The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-16
GENERAL BREvITKS.
Published Every Saturday,

GENERAL BREvITIES.
The Shah of Persia has 6,00o people
on his staff.
An entire paper suit can be bought in
Japan for Is cents
MRS. BRIDGET GALLAGHER, of Gin.
cinnati, has begnn her 105th year.
SENECA, the plain philosopher, wa
worth hundred and twenty millions Of
dollars.
Mrs. ELIZABETH F. DENNY, who died
in Pittsburg, Pa, few days ago, gave
away during her life time at least 81 ,OO0,.
600 TO charitable institutions. Her es.
tate is valued at over 100000.
MINNEAPoLIs. MIMI, has three mu-
tual benefit building associations, all in
flourishing condition, and St. Paul has
10. The stockholders, who include
men, women and minors, pay 81
monthly.
THE Richmond Transcript exhumes
the fact that Virginia once had a native
African for Governor. Gov. Alex.
Spottswood, who filed the chair in 1760,
was born in Tangier, while his father, a
British officer, was there on duty.
UNDER the microscope, snow is one
of the most beautiful things in the mu-
scum of nature; each particle, when
duly magnified, showing surprising
regularity of figures, varying according
to the degree of frost by which it has
been produced.
The last words of Phil Watson, a
negro wife-murderer of Covington, KY,
before being hung, were these: Ear
well, vain world! I'm goin' home. De
Lord Jesus has called me and am GO
in home. Dere's lots of rascals left
who will follow me to the pits of hell"
IT has been remarked by DIR. Reiche-
nan that generally the birds which have
open nests produce colored eggs, while
those which have covered or concealed
nests lay white eggs. The color of the
eggs serves as protective and may
possibly be due to the action of the prin-
ciple of selection e.
PROFESSOR JAEGER, in late number
of the Kosmos, endeavors to maintain
that the organs of hearing are but mod
ifications of the organs of touch, by
tracing the mechanism of hearing from
the original simple form of an animal,
where spiracles, diffused over the whole
protoplasmic body, collect and conduct
sound-waves
PLINY states that the coffin in use
among the Romans was generally of
stone. In some cases it was made of
certain stone from a district in Troas,
which had, or was believed to have, the
peculiar faculty of destroying all the
body, the teeth excepted, in 40 days.
Hence the name +" sarcophagus, }" which
literally means flesh-eater
OswEGO, N. Y, has the champion
somnambulist in the person of George
Peckham, who not long ago walked II
miles to Fulton without awaking, and
who the other morning awoke to find
himself fully dressed and aboard the
Midland train about to start for New
York. He dreamed that he was going
to California, and was awakened BY the
jar of the locomotive as it coupled on
the train.
MEN who make laws are sometimes
first to evade law. By an Ohio statute
legislators forfeit their pay if the Legis-
lature adjourns for more than two DAYS.
To ge. around this enough members re-
main in Columbus on Friday to move an
adjournment until Tuesday afternoon,
and enough return on Tuesday to ad-
journ until Wednesday. Thus the State
pays for six legislative days. work
week and gets two.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is disposed to con-
meet the earliest remains found by
Schliemann at Mycene, especially those
of the tombs, with the family and fate
of the family of Agamemnon. He in
clines to the idea that one of the bodies
represented may be that of the King of
Men; but the beautiful preservation of
the teeth suggests a greater youth than
that possessed by the Greek leader of
the alliance against Troy.
JOSEPH COLLINS started from Morris
town for Clayton, on the St. Lawrence
River, on an ice-boat. After he had
passed Wells Island he lost control of
the rIdder, and the boat, caught by the
gale that just then sprung up, shot along
at the rate of a mile minute. On It
went for two miles as straight as an ar
row, and at that terrible rate of speed
struck the wharf back of the Clayton
Post-office. Collins's body was abso-
lutely split open, and he died soon after
ward.
A SINGULAR reunion took place at
Stratford, Ont, few days ago. Two
men, casually meeting, were observed
to embrace each other with the greatest
effusion, and it soon appeared that they
were brothers, who had not seen each
other for 20years. They were in the
British army in the Crimean war, and,
becoming separated, had wandered
over good part of the world, each
thinking the other dead, until they came
together in Canada as day-laborers.
PALERMO Qtaly) letters give frightful
details of the treatment Of Alessandro
Parish, whom brigands captured and
spirited away in carriage from the
heart of the city, within sight and hear
ing of his family and friends, before
midnight on the I'd inst, only releasing
him upon receiving ransom of 10000
lire in gold, or 81, 900 lire in paper, af-
ter II days detention in mountain cave
with dire sufferings. This daring act
has plunged Palermo into a state Of con-
stcrnation, and people are afraid to ven
ture out after dusk.
A Startling Discovery.