The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-05
GENERAL BREyITIES.

-, GENERAL BREYITIES.
WISCONSIN has wealthy farmer who
is known as '.the Cranberry Prince
1T is claimed that American women
eat more candy than all the other wom-
en- of the world put together. e@si
ACCORDING to the new Texas code,
posting man as coward, in a news
paper or otherwise, because he refuses
to tight aduel, subjects the poster to a
fine of $500 to $1,000.
SAMtlEBs BUTLER's 12-yearold son
Fred, at Pittsford, VT, tried the expert
mentfof hanging himself the other day
to see if he could extlicate himself while
suspended, andwas strangled to death.
MARY PERRY, aged a, of Spr1ngporf,
Cayuga County, \. Y. sat at tea with
some friends. They were relating fun
ny incidents, and Mrs. Perry became
convul>ed with laughter and fell back
in her chair, dead.
THE new Khedive has sympathetic
countenance, large, dark, Oriental eyes
and a pleasant smile, giving to the side
face a childlike expressions He is. like
his father, short and very stout, as are
always the sons of Circassian mothers.
Two marlborough (Mass.) women,
sisters, aged respectively SO and 80
Years, cultivate garden of half an acre
without help, and the elder one has
filled in some spare time this summer
by picking Il goodly quantity of buckle
berries. AZ
A RUSSIAN Government official sent
from st. Petersburg to report on a
miraculous hot spring at ShalaZgori was
almost killed by the Infatuated villagers
because he declared the spring not to
be holy Four of his assailants have
been sent to prison.
ELLER TURNER of Pembroke, Mass,
lost an eye in a singular manner. In
selecting piece of meat at a store he
drew it from barrel with hook, and
while near his face the meat dropped
off. and the hook, suddenly freed, was
Jerked into the eye, which was instantly
destroyed.
THE latest novelty in suicides was that
of Bennett, at Atlantic, n. C. TWAS ac-
complished by laying himself at full
length on high bridge, with his head
protruding over the edge, tying one end
of Il long rope around his neck and the
Other-to Il heavy stone, 50 that IFS jerk
broke his neck ~.
A YOUNG man named RACER of Indi-
ana County, Pa, was bitten by rat
tlesnake recently. He Immediately cut
an onion in two pieces, taking ont the
heart, filling il with salt, and applied it
to the wound. He changed it occa-
sionaily for two hours and then went to
work again none the worse of the. bite.
THE custom of bearing two Christian
names is of recent origin. An author
who has made research states that down
to the reign of Queen Anne he was I'M
able to discover any person having more
than one Christian name. William L.,
who was a Dutchman, was the first King
of Englrnd who bore two Christian
names. 1907
THE Selectmen of New Haven have
notwithstanding hereditary pauperism.
The Register says that they find the re-
suits ''of pauperiSm, connubial infeli-
cities and family troubles which bring
about such disagreementsa as, result in
crimes of a greater or less degree ,.are
almost invariably transmitted to future
generations, and the researches show this
TO be the fact in nine eases out of ten.
A CURIOUS lawsuit has just been tried
in Paris. As plaintiff and defendant
both were deaf and dumb, they agreed
to refer it to arbitrators who like them
selves were deaf and dumb. As mutes
have I; language of their own, Judges.
lawyers, witnesses, plaintiff and defend
ant were deaf and dumb. The trial last
ed two hours: lawyers argued, witness
eS gave testimony, Judges decided
not Il word WAS said. Yotf could have
heard Il pin drop during the whole trial.
So SAYS one of the Paris letters.
Nix W. III. THOMPSON, who won cas-,
ily the big prize at the archery. tourna-
ment at Chicago, and Is supposed to be
one, of the best archers in the world,
handles his bow and arrow thus: He
takes Il firm, square position, at "A full
right angle to the target. get Il good
hold OF his bow, stops and looks for !:
second or two at the target, raises his
his bow, and, drawing as he raises.
looses the string Immediately with Il
motion as quick Us the arms can be sep
:ratcd, and the twang of his bowstrine
is as sharp and clear as the swapping OF
a percussion cap.
The Eastern Shore NId.) newspapers
continge their complaints of the mos
quito plague. The Superintendent and
train hands of the railroad near Cam.
bridge declare that the mosquitoes have
been so thick rs TO obscure the light OF
the sun, and that lighted lamps have
been necessary at midday in the store,
and counting rooms. From Tyaskin 4
newspaper correspondent declares that
"ncver in the history of TyaSkin hay,
the mosquitoes been so thick as for the
past week.-fherc is no rest night Oh
day;Ior only remedy is smoke! smoke!
And we have smoked so much that ON
old women, and young women, too, looI
like dried beef on the hoOf." .t''i
OLIVER DALRYMPLE, the wheat king
lives at Fargo, Dakota. He may be
seen anywhere and everywhere on hi,
mammoth estates throughout the day
Afoot, on horseback, or in carriage, he
is always on hand to look after his OWL
and his partners interests, and every
detail of the great business appears to
him familiar He is tall, thin, pleas
ant-looking gentleman of about 40 years
of age: and, though he would not lie
picked out in an assemblage as a great
man, any one who visits the Dalrymple
farms, i'm the Red River Valley, and sees
the monarch of the American wheat
fields at home, can not but come away
enthusiastic in praise of an executive
ability which may well be compared to
that of tho mana uer of a rr.eof military