The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-02-07
GENERAL BREvITIEs.


lola, e: +: KANSAS.
GENERAL BREvITIES.
In England iron railway sleepers are
said to have proven much cheaper than
wooden, and their general use is pre-
dicted. E
TIE Thermometer has been as low Is
81 degrees below zero on the summit Of
Pixies Peak during the present winter.
MORE Southern planters raised their
own meat and bread Inst year than ever
before. Those who did 60 are independ-
emit Of the price Of cotton for one year
at least.
The Begun of Bhopal is q clever and
energetic lady. She has built the best
hospital in India, out of Calcutta, is
making excellent roads, and arranging
for q railroad to her dominions.
IMAGINE q mass of ice mile wide
and 80 miles long, crashing along with
the power of . thousand freight trains,
and you will have some idea of the
breaking of gorge on the Ohio, says
the Toledo Blade.
The consumption of chewing gum in
the United States is about 80 tons year.
ly; that Of spruce gum somewhat less,
and that of gum made in Tennessee
from balsam tolu, and sold in the South
ern States, about 20 tons.
The shepherds of Egypt had singu-
lar manner of cooking eggs without the
aid of fire. They placed them in . sling
. which they turned so rapidly that the
friction of the air heated them to the ex-
act point required for use.
The Grecian philosopher, Pythagoras,
ate nothing on his bread but honey,
and as he lived to be 80 years old, he
recommended his disciples to follow
the same regimen. They followed his
example and found themselves all the
better for it.
The revolver is very poor substitute
for the dictionary. They had q SPELL
ing match at Fostoria, O., the other
evening, and Mr.. Schrach convinced
Mr.. Panhurst that he was wrong by IA
tally shooting him. The former will
now enjoy a spell in prison.
A TEMPORARY assistant in q Lexing-
ton (Ky.) grocery went to the whisky
barrel when q customer called for 3
quart of vinegar, and there was quite a
run on that clerk for vinegar until the
storekeeper suspected that something
was wrong.
Now that we send beer to Germany,
it may be interesting to know the amount
of that fluid consumed there. The whole
German Empire last year drank 841,-
O6S, 9S5 gallons of beer. The amount
of beer sent to Germany in 1873 was
1888, 814 gallons. Bavaria consumed
more than So gallons per head.
THE domestic turkey was introduced
into England in 1541, and some years
later became sufficiently abundant to
afford the farmer his Christmas dinner.
When the Spaniards conquered Mexico
the turkey was found in domesticated
state, and it probably had been reared
there for centuries before that time.
A VETERAN observer says that ladies,
in crossing street, get one-third over,
see team approaching and the driver
trying to pass behind them, they inva.
riably turn around, and unless the driver
is quick will throw themselves under
the horses. If they were to 60 on or
stand still they would be safe, but they
will turn back. Watch them and see
for yourself.
A MAN in Paris has invented per-
lock, the key of which is pro-
vided with nineteen pins, each of which
admits of three positions, and it has
been calculated that even for the minor
of permutations resulting from
these figures man would be engaged
100 life. times, ten hours day, 500 days
q year, fifty years of his life, to work
them through.
The largest price ever paid for leaf
tobacco in the United States, was paid
for hogshead of 600 pounds, raised in
Hart County KY, by Messrs. Carpenter
and Sturgeon. This hogshead brought
the miraculous price Of $S,3OO-$5 so
per pound-and took the premium
wherever it was exhibited. A singular
fatality followed the houses that handled
it; the one in Louisville, Cincinnati,
New York and Liverpool failed.
A DUEL has been fought in Algeria
under singular conditions. NJ. Poivre,
President of the Council-general, chal-
lenged M. Feuillet, editor of the Zerana-
ma, for ibeling him in his paper. The
editor agreed to fight If NJ. Poivre would
sign paper authorizing him to contin-
ne his attacks in case neither party
should be hurt. This was done, and an
exchange of bullets took place, without
result, and now the Zeranma is in pos
session of q letter of license to abuse its
adversary at pleasure.
A RUSSIAN statistician has lately un-
dertaken to find out at what rate peo-
pie die in Europe, and the result Of his
labors show the following yearly pro-
portion of deaths out of every thousand
souls:
Russia .............. 37.5 Germany...........27.s
Hungary. France -. ........36.3
Bavaria switzerland ...... .23.S
Wurtemburg. .....3L7 Belgium ....... ....237
Austria ....3l3 Great Brit ain. 3
Spain. ......... $50 Denmark ..........l95
ltaly...... ......... sos Norway 4 Sweden..ls2
1t will be seen from this that the NOR
tahty is greatest in Russia, whereas Nor
way and Sweden seem to be the health
lest of the countries. France ranks IA
on the List, and shows q slight advan-
tage over Germany, hut difference for
the worse of four per cent. between her.
self and England.
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