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

experiences in Africa, but none more
servants was so attached to him that, in
order adequately to express his friend
ship, he begged the explorer to kill,
cook and eat him. It is, only genuine
friendship which is willing to offer itself
in the shape Of steaks and outlets.
When we of . higher civilization pro-
TESS friendship it means we are willing
to receive presents or borrow money.
"What are friends good for except to
be usedP" we ask; but the African
asked, "What are friends good for ex-
cept to be eaten?"
STORIES of this kind are getting sus-
piciously plenty. Daniel Higgins, a
temporary employee of the Richmond
(Va.) city gas-works, falls heir to a
100000 estate at Sydney, Australia,
left by his uncle, an Irish patriot who
had been transported. Mrs. Mary
Reese of Richmond, Ind, and her broth
er James, huckstcr, inherit Phila-
delphia estate worth S4,000,O0O. They
had been advertised for, and declared
dead, and other heirs had taken possess
sion of $2,0OO,0O0, which James and
Mary now propose to sue for. An APPEL
lea (Ala.) dressmaker expects to receive
$3.50, 900 from the estate of her deceased
California uncle.
The astronomers must throw either
Copernicus or Moses overheard, for
certain. Rev. John Jasper, a colored
person at Richmond, Va, has demon
strated from the Bible, to the entire sat-
isfaction of himself and congregation,
that the sun moves. Joshua told the
sun to stand still. David spoke of its
rising and going down, Isaiah said God
turnd it back 10 degrees, and how could
these things be, argued the sable theo-
Logan, unless old Sol does go? He
urged his beloved hearers to stand up
for the Bible against the philosophers,
and, in conclusion, asked all who be-
lieved that the sun moves to raise their
hands. Every dusky hand in the as
sembly went up.
AN interesting paper appeared not
long since in the English agricultural
Gazette, on the color of animals, and
its relation to their health or hardness.
The nature of the food or surrounding
earth appears to exert an influence on
the color both of animals and plants.
Alum directly influences the color of
the flowers of the hydrangen, and hemp
seed causes bullfnches and certain 9TH
er birds to grow black. The natives of
the Amazonian region feed the COM
mon green parrot with the fat of large
siluroid fishes, and the birds thus treat
ed become beautifully variegated with
red and yellow feathers. Young oyster
shells taken from the shores of England
and placed in the Mediterranean at
once alter their manner of growth, and
form prominent diverging rays like
those on the shells of the Mediterranean
oyster.
One of the strange developments of
the telephone tests recently has been
that sounds are transmitted from one
wire to another even when the wires
are not connected. In Rochester, the
other day, a telephone gave out the full
notes of some singing in Buffalo, much
to the surprise of the people in the Of
flee where it was located. Investiga-
ton showed that the telephone wire
approached at one point within 10 feet
of the Western Union wire used in the
concert. By what mysterious force the
sounds were carried across the 10 feet
of air, and then carried on along the
second wire, has puzzled electricians to
explain. For practical uses this new
freak of the telephone is drawback
rather than an advantage, las people EN-.
ploying the telephone in business do
not care to have their language made
public,