The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-06

the Phlladelphla Centennial IS to figure
as a restaurant in New York's Central
Park hereafter.
MOST plants, from the humblest herb
to the giant oak, sleep during the win
ter. Some sleep in the daytime and
wake in the night, as the Hesperis, or
DANES Violet.
In England married woman can not
pay q tax or rent a house or do any
thing independent of her husband.
Single women who pay taxes, however,
can vote at local elections the same as
men.
A MAN in Nashville has invented a
chicken torpedo. Tho invention con-
sists in the placing of torpedo inside a
prepared chicken, the result being most
disastrous to the "lifter."
A DISTINGUISHED professor of chem
istry suggests that the nomenclature of
that science might be drawn upon for a
variety of pretty additions to female
names. Having himself family of five
girls, he has named them respectively,
Glycerine, Pepsine, Ethyl, Methyl and
Morphia.
The Dutch, if a pauper who is able
refuses to work, put him into a deep
cistern and let in sluice of water. 1t
comes in just so fast that by briskly ply
ing pump, with which the cistern is
furnished, he keeps himself from drown
ing. Wonder that our philanthropists
have not thought of this in considering
the tramp question.
THE Government of India intend to
follow the example of the ancient King
of Egypt, who prepared in the seven
years of plenty for the seven years of
famine. They consider that the famine
can be counted on as sure visitor every
few years, and so they will annually APP
propriate 81, 500, 900 to meet the starva-
ton season, and give it a welcome when
it comes.
HERE is what was sung recently at a
religious meeting of colored men in the
South:
If you see Peter asleep at dc gate,
Kase de night befo' he was up SO late,
You needn't 'spect, with your load of sin,
Dat you'll slip past him and steal right in;
De angels always acts on de squar';
Dey know You here and dey'l know you
dar."
AT Sagau, in Silesia, Germany, a
butcher has been arrested on the suspi-
cion of having murdered his neighbor,
a well-to-do farmer, who disappeared in
November last, and of having used the
body of the murdered man for sausage
meat. The affair has, naturally enough,
created great sensation, and, although
most of the intelligent inhabitants do
not believe the absurd charge, the poor
butcher runs a great risk, as no clew
has been discovered to the missing
man.
RUSSIA has wonderful Swedish gun
ready for use in its fleet. 1t is worked
after the manner of piano-forte playing,
moves to and fro in a section of circle,
and sweeps all the ground that it covers
in a most marvellous manner. 1t is
something like sweeping lawn with
water from the jet of a garden hose
moved right and left by the operator,
and can be carried up into the maintop
for firing on the enemy's deck and in
side Notifications. In close quarters it
would sweep the enemy's decks of COM
batants.
A sPUNKY gray squirrel challenged the
advance of farmer and phosphate
agent into an orchard, at Lancaster,
Pa, the other day, and, not being
needed, made vigorous assault, tooth
and nail, upon the former. Yells, hats
and fists proved Intellectual weapons,
and not until the farmer secured stout
stick was the assailant driven back, step
by step, until he finally took refuge in
an old ice-house. The same squirrel at
tackled laborer last fall, and terribly
mutilated his face.
OUR finest dwellings, no longer have
their rooms covered with carpets fitted
to them and tackled down as formerly.
but have floors laid of solid oak, or
black walnut, or a mixture of different
woods, or the pine floors are stained to
initiate the dark, rich woods, or they
are covered with parquerie, or wood
carpeting. The middle of such floors as
these only are covered with a square
carpet or rug, which can be removed on
the occasion of dancing party, and in
any case leaves a margin on all sides.
The Duke of Bedford on one occa-
sion asked the Marquis of Sligo to dine
with him at Woburn Abbey, and, being
particularly anxious that his guest should
taste some of his choice mutton, of
which he was proud, ordered his shep-
for the coming repast. The time came,
and both the Marquis and Duke were
seen to turn up their noses, and evil
IDENTIFY not relish the flavor. The fact
was that the shepherd, in his innocence,
had singled out very fine ram, for
which the Duke had paid the large sum
of f300, making sure that that particu-
lar beast was the choicest In every way,
owing to the large price paid.
The ErNA LIFE INSURANCE CON-
PANY, of Hartford, Conn. with its as
sets of 1924, 141, 1880 and its clean sur
plus of nearly four and a quarter mill
ions of dollars, and its well-known eco
nomical management, has recently re-
ceived q wcll-merited Endorsement from
the Special Commission appointed by
the Legislature of Connecticut year
ago, to investigate all the Life lnsur-
ance Companies of that State. The
Commission say of the Etna that it is
mot only solvent, but financially sound
and under the management of officers
and Directors of large experience,
sound judgment and unblemished char.
acter, and entitled to the entire conf. |
dence of policy-holders and the public"
THE fever.t tree Eucalyptus globulss), |
so extensively extolled for its medical
ct was supposed to drive
away fevers wherever p!anted). has at |