaped from the State
Insane Hospital, where his wife, who
didn't want him around, inveigled hin
to 60 by representing that the doctor
was just the man to cure a troublesome
cancer on neck, and has kept him till he
was made almost really crazy.
DUDLEY DAY, man of Is, who had
been in i'll health for a year, recently
starved to death at Goshen, O., in con-
sequence of the contraction of his esoph-
agus so that he could not swallow,
caused by the growth of a tumor in the
aortal artery of the body. For several
days before his death, though perfectly
conscious, he could neither eat nor
drink any thing. The medical fraterni-
ty are unable 10 account for the tumor-
Gus growth, which was fatal in less than
seven weeks.
THIS old, but tolerably good, story is
again on its rounds, credited to Ben
Wade: He was once travelling westward
and interviewed lank countrvman ped
ding cakes at small station in the al
kali region, who remarked: "Wall,
vas, stranger, low we've got jes as
fine patch o. country as can be fetch
ed in Americy. Their amt but two
things we lack; eff we he'd them we'd be
all right. 1 kalculate all we need is
water and good society,"" "Humphi
That's all hell needs" answered the
crusty Senator.
A WASHINGTON belle, the daughter
of distinguished Judge, at a recent
party was seated next to gentleman
who had lost case before her father,
and who took occasion to refer to him
in terms by no means complimentary.
A pause in the conversation indicated
that something was wrong, when he
turned to the lady at his side and ex-
pressed hope that the Judge was no
relation of hers. To the great amuse-
ment of those present, she replied:
sob, no; only a connection of nv
mothers by marriage.
HIGH-BRED women in Europe never
wear jewelry, except when in full dress,
writes Olive Logan. This was one
thing 1 so admired in Mrs. Hicks. Her
diamonds were gorgeous, magnificent,
yet she seldom wore all at once, even in
the evening. If she wore her splendid
diamond and pearl necklace, she left off
her diamond stomacher and her high
diamond comb. For carriage wear and
calling, never saw her wear any thing
more snowy than a small diamond ar.
row, earrings and brooch, scarcely
bigger tian this pen-tip I am writing
with.
Two young ladies, well born and well
bred, went into the City of London the
other day to apply for some "lucrative
employment" which had been prom
ised in gushing advertisement by
firm in the ladies' clothing line of bust