The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-27
GENERAL BREvITIES.

coffee which is said to be excellent.
AN English geologist puts down the the
age of the rocks in Texas at 6OO,OOO,VOO
years.
A WOMAN at Hill, N. H., received
visit from her sister the other day, it be-
inc the first time the two had met for IL
years, although living within 4 miles OF
each other. They did not recognize
each other.
MIR. WEIsERr was q member OF New
Orleans Grand Jury that formally re-
auested the judiciary to enforce the law
sgainst concealed weapons. On the
following day he was arrested with a re-
volyer in his pocket, and fined S25.
A MAN and woman are travelling |
across Iowa, pulling a two-whee!ed bug,
gy, in which are baby and uselul
household articles. They came from
Luzerne County, Pa, on foot, and pull
ed the wagon all that distance. They
are bound for the Black Hills.
THE idea of cutting ship canal
through the Isthmus of Panama IS at
least three and q half centuries old.
Philip II. of Spain had route carefully
surveyed by some Flemish engineers,
but never pushed the matter.
BARON BIGI, a noted French game
ster is dead. He never missed a night
at cards from 1880 to 1870, and the
amusement cost him nearly 81, COO, 900.
Finding his income reduced to S 500,
he left his clubs and took to dominoes.
"LAwLEss CATS IN PANAMA" was a
heading that puzzled some of the read
ers of a city daily lately, but it did not
puzzle the editor for a moment. tie
knew, instantly, that the intelligent
compositor had merely transrosed the
A and the G.
NINETEEN of the young ladies OF
Charlottesville, Ind, have formed
"Cooking Club" An Indianapolis
paper says they hire band-wagon and
90 out in the country and run foot
races, play baseball, climb trees and
go in swimming.
DIR. SCHLIEMANN is about to ask the
Porte for firman authorizing him to
make excavations among the tumuli OF
Sardis, near Smyrna, the ancient CAPT
tai of Lydia, and the site of one of the
seven churches of Asia mentioned in the
Book of Revelation.
THE Russian "tea houses" are favor
lite places of resort. Each visitor has
before him brass pot containing about
a pint of tea, a cruet of vodki liquor
distilled from rye), and half a lemon.
| In summer he takes his tea cold, with
more lemon than vodki. Sugar is sell
dom used, and never offered unless call
cd for.
AN English clown, Billy Walton, was
buried according to his dying wish.
There was a procession of the perform
ers in costume and paint; the band &C.
cupying the gaudy circus carriage, the
airs being, SIN Some Far Sultry Cline, u
etc., and as the grave was filled his
brother clowns turned somersault
over it.
STANDING BEAR, the Ponca Chief
lately liberated on habeds corpus in
Omaha, has paid his lawyers by pre-
senting them with tomahawks, each OF
which, he says, came down to him from
former generations of Poncas-h
looms, in fact. They would probably
have come down in different style if he
had met the lawyers on his native heath
q few years ago.
THERE is a dog in Norwich, Conn.,,
who is entitled to salvage from the in
surance companies. In an emergency
he never fails to raise an alarm. Re
Gently the straw bedding under horse
in a stable caught fire. The dog rushed
into the stall, drew the burning blanke
from the horse and carried it into thu
street, burning himself quite severely.
THE annual rate of mortality, accord
ing to the most recent weekly returns
in Calcutta was 81; Bombay, 81; Mad
ras, SO; Paris, 20; Geneva, %; Brus
sells, &c; Amsterdam, %; Rotterdam
81; The Hague, %; Copenhagen, 20
Stockholm, %; Christians, %; St
Petersburg, 43; Berlin, "a; Hamburg
, 80: Dresden, %; Breslau, 81; Munich
40; Vienna, "a Buda- Pesth, Al; Rome
; 81; Naples, 81; Turin, %; New York
, %; Brooklyn, 20; Philadelphia, 10
and Baltimore IA.
In 1640 there were two Sisters o
Charity in France; in 1873 there wer
5 100000. Of these, 7O,U0 belong f
225 congregations that receive ant
nurse the sick or instruct the young
there are other congregations, the mem
r bers of which tend invalids at their owl
$ homes. There are 600 other authorizes
: communities with 10000 members
4 while the, are 200 religious association
not authorized by law, whose 1000
t members are vowed TO care for the poo
and suffering.
A MERCHANT, sitting in his Office il
!, South Street, New York, recently re
E ceived an answer to his dispatch sent +
. Shanghai six hours previously. Thirt
: thousand miles in six hours is goo
v time, even for the telegraph. Tn
: charge to Shanghai is $3.50 per word
t to Yokohama, S3.05; but code, or ci
pher, is SO well systematized by certai
mercantile houses that single wor
serves to indicate q whole sentence Q
perhaps dozen when translated.
: THERE are several decided noveltie
:, introduced in the construction of III
!, British torpedo ram Polyphemus. In
t stead of the old marine boiler, ten stee
: boilers of the locomotive type are t.
t serve as steam generators, and they ar
: to be capable of being worked up to -
5 pounds to the square inch. The dis
9 placement of the ram is $500 tons, an
2 the engines are designed to develop
: $500 horsepower. A speed of II knot
: an hour is expected.
$ A HOUsEKEEPER who has mathe
: NAUTICAL turn has recently made this Gu
6 rious calculation: For her family of 81,
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