The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-05-18
THE lola REGISTER.
Published Every Saturday.
lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREvITEs.

lola. KANSAS:
GENERAL BREvITIEs.
CHINESE think the souls of poets pass
into grasshoppers because they sing un-
til they starve.
KAN-sI, mandarin's daughter, orig
mated the fan many centuries ago by
using her mask for the purpose.
PorTEp plants were distributed to
the Sunday-school children of Boston,
on Easter Sunday, instead of the CUSTOM
airy bouquets.
IT is asserted that during a rain
storm, accompanied by high winds, q
ball shot from q rifle becomes visible to
the naked eye.
MACKINAw is great resort for hay
fever patients. As soon as the fatal
August day arrives victims rush to this
most sacred of Indian islands. Here
the distemper at once disappears, and
the patient stops in delightful rural
quarantine until the first frost strikes the
place he left.
KAISER WILHELM said to Rothschild
at Frankfort: 81 have passed my 80th
year, and at that age we must begin to
think of the end" Rothschild respond
ed: "Yeur Majesty was born to live
hundred years, and we bankers shall
not let you 60 at less than par"
TWELVE years ago thief hired a
horse at a livery-stable in Natick, Mass,
and the owner did not see either the
man or the beast again until recently,
when they entered the village. They
looked older, but were recognizable.
The thief claimed that he was on his
way to return the horse, but his ex-
PLANTATION was not accepted.
WITH aprocession !, 600 strong, head
ed by drum and fife, and bearing flags
and transparencies, the temperance peO-
pie of Annapolis, Nd, marched through
the streets to Market-space, the other
night, and, knocking in the heads of the
barrels of a reformed dealer, made q
grand bonfire.
PEsTH is going to supply all its peo-
pie with hot water for municipal estab-
lishments and public baths from an ar
tesian well which is now being bored,
and has already reached ISL meters.
Bath, England, has superb baths on the
same principle, only no boring was
needed, the hot water being quite dis
posed to spout spontaneously.
DIR. FooTE's Health Monthly tells of
a druggist in Lille, France, who had to
make up a prescription for consump-
tive patient where phosphate of lime
and the peel of bitter oranges were in
gradients. Being out of these articles,
he used cod-liver oil and strip of
bark. Result-he was fined S12. so and
compelled to advertise his conviction in
three local papers.
WHEN Spencer, the defaulter, ran
away from Chicago, he left a locked
box supposed to contain much treasure.
This mysterious depository was broken
open in court the other day, and was
found to contain ''a copy of Captain Will
liam Morgan's exposure of Masonry,
undated, but yellow with age" And
then his creditors felt better.
ONE of the most successful counter
feiting schemes is to issue small guam
tity of notes on a certain bank with the
name of the place, President or Cashier
misspelled. Upon discovery the bank
sends warning through the country,
pointing out the error. Then the coun-
terfeiters make a second issue with the
name or names spelled correctly and
circulate them boldly, knowing that
merchants and storekeepers will look
only for the indicated s. CATCH"
A TOUCHING case is mentioned in an
English exchange, of fox, followed by
hounds, seeking safety in the midst of
flock of sheep passing along the road.
It measured its pace with the animals
whose protection he had sought in its
extremity, and travelled with them some
distance, but was finally driven out from
them, in order that the hunters might
not be deprived of the sport o. running
it down.
The tax collector of Greenwood,
Steuben County, N. Y, though backed
by Sheriff's posse of AZ men, conclud-
ed it was not safe to sell the farm of
William Atkins on account of a tax lev
led for the towns railroad Indebtedness,
as 200 solid yeomanry had gathered to
resist the sale. The farmers maintain
that there is DO law for this burden
sought to be placed upon them and will
not submit to a tax which they call rob-
berry in the name of the law.
ASHELBYvILLE Qnd.) man who had
been lving'in gorgeous style was found
to have been attempting the starvation
of his daughter, in order to get her
property, by keeping her confined in a
room. A mob Of young men released
her, and were about banging the father
when the City Marshal prevailed on
them to let him 60, and they escorted him
to the depot and compelled him to leave
the city. His wife refused to 60 with
him.
A WIDOW, poor and respectable, lived
at Kingston, N. Y, and thither hied but
recently wealthy widower, farmer,
living a few miles away. He had never
seen her before nor she him, though
they knew each other by reputation, and
when he drove up to the widows resi-
dence with his elegant span and hand
some carriage, they were introduced,
went out for a drive together, returned
to dinner, went for another drive and
returned in the afternoon as man and
wife.
ON the birth of an heir to the tiny
of Reuss, the other day, the |
capital city was illuminated, and,
as German paper remarks, the can
dies shed their mild light across the
This recalls the story about |
the ruler of another small German prin-
cipality, who. in some fit of indignation,
sent an order to Beethoven to quit his
dominions within "a hours. Beethoven