The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-04-04
GENERAL BREVITIES.

near Howells, Conn, which has been
allowed to run in a field with cows, has
been discovered drawing milk from
them. The short supply of milk given
by some of the cattle was thus account
ed for.
THE physicians of North Adams,
Mass, attribute the sudden death of
Miss Leonard, who dropped dead in that
town few days since, to the driving up
of her blood from her habit of eating
large quantities of cloves every day.
The School Board of Des Moines,
Iowa, has prohibited rope-skipping by
the pupils of the public schools on the
school-grounds, on the plea of danger
to health and life, young girl having
lost her life by er-exertion in that
sport.
The new Indiana game law prohio-
its parties from going on to the lands uf
others without the consent of the own
ers, for the purpose of hunting, and
fixes heavy penalty for the injury of
property while huntingupon the grounds
of another.
JACOB BENNETT of Meridian, Ing-
ham County, Mich, has boy weighing
2Ol pounds, who will be Is wears old
May ", and girl IL years of ACE who
weighs nearly 200. Kelley Brittop OF
Charlotte, Eaton County, has a dauoh
ter Ia years of age who weighs aO5
pounds.
A YOUNG lady named Schoentbal. l;v-
ing seven miles from Dubuoue. lows
fell i'll recently, and was supposed to he
DEAD and when all the preparations
were completed for placing her in the
CONN she began to show signs of life.
ana after 4S hours of suspended ANNA.
ton she recovered.
WORK is to begin at once on q rail-
road up Vesuvius, for which the italian
Ministry OF Public Works has issued .
concession, and it is hoped to get the
line running this year. It will be built
along that part of the mountain Ie.st
exposed to eruptions, and cars are BEING
daily. So'eis
IHE newspapers of Marlboro. Mass
tell OF widow, who, getting posse sion
of the signature of the late Tbon'.a
corey OF that place, on an otherwise
plank sheet OF paper, wrote a note for
so,0oo above it and demanded payment
OF the executors. She gained her s,,it
1ut evidence OF her crime was afterward
discovered, and she has abandoned tbe
case rather than risk a second trial
she Is said to have been coached bv q
New York Judge, but his name is no,
given. ''''' 10 A''
At IS generally supposed that
"perique" tobacco is a peculiar nlsn.
ana can oriF be grown in 81 .Tsmas
farisn, Louisiana. This is q mist.ke
1t Is merely subjected to a pecpliar traat
ment. While the plant is erow;ra tbo
s sR leaves near the top are stripped
Al, Snu the lower leaves attain a pro-
alglous SIZE in consequence. These are,
lnen taken and pressed for some weeks
without being allowed to dry thorouob.
y. ferlque is largely used in the man.
ufacture of cigarettes. ' - Ill
ONE OF the most ruinous habits of ~.
RUSSIAN peasants is DISPLAYED at mar.
risge celebrations. A peasant. IN colo.
pirate the marriage of his son, procnres
70 gallons of whisky, to get MONEY for
which he sells his horse, cow or nins
ana Is ready to become a palmer 10
can not resist the practice. for cnston
requires that the population of tho ,.;I
lage. men, women and children 49,
ges uianh. a rich peasant, at the mar.
liase festival, will procure 100 gallons
ol WHISKY, and the neighboring Villages
are invited to take part in the carousal.
A KIND of traffic in children has been
carried on in the Russian province Of
fskoV, under the stress of hard t;,,oo
a canVasser will go among the noor
peasants, and induce them, by offers ~
small sums of money, to surrender tbe;r
ooys, between and II wears of aoa 70
oe put IN apprenticeship for tbreo ~
EVe years. He takes them to 81 Peters
t gulg' where he furnishes supplies of
non 70 me factories, receiving from 10
10 10 rou6les for each boy. There are
t women VINO scour the province for eirIs.
from {, to IA years old, and these also
cut. W NC hilea
JAMES d. FURNISS writes to Nature
from New York: elm Central Part
one very hot day, nay attention was
drawn to the conduct of ar elenhant
which had been placed in an incIosnre
IN the open air. On the ground was q |
.hlge neap OF newly mown grass which
th he sagaGious animal was taking up by
Inc L lrunk1ul, and laying carefully on |
MS sun-heated back. He continued the |
operation until his back was completely
matched, when he remained Quiet. an.
Parentiy enjoying the result of his in.
eeiuiGg: 1t seems to me that instinct |
shouid have prompted the elephant to |
ear the grass, and that it was reason
"hich caused him to use it for the
purpose OF diminishing the effect of the
WHEN the great Russian plaoue If
Ia had carried off three -fourths of the
people of Moscow it was checked bv the
frost. Expecting that it would brest
ous again In the spring, Catherine III.
ouui,iLhisSioned Count Orloff to destroy
an the clothing and rags left by the vic
inns OF the scourge. The Count knew
mat even despotic power could not
compel the people to obey this order
properly, SO he set up in the rag bust
ness. The highest price paid for cast
on clothing" "Clothing bought and
no questions asked" were among the
tempting official advertisements of the
aa.. thieves and scayengers were his
INDUSTRIOUS allies. Bontires of CLOTHING
were made, and the houses and streets
were cleared and disinfected. Next
year there was no plague in Moscow.
IHE Don Cossacks of Russia have a
peculiar way of detecting thieves, and
the results of it are sometimes peculiar.
rive thousand roubles of the Govern.
ment money, appropriated for the