The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-20
HERE AND THERE.

ILLINOIS farm products amounted to
$500, 600, 900 last year, which is double the
product of all the gold and silver mines
in the United States.
+ A RAILROAD doing IN ordinary bust
ness requires for its current operations
supplies to the extent of 1000 per mile
per year, exclusive of rails, locomotives
and cars.
A PLEASANT evening game in Detroit
is for each player to oil his hands and
then try to turn door-knob. The one
who succeeds first gets hunk of taffy
on string.
SOCIETY bellies in Washington now
affect the banjo, which they are learn
ing to play. There are many costly
ones with ebony handles and silver
mountings.
RANDOLPH, N. Y, has been the scene
OF romance which, in point of faith
fulness on the part of the woman, is
equal to that of Longfellow's Evange-
line. Miss Betsey Knight, who died a
few days ago at the age of eighty-fve
was in her girlhood betrothed to young
man in Ohio, and shortly before the day
of the nuptials he died. Miss Knight
refused to believe it, and remained faith
full to him all these years in the hope
that he would return and claim her.
The Scranton Pa.) Republican as
serts that the following story is true:
"Mr. John Merchant came to this
country from England some ten years
ago, and settled in this city. His sister
preceded him some nine years, and I'M
til last Saturday they did not know of
each others whereabouts, and yet they
have both been living in Hyde Park dur
ing this time, and have attended the
same church. They spent last Sabbath
together at his residence, and were as
happy a couple undoubtedly as could be
found within the city,
FREDERICK Heller, a farmer of
Marion, O., was approached the other
day by well dressed man who wanted
to buy team of fine horses. As the
strangers credentials were good, Heller
sold the horses, taking in pay United
States bond for $500 and giving the
stranger his note for $500. The pur-
chaser of the horses drove away with the
team, stopped at the next bank, dis
posed of the note, and disappeared. A
few hours after the sharper's departure
Heller found that the bond was bogus, a
counterfeit, and utterly worthless.
REV. WILLIAM NJ. BARRY, an &C.
centric clergyman of Worcester, Mass,
left will which is Enthusiastically
odd. What is left of his estate is to be
applied to the support of service in his
former church. He left directions for
all his papers to be burned, that no no
tice of his death was to be published in
the papers, that his coffin should be
mere plain box, that he should be buried
his poorest clothes, an express wagon
to be used in the place of hearse, that
his grave was to be dug anywhere and
entirely unmarked, and that the only
service at his funeral consist of the read
ing of two psalms.
IT often happens that two women
claim the same man for husband, but
it is rare that one woman claims two
men, neither of whom wants her. But
such is the condition of divorce suit
in New York, originally begun by the
second husband, with the connivance of
the first, to show that the second mar
rage was undertaken before the divorce
from the first husband was granted. A
decree in favor would have left her
married to her first husband. He
changed his mind and resisted the de-
cree, but the Court had decreed that the
divorce was invalid, which leaves the
second husband free, but binds the first.
The San Francisco Call, referring to
William A. Beck and the late Miss Mel
lie Croker of Sacramento, says: The
lady, who is we'll known in this city,
being related to one of the railroad
her father having been also
one of the originators of the Central
Pacific, was engaged to be married to
the son of an ex-Secretary of State, now
in this city. A few days before she
died, in New York, the younglady made
her will, disposing of 100000, which
was in her own right. Remembering
her comparatively poor friend in this
State, she inserted a clause in the will
giving the young man 100000 in gold
coin as q parting Gift"