The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

turkeys.
The expectation of live stock and
fresh meat across the Atlantic was never |
70 active as at present. /
President Grevy gave two thousand
francs to the poor of Paris in honor OF
his daughters marriage.
According to the late French papers.
3 prodigy called Chicky is astonishing
the people by hanging to trapeze with
his hands and playing violin solos with
his feet.
Deer, squirrel and pheasants are
s.id to be abundant in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia this fall. cartridges
are scarce, while wild turkeys are above
an average.
There are six turnips on exhibition
at the Office of the Oregon Improvement
Company, Colfax, w. T., that weigh in
the aggregate 102 pounds. The largest
of the six weighs twenty-five pounds.
The second annual congress OF Ger
man numismatists has just been he'd at
Dresden. under the Presidency OF Or.
Erbstein. At the same time an exhibl-
ton was opened of coins now in use
throughout the world, which is said to
have been the most complete collection
of the kind ever seen.
"A project for constructing clrcu-
lar elevated railway for 'Vienna. which
for the last fifteen months has found
employment for large staff of English
and Austrian engineers, IS about 10 De
carried out. The proposal is that
wherever it may be possible it shall be
carried above ground on iron columns.
The chaparral cock Of Arizona
(paisano) Is very delicious bird, but
hard to kill. its motions are so rapid:
These birds, it is said, are the natural
foes of the rattlesnake, and build cor.
raj of chollay (cactus) around him, and
irritate him until he lashes himself TO
death against the thorns by which ne
is surrounded.
Until she was fourteen years old.
Victoria did not know she was heir to
the throne. But on seeing genealog-
ical table one day. she discovered the
fact, and said to her governess: There
is much splendor but much responsible
ity." Then with tears she exclaimed:
"Baroness, will be good" She was
more sober and more dignified ever after.
The large pine tree on the site OF
old Fort Herkimer, New York, which
had escaped the Ak Of the woodman be-
cause it had given shelter to General
Washington and party while dining be-
meath it's boughs, when on his way to
visit Fort Stanwix, was blown down in
a gale a few days since. 1t was over
four feet in diameter at the butt and
over $50 feet in height.
AT Knoxville, Tenn, Mr.. A. Moore
was instantly killed by the discharge OF
his gun while holding the barrel over
the fire to melt the bullet out. The ball
was tightly wedged in the barrel. and
he took this method to get it out. hav.
ing previously unbreached it and picked
the powder all out, as he thought, but
enough remained to hurl the molten
mass into his abdomen.
The biggest thing yet in the way OF
plaster casts is the cast of a whale taken
at Provincetown, Mass, by MIR. Palmer,
modeler for the Smithsonian at Wash
ington. A papier-mache fac smile is
to be nodded from the cast, the entire
skeleton of the same whale is to be in
| serted. and the monster will be Sus-
| pended in the museum. To show the
arrangement of the skeleton, one side
of the whale will be left open.
Carrie Carr and j. j. Underwood
met casually in store at Bear Creek,
Tenn. A rumor that she was about to
he married was mentioned, and she
said, 80, no; nobody will have me"
.Pll take you," he replied. An en-
pagement was made to meet al an ap-
pointed time to have the marriage GER
emonv performed. Underwood says it
was all Joke, neither party pretending
matrimony, and he did not make his
appearance. But she claims that they
were both in sober earnest and has
brought suit for $40, 1000 damages.
"A Venetian gondolier descends gen.
erally from a long line OF ancestors.
who we're for centuries boatmen. A
gondola costs about 5000. The father
laws by week after week small sum in
order to buy his son one, and thus start
him in life. The gondOla costs about
sixty dollars per annum in repairs. The
owner pays tax to the municipality,
according to the station, to which he is
allotted, and he is obliged to be there
not only every day, but every thirt
night. During the summer months hi
earns dollar per diem; in winter al
most nothing.
There is good deal of difficult,
found in familiarizing the Indian labor
ers employed on Mexican railways will
the use of the wheelbarrow. The SAM
trouble was experienced by the frs
railway contractors in Hindostan. Tn
laborers there had been in the habit o
CARRYING off the clay from the excava
tons in baskets on their heads. Tn
method proved picturesque. but slow
Finally, a large supply of wheelbarrow
was obtained. The contractors emo
, tons may be imagined when. on tn
first morning of their use. he behel
his laborers filing off in long line. eac
, with his wheelbarrow poised on hi
! head.
The peculiar mining of Henry Jope
, briefly indicated by Leadville tele
: gram as swindling, yielded him $18
l GOO before his system was exposed
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