The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-07
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MISCELLANEOUS
The most beautiful woman at Sara.
toga this season is said to have been
circus rider.
An Englishman says of the House
Of Lords that it is naturally . .strong
upholder of injustice to women. \
The usual cost to the candidate Of
an election to the German Reichstag Il
about million of marks.
:, "A Mexican says that the Govern.
ment Of the United States is less relia.
BILE than That of Mexico and has more
disturbing elements. - So
: "A traveller was lately killed on an
English railroad by his own portman-
tea1, which he had placed on the rack
above and opposite, and which in the
collision strnck him with fatal force.
jay Gould has started his son,
George, in business with capital Of
$500. 900. George is twenty-five year
of age and has been clerk for his father
for i've years. He is now broker. Z
"A ragged tramp, who was try.
ing to sell jewelry in the streets OF Chi.
cago, was arrested because the articles
offered were of real value, and it was
surmised that they had been stolen.
The prisoner proved to be girl in dis
guise, and the jewelry was her own. i
"A man rolled out of bed the other
night and was killed. g. A. Rogers
fell $50 feet in a collapsed balloon, with
inconceivable velocity" struck upon
his nose on the beach at Lynn, Mass.
and is still alive to describe his sensa'
tions during his descent.
:. MIR. James R. Keene has purchased
for $4,000 an estate. in England on
which he intends having stables erected
solely for the purpose of training his
horses himself. going over to see them
run and experimenting all affairs con-
nected with them. M
Mr.. Fawcett, the Postmaster-Gen
eral of Great Britain, was made totally
|. blind when young man by the bursting
OF a gun. But in spite of that he is one
of the best-informed men of the day. q
profound mathematician, and widely
read in literature and history. los i"1a
.b4 Professor Henry Draper, the as.
tronomer, is about to start Ona hunting
expedition to, the Rocky Mountains.
Professor Draper is said to be q first.
rate shot, and the floors of his house at
Hastings on the Hudson, New York, are
decorated with the skins of bears and
other Western ,marauders that have
succumbed to his. rifle. >.
United States Senator John S. Will.
Jams recently sold his crop of tobacco,
raised on seventy-five acres in the
s.blue grass section of Kentucky, fol
S2I.41Y.96. There were ninety-fve
hogsheads, and the yield. from each
/ acre was nearly $500. He was assisted
by a flock of 700 turkeys, who kept the
| plants clear of worms.
| y -One of the first theatrical failures Of
| the season was that of a new comic op'
era company, the members. OF which
made Street parade every afternoon
circus fashion, in the costumes to be
worn at night. They drew immense
crowds outdoors, but not in the thea
tres, and, after visiting several New
England cities, their manager deserted
them. toa lrl1 j. Hstf,t L
| There is peculiar religious sect ir
Russia which is characterized by rart
purity of doctrine and practice, endeav
oring to live in the closest possible con
formity with the letter of the Scriptures
No member is permitted to possess any
property beyond the frugal needs o
existence. Purity and chastity ar
/ among the first requirements. 1t sufti
i GENTLY describes the brutal character o
the surrounding population to say tina
the followers of this sect have beef
subjected to much suffering and perse
cutiOn.
| AT Zurich, in Switzerland, in tn
olden days, when man and wife quar-
relied and applied for divorce, thu
magistrate never listened until they ha'
made trial of State remedy. The
were locked up together for three day
and nights in one room, provided wit
one chair, one table, one bed, one plat
and tumbler. Their food was passed
them by attendants, who neither say
nor spoke to them, and the records as
sert that when let out neither OF ther
wanted to be divorced. rGaE sal
old newspapers are highly price
, in some New England towns. MIR. jaime
S.. Barnett, of Hartford, Conn.,, had
, copy of the Connecticut Courant date
October 1864. 1t had been preserve
! in his mothers and grandmother's fan
. lily for III years, and the older it gre
the more valuable it became. One da
, last week Mr.. Barnett, desiring to sho
. it to some friends, put it in his CO.
, pocket when he left home in the morl
. ing and took it to his place of business
He hung his coat up in the back roo
r and went about his work, awaiting th
arrival of the friends who wished to il
, spect the venerable sheet. When the
came he went to the back room wheI
> his coat had been left to find that bot
( it and the 117-years-old paper had bee
A NeighbOrly Family.