The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-22
GENERAL BREvIrIEs.

At GOtha, in Germany, where the practice
is becoming common, under influential
encouragement.
OLE BULL and wife are spending the
GUNNER at the formers home in Nor
way, where they have received n large
number Of American visitors.
A TRACT of wild West Virginia land,
thought TO be worthless, for which HOr-
ace Greeley paid $4,000, recently be-
came worth $50, OOQto his estate.
PROFESSOR JEvONs states that great
events are to happen in the year 1882.
rs, according to the best prophet au-
thOrities, the world is to have the great
est CONFUSION it has ever experienced.
A. LITTLE boy picked up what he
thought was rather pretty pebble while
playing on the bank of the Little Miami
River at Waynesville, Ohio. 1t turned
out to be a pearl, and he sold it for
$3.50.
BALMORAL is very closely guarded
when Queen Victoria is there, though no
soldiers are to be seen. Stalwart gate
keepers attend the lodges, and 25 picked
men of the Metropolitan Police are on
patrol. 2 - --' ----- -
The young girl whose beautiful face
appears on the silver dollar is said to be
Miss Annake Williams, of philadelphia,
a friend of Mr.. Morgan, who made the
design for the coin.
REV. Mr.. MUNsON, who lately aston
ished a Worcester congregation of Adj
ventists by stepping down from the plat
form and marrying himself to young
woman, is now astOnished to find HIM
self in jail on a charge of bigamy. He
is said to have wife and four children
in Kansas.
A SUBMARINE cable on the Caspian
Sea is the latest news over which Russia
is jubilant, for it is the first submarine
cable brought into the Cars country.
The cable was made in England, and is
TO be put i'm place by Dane. 1t is 147
marine miles in length and 2,OOO,OOO
pounds in weight, and cost $4,000
Hon. GEO. NJ. PATRICK of Texas says
that Col. James Bowie, the inventor of
the bowie knife, never intended that it
should be used as a weapon of Offense
or defense. 1t was designed for hunt
ing-knife. Col. Bowie himself was one
Of the most courteous and affable of
men.
The industrial exhibition to be held
at Toronto in September next promises
to surpass any thing of the kind hither-
to attempted in Canada. The Governor
General is patron of the association, and
his Excellency, with H. X. H. the Prin-
cess Louise, has consented to open the
exhibition.
The Don Gazette, daily paper, is is
sued in NOvOcherhask, in the land of the
Don COssacks, while the censor in
charge of it resides i'm Moscow, over 700
miles distant. As not a line can be pub
lished in the Don Gazette without the
sanction of its censor, the local and 9TH
er news appears always three or four
DAYS, or even week, behind time
ALEXANDER Won BAsILEwITsCH, a
Russian Colonel in the Prllssian service,
was accused of pOcket-picking, and in a
lower court of Berlin was convicted. On
appeal, the judgment has been reversed,
and the prisoner acquitted, on the
ground of the improbability of the ac-
cusation." He was a prominent social
figure in Berlin, and his prosecution
caused great sensation.
A CHINAMAN in prison cell at Vir-
ginia City had some opium but no pipe
to smoke it in. He got vial, into one
side of which he drilled a small hole by
working industriously for week with a
nail which he whirled between the palms
of his hands. A stem was made by split
ting stick, growing it, and tying the
halves together again. The pipe thus
constructed was held together by stick
ing paper on it with paste made by
soaking bread in water.
Mr.. Ross II. WINANNs of Baltimore
daily develops traits of resemblance to
his eccentric father. Like his father he
is passionately fond of fishing, and pos
sesses every appliance that money can
purchase or human ingenuity devise for
the catching of bass. His father built
out from the rocks, near his mansion at
Newport, an iron-bridge, on which the
millionaire would sit for hours enjoying
his favOrite sport. 1t is said that in one
day he caught nearly 400 pounds of
bass.
BISHOP BOMPAs of Athabasca knows
how to hold service in seven native dia-
lects. He has learned to endure hard
ship like good soldier of the Cross.
He eats rat stew-repOrted to be a
dainty dish: he likes deer's meat, or
tongue, or moose nose, squirrel stew,
and roasted lynx or beaver, and he
speaks with approval of new dainty
with which he made acquaintance
among the TOnsheau Indians. 1t con-
sists Of cakes made of sea weed, poplar
bark. herring-spawn, bitter berries, a
sauce made of seal oil and the grease OF
the olikun fish.
OLIVER BODFIsH of Syracuse, n. Y,
aged "a. decided to marry for the third
time, but he went about it deliberately.
Remembering that a certain girl in his
old Massachusetts, home was very pretty
so years ago, and being informed that
she had lately become widow, he made
her matrimonial proposal by mail, a
condition being that she should still
seem comely in his sight. He offered
to- paw her fare to Syracuse, and if he
did not like her looks, to send her back
again. She made the journey, he was
pleased with her, and they were mar
ried.
The following are the heights of the
principal monuments, dOmes, etc, in
the world: ST. Antoine column at Rome,
1856 feet: principal tower of the Smith
sonian Institute, Washington, AS: Ira
JAMS column at Rome, AS; Napoleon's
column at Paris, $50; Washington Mon
ument at Baltimore, 100; the great ODE
lisk at Thebes, 200; Bunker Hill Monu-
ment at Boston, 223; column of Delhi,
262: Trinity Church steeple at New
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