The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-02
GENERAL.

-Accordin, to the baptismal register
Of church in Holderness, N. H., Mrs
Hannah Cox was los years old on Jun.
%. She retains her faculties.
Eight New York ladies whose hus
bands are estimated to be worth $500,
100000 recently dined together at 8
Saratoga hotel. So the Albany Journe
says.
Boston is indignant over the discov.
cry in one of her jails of a boy eight
years old, who had been held three
weeks in default of bail that his mother
could not obtain.
Nevada, Vermont and Maine pay
less internal revenue tax than any other
three States, and Illinois, Kentucky
and New York are the three that pay
most. The yield is chiefly from whisky
and tobacco.
The new slave law in Egypt will
not entirely abolish slavery-at least
just yet. Although no more new slaves
will be permitted, slave-owners will be
permitted to retain those of which they
are now possessed.
William r. Dickerson, one of the
Oldest lawyers in Philadelphia, was re-
spected and fairly successful before he
went into the great Whitaker will for
gerry. Now he is broken down, penni-
less and convict.
Charles Ashley, a swindler who
has figured in the West as a pretended
nobleman, was arrested in Cleveland.
In his trunk were number of different
photographs of himself in the Conven-
tiOnal pictures of Christ, the faces of
which his own strongly resembles.
They seem to have been taken purely
to crafty his vanity.
An exhibition of jugs, mugs, and
other drinking vessels is now being held
in Vienna. The objects exhibited are
all of German manufacture, both old
and new. A German Journal grows
sentimental over the meaning of the
old German jug, and remarks that emo
nation has such true perception of the
poetry of drink as the German, which
finds in a mighty draught the best pro-
lection against the discomforts of life.
The efforts made by railroad COM
panies through soliciting agents was
illustrated at Hartford, Conn, whence
a hundred Chinese students are to travel
across the Continent on their way
home. Nine agents of the competing
trunk lines visited them, each offering
special inducements and the bargain
finally was made at one-half their regu-
lar rates.
"A grand reunion of the Palmer fam
lily is to be held in Stonington, Conn,
on the 10th and 18th of August, the an
niversary of the battle of Stonington in
the war of 1912: The Palmer family in
this country is said to number now be-
tween 5000 and 1000, the various men,
bers of it being scattered over the East
and West, but the majority residing in
New England and New York State.
The records of suicide do not often
contain such evidence of disregard of
physical suffering as that shown by a
woman named Coyne, who lived near
Manchester, England. This woman,
who had passed the middle age, poured
paraffine oil over her head, and when it
had run down upon and saturated her
clothing she set fire to it. The injuries
she sustained resulted in her death in q
very few minutes. This case has only
been equaled in recent times by Glou-
cester gentleman, who built funeral
pyre in the yard of his house, and, hay
ing set fire to it, mounted to the top
and there awaited his end, which soon
came.
There are people who in the hottest
weather will get up in the morning long
before the flies have begun to open their
wings to the rising sun, and they will
cook and hastily bolt scanty break
fast, rush madly around the house after
collars, bonnets, umbrellas and fans,
put up lunches that are not fit to be
eaten, spend six hours on railway
train in order to have one or two hours
of " enjoyment at a lake side, get
back home late at night tired, exasperat-
ed, fused out, and the next morning
they will crawl to work with achinl
heads, aching backs and rebellious
stomachs, and say that they have had
day out.
1t is curious fact that no less than
5000 OILS is waiting in the United
States Treasury for people who either
do not want the money and refuse to
take it, or for people who do not know
that it is there or that they have any
claim upon it. Some of this money-it
is all in the shape of bonds which have
matured, on which interest has ceased,
and for which no claim has been made
has been waiting for some one to
come and take it AWAY ever since 1897