The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-02
HERE AND THERE.

fair that "neither rafting nor gambling
of any kind will be allowed.''
WHILST two New Hampshire men
were fighting about the ownership of a
goat the animal fell into well, and as
neither would quit fighting to 60 to its
rescue, it was drowned.
The Dubuque Times mixed matters a
little the other day, closing marriage
notice by saying: "The suit has been
running for eight or ten years, and has
cost pile of money!
THE King of Sweden is educating the
lad who, to obtain means to 90 to
school, wrote threatening letter to the
Queen, demanding money for refrain
ing from killing the Crown Prince.
Mrs. MARY L. SEARLEs, who died in
Troy, n. Y, recently, was the daugh-
ter of a minister. the sister of minis
ter, the mother of three ministers and
the grandmother of one, all of the
Presbyterian denomination.
A LETTER was mailed at Des Moines
the other day with this inscription on
the envelope: Postmaster. If not de-
livered in 565 days burn it, and will
send a man for him. 1t is believed to
be a dunning letter.
THE personality of Satan was dis
cussed in a conference of Baptist clergy
men, at New London, Conn. There was
no vote, but a majority of the speakers
were on the affirmative side of the ques-
ton, "Is there a personal being an
swering to the name Satan?''
EIGHT Arabs lately landed at Castle
Garden, New York, among other immi-
grants. They claimed to have escaped
from prison at Cayenne, French Guiana.
From the accounts they give of them
selves they seem to have had hard
time since they We're taken prisoners,
during a revolt against the French at
Algiers, in 1870. They desire now to
go to Tunis, and hope to be joined there
by their families, who are still in Algiers.
Mrs. MARGARET TURPEY died a few
days since in Flushing, N. Y, at the au-
thenticated age of 10 years. Until the
death of her grandson she supported
herself by the work of her own hands,
mostly knitting, at which she was
very skillful. Until few months before
her death she enjoyed very good health,
and for the last twenty years had not
visibly failed. To visitors who some
times doubted her great age she used to
say, 81 am an old woman indeed, and
+ did not know better, I'd be thinking
God had clean forgotten me.''
THREE men now living, says the Gin
'innati Israelite, and we hope they will
i've many more years, have lived
through the whole chapter of modern
Jewish history, and have been actively
engaged in making it. Two years be-
ore the death of Moses Mendelssohn,
Noses Montefiore was born, 1884. Ten
7ears later DR.. Zunz of Berlin was born,
1914, who laid the foundation to the
German Jewish literature Two years
alter Adolph Cremieux was born, 1876.
1t their next birthdays these patriarchs
will count-Monteiore, 90 years; Zunz,
g years, and Cremieux, 81 years.
A SINGULAR railroad accident oc-
urred the other night on the Atlantic
xpress train just as it was reaching
hyde, n. Y. "Down brakes" had been
but the speed of the train was
ot much diminished, when a young
7oman,who had apparently been asleep,
tarted up, grasped her bundle, ran to
he platform of the car, and, without
rating for information, jumped from
ne train. Her body rolled and tum-
led over and over, and the bundle in
er hand was cut in two beneath the
heels. Half dozen sleeping-cars
assed her as she lay just outside the
ais upon the ends of the ties. She
as found to be badly bruised, but not
sriously injured. She supposed that
,e train had made the halt at Clyde
nd that she had been carried short
lstance beyond her stopping-place.
he refused to tell her name.
A CONVICT in the Wisconsin State
rison refused to go to his cell when or
cred by the Warden to do so. The
Warden held watch in one hand and
pistol in the other, and said: .sI will
i've you three minutes to obey, and if
ou don't, l shall shoot you.' The
'nvict doggedly folded his arms and
God still. Minute after minute passed.