The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-07-13
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

GENERAL BREVITIES.
The Romans hardened brass so as tt
cut stone.
INTAGLIo carving is exactly the re
verse of cameo.
A BANQUET dish of Drusillus weighed
500 pounds of silver.
CHINESE are adopts in growing vege
tables in fantastic shapes.
LADIES' clubs have proved failure il
New York and London.
A DRAGoN-TREEi in the Canary Island.
is 45 feet in circumference.
PAULINA wore $500, 600 worth of Jew
elry when she went visiting.
The beauty of the emerald is lost by
an exposure to strong sunlight.
BRUSHES were used by the ancient.
for writing instead of pens.
THE writing-ink used by the ancient.
would be called vasnish to-day.
OK an average hens lay - dozen eggs
a year and consume 60 pounds of corn
SPIDERS crawling more abundantly
than usual inside of houses is a sure in.
dication of rain.
WOODEN doors, covered with tin, are
said to be much better check to fire
than doors of iron.
A GOOD way to economic On doc.
tors bills is to use plenty of disinfect.
ants about the house in summer.
NORTH CAROLINA contains 1,O25 dis.
tilleries. the largest number of any State
in the Union. Kentucky comes next,
with 754.
A CLERGYMAN and his wife, living
near Washington, Iowa, pillow potatoes
with a small pillow, taking turns holding
and drawing it.
DAMASCUS, which has never been
sacked by attacking armies, has at last
succumbed to the course of commerce.
The Suez Canal has been its death.
THERE may be nothingin a name, but
initials are ominous. The initials of
Mr.. Dodd, of Iowa, are d. A. D., and
his.wife has just presented him with a
twenty-second little Dodd.
IT is the confession of a widower, who
has been thrice married, that the first
wife cures mans romance, the second
teaches him humility, and the third
makes him philosopher.
CAT last rest " is the touching epi-
taph carved, at his own request, on the
gravestone of Solari, the oldest clown
of France and Italy, who has just died
at the age of 81.
THE Chinese have habit of carrying
material or alcoholic drinks about with
them in the form of powder called Kin
tsu, for the preparation of which certain
manufacturers have obtained great
celebrity. The powder is made from
wheat or barley, with or without aromat-
lie herbs, which has been subjected to
fermentation and then pulverized. Rice
is also used to make liquid, after a
similar process. A spoonful of the pow
der, mixed with water, gives a drink
which is greatly in request in the Flow
cry Land. Good brandy, in this form,
would be invaluable in campaign.
LADY BARKER recommends airy bed
rooms for children. She says: "The
fondest and fussiest parents do not al
ways understand that on the most care
full attention and simple rules depend
the straightness of children's spines, the
strength of their limbs, their freedom
from coughs and colds, and, in fact,
their general health. But few consider
that half of young child's life should
be spent in its bed. So that unless the
atmosphere of the room they sleep in,
the quality of the bed they lie on, and
the texture of the clothes which cover
them are taken into consideration, it is
only half their existence which is being
cared for"
Mr.. LECKY, in his "History of the
Middle Ages" says, with respect to
cleanliness, that the saints in Mes
opotamia regarded washing the body as
a pollution of the soul, and no man was
considered to have attained the full odor
of sanctity until he had converted him
self into one hideous mass of clotted
filth. st Anthony, in his extreme old
age, refused to put his feet in hot water,
on the ground that washing of any sort
was a tieshly vanity. St. Abraham, for
80 years after his conversion, rigidly
to wash either his face or his
feet, observing that the face ought to
reflect the purity of the soul.'' St.
joined a convent of $50 nuns
who never washed their feet and who
"shuddered at the mention of BATH
THE Duke of St. Adams, hereditary
grand falconer of England, is a great
goose-breeder and employs large num-
Der of gosherds to tend the birds on his
He recently presided at the
payment of his laborers, and when
Simon Bluff, boy of 10 years, was
called up to receive his week 8 wages of
IS pence as gosherd, he refused to take
the money. On being asked the reason
for refusing, he replied, "Why, cause
all the geese on Monday morning flied
away, aid how could l take money for
looking arter birds when there was no
birds to look arter?" This reply so inn
pressed the Duke that he at once sent in
his resignation as sinecurist falconer.
even refusing to take the current quar-
ter's salary.
BETsEY MUSTARD is a champion of
rights in Edinburgh, and is de-
that the legal profession, if
she has to 60 to law, shall not have the
oyster and leave her the shell. She has
a case against the Royal Bank, and
when the hearing came on in the Court
Of Session, she pleaded in person. She
was dressed in curious garb, which is
described as /" a cross between an ad-
Vocate's gown and judges robe," and
wore tall white hat, evidently design
I'd to represent q wig. BetseY deliyered