The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
HERE AND THERE.

francisco. Hitherto hve-cent pieces
have been The least coin received.
AT Madrid, Spain, sentries exposed to
the "death BREATH blowing from the
Guadarama Mountains, are changed ev-
cry half hour.
In the poorest quarter of Rome, Italy,
crowd of furnishing workmen stopped
a cart load of bread, and in twinkling
carried it all off, There is terrible des-
titution there.
HERE at last is slight variation from
the usual pistol accident. Mrs. Adams,
of Deer Island, Me-, snapped the
weapon at her little daughter, suppos-
ing it was empty, and killed the child.
EUREKA, New, boasts of one
armed man who makes living by
chopping wood. The fellow is good
chopper, and yields his ak with as much
dexterity as the best woodman in the
country.
THE Lowell (Mass.) Courier has its
Boston news sent directly to the office
by telephone from the Hub. Instead
of the familiar line " Special Dispatch"
etc., the columns of that paper are
headed 'sBy Telephone to the Courier
NOT long since storm occurred in
Florence, Italy, which rendered loco
motion impossible for nearly twenty
four hours. The streets were covered
Al &c nd a
several houses fell in beneath the unex-
pected weight.
THE Mormons have no scruples over
telling the truth about the dead. At
recent funeral in Salt Lake, President
TAYLOR remarked: He died drunk
ard-and he will find a drunkard's
grave. He has gone to hell, and there
is where he deserves to 60"
"MAY mouse never leave your cup
board with tear in his eye!" and cen
closed please find fifty cents, which l
received from young man in payment
for kiss" the latter headed, " Let the
Good Work Go On" are among the
messages sent with contributions to the
Irish relief fund of the New York Her.
aid.
GRORGE ZEIGLER, of Butler, Pa,
was out hunting RABBITS. While passing
through a piece of woods he saw a
squirrel sitting on limb, an unusual
81 ght this time of year. He fired. The
squirrel did not drop. He fired twice
more before it fell. When he went to
pick it up he saw four squirrels lying on
the ground. They were all joined to-
gether by a strip of flesh that passed
from one to the other. Three of the
squirrels were dead, and the other one
died soon afterward. They were all full
grown and well developed.
THE word telegraph was first brought
into use about 1893 or 1894, when the
French directory established machines
for communicating intelligence between
Paris and all the principal towns o.
France. The British Government soor
after adopted the same measure. Tht
authority for this assertion will be foune
in Recess Encyclopedias, 1919, vol. 80
The word does not appear in Johnson
Dictionary until the edition of 1878, ant
neither does it occur in the Crane
French Encyclopedias of Diderot Of IT'S
Mrs. MARY JANE ROzELLE, age'
1O5, the oldest resident of Oswego, N
Y, is a remarkable example of preser
walton. She has several children ivinI
here whom she visits, walking to thei
various houses as sprightly as girl
Her form is straight, she talks rapid
and intelligently, and says she has pei
feet use of all her senses. Her Made
name was Kline, and she was born l
Montreal in IVA. She has had fftee
children, nine of whom are living
aged 60, 81, IS, 6, 81, SO, and tw
others Younger. Her own family COZ
sisted of three sisters and seven brots
ers, of whom one only survives, age
IS. She was married seventy-five yea'
ago, being the second wife Of Peter II
.zelle, who died aged 10 years and
months, the father of twenty-five Chi
,dren.
J. F. BoRTER, of the Europea
House, Williamsport, Pa, was openin
an unusually large oyster, when he wi
.astonished to see something jump Of
and alight in pail of water, where
swan and darted about as lively as
trout in brook. There was only
small part of the oyster in the shell, Il