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

A MAN i'm JessamiEe County, Ky.
raised five watermelons that weighed
$50 pounds.
LUCIA ZARATE, the midget, and hel
parents have returned to Mexico, taking
with them, it is said, a snug fortune.
THREE HUNDRED agricultural tenants
in Tipperary, ireland, have refused tc
pay the full amount of their rent, and
disturbances are feared.
Mr.. HAZARD of Vancluse, X. l., gave
. lawn party to the spirits of his dead
relatives. He says that among the
guests were his late wife and daughter
If you wanted to 90 from London tC
Scotland you could do it for less than
$40, yet every one of Queen Victoria's
Journeys to Balmoral costs the nation
$4,000.
F. CROSBY of Milford,sN. H., recently
came near losing his eysight by opening
i bottle of ammonia which had been
standing in the heat. He was sightless
for day.
A PICTURE-FRAME in a dealers win.
dow i'm Paris, which is labeled at high
price. bears the following inscription
"This superb frame has contained a
picture by Titan"
A BROOKLYN man wants to whistle
for the championship, the tone produced
to be that of a flute " stopped by the
musicians finger, each note to be loud,
clear, round and silvery.'
In consequence of the growing repu.
diation of the fez by Bulgarians and
Roumelians the annual expectation OF
this headgear from Austria has fallen
off 100000, and the trade is in despair.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, a
wealthy New York lady, has entered the
field as a journalist. Her paper, howev.
er, has Il gentleman for editor. 1t is de.
voted to the settling of emigrants upon
Western lands.
SO great is the depression in Rutland
shire and North Leicester, England, that
not one tenant farmer in that neighbor-
hood can show a shilling profit during
the last four years, and two of them
have committed suicide quite lately from
utter despair.
A BOY pointed a loaded gun at little
girl at Somerset, Md, and threatened
to shoot. "All right she said, con
fidently; cit couldn't hurt me, cause
ma says if I'm a good girl nothing can
hurt me- The boy pulled the trigger
and the girl was killed.
The Globe of Paris says that an
American millionaire has ordered at
Rome q copy of the statue of st. Peter
n NotI haf tot, 90
been copied, though always in a minia-
ture size; but the copy ordered by the
American amateur is to be of the size OF
the original and of bronze, costing I00,-
600 francs
1T is well known that the exposure of
the limbs to cold is apt to chill them,
especially in children, and to throw the
blood back on the bowels or lungs, en-
dangering life; yet even in cold weather
You will see fashionably dressed chill
dren going with bare legs, while both
parents are carefully protected against
cold.
DIR. PICKINS TAYLOR of Georgia gave
his little daughter quinine pills for inter-
mittent fever, telling her the pills were
humming-birds' eggs. When the drug
began to work she told her father with
great glee that the little birds had
Matched and were singing in her head.
All this means that you mustn't lie to
children in fun-only in earnest.
THE last party of tenant farmers sent
TO Canada, to investigate the advantages
of settlement in the Dominion, repre-
sent portions of Scotland and the North.
east and West of England. Seventy
farmers from Sweden have sailed, i'm.
tending to settle in Manitoba. If theil
undertaking proves successful, they will
be joined by 600 Swedes next spring.
AMONG the tourists who returned
from Europe this week are DR.. E. B.
Foote, of the Health Monthly, and Mr..
Dana, of the Sun Attaches of his
establishment state that DR.. Foote has
combined business and pleasure by at
tending to publishing interests abroad,
his "Home Talk" "Medical Com
mon Sense and other works being
translated and republished at Berlin
and elsewhere.-M Y Local Reporter.
EIGHTY-FoUR political criminals were
lately sent from Moscow to Siberia.
From the Moscow prison to the railroad
depot they were conducted in twenty
four carriages, each carriage being ac-
companied by two armed soldiers.
Those sentenced to hard labor were in
prisoners garb, and were put in special
wagons with solid iron frames and I'M
der the supervision of numerous armed
guardians.
A SCOTCH girl was recently sent to
prison for twenty days for cheating
three Glasgow lawyers-an unprece-
dcnted feat. She was domestic serv-
ant, twenty-three years of age, and rep
rcsenting to each in turn that she would
inherit considerable fortune, giving
each instructions how to dispose of her
prospective property she induced
each of the astute gentlemen to advance
her small sums for present necessities.
THE human race is i'm debt to the ca
nine race as regards life saving; the
stories of Kindness and courage shown
by the St Bernard and New Foundland
dogs are familiar to the world. Now
the Paris Globe reports case of Il man
saving the life of a dog. The dog was
swimming in the Seine, near the shore
suddenly it gave complaining howl
and began to sink; thereupon Il man in
full dress threw himself in the water
and succeeded in saving the dogs life.
A RESIDENT in the County of Clare,
Ireland, writes to the London Times
that people who know that county well
consider that there are two Irelands-
the Ireland they read of in the English
papers, generally represented by class
who do not own property, and whose in
telligence is warped by these extremely
one-sided views, and the Ireland in