The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-31
GENERAL BREvITUNs.

A CLEVELAND boy of II years is six
feet nine and quarter inches high in
his stockings.
FALSE hair is coming into use as an
ornament for the heads of children at
French watering places.
THERE are nearly 5000 women and
girls employed about the coal mines of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
PROPERTY left for educational pur-
poses by VIM. Hume of England, val
ued in 1861 at $500, is now estimated at
from $500, 600 to $500, 600.
PRACTICAL cookery is one of the
branches of education taught in the De-
mill Female College at Oshawa, Can
ada; but the girls have struck against
washing dishes, claiming that they are
already proficient enough in that re-
spect. -.
The largest block of granite ever
quarried in New England has been taken
out at Woodbury., Vt. 1t was $50 feet
long, Is to Is feet deep, As feet wide,
weighed 1000 tons, and required 673
wedges with Sc pounds of powder to
start it.
DIR. GRANTHAM MUNTON YORKE,
Dean of Worcester, fell dead almost at
the door of the Cathedral, just as the
choir were singing, 81 will lay me down
in peace, and take my rest, for it is
Thou, Lord, only that makest me dwell
in safety"
AN errand-boy stole $4,000 from his
employer, a Liverpool chemist. When
arrested, about three weeks afterward,
he said: 81 am glad it has come to
this, for have had good spree out of
the money!" All the money he had
left was $S5 and small change.
STATISTICS show that the inhabitants
of New Jersey who are in the State
prison have better health and longer
life than those who are out of prison.
Whether this is due to the strong con-
stitution of the cOnvicts, or to their
forced observation of the laws of health
is not shown by the figures. But, from
either standpoint, the facts are signifi-
cant.
THE diamonds which were presented
as bridal gift to the daughter of Cen
eral Sherman by the Khedive of Egypt
utO hCPO tiC Nhult Vi tlIC OuAtCu ot1tCo
Treasury and their casket is sealed so
that the Treasurer's clerk may not
be put to the trouble of displaying them
to visitors. The daughter, Mrs. Fitch,
lives in St. Louis. She has three chill
dren, the eldest boy of 4 years.
IT is astonishing how quickly the
American people take up with any new
and useful invention. Three or four
years ago the telephone was unknown.
In the recent suit the National Bell Tele-
phone Company agreed to pay Gray 20
per cent. of the rentals of these instru-
ments. This year, while the telephone
is comparatively in its infancy, the per-
centage of these rentals will amount to
100000, which shows to what an
enormous extent telephones are used
throughout this country.
The cradle which the King of Bur-
nah has just had manufactured for his
child is SO magnificent as to cost the
State two lacs. of rupees (nearly mil
lion and half dollars). 1t was first
framed with magno wood and then en-
cased with sheet gold inside and out
Over this is ornamental gold work set
with diamonds, rubies, sapphires,
emeralds, and other precious stones.
The cradle is swung from rod BY cords
made of gold wire; and the bed or
cushion is of embroidered green velvet
The baby's wardrobe cost 5000 rupees.
A WEALTHY and respected shoe
maker of Lautenburg, in West Prussia,
suspecting servant girl of stealing 1926,
and finding that she would not admit it,
hit upon the curious device of putting a
steaming hot egg under each of her
armpits and tying her arms down over
them until the torture made her confess
the theft. Then he had her arrested.
In the prison the girl begged for some
thing to relieve the pain of the burns,
and in that way the method by which
her confession had been extorted was
revealed. The shoemaker was prose-
cuted and sentenced to two years. i'm
prisonment. He appealed, and the APP
pellate Court made his sentence three
years.
ALMOST the universal article used on
the Continent for kindling fires are dry
pine cones. A couple of these are usul-
ally enough to start a fire of dry wood,
and several of them contain enough
resinous material to start a coal fire
without other kindling. They are
readily ignited with match, and are
free from dust and insects. In Paris,
and other large cities or the Continent,
scarcely any other than pine cones are
used for kindling purposes in the hotels,
and it is wonder to us that they have
not been introduced for the same pur-
pose here. We believe large and
profitable business might be made from
gathering the cones in pine growing
regions and selling them in our cities.
COLONIES cathedral is to be finished
next year, its first stone having been
laid in 1913. 1t took three centuries to
build its choir alone, and by that time
the enthusiasm for great cathedrals had
died out. Its construction dragged
along till 1880, when Frederick William
III. of Prussia undertook its repair, and
the German Government and people
have since furnished the means to finish
the work. The nave, aisles and transept
were consecrated in 1848, the interior
was completed in 1868, and now moth
ing is to be done but the last and crown
ing decorations of the stately towers.
The massive caps of stOne-wOrk have to
be laid on, and then ON their SUBMITS
have to be fixed the gigantic "foliated
crosses" almost 80 feet high, which are
to crown the towers of this masterpiece
of Gothic architecture-the largest spec
linen of that style of architecture in the
world.
SIR GARNET WOLsRLEY has employed
John Dunn to prevent the smuggling of
firearms into the Zulu country. According