The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-01-24
GENERAL BREYITIES.

lola, kANSA.
GENERAL BREvITIES.
THERE is not a lawyer in either House
of the Delaware Legislature.
JOSEPH GAMER, of Scottsville, N. Y,
aged 107, has just lost his wife, aged
los, to whom he was married in 1870.
The value of the money and securi-
ties in the English Court Of Chancery Is
reported by the Auditor General as be-
ing f72, 540,G92.
Two boys recently found in the gem
district of Ceylon q blue sapphire
weighing no less than two pounds in
the rough, and valued at $780, 90.
A COLOSSAL flower has been lately
found in Sumatra forests which has an
average diameter of thirty-three inches.
1t is called the Titanum.
THE annual value of silk ribbons ex
ported by Switzerland to the United
States has fallen in the last five years
from over "a, 000, 900 to about $1,000
600.
Law, physic, and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num-
Der $50. and feminine dentists 420,
while 6S women are preachers and
practice as lawyers.
WHEN you enter an Enclosure in which
there 10 q vicious dog take off your hat
or cap, and, as the animal approaches,
you hold the head-gear down by YOU
side between yourself and him. He will
not trouble you.
THERE is a remarkable Jewish syna-
gogue in the ancient city Of Prague, with
walls SO thick with dirt as to be abso-
lutely black. A local tradition says
that somewhere on its walls the name
Jehovah is inscribed, and it is believed
that If the walls are cleaned the name
will be effaced.
As an instance of the malignancy Of
the modern scourge-diphtheria-it is
mentioned that for two years it has
ragged in some districts of Hungary. In
one town 2, 1856 persons out of 10000
have lately been attacked, and 927 have
died. The malady is also extremely
virulent in Vienna.
The popular idea of perfect he alth
is freedom from physical suffering; but
it is far from being a true one. A per-
SON may be "sick unto death, aud vet
receive no intimation of the fact from
nerves either naturally wanting in sem
sibility or dcadened by disease.-Dr.
Foote's Health Monthly.
In Washington society there are ten
young ladies belonging to the Cabinet
families. Secretary Evarts has three
daughters, Secretary Schurz has TWO,
the Secretary of the Navy has two, the
Secretary of War and Postmaster Gen.
eral one each, and the Attorney Gcner-
al, who is bachelor, is represented by
his niece.
SYMPATHETIC pipes" are recent
greatnovelty. The bowl of a meerschaum
may be colored in five minutes, BY first
tinting it with a solution of nitrate of
silver in ether and alcohol, to which es-
sence of roses and camphor are aided.
Figures of any pattern are produced BY
the heat of the tobacco, and when pro-
duced are permanent.
THE eruption of mud at the foot of
Mount Etna continues, and a smoking
lake of steadily increasing dimensions
has been formed. Prof. Silvestri saws
there are two kinds of craters- one in
constant activity, emitting muddy and
oily water, with exhalations of car
bonic acid; the other intermittent, is
suing with subterranean noises volumes
OF thicker mud.
THEEBAw, the new King of Burmah,
was educated by an English missionary,
and has chosen for his Prime Minister
a man who has visited both England
and France. The new monarch signal
lied his accession by abolishing, in so
far as foreigners are concerned, the rule
of the Court which compelled every one
to remove his shoes in the royal pres.
ence.
The area of land in Germany upon
which the tobacco plant is cultivated
exceeds $1,000 acres, Prussia, Bavaria.
the Duchy of Baden, Alsace. and Lor-
raine being the counties which grow
the most; and the average yield is about
$500 pounds TO the acre. With this
crop some $4,000 tons of leaf and 1, $50
tons OF prepared tobacco are imported
yearly, the exports barely reaching 4, 200
tons.
AMONG the deaths recorded in New
York last year, Is were of persons whose
ages at the time of their death were Civ.
en- as over 100 years. All except three
of these were natives of ireland. OF the
remainder two were born in New York
and one in Maryland. The best author
tiles in vital statistics, however, are slow
to believe the stories of alleged centena-
rians. Eleven men and women, report |
ed as of 100 years and over, died in Phil. |
adelphia during 1878, and 6S6 who had
attained the age of 80 and over.
IT was stated some time since in a
prominent medical journal of New York
that medical men of that city found an
average of no more than three children
in family. Among the higher classes
very few families had more than five
children. very many had but one child,
and many had none at all. Statistics
are adduced which prove that TIE decline
in the birth-rate of New Enelanders-
which corresponds very nearly to that
Of Francois SO decided that the birth
rate of that stock of people is only about
Dne-half that of the Irish, English, Ger
man, and French Canadians.
A YOUNG man in Boston received a
oequest of S25, 900. He had been poor,
and the sudden acquisition Of wealth
rather turned his head. He began to
spend the money in reckless dissipation,
in spite of the efforts of his father TO re.
strain him, and kept on until only S1l,-
200 were left. The father begged that
he remainder might be given to him
or safe-keeping, and the son, being
hen i'll from long drunkenness, and
7ery penitent, readily complied. The