The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-02-14
GENERAL BREVITIES.

THERE are now more than 1900 wom-
en- employed in the departments at
Washington.
No liquors, wines, or lager beer may
be sold in any part of the new Connect
cut State-hause.
The London Standard the other day
paid $4,000 for a single telegram from
India.
In 1915 the average yield of wheat in
it is Is.
THE journal Of Chemistry says that
no European nation is SO advanced as
Italy in its methods of teaching agricul-
ture.
THE number of deserters from the
British army, advertised during 1878,
was $3.50, being 500 in excess of the
total for 1877.
ALL the Chinese have been driven
from San Barnardino, Cal, and Los
Angeles expects to be relieved of their
presence by spring.
EACH infantry man in the future will
be accompanied by a special ammuni-
ton wagon, if the development of re-
peating arms goes on as it bids fair to
do.
The Melbourne Exposition is to open
Oct. and close March 81, 1880. 1t is
expected to do great things for Austria
liam trade. January and February are
very hot months in Australia.
A NUMBER of enterprising Jews have
been engaged in collecting the bones of
horses that fell in the late battles be-
tween Russia and Turkey and have sold
them to Austrian sugar refineries.
A BRIDE in Beloit, Iowa, shot herself
on the morning after the wedding, on
learning that her husband had another
wife; but the wound was not serious,
and on recovering she took the less trag-
ic course of prosecuting him for biga-
my.
THERE are parts of California where
the beasts of the forest exist in their
primitive glory. Panthers and lions re-
Gently made descent from their noun
tain home upon some fine and costly
Angora goats belonging to farmer of
Carpenteria, and left only six out of
twenty-five.
A NEVADA paper tells of Chinese
cook who was reprimanded by his mis-.
tress for not having cleaned the fish
well that he had served up at dinner.
The next time there was fish in the
house she went in the kitchen and saw
John carefully washing the fish with a
fine piece of brown soap.
Two little children went to church
alone in Westfeld, Mass. They became
tired during the long sermon, and the
older one, supposing that school rules
held good in churches, led his sister up
in front of the preacher and said:
/" Please, sir, may we 60 homer" He
said Yes" and they soberly walked
out.
RATS and mice will go into trap
more readily if a small piece of looking
glass be put in any part of the trap
where they can see themselves reflected.
They mistake the reflection for another
rat, and where others 60 they follow.
COLUMBUS, o., has an ordinance for
bidding candidates for municipal Offices
from treating voters under penalty of a
$50 fine, 10 days in Jail and forfeiture of
vote in all municipal elections. The or
dinance also forbids electioneering with
in two squares of the polls.
THE receipts of flour at Chicago dur |
ing the year just closed amounted to |
5, l20, 600 barrels. This is unprecedent-
ed in her history. The came may be |
said of wheat and ,rn. Ofthe former,
81, OOO. 900 bushels were received, and
Of the latter 63, O00, 900.
DIVINE to the severity of the weather,
The forests of the Bernese Jura are in
Fested by droves of wild bears, some
lines co numerous as to defy attack.
Bands of wolves hover about the farms
It night, and hundreds of hungry
;hamois have descended from the noun
aims, and are wandering about the val
eys in search of food.
No woNpKR the people hsve confidence,