The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-08
GENERAL BREvIr1Es.

lola, KANSAS
GENERAL BREVITIE&.
Az English hotel claims public favor
on the ground that it Is "patronised BY
royalty, American Presidents and the
Rothschilds."
Rev. THOMAS K. BKICHER OF Elmira,
N. Y, brother of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, is advocating cremation,
and offers to subscribe for stock in .
company to conduct the business.
A COMMON way of imposing upon ig.
norant prospectors in the mining 10.
gions of Nevada is to shoot gold filings
into the ground from gun. Even
brass is made to serve the purpose; and
bv this means many worthless claim
Is sold at . high price.
NOTHING is lost in France. The
orange blossoms and grass in the pub
lie gardens of Paris are sold to the high.
est bidder, and at . country railroad
station q visitor lately saw q sale OF the
gcass on the embankments. The pur-
chasers were peasants' wives.
PROF. CHANDLER of the New York
Health Board says scarlet fever caused
more deaths in that State last year than
yellow fever did in the South, and yet
failed to excite public apprehension or
to make people ordinarily careful to
prevent infection.
JAMES c. FLOOD, the bonanzaite, has
built stable at Menlo Park, N. j., alta
cost of nearly $65, 600; but he can we'll
afford it, Among his light investments
is $40, 600, 600 in Government four per-
cents, he having ventured . second five
millions recently.
TULARE LAKE, California, is still said
to be receding. Should it continue to
fall as rapidly as it has during the last
two years, it will be but q few years till
the bottom of the large lake is dry land.
Crops are being raised this year on land
over which steamer sailed three years
ago.
THERE is paper at GAINESVILLE that
continues to publish baseball news.
Baseball, it will be remembered by old
settlers, is q game played by Is persons
who wear shirts and drawers. They
scatter around the field and try to catch
. cannon ball covered with raw hide.
The game is to get people to pay two
shillings to come inside the fence.-Ml-
soaukee Sun.
A WISCONSIN fish story: While
Judge Reed of Ripon was fishing, re
Gently, at Green Lake, q fish took his
line with such force as to wrench the
,,olo k,ox, h;s kaud oud %ho v,holo "a oI1o
disappeared under water. The fish that
took the rod was moderate-sized perch,
and he was swallowed by a large-sized
pickerel, and the pickerel in turn was
caught by q fisherman and the lost line
and rod recovered.
In Russia, as well as in Germany,
Austria, and one or two minor northern
realms, q nobleman's title is inherited
by all his sons, who transmit it to their
male offspring, ard so on ad infinitum.
Needy mobiles necessarily abound
There are 40 or so Count Zichys in Hun
gary, three or four of whom are wealthy
magnates, and the rest pass their lives
in the army or Government Offices on
the smallest pay. In Galicia there are
entire villages where every peasant M
tive has the right to preface his name
with the title of Prince.
HERETOFORE all letters insufficiently
stamped have been forwarded to theil
destination and the amount due collect
ed of the person to whom they were I'D
dressed. The amended law require.
Postmasters to place upon letters mo-
fully prepaid the additional stamps, and
to send the office at which the letter i,
to be delivered a bill for the amount O.
stamps advanced. The Postmaster re
ceiving the said bill collects the amour
due from the receiver of the letter and
returns it to the Post-office from which
the letter was addressed.
lone BEAN, q teacher in the publ,
schools of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is devotinf
her vacation to securing homestead o
160 acres in Dakota. She has brothe
who has just established his claim TO ,
homestead by the necessary residence
Now his sister takes 160 acres adjoin
ing, and he will move his home to it
where they can occupy the homestead
and in due time will have large farm
WHILE man in Maine was mowin,
q meadow with q machine last week b
drove over q bumble-bee's nest, and il
an instant his horses started on run
and, maddened by the stings of the bees
bounded through the field at q headlon,
gallop. The driver was thrown from
his seat, but escaped with bruises. Tn
machine was stove to pieces, and one o
the horses, valued at $500, was 80 seri
ously cut by the knives that it was neces
sary to kill it.
An Indian, Joaquin Miller explains
is never honored with distinctive nam
until he has done something noteworthy
and which reveals q marked trait of hi
character. When Sitting Bull was
young man he was shot in the legs il
battle and disabled, but he sat bolt up
right on the ground and continued =
fight with the fierceness of q wounde,
buffalo bull, and it was this inciden
which drew from the tribe the appella
ton of Sitting Bull.
A REMARKABLE case of restored Viz
ion is said to have taken place recent,
at Lawville, Wis. Mrs. Elizabeth Teete
of that township, who has for the pas
II years been totally blind, awoke ont
morning about two weeks ago and be
gan peeripg about the room, remarkint
to her friends that she believed shI
could see. At first her vision was very
imperfect and the light panied her, bu
since then her eyes have constantly