The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-05
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
A LONDON secondhand dealer adver.
tises for cast-off artificial teeth.
AsH-WEDNEsDAY in 1880 will occur
on February IL, and Easter the 2Sth of
March.
THERE are children at Corpus Christi,
Texas, says the Free Press, IL years old
who have never seen snow.
A SWARM of bees entered the dwelling
of S. d. Bradley of Fort Wayne, Ind,
and lighting on dish of honey that
was on the table where they were din
ing, took full possession of the sweets.
AT the daily devotions of a Yarmouth
(Me.) family, a favorite cat would al
ways insist upon being present, until her
kittens were drowned one day in her
presence. From that hour the cat has
refused to attend service.
A FAMILY of emigrants were found
occupying tomb in cemetery near
Providence, X. l., that had been left
open. When discovered they had had
possession a week, and were using the
coffin shelves to put their dishes on.
VERY cheap straw Chinese hats have
this year been the rage in England,
Duchesses wearing precisely the same
article as dairy maids; .but," ex-
planned one great lady, "none of those
dreadful middle class people wear
them"
In the tenth volume of his " Archives
de Ia Bastille, M. RavaissOn deals with
the question of the Man in the Iron
Mask. His solution is that this mystic
rious being was Sebastien dc Paramount,
Comte de Keroualle, ensign of the Due
de BeaufOrt's guards, and brother of
" Madam Carwell," mistress of Charles
II.
ONE of the famous electric eels from
the river Amazon has been added to the
curiosities of the New York Aquarium.
1t is the only one of Is that survived the
long journey, and is said to be the only
one alive in the United States. 1t is
about three and half feet long, and
eight inches in circumference.
BOsTON was probably the first city in
the world where women engaged in the
study of medicine, and at the medical
university there they now have a lady
demonstration in anatomy, also three
other ladies in the faculty, one who lee
lures on diseases of women and the
other on diseases of children.
A CURIOUS calculation has been made
by a Continental statiStician as to the
amount drawn by various sovereigns
from the civil list. According to this it
appears that the Car has 125, 0O0f. per
day; the Sultan, 9O,0OOf.; the Emperor
of Austria, 50,O0Of.; the Emperor of
Germany, 41,OOOf.; the King of Italy,
$4,000; and the King of the Belgians,
S,215f.
The occupation of Bosnia and Herze-
govinia cost Austria, to the end of 1873,
80 officers killed and 126 wounded :;
1,157 privatcs killed, 3, 1888 wounded, 335
missing, 1879 rendered unfit for service
otherwise. OF sickness 2,233 died, 80
were killed by sunstrOke, % committed
suicide. These are official figures, just
published by the war ministry.
A FRENCH statist has come to the con-
clusiOn, after Il very laborious eXamina-
ton of the number of deaths from rail-
way accidents in all parts of the world,
that if a person were to live continually
in a railway carriage and spend all his
time in travelling, the chances in favor
of his dying would not occur until he
was $50 years old.
AT seminary not many miles from
London huge maStiff exhibited Won
derful powers. At O'Clock every week
day morning he will ring the school
bell to awaken the inmates, by Juggling
at the rope that hangs within his reach,
and on Sundays one hour later. He is
soon admitted in the building. when his
task is the distribution of 20 pairs of
boots to their proper rooms. A new
pair at first perplcXes him, but after put
ting around all the others has no trouble
in deciding to whom the new ones be-
long.
AT the moment the steamer Arizona
struck the iceberg, many of the pasSen-
gers were in the cabin in high spirits,
listening to Il young lady who was seat
ed at the piano, playing and singing
ga Life on the Ocean Wave" Upon
the laughter, applause and song came a
mighty crash or stunning blow, as if the
ship AT full speed had charged against a
perpendicular rock. The CONSERVATION
that ensued was terrible. The COM
partment system saved the ship.
GREAT excitement was caused in
Lima by the capture of the Peruvian
iron-clad, the Huascar. Subscriptions
were at once opened for the purchase of
another war vessel, to be called the AL
mirante Gran, and to swell the fund de-
voted to this purpose, Peruvian ladies
are reported to be contributing their
diamonds and their plate. One lady
sent diamonds valued at $4,000 to
be converted into money for the ship
the day after the subscription was
opened.
YARDMAsTER CoLwELL, who was
responsible for the recent railroad ac-
cident on the Michigan Central at Jack
son junction, Mich, has gone crazy.
He went into the railroad yard the other
day and began to open and close switch
es, at the same time yelling to the yard
men to hasten the trains out of the way
as the express was coming. He finally
seemed to imagine that collision had
occurred and cried, "There they lie!
Don't you see those dead women?"
THIS has been bad year for most
men connected with the hop interest in
England. Some hop fields have not
been thought worth picking. The
scarcity has, however, quadrupled the
prices, and 4 farmer with a fair crop
will do pretty well. English brewers