The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-16
GENERAL BREvITIES.

guages are spoken in the world-5S7 in
Europe, 800 in Asia, 216 in Africa, and
1,264 in America.
A YOUNG woman of Newburg, Wis,
severely thrashed her father because he
would not raise $500 to give her as a
dowry, in order to marry a man who
wanted his wife to have that sum.
A TURKISH soldier having on fur
cap is supposed to be comfortably clad,
no matter if he have no coat or vest.
"Keep the ears warm and you warm the
whole body" is a Turkish maxim.
IT is related that deaf persons, who
have great difficulty in hearing ordina-
ry speech, find that by applying the
telephone close to the ear they can hear
even whisper with distinctness.
CONTRARY to the popular idea, horse
hair is not, as rule, round. A section
under the microscope shows form as
though third of a circle had been cut
off, and that fiat portion slightly in
dented.
DIR. j. L. BRIGGS, of San Juan, Col
orado, was caught in a snow slide lately
and carried down the mountain side
1900 feet. When found his dead body
was buried in the snow, head down.
ward, with his feet and legs to the knees
protruding above the surface.
The convict choir at Auburn prison
is a remarked BILE musical organization.
The organist is sentenced for grand lar
ceny, the first violin, the first tenor and
double bass are murderers, the second
tenor, basso, and sopranos are all burg
lars, and the professor is forger.
MANY of the / 200 or more Cherokee
Indians who have been living in a
civilized way in the western part of
North Carolina, the place of their birth,
are moving on to the Indian Territory,
in order to get more room and greater
opportunities for hunting.
A PIECE of good news comes from
Kentucky in the announcement that both
branches of the Legislature have passed
a bill forbidding the carrying of con-
cealed weapons, which has long been a
most fruitful cause of the States nu-
merous crimes.
Mrs. ID. C. WILLIAMS, who owns con-
siderable property in Weedsport,
Cayuga County, N. Y, went to the
polling-place on town-meeting day and
offered her ballot to the inspectors,
which was received, not challenged, her
name recorded, and her ballot duly de-
posted.
THERE is scheme on foot at Niagara
Falls to compress air by the pressure of
a column of water 200 feet high in order
to lift a column 100 feet high into a
reservoir at Buffalo. A stock company
will put the scheme into operation, and
three inch pipe will be laid from the
Falls to Buffalo.
A LARGE number of Cincinnati ladies
are greatly ashamed at having PERMITTED
themselves to be gulled by "a handsome
adventurer. He lived sumptuously in
the best hotels, pretended to be clair
voyant, gained the confidence of his
dupes, emptied their purses, and finally
fled from the city.
SHARPsBURG, Ky, has a natural
mathematician in Reuben Fields, who,
while he knows not one figure from an
other, correctly solves intricate problems
in his mind, without hesitation, COM
putes tie time of day almost in an in
slant, and tells how many revolutions
the driving-wheel of locomotive will
make between given points. He can
not read or write.
THE trade notices of some of the
London associations are curious. The
blacksmiths, for instance, have, "By
hammer and hand all arts do stand;'
the distillers, "Drop as rain, distil as
dew" the founders, "God, the only
founder" the inn-holders, "COme, We
blessed; when L was harborless, We
lodged me-" the joiners, "Join loyalty
and liberty" the saddlers. =" Hold fast,
sit sure;" the weavers, "Weave truth
with trust" and the needle makers,
"They sewed leaves together and made
themselves aprons"
A CLASS has been organized in the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for a singu-
lar object. The members of the class
are to receive instruction in the art of
blowing off the muzzles of cannon with
gun-cotton. Prof. Abel has been ex-
perimenting with this explosive and
finds that a few ounces rightly placed
will ruin the best cannon ever made.
Hereafter the gunners of the Royal Ar
tillery will carry small dishes of gun
cotton with them during service.
A DETROIT man has opened a penny
restaurant in a very handsomely fur
nished room, where 600 customers can
be fed daily. Bread and butter, cent;
coffee or tea, with milk and sugar, l
cent; soup of any kind, cent; beef,
veal or mutton stew, 1 cent; minced
fish, cent; mush and milk ditto, and
so on to the end of the bill. The pro-
prietor, for five cents, will give a meal
that would stagger any healthy appe-
tite, while for seven cents a repast is
furnished that in quantity would utterly
dismay the most ferocions eater.
IT is generally supposed that amateur
actors do not put enough of life and feel
ing in their acting. A case has trans
pired in Mount Sterling, Kentucky,
where quite the opposite course resulted
in considerable trouble, and it is hoped
this case will serve as warning to am
ateurs to avoid in future either extreme
in their dramatic displays, and confine
themselves to that mild sample of his
trionism known as s'ama;eurism." The
play at Mount Sterling was eThe Kiss
in the Dark" The girls real lover,
jealous of her stage lover, and discern
ing that the kissing was genuine and
much relished, shot the offender on the
spot. The wound was trifing, but it
brought the performance to close.
THE four Bonanza Kings, Mackey,
O'Brien, Flood, and Fair, are of the
genial, generous sort, and not at all
airish on account of their wealth. Flood
is the finest looking, O'Brien is extreme
ly affable, and Mackeyi is kindly and un-