The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


I Contrary to the common opinion,
Inc census returns show that the num-
Der of Irish persons in this country, con-
sideredtrelatively to the total population
OF the country, or to the foreign popu-
lation alone, has steadily decreased dur
ing the past thirty years.-N. E. Farmer.
The Montreal Star relates that q
love-sick youth Of that city drowned
himself by holding his head under water
Well, that's the way to do it. He might
have held his head out of water all day
and been no nearer drowning at night
than he was-in; the morning.-Detroi.
fAAnthony Foy. an old resident Of
Rrotiierice, wrapped kerosene-soaked
bandages about his rheumatic shoulders
the other evening and sat down near
| the stove to get relief from his pain.
The heat set fire to the bandages, and
the man was terribly burned before
they, could be remoyed.-Providsnc OR.
~ journal.
-The Crown Princess of Germany,
wearing q little hussar cap and long
| plume, rode at the head of the black
hussars, of which she is the Colonel, at
the recent great parade before the En-
peror, and then, holding her small riding
whip swordwise, took her place with
the other commanding officers at the
right Of the emperor as the regiment
filed by.
,-The\ other day while two ten-years-
old boys were playing on the top of the
mountain, on the west side of what is
known as the Notch, about mile south
Of West Bolton, VT, one of the lads, a
son of Riley Giles. of West Bolton, made
Il mfsstep and fell down an almost per-
pendicular .precipice 250 feet into. the
valley below, being, of course, instantly
killed. ,t.IA ..Ify ...,-....,.
: "A man who wantonly wounded a
birdywith his rifle is reported by the ,R,ral
Cdnddian as having made this frank
confession: at fluttered across the field,
where | followed it, and found the pant
ing sufferer at its nest and the blood
dripping upoh its young. Ny cruelty
flashed upon me in all its nakedness. and
l cringed under my reflections like a
guilty butcher as was" ~ '''''''
"A Mrs. Marstin and daughter killed
bear which invaded their door-yard in
a Nevada town a short time since and
was making off with pig when they
discovered him. Mrs. Marstin threw a
kettle of boiling water over the bear, and
the daughter attacked him with an ak,
cleaving his skull in two. That night
the old man was askedif he would have
pork chop or bear steak, and couldn't
make it out until the affair was described.
The New England Former says that
the forest lands of Maine, formerly con-
trolled by the State, have now nearly all
come into the possession of individual
owners, who handle them so as to obtain
the largest returns and vet keep them in
thrifty and improving condition. The
lumber is rarely cut clean. but the best
is culled out, leaving the smaller growth
to be cut at a future time. In this way
a crop can betaken once in every twenty
or acknowledgements.
OF the land composing Great Britain
DR.. Carpenter said in a lecture in Boston
recently thatit was part of the European
continent, and that no geologist can
question the fact that that corner O.
Europe has been up and down no end
of times. All the northern part of EG-
rope, he said, is low plain which would
be entirely submerged, with few eS-
captions, by sinking of a hundred
fathoms-Massachusetts Rtoughman.
I'm the old hall of the House of Rep
resentatives in Washington, each State
is allowed space for two statues or busis
of its prominent sons. Hitherto Ohio has
not used either of these inches. This de-
feet is now to be remedied, as, at the last
session of the Ohio Legislature, bill
was passed appropriating $4,000 for a
statue of General Garfield, to be placed
in one of the spaces allotted to Ohio
N. Y Tribune