The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-21
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

U6NGnAA DhH
A BEER contest was n feature of q
charitable fair at Fort Wayne, Ind,
each purchaser of glass voting for his
avOrite brewer.
THE late Mrs. Angelina Grimke Void
left paper in which she said, I" ! have
purposely selected my old clothes to be
buried in that my good ones may he
given to the poor, that they may do
them good after am gone"
A MAN at Bloomington, Ind, has for
several years believed that he was n dog.
The people did not object, as long as he
confined his demonstrations to barking
Mt those who passed his house, but when
he began to bite them, they locked him
up.
SIGNOE DARIO MEZZEI, stcnOgrapher
to the Italian Senate, has invented a
machine which claims to reproduce a
speech in the ordinary printed charac-
tiers as rapidly as it is spoken, n word of
several syllables being recorded by a
single touch of the keys.
BRIGANDAGE is thriving in Sicily.
A Signor Shermi has had to pay 1922
OO0f. for his release, Signor Tucci has
paid 25,0L0f., and nothing is known of
the fate of the three other landowners
lately carried off, their families refusing
to meet the demand of their captors.
YOUNG Seward placed a pistol at his
head, in the presence of the girl who
had rejected his suit, at Houston, Mimi,
and said he was going to commit sui
eide. He counted, Zone, two"
and she covered her eyes with her hands.
"Leok at me-" he said; she obeycd !;
"three!" and into his brain went the
fatal bullet.
DIR. JAEGER of Stuttgart, Germany,
has been making 4 fresh investigation
into the subject of the human nose. lie
finds that the human nose is the seat of
the human soul, and that the workings
of the latter are recorded on the surface
of the former; also, that by the use of
certain volatilizing chemicals in the nos
trils specific traits of character can be
produced OF changed.
A FOREIGN lecturer on cremation as
serts that the ancient Greek, Celtic,
Roman, Thracian, Swedish and Japanese
reverence for fire indicates that the
practice of burning human bodies orig
mated in religious motives. There is
nothing in the Bible against cremation,
he says, and when the practice died out
in Europe, science and the arts died out,
and the Dark Ages came, and with them
buria'.
THE Oldest Postmaster in the service
is Edward Stabler of Sandy Springs,
Montgomery County, Nd. His COM
mission is dated December IA, 1880,
nearly 40 years ago, when Andrew Jack
son was President. His salary last year
was 1897, and has never been larger than
that sum. Mr.. John Wilson of Plato,
Iroquois County, ILL.,, is the Oldest Post
master west of the Allegheny Mountains,
having served since 1910.
The youngest daughter of Secretary
Stanton, says the New York Ercnng
Post, is engaged to Lieutenant Bush, of
the Fifth United States Artillery. She
was engaged some time ago to a men,
Der of the Turkish Legation at Wash
ington, but when the Turk informed her
guardian that his wife would occupy the
same position at his home that other
Turkish wives do, the guardian refused
his consent
WITCH burning is not recognized as
n crime in Russia, although this is the
nineteenth century, and the age of holy
missions. Seventeen peasants of Mini
Novgorod met the other day, and sol
EMMY cremated an elderly female resi-
dent in their neighborhood, who was
suspected of black cat and broomstick
tendencies. The Court acquitted them
all, but directed three of them to make
their peace, by penances, with the
Church.
GEN. JOHN w. SPRAGUE, who is su-
perintending the construction of the
Pend Oreille Division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, in explaining TO the
directors, in New York, why he had
laid track from n well of water said ::
"a Chinaman consumes three and a
half gallons of water day. These So
called heather insist on washing them
selves all over with clean water before
going TO bed" The Northern Pacific
employs over 400 of them in grading its
road east of the Columbia River.
THE Bank of England was incorpor-
atcd in 1919. 1t covers five acres of
ground and employs 600 clerks. There
are no windows on the street; light is
admitted through open courts. NOmob
could take the bank, therefore, without
cannon to batter the immense walls.
The clock i'm the center of the bank has
so dials attached to it. Large cisterns
are sunk in the courts, and engines in
perfect order are always in readiness in
case of fire.
A NEW invention has been tried with
success in London in the utilization of
the power generated in stopping street
cars for the purpose of restarting them
and thus saving the extra eXertion of
the horses. The continuance is a coiled
spring, which is wound up by the stop
ping of the car, and which, when re-
leased, acts on the wheels SO as to i'm
part motion. 1t acts, too, as an assist
ance to horses up steep grade, the
power having been acquired in pre-
ceding down grade and kept stored in
the spring until the energy is required.
WHAT Zulu discipline and rule was is
clearly indicated by a story told by
Cetewayo himself while on his way down
to the place of embarkatiOn. Pointing
to a bush, he informed his conductors
that in front of that bush Chaka used to
sit after battle had been fought in or
der to hear accusations of cowardicc
against any of his soldiers. If a man
were convicted on what seemed sufli-
cicnt evidence he was expected to stand
still with his left arm high above his
head, while an assegai was slowly and
by degrees thrust downward from the
armpit till it pierced the heart.