The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-09-21
THE lola REGISTER.
Published Every Saturday.
GENERAL BREvITIES.

TN IN average Id tnealerS are OeStIOy.
ed by fire in year.
THE rattlesnake finds superior foes
in the deer and black snake.
The largest bell in use is at Moscow,
and weighs 443, 772 pounds.
The inventor of gas-lights was q
Frenchman named Philippi Lie Bon.
IT was law among Thessalians that
women should not drink wipe.
RUSSIAN ladies have q passion for
wearing many bracelets at time.
A PATRIOTIC writer wants to make it
a criminal oifense to shoot an American
eagle.
MANY swampy fields could be turned
into profitable fish-ponds at little ex-
pense.
IT is proposed to import and domes-
ticate the Tyre birds of Australia to take
the place of the English sparrow.
AN application was recently made to
a life-insurance company in New York
City for an annuity for person %
years old.
THE Monihu de la Moselle says that
Salins which was planted in 1852. At
the base it measures more than II feet
in circumference.
An officer of the Troy On. " Chris
tan Temperance Association deems it
necessary to publish the explanation
that he is not the man of the same name
who was fined for drunkenness.
A MERIDEN Conn., matchmaker has
made steam engine weighing only 10
grains. The works are silver, and three
drops of water are enough to keep them
in motion 20 minutes.
THE druggists of Ann Arbor, Mich,
confess to selling immense quantities of
opium, etc., to people who habitually
use it as a stimulant. About so victims
of the drug are found in that city.
Gov. BISHOP, of Ohio, had narrow
escape at the big reunion of Union and
Confederate veterans at Marietta the
other day. During the sham battle a
stray bullet struck him, but glanced and
slightly wounded one of his aids.
HENRY Will, it is stated, in the
course of his reign hanged no fewer
than ~ 900 robbers, thieves and vaga-
bonds. In the latter days of Elizabeth,
scarcely a year passed without three or
four hundred criminals being executed
on the gallows.
ELECTRICITY is making giant strides
in IFS race for supremacy over gas. Al
ready the leading London papers are
confidently predicting that the street
gas-lamp will in another decade be as
much thing of the past as the oil
lamp is now.
So perfect were the Egyptians in the
manufacture of perfumes, that some of
their ancient ointment, preserved in an
alabaster vase in the Museum at Ain
wick, still retains a very powerful odor,
though it must be between 1900 and 81
600 years old.
A CARTHAGE IN. " young woman
fell asleep on her feet during the Sum
day evening service in one of the
churches, while standing with the rest
of the congregation. When the rest
were seated, she still stood in her slum-
Der, and was ashamed enough when she
awoke to a realizing sense of her posi-
ton.
SAN FRANCISCO is still troubled with
wholesome fear of leprosy, which
seems to have gained foothold through
the Chinese, and separate hospital for
lepers has just been provided for. The
tainted Cinnamon are shipped back
home rs fast as detected, but it is be-
lievcd that the cases are not yet all fer
reted out. 1t is known that at least
one white man has died in the city from
this loathsome disease. ~
IT is a curious fact, but nevertheless
true, that many dwellings once the
homes of poets, have been public houses
at one time or another. Burns's native
cottage was house of this kind; the
birth place of Tom Moore was a whisky
shop; Shelley's home at Great NARROW
was an ale-house; Coleridge's residence
was of the same class; so was James
Montgomery's, and the old home of
Henry Kirk White is now used for the
retailing of intoxicating liquors.
THERE is now selling on the street
corners a nostrum for silver-plating
which is very attractive for its marvel
GUS effects, and the same thing is also
sold in some stores as magic silver
plating fluid. It is solution in water
of the nitrate of mercury and corrosive
sublimate, both violent poisons, and IL
able to make bad sores if incautiously
touched to the broken skin. Instances
have also been known where it has
caused salvation when used to replate
worn spoons and other tableware.
A CLEVELAND physician says: "Al-
though they strongly resemble each 9TH
er, the desire for opium and the desire
for liquor, yet think the former is
much stronger and far more uncontrol-
liable than the latter. The morphine
eater is lost to all sense of honesty,
truth, or decency when his appetite for
morphine is unsatis6ed, and he will re-
sort to any means, deceit or dishonesty
to obtain the drug to satisfy his crav-
ing. The word of an opium eater is
good for nothing, is absolutely unrelia-
ble." -r- 80 sssg--
Does kill 81, OOO, 900 worth of sheep
annually, it is estimated, in the United
States. Noticing that the CANNES in
variably attack the necks of sheep in Or
der to sever the arteries and drink the
blood, South Carolina inventor has
contrived collar with sharp projecting
points which effectually protects the
sheep from his enemy. BY means of
suitable crook the sheep may be readily
caught by the collar, thus avoiding the
tearing Of the skin and injury to the
sheep, which frequently results when
sheep are caught by the wool.
The Yellow Fever Relief Committee
of Philadelphia refused to have any
thing to do with a theatrical perform
ance for the fund, one of the members
intimating that the actors desired SIM