The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-16
HERE AND THERE.

The widow of Agassiz was the first
woman to cast her vote in Boston at the
recent municipal elections.
MRS. HAYES was assisted in receiving
her New Years callers by four young
ladies Miss Matthews, daughter of the
ex-senator; two Misses Jones of Gin
cinnati, and Miss Lucy Cook, Mrs.
Hayes's cousin.
JOHN MADDocKs and Henry Quin
of Dublin, the former in the clear and
unencumbered possession of $4,000 a
year, and both in full possession of
health and competence, committed sui
eide early in the century for no other
reason than that they were tired of the
UNMARRIED repetitions and amusements,
to them unexpectedly insipid, of ex-
istence.
A CHICAGO thief shaved off his mus
tache after robbing a lady in the street,
and by that means made it impossible
for her to identify him when he was ar
rested; but he could not long resist the
desire to look his best, and three months
later, when the new mustach- had grown
like the old one, she recognized him in
crowd, and he has been convicted.
A LITTLE boy starved to death, at
Pittsburg, in consequence of throat
disease that prevented his swallowing
any thing. He lived four weeks with
out eating or drinking. His pleadings
for food were pitiful, and he frequently
dreamed of enjoying sumptuous repasts,
only to awake to dreadful hunger and
thirst. Just before he died he asked his
mother if they would have good din
ner for him in heaven.
THE German Government recogniz-
ing the danger of smoking tobacco by
youths, have seriously taken the matter
in hand, as it considers the practice
dangerous to the constitution. In many
towns the police have received orders
to prevent all youths under sixteen years
of age from smoking. A Belgian ply
stefan considers it causes color blind
ness. 6
A YEAR-oLD child fell out of car
window, the other day, near Parkers-
burg, Va, and every body supposed it
would be killed. The mother was
frantic with grief. The train was
stopped, and party went in search of
the waif, when it was found, half a
mile back, sitting on pile of brush,
crying Justify. The child was wholly
uninjured, save slight bruise on its
head.
The protector of the Sutro Tunnel is
of the opinion that the hot water which
is so troublesome in the Comstock
mines, comes from a depth of ten or
fifteen thousand feet, where the rocks
are at high temperature; also that
there must be some connection between
the water of the Comstock lode and
that of the boiling springs at Steam
boat, six or seven miles distant.
VISITORS to Edison's laboratory at
Menlo Park, N. Y, are warned not to
enter the room where the dynamo-elec-
trio machine is at work; but they go in
all the same. Several valuable watches
have been spoiled by the electricity
reaching their works; and one lady, on
New Years Day, STOPPING down to look
at something near the machine, was
Mortified at seeing all the hairpins dart
ing from her head to the generator, be-
side which she was.
MKs. ANN E. GARRISON, of South
Bay City, Mich, has obtained a verdict
of $1,000 against saloon-keeper of
that place who sold her husband liquor.
She sued for $4,000 damages, alleging
that before her husband commenced
drinking he was worth S15, 900, and had
an annual income of $4,000; but drink
took it all away and made him drunk
en-, shiftless creature, and unable to at
tend to business. He is now in Cali
fornia.
A NICE little tragedy was enacted at
Deadwood, on New Years Eve. Bessie
Woodwork, variety actress from
Philadelphia, suicided by blowing out
her brains with revolver at the Olym-
pic Theater. She was playing an en-
sagement at the Olympic, and, as the
clock struck II, ringing in the New
Year, put the pistol to her forehead,
pressed the trigger and the deed was
done. She was only 18years old. Her
lover, an actor, had cast her off.