The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-12-27
GENERAL BREyITIES.

GENERAL BREVITIE&
AT Apherst, Fa., Mr.. A. J. Bufks, q
white man, was fined 9100, and SEN
: fenced to aryesrs Imprisonment for
marrying .ne9ressss -
WILLIAM HAssErr, of Newton, Mass,
has been sued for the cost of his own
gravestone, which he ordered year
ago in anticipation of an early death.
OK recent trip the steamship City
OF Sydney made the fastest steaming
time on record between Sydney and San
Francisco. She was just 628 hours en-
route, including stoppages, and landed
the mails two and a half days ahead of
time.
A SHORT time ago publicity was given
TO the fact that VIM. V. Taylor, of
Whitehall, N. Y, was to fall heir to
100000 If he married within year.
Mr.. Taylor has already received over
800 letters from willing women in va
rious parts of the country.
AMAN in Lexington, Va, mailed q
letter to o faceti0us name in Japan,
with request that il be returned If not
called for. and started it by way of the
Atlantic. His object was TO see. how
long it would be in going around the
world. 1t came, back by. way of San
Francisco in just 100 days.
THE Government of Honduras is
making great efforts to develop the agri-
cultural resources of the country. COf-
fee-planting has been vigorously carried
on, and the Government make free
grants of land to all persons DESTROYS of
undertaking the cultivation of coffee, Of
sugar, or efEcocoa, and give free trans
port OF the necessary material and labor
to the site of the grant. Besides these
advantages, planters afe exempt from
military service, and all implements and
ton of plantations are admitted into the
country free of duty. Strangers are adj
mitted to the same privileges as citizens
Of the Republic.
The phrase of dining with Duke
Humphrey. g. going dinnerless-
originated thus: In the old St. Paul's
Cathedral, London, was a huge and
conspicuous monument of Sir John
Beauchamp, buried in 1858. This, by
a vulgar error, came to be called the
tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Glouces-
ter, who was, in fact, buried at St. Al
bans, where his magnificent shrine may
yet be seen.. The middle aisle of the
Cathedral, or Paul's Walk as it was
called, was the most frequented public
haunt in the town, aud full of hungry
lOafers among the rest. Their practice
of lounging about the tomb supposed to
be Duke Humphreys, at dinner-time,
led to the expression.
chilly +" BALLoU, a noted Califor-
mia character frequently mentioned by
Mark Twain in his :" Roughing It." died
recently in the hospital at Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, aged about fifty. He
was born in New York State, was one
of the early California pioneers, and
had many ups and down in his mining
experience. A few years later he was
specializing in the City of Mexico, when
he was again drawn northward by the
Frazer River gold excitement, and in
that region established Ballou's Ex-
press" the first institution of the kind
in that country. At one time he was
employed as local editor on some of the
San Francisco journals. After the death |
of his wife, a most estimable lady,
Billy" took to drinking and aban-
doned all further efforts to advance in
the world.
IT is known that divorce does not ex-
ist in France. The nearest thing to it is |
the separation de corps, equivalent to the |
English judicial separation. From 1876
to 1850 the average of separations was
1,08O. This gradually increased until
1876, when the number was 1921, or
exactly three times the number in 80 |
years. Strange to say, only IA in every
100 are asked for By. the husband, the
wife thus having eper cent. to her
credit. Seventeen out of the total num-
Der do not wait for the twelvemonth to
expire before trying to rid themselves
of their bonds. One-third of the 5000
live together from five to ten and anoth-
er third from ten to twenty years before
they ask to be separated, and upward
of 500 only do so when the silver mar.
risge approaches.