The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-22

pasture. The size OF farms has, Tor the
past Is years, been steadily increasing
Since 1873 there has been q decrease Of
8, 12O holdings under 80 acres. and az
increase Of $50 in holdings above that
limit.
An Arctic Committee has been
formed in London, with sub committees
throughout the country, for the purpose
of inaugurating an English expedition
to the Pole, to start next spring, to CO
operate with those sent out by other
countries. Commander Cheyne is the
chief promoter of the enterprise.
The Car has just issued orders for
the construction of six new State-pris
ons, to accommodate $500 convicts,
and has decreed thirty millions of rou-
bles for their building and fitting up.
Two other huge State-prisons are be-
ing erected, one in Siberia and one in
trans aucasia, to accommodate some
| 10000 offenders.
Prince Jerome Napoleon's nick
name of "Plon-Plon" was, it is said,
obtained in his childhood at Stuttgart,
where he was great favorite with the
late King William of Nuremberg. The
King used to amuse himself by asking
the little Prince his name, and the child,
who could not then speak plainly, al
ways answered, "Plon.Plo " instead
of Napoleon" It was in this way
that he became known by this name at
the Wurtemberg Court, and he has never
lost it since.
The wreath of gold leaves which
Queen Victoria placed on the coffin Of
the Prince Imperial bore card upon
which she had written: I" S0uuesir de
UiUe affection, a'estin'e, ct de orofonds re-
grets de Ia part de Victoria Reg" A
similar wreath was presented by the
Princess of Wales, and upon the accom-
panying card she had written: "a token
of affection and regard for him who
lived the most spotless Of lives, and died
q soldiers death, fighting for our cause
in Zululand. From Albert Edward and
Alexandria, July ~, 1872"
Mr.. Kitsuma Yamasaki, director of
the Imperial Paper Mills in Japan, has
just been married to q young German
lady, whose acquaintance he made and
to whom he became engaged while
studying his profession in Germany a
few years ago. As soon as he obtained
his lucrative Government post he sent
for his betrOthed to come out to Japan
to be married. The Japanese gentle
men are deeply struck by the graces of
Europeans. The Japanese Minister at
Berlin is married to a German lady, and
the wife of his first Secretary is an En-
glish woman.
"A short time ago, by order of Prince
DOlgorukoff, Governor General of Mos.
cow, all the usurers and pawnbrokers
resident there, to the number Of 278,
were summarily expelled the city's
bounds. On the following day the
Prince in personvisited the dwellings of
these outcast "friends of humanity" in
order to convince himself that none of
them remained behind. The greater
part of these elected persons are de.
scribed as Russians of importance, pos
sessing their own dwelling and banking
houses, and they were accompanied
forth out of the city by the military and
an immense mob of spectators.
Odds and Ends.
Motto for the keeper of hay-scales
=" Learn to labor and to weight"
NO bald-headed man was ever con-
verted by sermon during the fly sea-
son.
Railways are aristocratic. They
teach every man to know his own station
and to stop there.
1t doesn't take school boy long to
evince love for division, provided an
other boy owns the apple.
Young man, if every other way Of
making yourself conspicuous fails, eat
peanuts in q railroad car.-Yonkers Ga
zette.
Bret Harte is to bring out at once
in England a new story of California
life, entitled " The Twins of Table Noun.
tains."
Collie, according to the Boston Post,
is the result of too much self-esteem-
at least people over. ate themselves with
such results.
There is man in Cambridge, says
the Boston Commercial Bulletin, who
calls his dog Ralph Waldo Emerson,
because he is great thin cur.
-"One kind of ship I always steer
clear Of" said an old bachelor sea-Cap.
tain, (" and that's courtship; cause on
that ship there's always two mates and
no cap'n."
When some women get to be angels
they'll spend half their time in compar'
ing the feathers on their wings, and the
other half lying around and looking in
their neighbour second-story window
Elmira Gazette.
-"Never lie on your left side," says
an exchange. No! If you happen te
be on that side when you want to lie te
your wife about the important business
that kept you at the Office SO late, turn
over.-Keokuk Gate City.
With all its superior culture, New
England makes miserable failure ev
cry time it undertakes to initiate West
ern tornado. The best it can do in tina
line is to break dam and drown some
body.-HaUkeye.
Mile. Sara Bernhardt has receive(
commission to execute q portrait bus
of Lord Beaconsfield before leaving
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