The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-07-20
ubIished Every Saturday.
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

In pennsylvania.
A NEWPORT villa has 48O gas-burnerl
in the main hall.
SOME birds do not fly from instinct
but have to be taught.
MEDICAL experts are positive that
death by hanging is entirely painless.
THE root of the cocoanut palm j.
chewed by natives instead of tobacco.
The nose is sensitive enough to dc
tect the $4,000 part Of grain of musk
IT takes 100000 cattle year te
supply our meat markets and exports
Two hundred and sixty thousand ton.
of coffee year soothes the nerves o.
the civilized world.
SWALLOWING a piece of ice restored
the speech of Miss May Fower, of Edin
burg, Ind, lost after sickness several
months ago. i
EXTREME cold produces the same per
ception on the skin as great heat. When
Mercury is frozen at 40 degrees below
zero, the sensation is the same as that
of touching red-hot iron.
THE largest of the pyramids is 4S1
feet high and 693 feet on the sides; its
base covers IL acres. The stones are
above 80 feet in length and the layers
are POS; $4,000 men were employed in
lis erection.
ALARM 60 miles long and 10 wide in
one tract, mostly fenced, is that of Mil
Ter & Lux, cattle monopolists of Cali
fornia. They have 50, COO head of stock
own 100000 acres of choice land, and
are rated as worth S15, 100000.
As counterpoise to the English ma.
tive army Of India, the French Govern
ment is considering a project for SUBJ
jecting to CONSUMPTION all native and
negro inhabitants of its colonies of
Martinique, Reunion, Guadeloupe, and
Guiana
Mrs. VIM. MCGILL, of Port Even,
N. Y, celebrated the Fourth by giving
birth to twin boys while picking black
berries in the field. With becoming
patriotism she has named them Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams.
DR.. Foote, says in the July Health
Monthly, that all chronic skin diseases
are invariably due to a scrofulous faint
in the system. This view was also
taken by DR.. L. P. Yandell, of Louis
vile, KY, late distinguished allopa-
thic practitioner.
ELIAS BLACK, of New Britain, Pa,
has not sold an ounce of his farm pro-
ducts in years. He believes in keeping
every thing. A field of four acres is
covered with stacks of grain, some of
which have stood there Is years, and
are the homes of vermin.
THE term Blue Stocking, applied to
literary ladies, was conferred on a So
ciety which was called the Blue Stock
ing Club, in which females were admit
ted; and SO called owing to Mr.. Ben
jamin Stillingfeet, one of its acting
members, always wearing blue stock
ings.
The German Telegraph Office is rap
idly introducing the telephone; 68 sta
tons are already provided with this in
strument, Al others will have it in few
weeks, and Ill more before the end of
the YEAR; thus there will be then total
of 22O telephone stations in Germany.
A FLORIDA rattlesnake, six feet long,
spent half an hour charming an alliga-
tor twice its length, and then struck the
gator with all the strength he could
muster. The stroke had no effect, but,
circling backwards, the alligator struck
his snakeship fatal blow with his tail,
and was then himself dispatched by an
observer.
A DIsGRACEFUL affair, the like of
which is becoming quite too common in
England, occurred at Moresby the 9TH
er day. The Rector of the Parish, Rev.
Baillie Wallace, having refused to bury
the child of public house keeper, the
churchyard fence was broken down and
the body buried by the villagers. A few
nights after a crowd paraded the streets
bearing the clergyman's effigy, which
they finally burned on the public
ground, greeting the cremation with
cheers and yells.
THERE are 3S chances upon two dice.
1t is an even chance that you throw 8.
1t is s. to against throwing any par
ticulars doublets. 1t is II to against
throwing any two desired numbers. 1t
is 4 to against throwing single num-
Der with either of the dice, so as to hit
blot or enter. Against hitting with the
amount of two dice the chances against
z, 8 and 9, are to L; against 10, is IL
to L; against IL, II to l, and against
skies, is IS to 1.
SOME active women, who pride them
selves in housekeeping, seem to forget
that the object of keeping house is, that
human beings may be accommodated
in it. Their sole idea seems to be this,
that the house may be kept in certain
form and order, and to the performance
of the form and order they sacrifice the
comfort the house was established to
secure. Such active women are pests
to society, because they want sense to
direct and control their energies.
IT does not pay to trifle with the Ne
vada editor. The Eureka Republican
published a half-concealed allusion to |
the approaching marriage of Conductor |
Kicker. 1t was spOrtive and harmless,
but the railway official was moved and |
wrote to Chartz, one of the publishers
of the paper, that he would "churn -
him if he put Ricker's name in his col
umns again. Chartz buckled on his ar
senal, saw and spoke with Kicker, who
was ready to give him any game he
and, walking off half-dozen
PAGES, Chartz shot him fatally. Chartz's
paper says that this was perfectly justi-
liable in him, for it was either kill or be
killed.
THE growth of the nails is more rap
ID in children than in adults and slow
'st in the aged; it goes on faster in
summer than in winter, so that the same
aail which is renewed in 1872 days in the
winter requires only 116 in summer.
The increase of the nails of the right
N, nd 10 4 l. :.