The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-22
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

AMERICANS eat twice as much salt as
the English.
"PRiNTER's ink keeps the hinges of
store doors loose"
CREMATION is practiced among the
upper classes in Siam.
IT is estimated If John Jacob Aston
lives to his late fathers age, the estate
will be worth $3.50, 900, 600.
Mrs. S. H. SMITH, of Jersey City.
has a cabinet of shells, fossils, ores and
gems which is valued at $25,OOO, and
She collected the whole of it herself.
"MARRIAGE Ceremonies Performed
Free" is the sign displayed by an Ohio
Justice. He keeps tavern, and is sat
isfied with the profit on what the bridal
parties eat and drink.
In the hairdressers' court at Paris
nothing attracts more attention than
head modelled in wax after the famous
picture of Georgiana, Duchess OF Dew
onshire. Her large Gainsborough hat
lies beside it.
A DETROIT lady who plastered her
face with an ointment warranted to re-
move freckles, is now seeking something
to cure forty or fifty eruptions artiscally
grouped around her nose.
In 1877, in England, 10000 postage
stamps were found loose in letter boxes
and bags, having been rubbed of
through insufficient 4" licking and stick
ing" and 5000, 900 letters were con-
signed to the Returned Letter Office.
QUINCY, a., has a girl horse-thief of
16, who was arrested at KeOkuk with a
horse in her possession, which she took
from a Quincy stable she broke into,
and rode 81 miles with nothing on it but
a blanket.
ALoNDoN paper says that Sir Charles
Nugent, who inherited a baronetcy and
$4,000 year when eleven, owed $751;
600 by the time he was twenty-one.
Money-dealers try to get mere boys,
who are heirs to property, to borrow OF
them.
THE fire under the witches cauldron
in "Macbeth " set fire to the green cot
ton turf in the Chestnut Street Theater,
Philadelphia. The witches went at the
flames with their brooms, and Macbeth
stamped vigorously, making scene en-
tirely new to the tragedy.
GEORGE RIGNoLD, the actor, has
been robbed many times, and gained an
amount of advertising that was cheap
at the cost. Now his servant has taken
a box of his valuables from a hotel in
Denver, and run away, but this time the
loss amounts to about $4,000.
UP to the seventeenth century lace
dresses were in France restricted by a
sumptuary law to royalty. In 1491 a
lace dress was presented to Anne de
Bretangne, on her marriage with
Charles Will, which was valued at a
sum equal to-day to $250,0O0. 1t was
entirely of point de Tentse.
IT is curious fact that Shakespeare
illusions to fish are most numerous in
the various parts of "Henry w." In
his other plays he mentions herring
seven times, eel four, lice twice, pike
once, salmon, cod, trout, minnow, twice
each; mackerel, gurnard, dace, gud-
geon, leach, tench and shark, once
each.
A FIRM in South Boston has a we'll at
the bottom of the bay, and fresh water
is drawn up in tubing through 60 feet
of salt water. The liquid thus furnish
ed is so cool that the firm does not re-
quire any ice, and they consider that
they save So, 800 year by the saving
of the crystal alone, while $4,000 year
water tax is evaded.
SOME shipwrecked sailors once col
lected some seaweed on the sand and
made a fire. When the fire went out
they found that the alkali had combined
with the sand and formed glass. Glass
was known to the ancients, who are
said to have possessed the art of MAX
ing il flexible, so that garments were
made from it.
ACCORDING to the New York Express,
the ladies in fashionable society make
at parties such lavish display of arms,
neck and bosom that even an anchorite
would forget his vows and take one
long, lingering glance at the female
loneliness exposed before him. Scarce
ly any movement can be made without
an exposure of person at which even
embryo courtesans would shudder.
THE ancient Egyptians possessed the
art of cutting canoes to degree of
nicely which we are utterly unable to
approximate. They knew the relative
diameters of the earth and moon. They
possessed the art of tempering copper
so as to cut the hardest granite. This
is a lost art to us. Nero, the Egyptian
engineer, is said to have made a steam
engine.
The telescope owes its discovery to
an accident. Two little boys, sons of a
spectacle maker in Holland, while their
father was at dinner CHANGED to look at
distant steeple through two eye-glass-
es, placed one before the other. They
told their father the circumstance and
it led to a course of experiments which
ended in the telescope.
MARY KELLY worked hard in Gin
cinnati shirt factory on low wages, and
at length came to the conclusion that
she could get along much better as q
boy. So she put on suit of boys
clothes, had her hair cut short, and
started out to get employment. She
had not gone far before she saw q
chance to pick q pocket, and did it.
She was arrested. In the police station
the officer who began to search her inn
mediately found frill around the neck
of her shirt, and stopped operations.
Then she confessed who she was.
A WRITER in Dr.. Foote'S Health
Monthly says: I once knew an old gen.
tleman who used to enforce his plea for
good living by saying: az should be
ashamed to show myself in Heaven and
be obliged to confess to the good God
that while He had filed the earth with
delicious foods had been too lazy, too
stingy, or too careless to enjoy His
bounty. How can I expect to be in