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

lola, KANSAS
GENERAL BREvITIES.
EVERY speech in Congress costs the
country about S5 900, not including the
bother of reading it.
A NEVADA stage-robber says he can
get ont of any jail west of Omaha il he
only has q ten-penny nail and tea
spoon.
IT is stated that well known English
sporting nobleman last year paid . bill
of e., 900 for medical attendance upon
his pack Of hounds.
DAVID r. SMITH of Newmarket. N.
H., has kept diary for 43 years, with
out missing day, writing over 2,018
pages of large-sized foolscap paper.
THE Denton (Md } Union ssys ten.
million basket crop of peaches Is pre-
dicted for the peninsula the present sea.
son if the frost does not come along and
nip them in the bud.
A CALIFORNIA lion, measuring eight
feet and half from end of muzzle to
tip of tail and weighing some 500 lbs.
was killed recently in the foothills, .
few miles above Ash Springs, Tulare
County.
Mr. JOSEPH VANCE of Carroll Coun-
ty. Ca, set q gun in his corn-crib one
evening recently, and in q very short
time it had killed q negro. The YER
dict of the Coroner's jury was 'sinvol-
untary suicide"
A YOUNG girl returning alone from
church in Lancaster, Pa, q few nights
ago. was insulted by q well dressed man,
and hit him in the face with her prayer
book with a force that sent him reeling
into the gutter.
In the latest London novel two ladies'
are described as having ''that air of af.
liability about them that shows they re-
gard themselves as women who soar su-
perior to any thing like an attempt
made to sit upon them by other wom-
en-"
PENNSYLVANIA follows Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Vermont in the en-.
actment of a strict law to punish trxmps
The Legislature orders q years impris-
onment for begging and three years for
entering dwelling against the will of
the occupant, for lighting fires upon the
highway, or for carry ing firearms. A
law fully as stringent is before the New
York Legislature.
"EGa-EATINa matches'' have been
Introduced IN the New England States.
At Fall River, Mass, several days ago,
two men ate dozen eggs each placed
before them, and the question to be de-
cided was which could break and swal-
low his dozen in the shortest time. The
contest resulted in tie, both men hay
ing achieved the feat in AZ seconds.
THERE are thousands of acres of nm.
titled lands in the United States we'll
adapted to raising fbrous plans, such
as hemp. flax, and jute, and there are
thousa ds of men standing around with
their hands in their pockets looking for
something to do. Still we import annu-
ally more than Sc, 00O, 600 worth of these
fibers from countries which are no bet
ter prepared by nature for their cultiva-
ton than we are.
A TRAVELLER in the interior of Peru
recently came upon q settlement of
strange people with strange customs,
whose history is unknown. He SAYS
"Among them there are no sick or de-
formed persons, their custom being to
send a committee to each sick or old
person, and those who are reported past
recovery or past usefulness are promptly
strangled by the public executioner.
PRACTICAL joking is not always unat-
tended with danger to the perpetrator, as
IS evident from an event which occurred
recently at Sue, Sarthe, France. A man
named Verle wrapped himself in q white
sheet to frighten some girls, and 80 far
succeeded that they all ran awav
screaming except one, who aimed q re.
volver at the pretended ghost and fired
six shots. Verle fell dead, one of the
bullets having passed through his heart.
A SIGNAL service, with stations, is
about to be organized in Switzerland
for disseminating information regard
ing the weather and give storm signals
upon the system so admirably devel.
oped in this country. For this purpose
the territory will be divided into eight
regions, each having its central station
The state. of the weather throughout
Europe, received at these stations, will
be graphically represented on maps,
which will be exposed in the towns for
public use.
A WELL dressed young man and q
young woman richly attired, have been
doing some of the principal interior
towns of Pennsylvania. They represent
themselves as . runaway match, give
the names of prominent Pittsburg law
yers as friends, and under the pretense
that they want money to reach home
and be forgiven have raised considers
BILE funds. The richly attired young Ia
dy is beardless youth and the well
dressed Young man q swindler.
CHASING the colonies in New Zea-
land, Tasmania and Australia into one
group, it is found that while they have
. population of about $500, 600 they
have a debt of 1866, OOO, 600, of which |
3l6O. 600, 900 has been incurred within |
the past seven years. Compared with
this showing, the financial standing of |
the United States is exceedingly favora-
BILE, for in order to be put upon an
equality with the Australian cOlonists
our public debts should aggregate at
least Sc. SOC, COX, 000.
In China, where the opium habit
ruins and destroys many men annually,
The efforts of the Government to abolish
Or diminish the use of opium have no
Gently been more energetic than ever.
All these efforts have been in vain, as
we're those of many previous years.
The Pekin Government have at last de.
ermined to take the final step in the