The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-12-07
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

e GENERAL BREVITIES.
LonDon's new Lord Mayor is livery
stable keeper.
In New York State s., 2s5 people live
in log-cabins.
Coon locomotives are down to 81, 900,
from 81, 900 three years ago.
TEE Japanese Government still tor.
lures prisoners to extort confession.
AMONG fashionable New York ladies
it is now considered elegant to affect
broken English.
OvID PINNEY's will, Just fled at st.
Paul, Mimi, leaves most of his estate of
S200, 900 to clothe and educate the or
phans of Beaver County. Pa, where he
lived for some time.
The cooperative associations of Ger
many number $500, with more than q
million members. Their capital stock,
buildings, and other property, includ-
ing cash, is estimated as about $40,-
OOO, 900.
FIFTEEN years ago the wife of DR..
Chapel, of Charlottetown, P. E. l., got
q divorce from him, with alimony OF
ESQ q year. Rather than pay this he
went to jail, and there remained till his
death last week.
BARONESS MARY ITULAK ARTYMOws
KA, Is years of age and moving in the
best Russian society, has just been ban
:,haA 70 C:hor;o Coz f0ruorv frou6 on6
bribery, leaving debts to the amount of
1000, GOO roubles.
The Queens "Master of the Buck
hounds receives q salary of $500
year, while Sir George Airy, the As
tronomer Royal at Greenwich Observa-
tory, has to content himself with 81, OCO,
and the highest paid officer in the real
work of the schools receives but 81, 500.
For the third time within 80 years the
tower of the parish church of Week St
Mary, North Cornwall, England, has
been struck by lightning and destroyed
A massive basement stone was thrown
20 yards from the tower, and all the
corner stones were dislodged.
THE Eagle and Phenix cotton mills,
of Columbus, Georgia, have sent to Mrs.
FELTON, two dress-patterus of their own
manufacture-One of them, after it is
made up, to be worn on the day DR.. Eel
ton took his seat as q member of the
Forty sixth Congress. The patterns are
very handsome.
The Natchez Democrat has heard of
several well authenticated instances dur
ing the late epidemic where a simple
plantation quarantine, made efficient
enough to isolate that place, has proved
barrier against the fever, even though
it prevailed on all adjacent places.
JOHN MCCARTHY, of the China Inland
Mission, has probably performed the
most remarkable journey ever made
through China. He left China at the
close of 1876 and reached Bhamo in
August, 1877, having travelled 5000
miles. Wearing the Chinese costume,
he met with no difficulty.
Soon after the funeral of Mrs. James
Tracy, who died recently near Sioux
City, Iowa, the family in rearranging
the interior of the house Dissolved sack
containing gold coins to the value of
$1,000 which it is supposed the old
lady had accumulated during her life,
and kept the fact from the knowledge Of
the family, who were greatly surprised
at the discovery.
One of the directors of the Liberian
Exodus Association, jackson Clark by
name, writes home from Liberia that
the emigrants are dying off rapidly, and
starvation stares him in the face, and
that if his white friends in North Caro-
lima will send him money to bring him
and his family home he will never cease
to pray and work for them.
ONE of the prisoners in the Albany
Peniten:iary is little lad of IL, sent
from Georgia for stealing letters. He is
q bright, handsome boy, and seems out
of place among his surroundings. He
occupies q cell with Oakley, the cashier,
who is teaching the little Southerner how
to read, and-actually-to say his pray
ers and worship his Creator.
A QUAcK doctor is travelling in Ohio,
accompanied by remarkably beauti-
full young woman. Her complexion es-
pecially is perfect. He tells the people,
in free lectures, that this fair creature
was once rather ugly, but has been i'm
proved by the use of his elixir, which
he offers for sale at $3 bottle. No
body buys any at the conclusion of the
lecture, but on the following day, when
his agent goes from house to house, the
sale is large.
The other night a number of young
men at Ovens Grove, near Mason City,
Iowa, undertook to charivari Mr.. Henry
Dunbar, who had recently been married
They blew out his bedroom window, but
failed to bring him out. On the follow
ing night they returned, determined to
succeed. Dunbar was prepared, and
fired into the crowd, wounding six OF
them. One lost an eye and another had
16 shot dug out of him.
The Emperor of Brazil is taking
much interest in the prospects of the
numerous free-born children of slaves
who will be thrown on the hands of the
Government IL months hence, in ac-
cordance with the Free Birth law of the
28th of September, 1871. In the prov
ince of Rio de Janeiro, where there are
SIC, 900 slaves, the number of their chill
dren born free since SEPT. %, 1871, is
1900, of whom IL, 800 have died. There
should now exist in the empire 248, 600
of these children.
A MICHIGAN bee-raiser has written a
book about the Blessed Bees" who
have brought him q fair fortune. But
for his statistics one would have some
difficulty in believing him. He went