The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-29

schools, especially for girls, are in sa
condition, and adds that America has i
many respects an advantage over Eng
land in point of education, and pai
ticularly with regard to girls schools
The faculty of the State Universit
Of Michigan has resolved that drinking
gaming and frequenting houses of i'll
fame do not constitute portions of
! University course, and have notified sew
eral scholars who last year devote,
much time to those branches that the,
need not return to their alma mater.
Mrs. Thomas, of Philadelphia,
lady more than 80 years old, has built
neat stone church in Kane, Pa, at a cos
of $50, 600, and presented it to the Pres
byterian congregation there. The OLD
lady each year, says the Titusville pa
Herald, spends part of her large in
come in building church somewhere il
the country.
Foreign Notes.
King Alfonso has been thrown from
his carriage and had his arm broken.
Prince Bismarck's medical advisers
have advised him to pass the autumn in
an English watering-place.
AT length there seems to be some
prospect that an end will be put to
duelling in the German universities
The authorities ut Leipzig have made q
formal prohibition of these encounters,
and provided for filming innkeepers who
permit them on their premises.
Some of the victims of the Glasgow
Bank swindle pine and die, and the
papers occasionally refer to those who
have gone to an untimely grave. Il.
Callwell, of Inverness, was Il year ago
worth $3.50, 900. His thirty shares in the
bank made him penniless at 20 years of
age, and he was lately found dead i'm his
bed.
-Ismail Pasha, the depOsed Khedive,
wants to return TO Egypt and reside, and
Il demand for permission has been made
in his behalf by the Sultan. England
and France have a word to say about
that, and no answer to the demand will
be returned by the present khedive UNI
til those Governments have been heard
from.
The women i'm Kansas vote at the
school elections. At II recent election at
Usage City one woman went up To vote,
but before she got through telling the
Judges what a time her Willie had with
the scarlet fever when he was only 2
years old, it was time to close the polls
and she had forgotten to deposit her bal
lOt.-Bu,Ilettc.
The story goes in London, on what
claims to he authority. that Mrs. Lang
try. one of the professional beauties, de-
rives much, if not most, Of her personal
expenses from large commission from
the sale of her photographs. Some of
her admirers and friends justify this,
and her husband, who is delighted at her
social success and is poor, does not Oh
ject.
The pay of Bismarck from all
sources, both rs Prussian Minister and
as Chancellor of the empire, is only
Sl3, 800. The highest salary Of Pr,ls-
sian Cabinet Minister is $1,000. Pen
SiOns are on the same moderate scale,
the pension amounting to as many eight
ieths of the salary which was being re-
ceived at the time Of retirement Us there
have been years spent in the service of
the State. Ten years are added to the
record of service i'm all cases where mis-
conduct has not called for censure. But
where the salary exceeds $1,000, only
the half of such excess is taken into ac-
count.
Next after white dresses bingham
suits are the popular attire at the sum-
mer resorts. Those of gray-blue in
stripes, bars. or plaids, are most seen,
and are usually trimmed with many ruff
fles of the bingham, and withthe coarse
figured effective wash laces known as
Byzantine, Russian, etc. Many of these
have the belted round waist that has
been restored to favor, and the long,
round OverSkirt that continues to be
worn, season after season, no matter
what novelties are introduced. The
ginghams of mixed pink and blue are
still very stylish, and are worn both by
blondes and brunettes. Color runs riot
i'm these dresses, and the more quaint
the contrast the better young ladies like
it. One Of the prettiest suits is of brown
plaid bingham, with trimmings of pink
batiste knife-plaitings edged with mar
row Breton edging.