The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
GENERAL BREVITIES.

Mrs. NATHANIEL GREENE Of Middle
town, X. l., who married the son of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary
fame, celebrated her Goth birthday few
days ago.
IT is now the fashion abroad for each
lady to choose some one perfume, such
rs the jasmin, rose, or violet, and for
saking all others, keep that only with
her, perfumirg also her linen and her
laceS.
A MAINE cat, after several unsuccess-
full attempts to catch pigeon, put kerr
nels on the sidewalk before Il post be-
hind which she hid, and soon had ma
terial enough for supper.
MAYOR POWERS, who now begins his
second term in the Office of Mayor of
Springfield, Mass, is a young man. He
began to work his way in the world as
a newsboy on the railway trains out Of
Springfield.
PARNELL, the Irish agitator, is de-
scendant of that Parnell the poet who is
generally associated with Ticknell in
the "British Poets,' and he is grand
son of Commodore Charles Stuart, who
was born in Philadelphia.
AS son of Patrick Cummings, of
Lewiston, Columbia County, Wis, was
taking care of a pair of mules, the other
evening, one of them kicked his kero-
sene lantern to pieces, and in moment
the barn was on fire. The loss was
total.
New HAVEN is so flooded with law
yers that recent law-schoOl graduates
have hard work to live. Not few
sleep in their offices, putting out their
pint kettles each morning for milk,
which with crackers affords their heart
lest meal.
A YOUNG wife in a colliery village in
England assists her husband in black
smithing, and makes 5000 rivets a'day,
besides doing her homework. She is
described as being sedate, well spoken,
has low sweet voice and fair COM
pleXion and hair.
Col. VALENTINE BAKER, who was
imprisoned in England for an ugly as
sault on a lady in railroad carriage, is
the Baker Pasha who distinguished HIM
self in the Russo Turkish war. He is
now the central figure in the Anglo
Asiatic question.
EHE officers of the English army to
Zululand were ordered to discard all in
sigma of rank in order not to attract the
attention of the savages, and thus pre-
serve their lives. But it was the cause
of their death. For, although Cete-
wayo ordered his men to bring the Off
GERS in alive, and told them the officers
carried swords, the men guns, yet they
could not tell them apart and killed them
Unfortunately.
If ever we begin to feel gloomy at
the rapid approach ofsur shortest days,
We should call to mind such places
rs Hamburg, in Germany, where the
shortest day has only seven hours;
Stockholm, where the shortest is only
five and half hours long: or St. Pc
t,rsburg, whose shortest day is five hours.
On the other hand, at Wondorbus, Nor
way, the longest day extends from May
y to July 2, and at Spitzbergen the
longest is three and half months.
AN advertisement was recently pub
lished in the London Times /" soliciting
the services of a gentlewoman as lady
house-keeper, and offering liberal
honorarium and comfortable home"
" Honorarium" is. of course, the polite
equivalent of +" salary" and perhaps it
is more acceptable term to the sensi-
tive nature than that conveyed by the
more familiar English expression. At
all events, the advertisement in qucs-
ton brought in no less than !, 100 letters
from ladies who were anxious to secure |
the proffered situation.
THE extravagant elegance of shoes,
nowadays, is almost enough to spoil the
romance of Cinderella's slippers. There
arc wedding-shoes, and carriage-shoes.
and even the fragrant woods have yield
ed up meek tom-tits to nestle in ruches
on ladies' satin slippers. Shoemakers
have touched fresh fields and pastures
new; they copy historical heels, and re-
rive the antique in coral kid and glintiDg
satin. Crispin's disciple no longer sits
ON wooden bench alongside of shall
low receptacle filled with odds and ends
and tools not over-clean, for he is now
an artist and builds for fame.