The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-23
HERE AND THERE.

ported, but is in the enjoyment of excel
lent health.
AYouNa lady went from Alabama to
Rome to marry an Italian Count with
whom she had corresponded. but the
Counts wife and four children raised so
many objections that the marriage didn't
take place.
TWENTY kegs of gold were received
in Chicago from New York the other
day. Each weighed about 800 pounds,
and contained s75, 900, making 81 $780,
600 in all. This money was sent to Jim
Keene in payment for wheat.
IT is fashionable in Massachusetts,
this winter, to ride in the Oldest sleighs
that can be obtained. A wealthy Pitts
field man proudly uses one that is over
a hundred years old as to body. while
the leather wings of the dashboard are
more ancient by half a century.
The place known as the "Tombs of
the Kings" short distance to the north
of Jerusalem, has recently been pur-
chased by French lady, and by her Or
ders excavations have been undertaken
there. Capitals and other architectural
remains have been found.
Mrs. ScHREIBER was assured by a
San Francisco fortune-teller that great
trouble would come to her in conse-
quence of speculation in stock, if she did
not quickly get out of that sort of bust
ness. 1t happened that Mrs. Schneider
and her husband had just risked all their
savings in stock operation, and the
words of the fortune-teller frightened
and worried them so much that they
committed suicide.
TOBY HUGHES was not considered OF
much consequence in San Francisco,
where he was a brokers' clerk. He
quietly bought 10000 shares of Chal-
lenge mining stock at 81 share, which
was all that it was worth. Through a
friend, he went through the form of
daily selling some of the stock at an adj
vance, being always himself the pur-
chaser. In month he got the quota
ton up to $3.50, though there had been
no real sales. Then he left with sew
eral brokers bogus orders from Flood,
the millions man, to buy it at SIS. They
thereupon purchased Toby's 10000
shares, and he, with the $4,000 profit,
hastily quilted the city. Challenge has
dropped back to 81.
A WOMAN at Stockton, CAL, who had
; drunken husband, was waiting late at
night for him to come home. The lamp
was in her bedroom and she was in the
parlor. Hearing noise outside, as if
man who was drunk was trying to find
the gate, she went out, and sure enough
a drunken. man was there. She helped
him into the parlor,as she had been used
to doing, and placed him carefully onth'
lounge. After hard struggle she go
his coat and vest off, and then pulled a
the boots Gas she thought they were)
, but they would not come off. At length
she felt up about the ankles and fount
G that the man had shoes on-somethlns
, that her husband never wore. Striking
h a light she saw he was stranger. :
3 The question has been raised by tn
Jeuish World of London whether tn
Afghans are not of Jewish origin. Tha
> paper asserts that the prevailing type o
;. the Afghan physiognomy is strongl,
: Jewish-more so than any other livin'
!, race, while in their religious custom
considerable analogy can be traces
between them and those of orthodox
Jews. In the case of certain branche
- of the Afghan people this is particular
2 striking-so much so that one write
= went so far as to conclude that he ha
found in them the descendants of tn
- lost tribes of Israel. All the nativ
- AFGHAN histories contain detaile
v accounts of the early history OF til
:. Jews from Abraham to the captivity
# and, although the bulk of the populatio
was converted to Islam years and yea1
AGO, it is stated in a local history that
u was not until the middle of the tent
- century that Judaism was entirely give
70 up and Islamism had become the pr
= vailing religion.
- EMPEROR NORTON the First is dea'
- He reigned in San Francisco, and firm
" believed in his sef-imposed It'll
= His subjects were old Californians, WI
!. humored his whim by paying the
n sessments he levied. He was natural
- handsome man, but he made himse
orotesoue by his dress. A plume alwa