The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-29
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Kangaroo tail soup Is now cauued
In Australia and exported in great,
quantities.
The Superintendent of the census
has been requested to LOOK over the 5o:-1
600, 600 names on his book bypa Southern
woman, who wants to find the residence
of her loyer who left her some years
since.
"A French cook, who lately returned
to Paris from tour of inspection in the
United States, was asked his opiniOniin'
regard to the American kitchen and re-
piled: "La cuisine Americana est I'm
vrai assassinat!" American cookery
is murder in the first degree. =.
The genuineness of the philanthropy
of Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson has just
stood q severe test. Smallpox having
broken out in Stamford, Ct, where she
spends large portion of her time, she
at once volunteered as nurse, thus
showing that she values her life no more
than her money when the interests of hu-
manitY are at stake. 70
"A French paper says that besides
the well-known noble houses there are
in France 505, 900 families who between
1860 and 1889 received letters patent of
nobility. In large number of cases,
however, their descendants seemed to be
ignorant of this circumstance, and in
some instances have even been prose-
cuted for carrying armorial bearings to
which they were in truth fully entitled.
Canada has unwittingly gone into
an arrangement by which the United
States gains population at the expense
of the. Canadian treasury. The Gov
eminent made bargain with steam
ship company running to Montreal to
pay twenty-five per cent. OF the fares of
all emigrants who intended to settle in
Canada. This reduction is commonly
taken advantage of, it has been discov-
cred, by persons really bound for this
country. l:.s,
AT the beginning of the thirteenth
century the ports of England ranked:
London, Boston, Southampton, Lincoln,
Lynn, Hull. Eighty years later, Boston,
London, Hull. Toward the close of the
sixteenth century Lynn was the most
important port; then came Hull, Var
mouth, Exeter, Bristol, while Boston
had gone down to number ten in rank,
and Newcastle was looming up. Fifty
years later Bristol was winning the race,
to have her nose put out of joint in an
other half century by Liverpool.
"A St. Petersburg correspondent
writes that in the latest budget of the
Russian empire, the division allotted to
the household expenses of the late Gar
includes fifteen hundred roubles for pro-
viding birch brooms (Ruthen besen) for
cleaning the Winter Palace. Estimating
the cost of each at the retail prices in
St. Petersburg, he finds that no less than
eighteen thousand of these brooms have
been used every year for the Winter
Palace! Nearly fifty must then have
been worn to the stump every day in the
late reign.
In olden times English tramps
prayed for deliverance from He'll, Hull
and Halifax. This is explained by the
chronicler Fuller, who relates that there
was peculiar s'Gibbet law" offering
special facilities for the hanging of idle
and dishonest in Halifax, while they
avoided Hull because it was ''terrible
unto them as a town of good govern
ment, where warrants meet with punt
tive charity" /" Punitive charity" il
good, and might be applied to advantage
in this erring and straying season il
many other places outside of Hull.
:. An English peer and some friend!
were returning from the races. In thu
adjoining compartment were eight sport
ING men, who, cleaned out by successive
failures, were travelling without tickets
hoping by turn of good luck to escape
payment. At last one of them STRUCK
upon brilliant idea. Pulling his cal
down over his eyes and buttOning hi
coat he went to the carriage of the nobl
lord and his friends, and, assuming al
official air, collected all their tickets
These he distributed among his friends
and on reaching London the noble lori
narrowly escaped seeing himself and hi
friends taken into custody for attempting
to defraud the railway company. 1t wa
only by paying their fare second tim
that they escaped from the clutches q
the railway servants.
The authorities at Clinton. On. 7.
Prison are rejoicing in the return {
Richard Henry Thornton, the horse
thief, inasmuch as the owner of that in
posing name is renowned for hi3 mar
agement of pigs, of which there al
about 200 in the prison yards. Thornto
is sixty.nine years old and was first SCI
fenced to State Prison fifty years agt
During this half century of crime he hs
worn the prison garb forty-one year
, having served twice, he affirms, as hire
, substitute for others who were guilt,
once from Hudson and once from Sch
nectady. The prison now seems to hi
. like home and he takes no little prid
: in seeing it well kept in all respects. +
. took back with him on his latest retul
. four dozen eggs, by means of which !
: hopes to improve the breed of Il
/, Warden's fowls.
: AS soon as the death of the late En-
Z press Dowager was announced in CHR
the mandarins and all high officials
: the Empire put on garments of pu
white, and these were worn for twent
3 seven consecutive days. The regul
I tons which prescribe official mournil