The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-02
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

pounds viii yield on cremation one and
half pounds of first-class ashes.
A FISHERMAN near Palmyra, N. Y,
who caught grasshoppers, last summer,
and preserved them by dipping each
one in gum-srabic, is having wonderful
success in fishing through the ice with
his novel bait.
The holly tree is discovered to be a
native of California, the only difference
between the American and European
species being that the former has pale
green leaves with green berries, while
the leaves of the latter are dark and
glossy and its berries red.
A MASSACHUSETTS law provides for
the Imprisonment of persons taking part
in masked balls in that State, and no
such entertainment has been given in
Boston for six years. A strong effor:
is making to repeal the law, but without
much prospect of success.
THE Seiki Kan, Japanese war vessel
which was built at Yokoska, will shortly
start for a cruise to Europe, and will be
manned solely by Japanese. This will
be the first instance of man-of-war,
les, visiting European waters.
MICHAEL GUILrEMAN, a brakeman on
the Harlem Railroad, was run over by a
locomotive and killed few days ago.
He had been at work en- railroads for
20 years, and met with II serious acct
dents, SO that he had become a wonder
fully complicated cripple.
Lo. 6oo,, lofookol -, n W.,
cinnati lawsuit, brought by rivals in the
show business, who have secured YER
dict of $4,000. 1t was claimed by the
plaintiffs that Barnum drove them into
bankruptcy by announcing, wherever
they went, that their exhibition was a
worthless imitation of his own.
WAsHINGToN's only sister, Mrs. Bet
ty Lewis, was very bad speller. 81
now, my Deer Brother" she says in the
last letter she wrote to George, +" have
to thank you for your good intention of
sending me mule if you had any to
spear, but had no write to Expect you
to Disfirnish yourself"
THE Mark Lane Express thinks it
very strange that while many other
forms of sport are condemned as cruel
and barbarous, fishing, even with live
bait, should be generally commended
as gentle and humane. I'm the whole
realm of sport there is no operation that
requires greater calousness than that Of
twisting a hook in and out of the body
of a writhing worm.''
BRIGANDs are growing bold in Cali
fornia. A telegram from Marysville,
February Z, says, " The Marysville and
San Juan stage was robbed this MORN
ing few miles above Smartsville. The
stage contained only one passenger and
the driver. One man and shotgun
did the work in first-class manner, but
only got about 5000 all told.
The Third Regiment of French Zou-
ayes, observing Victor Emanuel's BRAY
cry at the battle of Palestro during the
war with Austria, elected him cOrpo-
raj of their regiment, a distinction of
which the King was proud. His name
was, until recently, duly called by the
officer on duty, and the Oldest soldier
present would advance and reply, cab
sent on leave" The regiment has con-
ferred the same rank on King Humbert.
A PRESBYTERIAN clergyman, living
near Montreal, has to cross a wide
stream in going to and from his church.
On recent Sunday, the ice being bare
and smooth, he skated, instead of riding,
as usual, in his sleigh. He now finds
himself arraigned for breaking the Sab
bath. He argues that skates were the
easiest and quickest conveyance that he
could have employed; yet, when the
question is put to him squarely, he does
not deny that he derived pleasure from
the skating.
AT the Eure Assizes, France, a man
named Louchard was condemned 70
death for the murder of his mother,
whose body he cut into pieces and threw
into a quarry. His object was to obtain
possession of her savings, and he had
once asked IL doctor whether a man
charged with numbering his mother
could inherit her property. He will be
guillOtined barefoot and in the costume
assigned to murderers of parents-viz
long shirt and black veil round his
head.
/, PLANTS sleep at night, as is well
known, but their sleeping hours are a
matter of habit, and can easily be dis
turbed. A French chemist recently ex-
posed q sensitive plant to bright light
at night and placed it in q dark room
during the day. The plant, at first, APP
peared much puzzled. It opened and
closed its leaves irregularly, in spite of
the artificial sun beaming upon it at
night, and, in the daytime, it sometimes
awoke. 1t finally submitted to the
change, unfolding itself regularly at
night, and closing in the morning.
AN insane man named Lewis Wasser-
man, who lives at Albany and appends
to his name the title "Child of Ameri-
Ca" has a weakness for cabling his ad-
vice to European potentates. During
the Centennial he sent dispatch to the
Pope, who. sent him back $40, as his
Holiness deemed the man insane. On
the 18th inst. Wasserman paid 500 to
the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany to forward the following dispatch:
s. To Emperor William, of Germany: 1
am the conqueror of the world. Don't
vote for the Pope. Lewis Wasserman,
Child of America"
THE expedients resorted to by Cali
fornia legislators to discourage Chinese
immigration are various and ingenious.
Sometime ago q law was passed COM
polling all Cinnamon arrested for petty
offenses to have their queues cut off, and
now the Judiciary Committee of the
State House of Representatives has
agreed upon bill prohibiting the ex-
humation of Chinese corpses for expor-
tation to China. Both of these measures
are directed against the religious preju-
dices of the Chinaman, for he believes