The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-19
GENERAL BREyITIES.
KANSAS

FOUR DAYS after the fI1nce Imperial 5
death CeteywayO sent the Princes sword
TO Lord Chelmsford with letter, say
ing he returned it because he heard
that it had belonged to an English prince.
Nothing could have been more prince
like than this.
THE beautiful ebony table OH which
Napoleon Ill. signed the declaration of
war, in July, 1870, has just been added
to the HohenzOllern Museum ut Berlin.
Beside it is a favorite green leather arm
chair which was sent to him while a
prisoner at Wilhelmshohe.
THE Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Times describes the present Sultan
of Turkey as prey to apprehensions
of conspiracies. One can hardly Won
der. A single negress, in whom he has
absolute confidence, prepares. his food,
and his coffee is made in his sight.
DAVID Thomson, born in Scotland,
died in New York recently at the age of
80. His grandfather lived to be 100.
David had been employed since 1855 by
II. Il. Clafiin & Co. as postmaster, and
was very punctual in the perform
ance of his duties even in his last
years.
1T came out in trial in San Francis
on his mothers tombstone changed, in
order to make it appear that she had
died year earlier than was the fact, as
under the law then in force, the moth
er's half of community property went
to the children.
A WRITER in an English magazine
suggests 4 new vocation for women
that of gardeners. While women are
feeling most deeply their exclusion from
the ordinary walks of life, why should
they not take up a profession to which
there is no barred door, and one SO in
finitcly suited to their tastes.
THE painter Ingres says: "To give a
true poise to the figure necessitates an up
right carriage of the head and a smooth,
firm step. To give this he recommends a
long walk daily with a pitcher of water
on the head. The hint is being acted
upon by the lady pupils of an eminent
French actor
EX-GOv. SEYMOUR has been doing a
kindly deed. He invited to his farm at
Utica, n. ", the Sisters of Charity from
the Asylum, with the orphans under
their charge, and with his family spent
the day in cordially entertaining the
good women and the little ones, who
seemed to enjoy themselves greatly.
VoUDOUIsM has invaded Springfield,
Mass. A young mulattO woman of that
city prOphesied the death of a child, the
son of her employer, and in order to
gain a reputation as prophecies among
the blacks she murdered the child by
giving him arsenic. The woman failed
in gaining a reputation as prophecies,
but will succeed in gaining the gallows.
PEOPLE are sometimes apt 10 say that
they don't call any one a relation who is
more remote then a second cousin ut
furthest, but when the present Earl of
Breadalbane succeeded his twelfth cousin
in the possession of TaymOnth Castle,
the finest seat i'm Scotland, with $780,
600 year, he felt that relationship
might be recognized even at that dis
lance.
A PARTY of railroad workmen digging
in side-cut on the Utica Division of
the Delaware, Lackawana and Western
Railroad, about mile from Oxford, I'M
earthed white, hard stone about the
size and shape of a hens egg, upon one
side of which is rudely carved human
head with eye-sOckets, one of which is
filled with gold. The stone is hollow,
and is believed to be an ancient Indian
relic, probably representing an object of
worship. 1t will be sent to Il New York
archaeological expert.
An English professor and Baltimore
young woman We're recently wrecked at
night-fall in rocky cove near Mt.
Desert, Me. They had entered the
cavern with small boat, and We're sit
ting on the rocks, when a big wave
swamped the craft. The professor
plunged into the surf and gathered the
pieces of the wreck for a fire, and the
couple remained in their prison over
night. In the morning they were res
cued by fishermen, who were astOnished
to see smoke rising from 4 cleft in the
rocks of an uninhabited island.
4 SINGULAR fact in connection with
Rarus, the famous trotter purchased by
Bonner the other day, is that he is with
out 4 pedigree, his paternal progenitor
being unknown. Mr.. Bonner has in
vested small fortune in hOrsefesh.
Startle cost him $4,000; Dexter, $780,
600, and Grafton, $4,000. Goldsmith
Maid and JAY Gould represent $4,000
each; Lady Thorn, $3O,OOO; Socrates,
$4,000; Lucy, $4,000; Tattler, S17,-
600; Rosalind, $4,000, and Gen. Knox,
$4,000. The " great fatherless' stands
$1,000, therefore, beyond all save Poca-
hontas.
The checklist man in the State
showed up at the West Madison Street
Station yesterday, says the Chicago
Tribune While chopping in his own
wood-shed he lost his watch, which
dropped out of his vest-pocket. He
went to the station and asked that two
policemen be sent with him to recover
the watch, rs there was large quantity
of wood to be moved in order to get mt
it. He also requested that the item be
withheld from the press. He was not
accommodated, and went off in an
angry mood.
OVER the grave of 3-year-Old child
buried near Milford, Conn.,, last year, a
beautiful white swan has ever since kept
constant watch, scarcely leaving the
mound even to eat. Any one who at
tempts near approach is greeted with
the birds shrin cries and preparation
for an attack. The swans mate en-
deavored for some time to induce her
companion to return to the lake, but |
without success, and eventually died of
grief. Hundreds of people have visited
the cemetery to witness the singular con- |
duct of this self-stationed sentinel.
A RUSSIAN nObleman, Panteleeff, who /
died in 1873, bequeathed one million [