The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-20

lola. :: KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES.
THE debt of Virginia is s41, 800, l0S
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, has q population
of 1000.
IT speaks well for the Turks as marks.
men that it is estimated that one Rus.
sian in every six has been killed OF
wounded.
A CHINAMAN about to die lies with
his feet toward the door, in order tina,
his soul on leaving the body may have
free exit on its way to Elysium.
A LADY who resides in Marshall,
Iowa, was taken sick while in the cars
on her way home, and was taken to q
hotel in New Ulm, and in q few hours
gave birth to fine pair of boys.
The thirsty but impecunious bummer's
newest trick is to stand close to the
whisky barrel in liquor store, slyly
turn the faucet into the top of one Of
his boots, and thus walk out with sever
quarts of the liquid.
AHEN at Mulberry Grove, Kan, re-
Gently produced singular egg. 1t
measured nine inches in circumference
the long way, and upon breaking the
shell another egg with shell complete,
of the ordinary size, was found floating
in the yelk of the large one.
THE Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce has adopted q rule that "the
throwing of dough, grain, -four, bran,
or missiles of any kind, shall not be in
dulged on the floor of the Exchange"
Members who pelt one another in the
forbidden way will be fined $40 for each
offense.
SAID young husband, whose bust
ness speculations were Unsuccessful:
"My wife's silver tea-set, the bridal-gift
of rich uncle, doomed me to financial
ruin. 1t involved hundred unexpect-
ed expenses, which, trying to meet,
made me the bankrupt that l am"
"GoD cuth you, boyth, fire at their
thoe buckleth!" is the way Gen. Put
nam gave his order to the troops at
Bunker Hin-the old fellow lisping, and
being fond of saying, "God cuth you"
Mrs. Sarah Truman, an old lady of
Lebanon, N. H., was told the story by
her father, who was there.
SHAKEsPEARE's favorite flowers were
the violet, pansy and cowslip. 1t is
within cowslip's bell that Ariel hides,
and cowslips are Titania's prisoners, on
whose ears the fairies must hang pearls,
and when the fields of France are desc
lated, the " freckled cowslip" does not
grow there any more, and the mole on
Imogen's breast is "like the crimson
drops il the bottom of cowslip."
FROM the reign of Edward the Con-
fessor until the reign of George 1. a
power of healing diseases by "touch"
was claimed by the sovereigns of Eng
land. George l. made no pretensions
to this miraculous gift, and it has never
been claimed by his successors. James
[. was not supposed to possess this royal
virtue when King of Scotland, but the
power is said to have come to him i'm
mediately after his accession to the En-
glish throne.
THE late Mark Hopkins, of San Fran
cisco, Treasurer ofthe Union Pacific Rail-
road, left fortune variously estimated
at from ten to thirty millions. Two
years ago he began the erection of a
splendid residence on California Street
Hill, in San Francisco, on which 81 ,OOO,-
600 have been expended, and it is yet
unfinished. Mr.. Hopkins was born in
New York State in 1918, and landed in
California in 1s49.
In China, as in all other countries,
marriage is looked upon as the princi-
pal social event in the life of a man.
Not that it is regarded as the seal put to
an engagement guided by affection, for
where marriage is arranged by go-be-
tweens, and where concubinage exists,
affection between husband and wife be-
comes matter of secondary importance.
Next to being childless the greatest mis-
fortune which can overtake a married
couple is to die leaving their sons I'M
married.
A FARMER in northern Iowa owned
what he regarded as fine place for a
summer resort. There was a rugged
mountain, green valley, placid lake,
and only mineral spring was lacking.
He endeavored to supply the want BY
introducing various Ingredients, through
hidden pipe into clear spring. Then
he built a hotel, and advertised. The
first boarder was prying fellow, who
straightway discovered the fraud, and
broke up the enterprise.
DURING the last four months Ceylon
has been visited by a succession of
floods, which have caused great destruc-
ton of property and. seriously impaired
the prospects of the coming coffee crop.
In some districts as much as so inches
of rain have been registered in 20 days j;
and from the 1st of November to the
goth of January LAST, $50 inches of rain
had been registered at Laggala. The
natives express the opinion that the
"sky is moth-eaten, and hence the con-
slant leakage"
A YOUNG woman, with a pretty face
and modest ways, took q room in a
Springfield (Mass.) hotel. The other
guests pitied her because she seemed
timid and unprotected. Before the
week was out three men had called to
see her. One was the husband from
whom she had eloped. A second was
the man with whom she had eloped. A
third was a man with whom she had
promised to elope, but had Tilted. The
Simultaneous meeting of these four per-
sons was so inharmonious that all were
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