The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand has q fifty dollar pol
TAX on Chinese. and New South Wales
is going to initiate her.
The wife of Mr.. G. Chevalier, oi
rAssOmption County. Canada. has pre-
sented him with his twenty-iifth child.
Five carloads of dromedaries were
recently shipped from Texas to Arizona.
to be used in transporting United States
mails.
Six thousand dollars in q single day
is reported as having been picked from
pockets of people reading street bulle.
tins in Washington.
On the body of an outcast woman
who drowned herself at Detroit was
found a gold medal, which she had re-
ceived for remarkable scholarship on
graduation at an academy.
-Highwayman in California tried to
wreck train the other day, for the
purpose of capturing Millionaire Fair.
who they expected to hold as hostage
until a heavy ransom should be paid.
Miss Schaffer, a young lady resid-
ing in Elmira. N. Y, who took the 5000
prize at Brockport recently for being
the handsomest woman in the State, has
gone crazy. Her insanity is the result
of too much nOtoriety on a weak mind
Morocco has been suffering from a
heat that is described as all but insup-
portable. 1t was so great that the fast
of the Ramadan could not be kept, and
in the last removal of the Sultan camp
over 200 camels persisted of excessive
heat.
I'm Nevada the cattle-owners nearly
kill their critters by numerous brands,
and the loss in the value of hides. by
SO much branding, is estimated at $780,
600 year. An old brand spoils hide
four-bits' worth and a new one one dol
lar. Some bands of cattle are so much
marked as to make their hides worth
less.
General j. B. Gordon. OF Georgia,
has became wealthy since he left the
United States Senate. His good fort
une came through the sale of coal lands
in Alabama. for which he and his two
brothers and Governor ColQuitt re-
ceived 100000. together with $1,000
600 in stock of the Richmond and Dan
vile Extension Company.
Brother Knowiden's polygamy is of a
kind that even Mormons do not approve.
He has wife in each of seven Utah
towns, so that in his travels he is pro-
vided with convenient lodgings free of
cost, for he lets the wives support them
OS
that she nearly starved to death, and
knowiden was mobbed the next time
he visited her.
An. aged farmer in Turner, Me-,
disagreed with a neighbor about a
boundary line fifty years ago, and ON a
certain rock that marked it, as he
claimed, he solemnly placed his we'll
worn family bible, covered it with flat
stone, and charged his descendants to
let it lie there forever. 1t has not been
touched since then until few days ago.
when a sacrilegiOus man from Auburn
lifted up the stone and found the old
book still well preserved.
1t is said that President Garfield,
walking with Colonel Rockwell on the
beach near Elberon, just before the
shooting, said: "Now, is itnot strange,
and is it not striking commentary on
the protection and security afforded by
free institutions, that the President of
the United States can 60 about in this
way, practically unattended and with
out body guard, and without the par
aphernalia that encompasses other
rulers. am as secure in travelling this
way as any other citizen of the coun-
try"
The people of Sutro, New, have a.
good thing in the large artificial lake
near the town. About five million gal
Ions of hot water flow into it daily from
the tunnel, thus keeping the tempera-
ture at all seasons just right for bathing
purposes. BY analysis it is found that
the water flowing from the great ore
channel of the Comstock contains both
gold and silver in solution, therefore
people bathing IN this lake absorb more
or less of the precious metals. Thus a
poor man may in few months become
a regular bonanza in himself, assaying
high in the hundreds.
Few people know that in bad sea-
sons honey is apt to be poisonous. This
arises from the fact that in such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to gath
er it from poisonous flowers. Great
care should be taken to remove all
poisonous plants from the neighbour
hood of hives. A specimen of honey
from Trebizond, gathered from the
rhOdodendron ponticum, which is COM
mon IN that neighborhood, was sent in
1884 by Mr.. Keith Z. Abbott, to the
Geological Society of London, and in
1859 it still retained its poisonous quail
ties. In 1890 great many people in
Philadelphia died from eating honey
gathered from the flowers of the kalnid
latifoIia. In good seasons the bees
avoid poisonous plants.
Reports of trouble in the armies Of
Germany and Austria. caused by the
cruelty of the subordinate officers to-
ward the private soldiery, continue to
be heard. Notwithstanding the efforts
made by the higher military officials to
put an end to the barbarities. On the
2Sth of July corporal was shot in
Vienna by private who entered the
servine some months ago. HAVING pra.