The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

uISCKLLANEOUS.
-Awhits robin Was recently captured
IN Gaysport. PA.
The Earl Of Mount Cashel. who II
about to marry . widow, Mrs. Moles-
worth, il in his ninetieth year.
AT an expenditure Of ETC, 900. um-
der the Stock Protection act, 469. 900
kangaroos and wallaby dogs have been
destroyed In New South Wales IN .
year.
DIR. McCreery, Of Louisville, KY.
believed that . thoroughly acquired ap-
petite for rum was incurable, and there.
fore, when he found himself possessed
| of one he committed suicide.
Robert Warnock, . veteran Of the
war of 1872, and 1O2 years old, has juct
become an inmate of the Veteran Sol
diers' Home in Dayton. O.. hoping to
pass the remainder Of his days there.
The long dry spell caused bees
to tap tho grape. They extracted the
juice 80 thoroughly in some vineyards
about Thomaston, Md, that nothing
was left but the skin and seeds.
Three Philadelphia girls, ranging
from eleven to thirteen years of age,
agreed to test the pleasures of getting
drunk. They bought bottle of whisky
and drank it. A policeman soon after.
ward found them lying insensible in the
street.
The Sioux have fashion Of NAM
| ing children in the order in which they
are born. So the roll has many such
names as Winona, Hapan, Hepi. Wa
born, second-bor third-bOrn, fourth
born, fifth-born, and 50 on.
The identical table used by Thomas
Jefferson for tea service at Monticello
is in the possession of w. N. Rufin, Of
Danville. Va. one of his lneal descend
ants. The table is neatly made of hard
oak, about six feet long and four feet
wide, with two small folding leaves.
in ten minutes .'cane rush, be-
tween Union College sophomores and
freshmen, at Schenectady, N. r., the
other day, most of the contestants were
shirtless. After the fight bits of tat
tered clothing Uttered the ground. The
faculty were unable to stop the fracas,
and will hereafter make expulsion the
penalty for such exhibitions.
The farmers of Maine ought to put
up monument in honor of the cater
pillars which devastated their apple
orchards few years ago; for since that
time the trees have regularly borne in
what are elsewhere ''off years" This
years crop in Maine Is enormous, the
quality is superb and the farmers are
getting three dollars q barrel at their
own doors. owing to the scarcity every
where else.
Apple peels and apple cores are
now shipped from Chicago by the bar
rel to makers of apple butter. When
shipper asked the freight clerk what
rate he would charge on them, the clerk,
thinking the customer was joking
him, asked: '.Do you want a separate
rate for stems and seeds?" He was
very much astonished to learn that
cores and skins are regular article Of
merchandise.
No one can contemplate the statfs-
tics which reveal the Wholesale slaugh-
ter of railroad brakemen, while they are
engaged in the duty of coupling cars
without being shocked into the convic-
ton that some means for preventing il
ought to be enforced. A law compel
ling the use of safety couplers was in
troduced in the Connecticut Legisla-
ture during the last session and laid
over for year to afford the Railroad
Commissioners of the State time to con-
slider the subject.
"A Cincinnati boy brought home
some caps and Illuminating powder from
the fireworks factory in which he was
employed, and put them under his bed.
His mother struck them with broom
while sweeping. and caused an explos-
ion which almost killed her. The lad
did not let this mishap hinder his di.
version. He brought home q much
larger quantity of the explosives, and
kept them in Q box on the roof of the
house. Afew days ago roofer picked
up the box, rubbed the powder between
his fingers, and was blown into frag-
ments
Jemima Burke, of Fleming. KY,
was visited simultaneously by two suit
ors, Royce and Rogers. Neither was
inclined to retire and leave the other
alone with the girl, because both knew
that they had alike come to pop the
question. After two hours of obstinate
sitting, Rogers remarked that q man
was selling moonshine whisky in .
lonely place half q mile away, and in
vited Royce to 60 and drink some. They
went together and got the whisky.
Rogers then said he guessed he would
return to Jemima, as ne wished to see
her alone. Royce replied that he had
precisely similar intention. That
made Rogers desperate, and he shot
Royce TO death.
Queen Ranavalomanjka, of Mada-
gascar, has always been q strong tenn
perance woman and rigid advocate of
pr0hibitory laws. In Imerina, her CEN
trail province. new prohibitory law
has just been promulgated, which, If
she shall be able to enforce it, ought to
result in the strictest sobriety Under
penalty of . fine of ten oxen and ten
dollars, it prohibits the manufacture,
and sale of intoxicating beverages and
Furnishes with lighter penalties those
found drunk or carrying the liquor,