The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-20
GENERAL BREvITIES.

EXPERIENCED gardeners in Florida
are saying that it is the grape, and not
the orange, that is to bring wealth to
the Peninsula State. Ex-Minister San
ford is going into the business.
The ruins of q Roman villa-date
supposed to be 10 B. C.-have been dis
covered near Dueren in Germany. The
apartments for bathing are already laid
bare; and one sees the tepidarium.
where the ancient owner took his tepid
bath, the caldarium, where he took his
warm or hot bath, and the frigidarium,
or cooling-off room.
A vILLAINOUs-LOOKING young man
and a particularly innocent looking girl
seemed such an ill-assorted couple on
railroad train in Nevada, that the in
terest of the passengers was aroused,
and when it became known that they
had eloped and Just been married, the
husband was told that he could not &C.
company the bride any further. In
spite of his protests and the girls tears,
he was put off at the next station, and
she was sent home in charge of COM
mittee.
GEN. GoURKo, the Military Governor
of St. Petersburg, is a practical man. A
correspondent at the Russian capital
writes of him: He received the other
day notification that he would be poi
soned. Without being moved in the
slightest by the announcement, the
General called his cook and said to him:
"Read that notice! Now, see here, at
the very first collie will have you hang
ed"
If the Muscatine Qowa) Tribune is to
be believed, there lives at Wilton. Mus.
catine County, man named Daniel
Mccartney, who never forgets any
thing, and who, without any real knowl-
edge of mathematics, readily solves the
most difficult problems. He remembers
distinctly every thing coming under his
personal observation for the past so
years, and can tell what he had for din
ner on each of the DAYS during that time.
Figures are his especial delight.
A CORRESPONDENT of Nature saws:
"One of my Houdan fowls has laid an
egg weighing seven ounces; her ordi.
nary egg weighs % ounces. 1 ordered
my man to blow the egg in order to
preserve the shell, when was surprised
to find that, besides small yelk and
much white of egg it also contained q
perfect ordinary sized egg. This is
now lying loose within the large shell,
which latter measuree 81 inches and 81
inches in its two principal circumfer-
ences."
The telegraph announces that the
University of Oxford has conferred the
title of Doctor of Laws upon William
Henry Smith, the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty. The reader will remember
that it is William Henry Smith who is
satirized in I" Pinafore - as the Rt. Hon.
Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., who sings:
OF legal knowledge acquired such a grip
That they took me into partnership;
And that junior partnership, ween,
Wa Was , the only only ship that ever had seen;
That now l am the ruler OF the Queens
Navee!
A TURKISH testator left to his son
one-haf of his II horses, to his second
son one third, to his third son one
ninth Of his horses. The executor did
not know what to do, as IL will neither
divide by two, nor by three, nor by nine
A dervise came upon horseback, and
the executor consulted him. The der
wise said: "Take my horse and add
him to the others" There were then
18 horses. The executor then gave to
the eldest son one-half-nine; to the
second son one.third-six; to the third
son ne-ninth-two; total, II. The
dervise then said: "You don't want
my horse now; will take him back
again."
HORACE VERNET, the artist, was one
day sketching on the lake of Geneva,
when one of two young English ladies,
who had also been drawing not far
away. came up to him, and in an encour-
aging tone offered him some advice as
to his art. The courteous old painter
listened respectfully, and when his in
structress concluded thanked her very
politely. Next day, on the Lausanne
boat, the same young lady ran up to
him, saying: sob, sir! You are
Frenchman; You ought to know Horace
Vernet, and they say he is on board this
very boat; be good enough, please, to
point him cut to me-" "You would
like to see him very much?" "Oh,
yes!" "Very well, mademoiselle; it
was he who had the honor of receiving
a lesson from you yesterday morning."
responded the smiling Vernet. Prob
ably that selfsatisfied young woman
never instructed another artist.
SOME "fans'' are not fans at all. The
"steel fan" is simply q bar of metal,
shaped and painted to resemble an Or
binary closed fan, and carried some.
times as life-preserver, sometimes by |
the swell mobsmen and rowdies of Chi |
ma, to be used at close quarters with |
murderous effect. Of the same species |
is the well known ''dagger FAM" which |
consists of an elegant imitation in
lacquer of a common folding fan, but is
really sheath containing within its
fair exterior deadly blade, short and
sharp, like a small Malay kris. This
dagger fan was invented by the Japan
csc, and its importation into China has
always been strictly forbidden. Great
numbers have, however, been success
fully introduced into Canton, Foochow,
and other maritime cities, and they are
now even manufactured by the enter
prising natives of the first mentioned
port.
STRANGE mischances with fatal re-
suits are daily happening here and there.
A Boston butcher ran against knife
hat lay on block, severed an artery,
and bled to death. A Denver woman
caught her foot il a railroad frog and
could not get loose before a train ran