The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-03-28
GENERAL BREVITIES.

BISHOP GILMOUR OF Clevel8nO mas
issued q pastoral forbidding young
Catholics to marry outside Of their re-
igious faith.
IT is the polite thing in Germany
when q person sneezes to salute him or
her with the words sGute gesundheit"
(good healthy. The same custom pre-
walls in Belgium.
A BIG two-fsted school teacher in
Fond du Lac County, Wis, SO cruelty
beat an S-year-old pupil the other day
for not mastering hard sum in frac-
tons, that he was fined S25 and costs
by humane Justice of the Peace.
The Russians are peculiar. When
collins are covered with cloth, the color
indicates the character of the deceased.
If the body is young person, crimson
is used; if widow, brown; if q father,
yellow; but black is never used.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has de-
cided that the statute against gaming,
which enables person losing at faro
table to recover his losses from the pro-
prietor, will not work the other way,
and allow the proprietor to recover
losses from fortunate players.
WAsHINGTON's pew in Christ Church,
Alexandria, retains its original shape.
This church was finished in 1878, and
was then formally delivered to the ves-
try, and 10 pews were offered for sale.
Washington purchased No. for ESQ
1Os., the highest price paid.
In 1895, in the towship of Eastman,
Mass, a regulation was made that every
unmarried man should kill six black
birds and three crows a year as long as
he remained single. If he neglected
this order, and wished to marry, he was
not allowed to do so till he had shot his
full number of birds.
JOSE C. VALDEZ, the editor of La
Iara,atula, paper published in Mazat-
lin, Mexico, was murdered short time
since. The Governor of Sinaloa, hav-
ing been charged with the murder of
Valdez, was compelled by the mob to
fly from the city, whereupon the legisla-
ture elected Governor ad interim.
THE Paterson (N.J. y clergymen have
decided to issue a memorial to the in
habitants of that city requesting them
not to hold so many funerals on Sun
day. They complain that in conse-
quence of the number of funerals on
Sunday they sometimes do not find time
for their meals.
CAPTAIN E. B. ALLEN, of Harwich-
port, Mass, who has commanded YES
sells during 80 consecutive years, and is
now only Sc, is said to have never drank
glass of liquor, never used tobacco,
never uttered an oath, played a game of
cards or fired pistol.
THE second tunnel beneath the Alps,
that of St. Gothard, has already been
bored seven and half miles, and will
be ready for use next year. The tua-
nel's length will be more than a mile
and half greater than that of Mont
Gems, and the total cost several million
pounds sterling more. The German,
Italian and Swiss Cove, nments have
granted subsidies of "a, $4,000.
AN English locksmith, who has been
sent to jail for brutally beating his wife,
forced her TO sleep on the floor in order
that his racing dog might occupy her
place in bed, and his four-legged pet
was RECALLED on joints of beef while his
wife and children were starving. The
unreasonable woman complained, and
the outraged husband beat her within
an inch of her life.
DURING the coming summer 5000
Italians will leave laramie, Italy, for
the southern coast of New Guinea, to
establish a colony to be called Italia,
The initiatOrs and leaders of the enter
prize are Menotti Garibaldi and q fellow
soldier named Achilie Fazzari. The
$4,000, 900 required fer the enterprise is
ready. The equipments will include a
cable to connect with Northern Austria
liza. Fa
IT is related of Talleyrand that his
pulse, which rolled stream of temen.
dous volume, would intermit and pause
at every sixth beat. This he pointed
out triumphantly as rest of nature,
giving him superiority over other
men. "Thus," he said, s'all the miss
ing pulsations are added to the sum to-
tai of my life," ard his longevity and
strength appear to support this theory.
EVERY one has read of the tulip ma
MIA fourished in Holland from 1854 to
1887. Immense prices were paid for
single bulbs, and this statement is cor
roborated by the fact that two houses,
about 20 miles from Amsterdam, are
offered for sale which were purchased
with the proceeds of the sale of three
tulip bulbs. The record of this remark
able purchase is preserved in a stone in
serted in the gable end of one of the
houses.
EARLY in the present century the
Irish language was spoken more or less
in every county throughout Ireland. 1t
is estimated that one fourth of the gross
population, or about one million people,
spoke English exclusively, while prob
ably an equal or somewhat greater num-
Der knew Irish only. In the interview
ing period down to the present time a
great change has taken place, as is con-
clusively shown in the censuses of 1861
and 1871. In all Ireland now only about
162, 400, or one in 36 of the gross popu-
lation, still know no other tongue than
Irish.
WEALTHY Russian merchants, with q
touch of savagery in their nature, often
give way to riotous enjoyments. A
party of them call at first-class hotel,
order q costly dinner with q profusion
of champagne and other wines, lock the
doors and give themselves up to wild
revelry, eating little but drinking
enormously. Unable to consume all
the wines, they seize the bottles, shout,
"smash," and then rush upon the mir
rors, furniture and ornaments of the
apartments. The Eext thing is to pay
the bill and decamp. Some of the hotel
proprietors, used to such visits, hide the
valuable pieces of furniture and charge