The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

NEGOTIATIONS.
"A newspaper philanthropist in New
York gave /, 900 newsboys . free ride
to Boynton Beach.
! "A Georgia farmer mistook his rag
ged son for scarecrow at distance,
and playfully shot bullet into him.
Only two grandchildren Of Daniel
Webster are now living-Mrs. James
Geddes Day and Mrs. Samuel Apple
ton.
Nineteen apple-pies of ordinary
size in half an hour was the achieve
ment of the victor In Louisville eating
match.
William E. Flinn's ranch, near San
Diego. CAL, boasts grape vine which
bore five tons of grapes last year and
broke down an oak two and 0ne-hah
feet in diameter and sixty feet high,
which suspported it.
Two men digging on the Cape, not
far from Dover, Del. the other day
found an old Zinc box containing 3D. 600
in doubloons. Many years ,go an En-
lish ship supposed to contain 81. 600, 900
in gold was wrecked there.
There are ladies who should be
careful when they eat corn from the
cob. At q watering place hotel the
other day lady at dinner made so
frightful q bite at the ear that, when
she released it, her upper set of false
teeth came with it.
Caroline and Mary Clark. daughters
of . wealthy Kentucky lawyer and
planter who was bankrupted by the
war. went to work in o Pittsburgh Pa-)
hotel eleven years ago. labored faith
fully and accumulated several thousand
dollars. Now an uncle in California
has left them $4,000.
Henry Ward Beecher's brother
James says: II don't believe light
ming rods are any protection. The insu-
lar theory is exploded. If I did put one
up should lay it direct upon the house
without any insulators. But # I am
ever going to be killed, / had rather
die by lightning than any other way"
Madras, the so-called benighted
Presidency of India, is the first to rec
Ognize the claims of women to import
ant offices. The Gazette announces the
appointment of q lady, Miss Pogson. to
be Meteorological Reporter to the Gov
eminent of that Presidency. Miss Pog-
son has for some years discharged with
great ability the duties of Assistant
Government Astronomer.
Thomas Harrison. the popular revival
list, receives for weeks services at q
camp meeting. he makes profit from
the sale of his photographs. hymn books
and biography. The managers of the
camp at Acton, Ind, say they were well
pleased with these terms, and volun-
tarily provided him with q tent fur
nished in the most luxuriant manner.
AT Newcastle, Pa. lime stone car
was started down 2, 800 foot incline by
a mule catching his harness in the
brake. Half way down, going like q
cannon-bal it reformed an eXtraordi-
kept to the foot of the hill, where it
knocked limestone train into kind
lings, cut mule in two and so seri-
ously bombarded with limestone three
men who were fleeing that one died.
in most of the cities of the United
States the placard, "Misfts," has late
ly become common in the windows of
clothing stores. 1t appears that Phil
adelphia dealer found that he was car
rying larger stock than he could sell
during the season by ordinary methods,
and to avoid ruin he tried the well-worn
tricks of . Sherifs foreclosure and
damage by fire, but in vain. Then he
advertised his stock as q lot of "mis-
fits" purchased from fashionable tailors
at nominal prices. He had q run, and
the news of his success has spread.
"A Hollander named RAINBOW, living
in Paterson, N. j., recently determined
to visit his daughter in Holland and die
il his old home. He sold his house in
Paterson, converted all his property in
to cash, and looked forward to the
with his daughter with child
like anticipation. A few days before
he was to sail q message came that
made him heartbroken. His daughter
and her husband had both been drowned
by break in one of the dykes. causing
q sudden flood that swept them and the
carriage in which they were riding out
to sea.
The statement is Just made public
that Tom Ewing met General Sherman
in New Orleans just before the war and
told him he had better 90 home and get
to be made Major General by Ewing's
father. General Sherman shook his
head and said: mo, Tom; 1 don't
want to 60 in as q Major-General;I
want to be q Brigadier-General. There
will be mistakes committed in the first
part of the war, and they will turn out
all their original Major Generals. aud
then the Brigadiers will come to the
'front.'. am for Brigadier-Generalcy
10 begin with"
When you wish to know what the
weather is to be 60 out and select the
smallest cloud you see. Keep your eye
1pon it. and if it decreases and disap-
pears it shows q state of the air which
$ sure to be followed by fine weather;
but If it increases in size. take your
great coat with you if you are going
rom home. for falling weather is not
ar of. The reason is this: When the
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