The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-24
GENERAL.

Some of the big wholesale houses
have quit drumming and gone to adver-
Using, and they report it as . profitable
change.
"A Georgia farmer, removing to Al
ALBANIA, took his cow With him. The
other day the COW wandered back to her
old home in Cobb county, distance Of
ninety miles.
AT Morrisville, Madison County, N.
T., . pet dog was permitted to lap the
face of girl sick with scarlet fever. and
the dog has since been killed because OF
symptoms Of hydrophobis.
Mrs. Cassie Watson, of New York,
wife OF Albert Watson, q law clerk, sued
Hermann NJ. Meyer to recover $1,000
for stolen kiss. She made out q case,
and the jury awarded her six cents dam
ages.
North Cardinals outlaw chief,
Henry Berry Lowery, q man of many
romances, recently was reported dead.
The RobeSont0n, published in that State,
now says Lowery is alive; that he left
the mountains and North Carolina about
the time of his reported death, being
carried in q tool-chest through Char
lotte and across the border. He went
West, enlisted, and is now leading the
quiet life of Sergeant in the United
States Army.
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette Is 113
years old, and very sedate, but it tells
the following story: "a Salem mother
has daughter who so closely resembles
her that the one is frequently taken for
the other. The other day the mother
walked up to her own reflection in q
large mirror in dry-goods store, and
putting forth her hand, said: 'Why,
Maria, when did you come home? I
thought you were to stay at your uncle's
a week?' A broad smile rippled round
the store as the mystified lady touched
the glass;
"A correspondent of the Manchester
On. H. Mirror asserts that the crow is
exterminating the singing birds of New
England. He says, ''Few are the nests
that escape his vigilant search. and
fewer still the young birds that do not
60 to satisfy his ravenous appetite and
fill his capacious NAV. have watched
aRd cursed them for years. have seen
them pounce upon the nest of the lark
and of the plover; I have seen them
leaving the nest of the robin with the
young in their beaks. For several years
l had watched the return of a pair of
robins to an old apple tree near my
house, where they had built their nest
and reared their young. One morning
heard the piercing cry of the Olo birds,
foreboding danger and distress. l ran
to the window just in time to see q crow
fly from the tree with young robin in
his mouth. In less than five minutes
the crow returned, dived into the tree,
and this time the last of my four half
grown pet robins was borne away"
Old Nell Giles is q negro fortune
teller at Augusta. Ga. She lives in a
cellar, in the midst of weird things, and
is a hideous bag. The negroes believe
she is veritable witch. Joe Stevens
went to her from Edgeield to get cure
for his rheumatism. She performed
some mummery over him, anointed his
rheumatic arm, and the pain ceased.
She assured him that he had been ''con-
jured' by some secret enemy, and that
he could not be permanently cured until
he shed some of that PERSONS blood.
Her directions to Joe for discovering the
guilty one was to shake hands with all
his acquaintance, noting whose hand
he held when a twinge came into his
arm. Joe went to church, and did q
great amount of hand sinking before
the services began. His arm gave the
warning when Andy Richardson shook
it. Joe went home, procured a long
knife, hid it in his sleeve, returned to
the church, and plunged the weapon in
to Andy's heart. Whether this would
have brought about the cure promised
by Old Nell cannot be determined, for
the patient has been hanged.