The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-03-21
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GOLD Bunk" over 10 years old. and
IN inmate of the Blackhawk County
Uowa) Poor-house for II years, Cied a
few days ago.
IT has Just been ascertained that the
Missouri River is navigable to within
IL miles of Helena, Montana, so miles
above Fort Benton.
No Chinaman ever stayed in Lead
vile, Col. One or two have tried it,
but the miners used the veto power,
backed up by revolvers, and that set
tied the Chinese question in that Sec
ton.
THE inscription cast on big bell
just made for a church in Newark, n.
j., thus blossoms into poetry:
Presented by Miss Abby Coe.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
SEWAGE farms and modern manures
make surface water supply dangerous,
and in England they are beginning to
depend more and more on artesian
wells. The London water companies
have sunk several of late.
THE members of the Atlanta (Ga.)
Board of Trade have signed an agree
ment to settle with no creditor for less
than 100 cents on the dollar, unless
Providential causes makes it utterly i'm
possible for him to pay in full.
GEORGIA enjoys the enviable distinc-
ton of being the first State in the Union
to float four per cent. loan at par.
The bonds are five and ten dollars, with
coupons attached calling for interest at
four per cent.
WISCONSIN having offered bounty
for wolf-scalps, wolf-raising has become
a flourishing business in the back coun-
ties; but not safe business, for some
wolf-raisers have just been arrested in
Columbia County, and it is likely to go
hard with them.
The Iturbide is the swell hotel of the
City of Mexico. It was built in the last
century by Spanish nobleman for bis
own residence, and is spacious, but
gloomy. The Emperor Iturbide select
ed it as his palace when the Spanish
dominion was overthrown.
MANY Russian peasants oppose the
vaccination of their children, though
the smallpox appears periodically and
depopulates whole villages. The Gov
eminent of Niaika have announced that
unvaccinated children shall not be adj
mitted to the schools.
THE latest invention is that of Pitts
burg man, who fror much service as
pall-bearer at funerals has turned his
experience to practical account by in
venting an apparatus for lowering
bodies into the grave. The machine re-
hoo & Io To- f,,l
at the cemetery.
LORD DUFFERIN, in his speech just
before leaving for St. Petersburg, said,
in speaking of the United States: 81
was never permitted to invade their
border without receiving at the hands
of that noble and generous people the !
most marked and fattering attention
the kindest and most generous hospi-
tality."
AND now comes the adr' teration of |
oysters. Those of a pecul green tint
have, in Europe, been considered the |
finest, and dealers, knowing that, have
succeeded in imparting it by immersing
the oysters in a solution of salt of cop
per. At Bordeaux q large quantity
thus prepared we're lately seized by the
ACCORDING to the St. Petersburg pa
pers, the Mennonites who emigrated to
Brazil are returning by hundreds to
Russia. The Brazilian Government
spent large sum of money upon these
but failed to satisfy them, land
1T last it directed the Brazilian Consul
1t st. Petersburg to dissuade any more
Mennonites from going to Brazil.
THE deepest mine in the world now
worked is said to be the Adalbert lead
md silver mine in Austria, which is 81
$50 feet deep. The next is the Viviers
,oal mine in Belgium, 2.847 feet. 1t was
Junk to the depth of 1856 feet, but, no
,oal having been found, the working is
It the former level. The deepest coal
mines in England are the Dunkirk Col
iery in Lancashire, 1924 feet, and the /,
in the same locality, 2,45S.
The deepest mine in this country is the :
fellow Jacket of the Comstock Lode.
t is now $500 feet below the surface at
be mouth of the main shaft, and 1888
eet below the Gould & Curry groupings.
he Savage stands second on the list, I
nd the Imperial the third, both being
early as deep as the Yellow Jacket.
One Of our most estimable citizens nay be
thankful for the Introduction of Dr. Bulls Q