The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-17
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GENERAL BREvITIES.
THE Sheriff of Blair County, Pa, lev
led upon graveyard, and has adver
tised it for sale.
THE Duke of Beaufort, proprietor O
large estates in England and Ireland
says it is impossible to compete with
American productions. He advises thai
British farmers should devote their at
tention to raising cattle.
A FOURTH Chinese theater is being
erected in San Francisco. 1t will be a
substantial iron building, seating 2,50(
persons. There used to be hot rivalry,
and the three theaters lost money. Then
the competing managers pooled Their
issues in the Wing III Ping, or Company
of Eternal Peace; bnt the peace has
already been broken by the new prof
ect.
GEN. w. W. METCALF, who served in
the Confederate army during the late
War and lost all his property during the
conflict, has recently been identified in
the person of a farm-labOrer near Mont
gomery, o. After the War he desired
to live where no one would know him,
and he has succeeded in doing SO until
now.
BEGGAKs in Paris make living by
keeping track of the funerals, and, pre-
senting themselves at the homes OF
mourning, miserably attired, and made
up the picture of want and wretched-
ness, they make their appeals. People
who have funerals on their hands are
generally tender-hearted, so their calls
are never unanswered.
A YOUNG man who was highly con-
nected, and graduate of Harvard Col
lege and its Law School, giving promise
ut the time of brilliant future, has just
died in the State-prison at Concord, N.
III. Dissipation led him to the forgery
of a 50, 500 check, and he was sentenced
to prison for five years. His term would
have expired November l.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is getting
very civilized. He has practically sup
pressed the slave trade, and with de-
termined hand. He gives dinner par
ties in European fashion, with music
from an excellent band, decorated me-
nus and all sorts of luxuries. His High
ness drives out in carriage and four,
with six outriders in scarlet and gold.
RAILROAD companies are interested
in the subject of ties. The scarcity of
timber for the purpose has raised gues-
ton as to substitute. Cast-irOn ties
cost three times as much as wood, but
the difference is more than made up in
the length of time they wear. English
lines have introduced glass ties, or sleep
ers- BY a new process the glass is
toGghened, and the cost is about the
same per ton as those of cast iron, but
there are about three times as many to
the ton.
THE legality of the clauses of the new
California Constitution forbidding the
employment of Chinese on public works
or by corporations is likely to be speed
lily passed upon by the United States Su-
preme Court. Oregon has a similar
law, which has been declared uncOnsti-
tutional by Judges Deadly and Field of
the United States District and Circuit
Courts, and, if the Supreme Court sus-
tains this position, CALIFORNIA; prohibi-
ton also falls to the ground.
BALLOONIsTs should beware of the
rural regions of the Don. Preparing to
descend an aerOnaut was first shot at
and when he alighted found crowd of
peasants armed with scythes, hatchets
and stones, preparing for an attack. On
declaring, i'm good Russian, that he was
mortal, like themselves, pope, extend
ing a crucifiX, babe him kneel. He did
so, but even then would hardly have es-
capped had not an ex-Cossack arrived
and explained the mysteries of balloon
ing.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, the other night,
Mrs. w. II. Hyde, whose husband was
absent from the city, was awakened by
a burglar saving the Stats to the window
blind at the head of her bed. Having
no means of defense, she crept STEALTH
" on the floor to another room, secured
two heavy bottles and returned just as
the burglars head protruded through
the opening in the blinds. She gave
him two terrible blows on the head,
breaking both bottles, when he fell down
the ladder into the arms of confederates,
who carried him off. Next morning
blood was found on the window, ladder
and ground. She made no cutlery, al
though servant-girl was in another
part of the house.
A YOUNG Englishman, calling himself
Martin, is in great demand at Erie, Pa.
By letter of introduction, supposed to
he forged, he gained admittance to a
highly respectable family named Full
stone, and confidentially proclaimed him.
self Viscount Herbert, heir to the Earl
dom of Mount Edgecomb. He prayed
that his rank be kept secret, as the next
heir was seeking his life. His Lordship
about 5000 from the hospita-
BILE family Gan English one) which took
him in, and it is rumored that he had
obtained about $500 more from other
parties to whom he confessed his nobili-
ty under the seal of confidence. He has
also committed forgery, and has been
engaged in a Matchmaking operation.
His arrest is expected.
Miss MINNIE F. AUSTIN, for many
years teacher in Chicago and San Fran
cisco high schools, also principal of
Clarke Institute in San Francisco, from
failing health turned her attention to an
outdoor life. She now owns a fruit
farm of 80 acres in Fresno, CAL, and
last spring set in the ground, by the aid
Of one man, over 600 fruit trees. Miss
A. conducts her farm with as much sys-
tenn as she did her school. She has %
acres of the best raisin grapes, from
which the yield will be between so and
50 tons of fruit; about 800 apricot trees,
100 nectarines, 400 figs, 400 prunes, and
all ordinary fruit trees. She has this
year nearly two tons of peaches alone,