The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

i MISCELLANEOUS.
"A luratic aesthetic in England re.
Gently paid $4,000 for u couple of blue
china ginger-pots.
"A member of the New Hampshire
Legislature denounced bill that was
under discussion as ''treacherOus as
was the stabbing of Cesar by Judas in
the Roman capital"
Leonard Hook was taken to the
alms-house in Cambria County, Pa, q
short time ago as pauper. On exam.
ination bank certificate of deposit for
$40 and twenty-One dollars in cash was
found in his clothing.
"A young man of San Antonio, Tex,
fractured his jaw-bOne so completely
the other day that his attending physi-
clans drilled holes through the bones
and bound them back into place by
means of thread wire.
In one of the Switzerland. land
slides whole tract of wood slipped
down hillside and spread over some
meadows without uprOoting or even in
| juring the trees, thus converting at one
stroke tract of pasturage into piece
of forest land.
In most States the Jews and Sew
enth-day Baptists are by law exempted
from keeping Sunday, provided they
keep Saturday instead. Pennsylvania
is one of the exceptions, and in several
counties of that State the Sunday law is
very rigidly enforced against Seventh
day Baptists. A movement to change
the statute is to be made.
The use of the American word
" caucus" is becoming common in En-
gland, and the London newspapers are
puzzled over its derivation. 1t is said
to come from caulkers' meetings."
held by Boston shipyard employees in
ences to arrange for concerted political
action were soon called "caulkers,"
and in time the term became "caucus."
"A Chicago correspondent, looking
over a mercantile directory for 1872,
finds on the black list the entry: '.Z--
Guiteau, Charles j., lawyer" Turning
to the definition of the letter '.Z'' he
finds: ':Z-lncome uncertain and often
precarious. Defer indefinite the pay
ment of debts. Lawsuits to collect
same would be useless. No credit or
favOrs should be shOwn.''
Even the king of Kings suffers
occasionally from tOothache. Not long
ago the Shah of Persia underwent. in
the presence of his entire Court, the
dangerous operation of having one of
his teeth extracted. The operation was
success; certainly financially, for not
less that 5000 ducats were sent to him
in single day by his faithful subjects
as ''congratulatory offerings" The fee
of the European dentist who attended
him was 100 ducats.
One of those romances you read
about, but which are rarely actual oc-
currences, is related in the New York
papers. A young man who had rescued
q young woman from drowning last Au-
gust, walked up to the Mayors office
one day last week and was married TO
her. Some of the sentiment of the
story disappeared, however. when it
came out that the couple were engaged
before the little scene of the rescue was
enacted.
Mrs. Judge Mann, of Granville, and
her sOn-in-law, while visiting Washing
ton some time ago, says the Troy (N.
W Times, were courteOusly shown
through the White House grounds by a
stranger who took pains to inform them
that he was Chicago lawyer and an
applicant for office. Two days later the
country was Mortified by the shooting
of President Garfield, and in the por-
traits of the assassin Guiteau Mrs. Mann
recognized the officious guide.
AT services held in the Orthodox
Synagogue in Washington on the day of
mourning for President Garfield s death.
a member who delivered a discourse
called attention to the fact that ''curi-
ously enough. this dav is coincident
with an assassination prominent in jew
ish history, that of Gedayah, Governor
of Judea, who was brutally murdered
by one lshmael; and even at this remote
day, 2,24O years after the crime, his
memory is held in contempt and detes-
tation.'
j. B. Eicheles, pale young man,
distinguished himself at ballroom in
the rear of beer saloon in New York
by waltzing from eight o'clock in the
morning till eleven o'clock at night
COoSdtlOus y" uCu tuC ClOCA
struck eleven the dancer struck into a
lively jig amid the cheers of the specta-
tors. AS reward for the hard work
the dancer received the money result
ing from an admission of fifteen cents
from each spectator. An accordion
supplied the music.
There are reports in German jour-
nails of many emigrants who have been
starting out for America with only
means enough to get to Liverpool or
some other seaport. There, utterly
destitute, they have been subjected to
much suffering, and have finally been
assisted in returning to their homes
with public funds. merely to prevent
their becoming permanent burdens on
the public charities. These poor peo-
pie set out with a vague notion that
they would in some way be enabled to-
complete their journey.
"A curious custom prevailed in Paris
at the beginning of the present century.
When q new press was received in a