The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-07-18
GENERAL BREvITIES,

lula, KANSAS
GENERAL BREVITIES.
Mr.. w. H. VANDERBILT is building a
$4,000 stable in New York City.
A SNAKE with II rattles, and weigh
ing 81 pounds, was killed in Sumter
County, Georgia, recently.
THERE are SEQ acres of strawberry
beds in the neighborhood of Paris. The
sales average $126 an acre.
SENATOR GoRDoN's sheep ranch in
Georgia comprises 900 acres. Negro
convicts will inclose it with q stone
wall, seven miles of which have been
completed.
A MAN in Suamico, Mich, has wife
and six children. He went to Green
Bay on business, and while absent q
strange man called at his house, saw his
wife, fell in love, and in q few hours
coaxed her to 60 off with him.
UNTIL recently the "Idaho desert, -
near Boise City, was supposed to be I'M
inhabitable. Two years ago w. B. Nor
ris cut canal across it, and, irrigating
10000 acres of land, now has crops that
promise an abundant harvest.
NEW YoRK's new directory for the
current year shows 1856 new names,
which are taken to imply an increase of
49, 75 in the total population. The to-
tai number of names is 266, 1852, which
by the same, five to one, ratio indicates
1881, 410 inhabitants for the metrop-
oils.
INTERESTING "Personal!" in New
York Herald: "For adoption-the
handsomest six-weeks-old girl baby in
America; eminent father; young moth
er of peerless beauty; pure American
blue blood, without a faint; perfectly
healthy. Address Family Physician,
Herald office"
A WOODEN doll William Penn brought
over from England as a present to one
of his girls is still cherished by a Wash
ington family. 1t is known as Letitia
Penn, the name OF the great Quaker's
daughter, and is faded beauty, twelve
inches high, without joint in its body.
THE other day flock of sheep num-
bering upward of 200 head belonging to
Edward and James Mcconnell, near
Chatham, Sangamon County, Ill. g., broke
out OF their pasture and ran on the rail-
road track just as train was passing.
Upward of 100 of them were killed and
manned ere the train could be stopped.
THE case of a deaf-mute COW is re-
ported by a Russian veterinary surgeon.
A cow, II years old, of Algave breed,
belonging to Russian nobleman, new
er showed signs of hearing, nor below
ed. Seeing the other cattle below, she
tried to initiate them by stretching her
neck and head, and opening her mouth,
but she could not produce any sound.
The sense of vision of this COW was
found to be unusually well developed.
VOCALIsTs should be careful what
they eat. A vocal contest was recently
held at Kloten, in the Canton of Zurich,
in which a thousandvocalists took part.
OF course they had a banquet, and on
the morrow seven of the number were
dead, and sos we're i'll. The wine vender
was acquitted, but the man who sup
piled the eatables was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment.
ONE of the institutions of London is
the charwoman, or chorewoman. Does
woman fail as servant, does the eye
sight OF seamstress give way, is the
wife or widow of an artisan or laborer
overtaken by adversely, she falls into
the great army of charwomen. Some
are trustworthy and are employed for
years in the same family and take care
of the house. Their pay is from fly to
IS cents day, with food.
AT Cherokee, Iowa, few days since,
parties boring for coal struck magnet
ic spring at q depth of 100 feet, and it
has since continued to flow with great
force, throwing four-inch stream four
or five feet above the mouth of the well.
The water is SO highly charged that
knife-blade dipped in it will raise nail,
an iron bar doubled up and lowered
down the well will be straightened out,
and, in fact, any metal coming in con-
tact with the water at once becomes q
powerful magnet.
GEORGE WILSON, who lives q few
miles south of Sutler, Ala, while seated
in his door reading one day, heard his |
little 2-year-old son, who was playing
in the yard near by, utter peculiar
sound, as though trying to attract atten-
ton, and on looking up was Mortified |
to see the little fellow approaching him |
with a rattlesnake grasped in his hands.
The child held the poisonous reptile by |
the middle of its body, and escaped |
without being bitten.
SAMUEL CHILDERs of La Crosse,
Wis, has a rat in his loot and shoe |
shop which he has trained to wonderful |
perfection. The rat comes to him at his |
call, no matter how many are present |
1t has been trained to jump up on Mr.. |
Childers's hand, where il eats its regu-
lar meals. 1t will run about Mr.. Chill
ders while at work, jumping on his
shoulders and head, diving into his |
pockets as Familiarity as a pet kitten.
When told it will sit up in the middle of |
the floor and squeal and perform many
more tricks.
THE other day Michael Skinner, a
druggist at Ahnapee, Wis, discovered |
pint can of phosphorus in a condition |
not entirely safe, and removed it from
the building, but in so doing a small |
piece of it must have fallen on the floor,
near the foot of the stairs, when it soon
exploded and filed the room with its
odors. Mrs. Skinner was coming down
the stairs at the time, and inhaled the
poisonous fumes, which SO stupefed her
as to cause her to fall to the bottom of
the stairs, where her clothes Immediate
ly took fire, and before the flames could
be extinguished, burned her limbs and
arms in q fearful manner.
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