The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-07-11
GENERAL BREYITIES.

WINrERHEIM, large Icelandic col
ony in Western Minnesota, expects an
addition of 800 from Iceland in August.
A WEALTHY silk manufacturer in
Staffordshire, England, has been sent to
prison for refusing to maintain his wife
and children.
The farm known as LammermoOr,
in Essex County, Va, which before the
war sold for $4,000, was sold last
month for $3.50.
DAVID CLAMMER of Indianapolis,
Mahaska County, Iowa, recently killed
three pelicans at one shot. They meas
ured between the tips of the wings eight
and half feet.
DIR. HITCHCOCK insists that knowl-
edge is a preventive of disease, showing |
that the insane in Massachusetts, are |
nine-tenths uneducated paupers, and so |
are $1,000 of the $1,000 in asylums in
England.
Miss MARY HALL, q sister of the late |
Ezra Hall, has been appointed Commits
sioner of the Superior Court of Connec-
ticut. This is the first appointment of
a woman to an office of this kind in that
State.
JESSE BUNKER, a son of Chang, one
of the Siamese Twins, has completed a
regular course at the New York Institu-
ton for the instruction of the Deaf and
Dumb. Bunker is Is years old, bright
looking, and intends to become farm
or in North Carolina.
AN Eastern reckoner informs the
world that if the ocean could be drain
ed, the people living on the sea coast
would find themselves on the summit of
lofty mountain, and in view of vast
valley filled with raging marine mon
sters.
KEMMLER, who killed his children at
Holyoke, Mass, still maintains that he
had moral right to do as he pleased
with their lives. He is an educated
German, and the author in that Ian
guage Of a devotional book, containing
q prayer and a hymn for every day in
the year. His sanity is doubted.
PETER leo of Lawrence, Mass, was
very poor and very proud. Being out
of work and money, he did not make
his plight known, but fed his wife and
child on bread and water, and went
without any food at all himself. A mes
senger, who went to tell him of chance
for work, found him dead from starva-
GOn.
A BRIDEGROOM at Grinnell, Iowa, re-
ceived cigar by mail, accompanied by
the written assurance that it would be
found to be of an uncommonly good
flavor. The bride recognized the hand
writing as that of a rejected sutton, and
unrolled the cigar, to find several grains
of strychnine in the end that smoker
would bite off.
MARVIN BANNING, before dying at
Hadlyme, Conn.,, told where $4,000
could be found in bag of butternuts,
and that bonds to an equal amount were
buried in a cellar. He was "a, and for
many years had deprived himself of
sufficient food and fire. His sole diet
was raw salt pork and coarse bread,
and he lived by himself.
GERMAN papers announce the death
of Herr Franz Motz, parish priest at
Puchkirchen, in Syria, from q wound
caused by steel pen. He had a care.
less habit of leaving his pens in the ink
stand with the point sticking upwards.
In replacing book on his writing ia
BILE near the ink stand, he inadvertently
struck with the palm of his hand a rusty
pen thus sticking upward. The hand
was slightly wounded, but it seemed SO
Insignificant an affair that he took no
heed. Next day, however, he felt seri-
ously i'll, and the doctor declared that
1t was case of blood-poisoning. On
the third day the hand and arm were
terribly swollen, as high up as the
shoulder, and, after suffering great pain
during eight weeks, he died.
THE failures of farmers are becom-
ing alarmingly frequent in England: In
1870 they numbered 229; in 1875, 354 +;
in 1876, 4S0; 1877, Az; in 1873, Sl5,
and in the first half of 1879, no fewer
than GA. In addition, the facts are
well known that farmers in many coun-
ties are now losing their capital, that
landlords find great difficulty in relet-
ting at any price, and that the remis-
ons of rents has only met a portion
of the difficulty. If the land of England
becomes less and less able to compete
with that of other countries in the
growth of meat and cereal crops, the al
iteration in the conditions will have an
effect not only on the persons immedi-
diately concerned, but on England as a
whole.
THE most costly school building in
the world is probably the new Polytech'
mic Institute in Hanover. The late King
of Hanover commenced the construc-
ton of magnificent palace, upon which
he expended about five million dollars.
When bis Government was Overthrown
and the kingdom of Hanover became q
province of Prussia, the building was
found in a half-finished condition. For
several years the windows were board
ed up, and the empty rooms became the
residence of bats and birds. At last the
German Government resolved to alter
the building and adapt it to the uses OF
the polytechnic school. The work has
been going forward for several years,
and is now nearly ended.
1T is said that on one occasion high
Chinese dignitary visited the English
Governor of Hong Kong. He was re-
ceived with all the honors, the band of
the garrison contributing q serenade.
The next morning his celestial highness
sent for the leader of the band and ex-
pressed his thanks, saying that there
was one air that particularly pleased
him. He could not name it, SO the
leader summoned his men, and made
them play throughthe whole programme
of the night before. But the mandarin
failed to recognize the air that had
struck his fancy. In despair the leader
directed his men to "tune up" prepar-