The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-01
GENERAL BREvITKS.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
JOHN BRIGHT, in his recent speech
at Manchester, reproached Lord Bea-
oonsfeld with "not having drop OF
English blood in his veins"
JEfFKRsON DAVIS hiss been acting as
umpire for two Mississippi men who dis
agreed in politics and applied abusive
epithets to each other. He decided that
both ought to apologize, and they did
SO.
IRA B. WRIGHT, Treasurer of South
Hadley, Mass, and formerly q member
of the Legislature, has added his name
to the long list of public thieves. He
has been stealing steadily for seven
years, and the aggregate is about
s2t, 900. He was professedly pious.
81 UNDERSTAND, said an American
visitor who encountered the Hon. Mr..
Noyes at the Paris Exposition, "that
you have heard bad news from home. >"
/" Je ne parle pas Anglaise," returned
the distinguished plenipotentiary, hastily
dropping out of sight in the crowd.
ORANGES impregnsted with arsenic
have been dropped in exposed situations
in the streets of London. The authors
of this diabolical practice have not been
discovered, and nothing is learned as to
the motive. The only result thus far is
the death Of boy 9 years of age, but
many children had narrow escapes.
A FRENCH scientific authority states
that the ordinary rate of mans walking
is four feet per second; of a good horse
in harness, 12; of reindeer in sledge
on the ice, 26; of an English race-horse,
43; of hare, 50; of q good sailing ship,
IA, ard of the wind, 80.
DURING q recent wind storm in Ne
vada calf was blown into q tree nearly
60 feet in height, and becoming entan-
gled in the branches hung there for five
days. The owner missed it the day OF
the storm and thought it had been killed
or stolen. Imagine his surprise when
passing under a tree one day he heard it
bleating. 1t was taken down with ropes
and seemed none the worse for its aerial
excursion. --
THE Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Brighton, Mass, works
through prayer. The members agree
upon one liquor. dealer at time, and
unitedly pray for his conversion. The
first subject of their prayers died sud.
denly. They now have tough fellow
named Jack Fay in hand, and he shows
no signs of penitence or failing health.
IT was an uncommonly brutal mob
that killed Christopher Mutchler, q
horse-thief, in Germantown, Cal. He
was taken from the jail, and forced to
kneel on the head of q barrel, while the
lynchers tried their craftsmanship on
him with revolvers. One after another
shot at him, until bullet hit him in the
shoulder and he fell from the barrel.
Then he was tied to tree, and the sport
was continued until he died.
One hundred and sixty sewing girls
in Paris are working upon the balloon
which is to make frequent ascents dur
ing the Exposition. 1t is to be the
largest in the world, will carry so pas
sengers, and has q restaurant and bar
attached. A rope 800 feetin length will
be attached to the bottom, and for the
sum of two francs the curious visitors
can have the windlass, which is to oper-
ate the affair, set at work to take them
that distance above their fellow men
towards the heaven of their childhood.
Should the rope happen to break, they
would go-somewhere else, but it is not
expected such accidents will happen.
THE city of Texarkana is built at the
junction of Texas, Arkansas, and Lou
isiana. 1t received its name in 1919,
when an enthusiastic surveyor, while
running the lines, blazed the three frag.
ments of the names of the new States
on tree, and predicted that q great
city would be built there. Three years
ago, when the town was founded, the
name, still to be seen on the old tree,
was adopted, and the prediction seems
in a fair way to be verified, as the town
now has 8 1000 inhabitants, and is an i'm
portant railroad crossing.
THE betrothal of Prince Henry OF
Luxembourg, the King of the Neither
lands brother, is the daughter of Prince
Frederick Charles of Prussia, says the
London World, is an undoubted step
toward the absorption,i If not of Holland,
at least of Luxembourg, into the Ger.
man Confederation. The bridegroom
expectant will be So in June; the bride
is 20. Prince Henry only decided ON his
marriage when the Prince of Orange,
his nephew, repeatedly refused every
marriage that was offered him, includ
ing the very bride the uncle is now go.
ing to wed. The Prince of Orange has
been talked to, preached at, entreated,
but he will not give up his riotous Paris.
ian life, and refuses point blank to mar.
~; while his younger brother can moi
obtain wife, all proposals made on his
behalf having been negatived on account
of his i'll health. =