The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-04-25
GENERAL BREyITIEs,

GENERAL BREVITIES.
BosroN has appropriated 10000 for
the celebration of the coming Fourth Of
July.
THE debt of New York City is now
set down at Sis, 125, 1872, showing an
increase of S800,l14 in the month of
March. Sc 2 90
An English paper says: "In every
relation Of life the apathetic woman is q
most Objectionable person, infinitely
more trying than her excessively nerv-
Gus sister,"
An original daguerrotype Of John
Howard Payne, author of "Hone,
Sweet Home" taken in Washington in
1850, is on exhibition in . Boston art
store.
The Rev. j. W. Cole has been shut
out of his Methodist pulpit in Charlie
mont, Mass because he disciplined hi
wife with horsevhip when she refused
to hear him preach. E8t E4iE HEBV4l
THE residence of Ex-Governor Shep-
herd of Washington, recently rented by
Senator Cameron at $4,000 year, is
said to be the most elegantly furnished
private house at the Capital.
The late Mime. Bonaparte had many
eccenticities.s She never Adopted the:
new-fangled notion of gas but always
used candles, nor would she alowa.car-
pet to be laid upon her bedroom hoof.
A EVANSVILLE (Wis.) hunter looking
for ducks last week near Richmond,
Walworth County, stumbled upon nest
of young wolves and bagged six of them
with one grab. He hurried on to Elk
horn and pocketed $50 in bounty. (
Miss BERRIAN of Stamford, Con-
necticut, has purchased q new brick
building in that pa e for $1,000, the
first floor of which is to be used as a
reaf ing-room, while the remainder will
be fitted up IS temperance boarding
house for young men who refrain from
Intoxicating drink. So Nti5
DIR. c. P. CARVER of Angelica, ALE.
gany County, N. Y, owns q small road
stallion 80 peculiarly marked that when
he buckles surcingle around him there
is not hair back of it that is not snow
white, and not square inch in front of
it that is rot beautiful iron gray. One
eye is like that of white horse, and the
other like that of black horse.
THE question whether Jewish juror
may be compelled to attend upon Court
trials on Saturday was recently raised in
Berlin. The Court decided that, under
the laws of the German Empire, he is
not entitled to exemption from attend
ance on that day. He argued that the
Judge and counsel would not find it
very agreeable to be required to serve
on juries on Sunday.
ONE of the small seeds of q grape has
caused the death of a resident of San
Francisco by lodging in the intestines
and forming an abcess. Fatal results,
more especially in children, are known
frequently to have followed the swallow-
ing of grape'seeds, which pass out of
the stomach undigested, irritating the
small intestines, and producing inflam-
nation. s-,tEIs E'trT
MARIA GILLETT, agrandniece of Gen.
Ethan Allen, died few days ago, aged
so, al. the .Watervliet Shaker farm,
where she had lived for fifty years. The
Albany Times says: "She retained the
Allen mark, having been born with six
fingers, the surplus member being re-
moved in her infancy; and her children,
of whom she reared two, exhibited the
same peculiarly"
A CALIFORNIA newspaper, the Dem
okrat, has sent its reporters to the San
Francisco pest-house and caused photo
graphs to be taken of some of the more
interesting lepers. The photographs
thus procured have been put on single
sheet and sent over the country to "The
friends of Chinese immigration. 1t
must be confessed some OF the pictures
are not pleasant to look at. 80
ROSIE, one of the monkeys at the
Philadelphia Geological Garden, has
given birth to female monkey. It is
a brunette, weighs two pounds, and
looks like its mother. Its other parent,
Thomas, an exceedingly grave-looking
chap, whom nobody would suspect Of
the mischievous propensity which he
possesses to grab the bonnets Of ladies,
belongs to the same family with the
mother. The little one is to be called
Little Buttercup.
MUCH of the meat sold in London as
prime English beef is American. Amer
lean beef sent over in refrigerators is
just as good as English-lmany think 1t
better. At oneof the first clubs in Lon
don recently there were served an En-
g1ish and an American sirloin Of beef,
and no one could tell the difference
Hungarian and Bohemian beef, too, is
coming into the London market at ~
cially pheasants, from Bohemia.
THERE is an enthusiastic antiquarian
in Worcester, Mass in the person of
Henry MartelI, cobbler. He has q
mania for collecting old coins, and will
90 to almost any Inconvenience, after
working hard ali day at his bench, to
procure rare piece. Although he be-
gan to collect only about three years
ago, he has already more than 1000
pieces in his little shop, some of them
$500 years old and exceedingly rare.
WORTH, the dressmaker, in spite of
his long residence in Paris, is said to be
a Thorough John Bull in every thing but
appearance, in which latter respect he
would form no bad double for Bismarck.
American women are notably Mr..
Worth's best customers. OF his own
countrywomen he speaks with mourn
full shake of the head, and Frenchwomen
no longer dress as extravagantly as in
the days of the Empire. go Il
MENTION is made in Nature of q
thirsty horse at large in the street, who
went up TO little knot of men con-
versing on corner, pulled one of them
by the coat-sleeye with his teeth, and
then led the way to . nearby pump,