The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-04-25

week between q Lieutenant and his Cap
tain The former having drawn the
black bali senta bullet through his brain
forthwith. His conduct is considered
most honorable. Great demonstrations
of respectwere shown at his funeral, and
the military medal for good conduct was
sent by the authorities and laid on the
altar at the ceremony.
A SCHEME is on foot to collect all the
articles of value which the bed of the
Tiber Is supposed to contain. The
golden caudlesticks taken from the
Temple at Jerusalem, and the gold and
silver cups and ornaments which once
decorated the palaces of Roman Empe-
rors are imagined to lie beneath the
Theirs yellow mud. By means of drags
it is thought all this buried wealth may
be recovered and restored to form na-
tional museum of extraordinary value.
A committee of distinguished archeol-
ogists has been appointed to consider
the best means Of fishing up the legend
ary statutes, coins, and other articles
which for centuries have been covered
by the sands of the Tiber.
NEVADA yreVspspers announce that
vast number &;glasshopper eggs are
incabating ii Sierrs Valley. Aspade-
full of soil is represented to have con-
tanned hundreds of thousands of eggs
deposited in clusters. The farmers have
not turned o furrow this spring, know
ing thai 3;tk these pests in fhe soiffheir
work would b Esitless ofresult. Grain
crops will only foster the scourge, while
to let the ground remain idle may starve
the insects into emigrating. Fears are
expressed that they may sweep down up
on the fertile valleys Of California; but
whether they can cross -mcuntains- ut
such altitude as the ,SierTas is doubtful.
It il proposed to dig trenches before
they are able to fly, and, driving then,
in, to ooserthsm up. This plan worked
successfully in Utah two years ago.
Mr.. DoNALDG. NTTCHELIwasc cured
of his family tendency to consumption
in q curious way. He had very Sc
we're cough when he started to cross
from the English shore to the Island of
Jersey. "There was no steamer" he
says, :" and l had to 60 on cotton fish
ing smack. There was great storm.
and for so hours we were on the En-
glish Channel in the toughest weather.
Twas very sick and lay for long time
on deck covered with tarpaulin and
holding on to a mast, expecting every
moment to be washed overheard, and
not caring very much If l was. Finally
we reached Jersey, and, strange to say,
my cough disappeared. 1t had teen
chronic"
A GERMAN physician. has demonstra-
ted that early rising isa very bad hab-
it. He has taken the troable to collect
information as to the habits in this re-
spect of several persons who have lived
to an advanced age, and he finds that
in the majority Of the cases the long
livers have INDUCED in late hours. Al
least out of 10 persons who attained
the age of 80 years and upwaa1 were
in the habit Of not retiring until the
early hours of the morning, and of re-
manning in bed until the day was far =
vanced. On the other hand he has
failed to discover, after careful obser-
vation of the health of several early
risers, that it was il any degree better
than that of similar number of late
risers. He thinks that SO far fr0m any
decided benefit being gained by getting
up early in the morning, it rather tends
to exhaust physical power and shorten
life. "a a i p 20 I
THE largest infant at birth of which
there is any authenticated record was
born in Ohio on the 18th of last jan
uary. The newborn boy was .2Ss
pounds in weight (the ordinary weight
being about 6 pounds). and 80 inches in
heig BIT (the ordinary height being about
20 inches). The circumference of the
head was 10 inches, and the foot was 81
inches in length. Six years ago the
same woman became the mother of a
child Is pounds in weight and "a inches
is height. The size and weight of the
babe, though extraordinary, are pro-
portionate to the size of the parents.
The mother, Mrs. NJ. v. Bates, of Nova
Scotia, is fest and 0 inches high, and
the fathers . Ksntuckian, is, feet 3
inches high. The London Hospital
Museum can boast no longer of its giant
infant, which is only "a inches high,
with the head. 13A inches in circumfer-
ence. ~