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

Rev. Samuel Deerbrow, OF Upper
East Tennessee, has married z,1o4
couples since 1849, receiving therefor
about $4,000 in fees. The lowest fee he
took in was five cents In coppers.
AT Omemee, Canada. they have .
curious plant grown from seed sup
posed to have been turned up with the
earth taken from q well at the depth OF
fifty feet. 1t resembles century plant,
and is nearly seven feet in height.
,Ah-wa-ga-hah Blackface, aged los
years. the Oldest squaw on the Iona
wanda reservation, near Buffalo. N. T..
has just received from the Government
her pension of eight dollars per month
on account of her husbands services in
the war of 1872.
"A policeman saw woman digging
in her garden at Paris, KY, before day
| light. She was not noted for industri-
| Gus habits. and therefore he covertly
watched her until she brought out
box containing $4,000. the proceeds OF
recent bank robbery.
An old and excellent engineer ON
the Central Pacific got new fireman
the other day, who after throwing the
big pine blocks for an hour or so, got
very tired of it and thought it no more
| than fair to take change. He looked
up to the engineer sitting on his COM
Portable seat and said: g Here, you
throw chunks for while, and l will
look out for cows"
The will of the late David X. Car
| roll. q millionaire manufacturer, who
died at Baltimore few days ago. has
been admitted to probate in the Balti-
more County Court, and in one re-
spect is remarkable document. After
bequeathing all his property, estimated
to be worth several million dollars, to
his large family about equally, he places
the sum of $4,000 in the hands of his
executors to defend the will in case OF
litigation.
Australia has added to its other
natural anomalies fish on legs. A re-
cent expedition has dredged up one of
them, and, placed upon the decks. the
creature raised itself on its four legs
and walked! Yet to all intents and
purposes the thing was a fish. with fins
and tail and gills. Another wonder
of the same expedition was the rats.
The voyagers stopped on small island
which was overrun with rats-but the
rats were yellow, chestnut and tortoise
shell.
Conductors on the New York Gen.
trail Railroad are bitterly complaining
of overwork put upon them by the man
agement, they allege. out of considers
tiOns of economy in money and time.
The Utica Herald satirizes the present
system by saying that plan is under
consideration whereby the train en-
ploves' meals are to be condensed into
the form of cartridges and fired into
the open mouths of hungry conductors
and others as they rush past the lunch
counters.
, "A Rhenish regiment of artillery,
quartered at Metz. were thirty-six days
absent from barracks on an excursion.
, Upon opening one of the rooms dog
,, belonging to the regiment was found
still alive, but in a state of extreme
weakness and emaciation. Of ordinary
food, or even water, it can have had
= none. There were evidences that the
poor brute had gnawed some pieces of
wood lying in the room. TWAS so weak
that it could not even lap. and for two
UaVS IL WAS leu Will I1llh
S tube, but it quickly rallied.
. A British officers wife in Burmah
describes the climate by this incident:
, "a friend gave my husband some OWLS
9 eggs, which he left in place in the
!: drawing room, the coolest place in the
house, being in the center and sur
rounded by other rooms. The eggs were
: on table in the corner, and were for
l gotten. Some days after saw one OF
l the eggs moving, and slightly Clipped.
. Presently out came little Owlet. The
: other eggs followed suit, till they were
:. all Matched. This may seem impossible
" to any one who has not lived where the
:. thermometer is generally 1O5 degree"
"A little son of Abraham May, of
Miller Township, Blair County, Pa.
was bitten by copperhead snake few
!. L. DAYS since. After biting, the reptile
I kept fastening and coilins around the
Z lads legs, and it was only torn from its
> coil bv the brave little brother of the
!, boy, who, seizing it with his hands, re-
y leased the sufferer and killed the snake.
!. Il The BOYS leg was greatly swollen,
!, though the free flow of blood from the
wound perhaps washed away much of
:. the virus of the copperhead. The usual
" home remedies were employed. and at
last accounts the lad was in fair way
e of recovery.
- A baby's grave at Glasgow, Md,
received for nine years the most care
, full attentions, flowers being frequently
d planted on it, and the sod always kept
in perfect order. Mr.. Brown and Mrs.
= Ellison, each unknown to the other,
- were doing this work of love. Each
~ had lost an infant, and supposed this
q was its grave. Brown erected tomb
;" stone lately, and then a controversy
:, arose, Mrs. Ellison insisting that ii
- mus, be taken down. The church au.
:, thorities held several meetings of in
:" vestigation without reaching any con-
clusiOn, and then somebody suggested
that neglected grave near the disputed
one be opened. This was done, anC
\. Brown conceded that the coffin was the
a, one that had enclosed his child. Thu