The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-19

did not desire to live longer, and was
going to kill himself, then and there.
The girls came out on the dOorsteps
and said they were ready to witness the
suicide. Then he drew a knife, made a
feint of stabbing himself, fell on the
grass, writhed as though in death
agony, and screamed at the top of his
voice. BY thus frightening the girls he
might have gone away with flying col
Ors had they not, as 4 restorative,
drenched him with pals of ice-water.
The hamlet of Redmond, in Oneida
County, n. Y, has a very nervous
schOolma am named Alice Harder. The
other night she fancied she heard burg
lars numbering the people in her
boarding. house, and climbing out of her
window in the second story and down Il
pillar Of the piazza, she walked three
miles in her night dress, over rocks and
through a marsh with water three feet
deep to escape them. Towards daylight
she retraced her steps, only to find her
friends at the house asleep and undis-
turbed by the presence or noise Of in
truders. The young lady's eXcitable
nerves gave her a harder experience than
the average schOol-mistress is called up
on to endure, even in the country, with
all the horrors of '' boarding round"
WILD beasts make awful havoc among
the cattle of some of the Russian prov
inces. In the province of NOvgOrOd,
for example, the horses and cows of the
peasants daily fall victims. The author
tiles of that province have during the past
ten years tried every possible way of
roofing out the wolves and bears, but
without any noticeable success. In the
year 1873 the loss then ran as high as
500 head of cattle. At its last session
the ZemstvO decided to offer a reward
of five roubles to every person who shall
kill wolf, old or young, and ten rOu-
bles for each bear killed during the
summer, the money to be paid from the
provincial fund. Strychnine pills are
recommended for the destruction of the
wild beasts.
AMONG the consequences of the Glas-
gov Bank failure has been brcach-of-
promise case. The lady belongs to
Glasgow, the gentleman to GrecnOck,
both of them being people of some
wealth. The lady held some of the
stock of the bank, and when the crash
came, although the marriage invitations
had actually been issued, the gentleman
cried off until it was ascertained how far
he would be affected as her husband.
After the decision of the House of Lords
that no liability would extend to him, it
was expected that he would at once COM
plete his engagement, but for some rea-
son or other he had changed his mind,
and positively refused to do 50. After
all persuasion had failed an action claim
ing $4,000 was raised, which he COM
promised by paying f1,OOO.
= UPWARD of 1000 letters from the
West have been forwarded to the Dead
letter Office, bearing the address of
Messrs. Stone & Smith, Chicago. The
fact that they always contained daguerre-
Otypes, with instructions as to how
they should be enlarged, caused an in
by the POst-ofiice officials.
The result shows that George c. Ford is
travelling throughout the Western States
himself to be the agent of
the firm mentioned, and sOlicits orders
he writes out memOran-
dunn to the firm, and disappears for Il
new field of operations. No such firm
as Stone & Smith exists consequently the
persons transacting business with Ford
are swindled. The special agents are
on the alert for the impOstOr.
AN English workman thus testifies in
the English Mechanic: sin very many
things our manufactures are not fit to be
shown i'm the same street with American
ones: and this is not merely in knick-
knacks and little ingenuitics, rs to which
ii is tolerably evident we have no pre-
tension to enter into comparison. only
invite any one who doubts my statement
to compare such 4 rough, common mat
ter as cut nails Our rubbish, with
half of them split up, which tends to
turn round i'll the wood and split it, and
with conical heads, looks very poor
against the strai ght, clean nails, with
well formed heads, which the Americans
used to send to Australia, and which,
when had once seen them, prevented
me from ever buying an English nail
again as long as l could &c; the Ameri-
can ones.
AT the Scientific Convention ut Sara
toga, Prof. Wilder described case
where 4 dog removed burs from a cats
tail. The cat and dog were intimate
and on the best of terms, and they ate
and slept together. The question is
this was an act Of benevOlence
on the part of the dog toward the cat,
Or whether the dog simply removed burs
from his companion because of Il nerv-
Gus irritation about and dislike of burs.
In the process of this removal, to which
the cat readily and willingly acceded,
one bur stuck fast, and the dog, persist
ing in his efforts to pull off the bur, ac-
tually pulled up the cat by the tail. Both
of them appeared surprised, but the cat
did not doubt the kindly intent of the
operation. The dog then held down the
cats body by means of his foot and thus
extracted all the burs. AL
though at first sight it looks as if the
whole performance were benevolent,
Prof. Wilder is inclined to view it mere
ly rs an instance of dislike to burs in
general on the part of the dog.