The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-02-28
GENERAL BREyITIEs.


GENERAL BREvITIES.
Two hundred and eighty maiden Ia
dies were ruined by the failure of the
West England Bank.
An Alabama farmer, now past 80, has
plowed one of his fields for 81 consecu-
tive years.
STRANGE to say, there are not enough
lawyers in the lower house of the North
Carolina Legislature to make Judicia-
~ Committee.
A PRELIMINARY examination of .
gang of five boy burglars at Chicago re-
Gently elected the fact that within .
month they had committed IS success
full burglaries.
THE Scientific american pays trib-
ute to women in saying that q larger
proportion Of inventions patented by the
gentler sex prove moro useful and
profitable than those of men.
A GERMAN doctor has propounded the
doctrine that vegetarians and meat-eat-
ers are both wrong, and that the real
all food raw, whether animal or veget-
able.
The American Navy contains 2,O20
officers, who command $500 men, or
about one officer to three privates, but
when it comes to drawing pay, the Off
GERS get $S, 1926, 600 and the men %, $780,
600.
In Joliet, H., lately, . man had three
dressed rabbits stolen from him. With
q half smile on his lips be dressed dead
cat and hung it where the rabbits had
been. That was stolen, too, and now
there is an inquiry as to who ate it.
A CONNECTION has been made in Mad
rid army circles by the arrest of an in
fantry Captain on q requisition from
Cubs. 1t is said he has six wives, all
living, and that he was under engage
ment of marriage to at least two young
women at the time of his arrest.
IT is curious fact that no attempts
have been made to tame and utilize the
African elephant for draft purposes. 1t
is now proposed to import trained In
dian elephants and experiment with q
herd of wild elephants which are now in
the neighborhood of Port Natal.
The canvas-back duck, it is said, can
never be caught alive. There is stand.
ing offer of $50 pair for them, but no
one has yet got it. A prominent cater
er in New York has been trying for
three years to execute q commission
from the son of the Duke of Sutherland
for two pairs of live canvas-backs.
The horses in Norway do not drink
their pailful of water at one draught,
but, when bucket of water is placed
beside their allowance of hay, they take
a sip of one and mouthf1i Of the other,
sometimes merely moistening their
mouths. A broken-winded horse is sell
dom seen in Norway.
GIRLS are advised by q Chicago physi.
clan to always sleep on their backs Il
they wish to keep crows feet from the
corners of their eyes. "These blem-
ishes," he says, ssare the result of Sleep
ing on the sides. The pressure upon
the temple and cheeks leaves wrinkles
at the corners and underneath the eyes
which disappear in q few hours, but
finally become so fixed that neither hours
nor additions will abate them"
The Sutro (Nev.) Independent tells of
foolish bet made by q man of that
town, while intoxicated, that he could
drink one quart of whisky in five min
utes. 1t was placed before him, and
without taking his lips from the measure
he drank it all. In less than one min
ute he fell apparently dead, but lived
four days in great agony. 1t is not
stated whether the bet of $40 was paid
or not.
A NEW steam cooking-car has been
invented for the use of the British Army,
and one of them was in use at the Horse
Guards in London. The other day,
while in active operation, it exploded
and the cook and the dinners were dis
tributed around in very effective but
unexpected manner. The cook was
badly burned. There was not enough
of the car left for purposes of investiga-
ton.
The Utica Herald is responsible fol
the following rat and clam story: " A
New. Berliner bought two dozen CLANS
last week, took them home, and spread
meal on them. The next morning he
found that 80 rats, in search of meal,
had been caught by tails and Toes by Is
clans. The unoccupied clam must
have bossed the job. One clam had
three rats"
PARTIES who were moving . house at
Lewiston, N. Y, got it Just upon the
railroad track at dark and concluded to
leave it there till morning. A train
which came along in the night was STOP
ped just in time to avoid an accident,
and the conductor thereupon got ont q
rope and experimental q little in house
moving with q locomotive. When the
owners of the house came back in The
morning they found it laid comfortably
on one side in the ditch.
MRS. ELIZABETH LEONARD, widow OF
Thomas Leonard, lately died at Granite
vile, s. c., at the great age of 107 years.
At her funeral was her only surviving
son, over 80 years of age, and there al.
SO stood around the grave q grandchild
Sc years old, several great-grandchil-
dren ove- 40 years of age, great-gr
grandchildren rs years old and q num-
Der of great1great-great-grandchild
five generations in all. There are liv-
ing at present 80 of her descendants and
210 have died.
On the site of the Notifications which,
only a few years ago, held Vienna q
prisoner, now runs the handsomest
modern streets in all Europe, lined on
both sides with magnificent palaces and
edifices, and extending circularly around
the old city; it is called the Ring Strasse.
Outside of this circular street have arisen
dozen new quarters in which two
thirds of the population dwell. From .