The Iola register., 1879-09-12
GENERAL BREvITIES

GENERAL BREVITIES
THE watering place landlords have
made money this season.
MAJOR Moe, one of Barnum's dwarfs,
died a few days ago at Hartford.
WILLIAM QUIMBY of Mendheim, n.
j., has 120, 900 peach trees on his farm.
Ex-GovERNoR Brown of Georgia
SAYS there is not q millionaire in that
State.
& A swORD-swALLOwER in Vienna died
from an injury received during his per-
fOrmance.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the Librarian of
the City Library is lady, while the AS
sistants are gentlemen.
r. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS helped 5i
Young men to get an education, and
they all repaid him as soon As they were
able. l-.E --f..r
Miss AGNES HOsFoRD is the Superin-
tendent of Schools ut Eau Claire, Wis.
This city of 10000 has a wOmen's liter
AIRY club who are strongly working for
woman suffrage.
Two ladies took occasion to walk far
enough away from their hotel i'm the
Catskill Mountains to get lost. They
were found at 5 a. IN. sitting on 4 log
and talking about the fall fashions.
SEVERAL of the ultra fashionable Ia
dies at Cape May have pets of small
bulldogs, spaniels or cats, which they
lead around with fine chain attached to
Il blue ribbon or 4 collar around the
dogs neck.
REMEMBER that the sunshine is 4
good medicine, but that it is liable to
kill in Over-doses. A cabbage or PLAN
tain leaf i'm the hat of a labOrer, OF a
slln-umbrella i'm the hand of one not
used to out-of-dOOr exercise, may pre-
vent sun-strOke.-Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.
Mr.. FLOOD, the banker and miner of
the Pacific coast, is described by a cor
respondent of the Troy Times as man
i'm the prime of life, weighing about 220
pounds, with light mustache and chin
whiskers that hardly conceal peculiar,
half-mistrustful expression of the mouth.
He is evidently not fond of personal dis
play. He wore plain gray suit, straw
hat, calico neck-tie, and no jswelry eX-
cepting miniature compass on his
watch-chain.
The correspondent of Swiss news
paper warns collectors of antiquities to
beware of fabricated articles purpOrting
to belong to the age of bronze and to
have been found among the remains of
lake dwellings and in the beds of rivers.
He says there is a regular manufactOry
of these things near the Lake of Biennc,
and that bronze swords are offered at
100 francs each which are not worth as
many centimes. - s4 ~ - -
The people of San Francisco do not,
like those of Eastern cities, 90 to the
country in summer to find cool resort,
but, on the contrary, the country folks
go to the city for that purpose. The
weather has lately been cool enough in
the city mornings to make overcOats de-
sirable, and fire is occasionally COM
Portable. If the San Franciscans go in
to the country in summer, it is to get a
temporary change, and to exchange the
land for the accustomed sea breeze.
TIE Moscow journals relate an extra
ordinary escape of a young Nihilist girl
named Gobieslawska from the hands of
the police. The latter had discovered
the house in which she was concealed,
and were about to make the arrest, when,
to their surprise, they saw balloon ris-
lug from the garden containing the OBJ
ject of their search and two men. They
rapidly disappeared for some unknown
destination, leaving the gendarmes to
gaze disconsolately after them.
SIskoR MARcUccI of Spoleto, Italy,
a man of property and position, called
in DIR. Domenicis to attend his only son,
who was seriously i'll. If, said Marcuc-
ci, the young man recovered, DIR. Do
menicis should receive 1900 francs: if.
Oh the, other hand, the patient died, DR..
Domenicis should be Killed. Marcucci
proved to be a man of his word, for the
lad died, and the father thereupon killed
DOmenicis. He was condemned to five
wears imprisonment and the payment
of a fine of $1,000, to be given rs dam
ages to the Doctors widow.
PRIVATE George Phister, of the army,
wants to retire, his plea being that hav-
feels a few touches of the rheumatism.
When 16 years of age he enlisted in the
French army, fought at Waterloo and
followed the fortunes of France for cigh-
teen years. Then he served here and
there until mutterings of the conflict on
this side of the Atlantic brought him
over. Enlisting i'm the army in 1861, he
has since carried his musket continu-
Ously.
Two interesting specimens of the
orang-outang have been placed in the
Jardin d'Acclimation, Paris, the older
one having been captured with others
at Borneo after desperate chase. in the
course OF which eight natives lost their
their lives. The animals fell into an
elephant-trap thirty feet deep, and were
gradually reduced by hunger to Il state
of weakness, when they were garrOted
and shut up in cage. The largest one
measures about five feet, and is said to
be the largest ever brought TO Europe.
The Chinese in California have or
ganized branches of the Masonic order,
and are turning the organization and
its secret methods to considerable prac-
teal use. To cOunteract the influence
of this fraternity, mutual protective So |
cieties are being formed by non-Masonic |
Cinnamon, who assert that the Masonic |
order is antagonistic to the present En- .
paror of China All of the rival aSsO- /
Citations that characterize Chinese life in !
California are noted for the bitter ami I
mostly existing between them, and these |
secret fraternities are not exceptions. i
A YOUNG gentleman happening to sit
at church i'm pew adjoining one which
4 Young lady occupied for whom he con-