The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Officers who made sudden visit to
. saloon in Westboro, Mass, recently,
discovered an arrangement by which the
beer casks could be filled with water, by
pipes, at a minutes warning.-Bostos'
Post.
"A writer in the Contemporary Re-
Uie,o says of American cities: "There il
the most extravaganza in New York, the
most comfort in Philadelphia, the most
philanthropy in Boston, the most eti-
quette in Washington"
! They have finally concluded not to
make an inland sea of the great Sahara
Desert. One reason is because it is 500
feet above the ocean, and water doesn't
run up hill even in barbarian countries.
S-Det oft Free Press.
Partisan duelists have got down to
using clubs instead of rapiers. From
clubs, by easy gradations to stuffed clubs,
after which the one insulted will have to
content himself with making faces at his
opponent.-Indianapolis Journal.
When man speaks of woman he
raves over her beautiful complexion, her
delicately-cut features, her glossy hair,
and all that sort of thing. When a
woman wishes to describe one of her sex
she simply tells what she had on. Each
particularizes what each values the
highest Chicago Journal.
"A Kansas paper gravely accuses q
mail route agent, recently discharged for
incompetency, of making sacks of mail
proportionate to the size of the twn, and
throwing them of, regardless of the des-
tination of the matter, so that by the
time he reached the Colorado line he had
no mail with which to serve Colorado.
Native merchants in Mexican cities
complain that their Yankee competitors,
who are becoming numerous, are disre-
garding the old custom of closing the
stores between eleven o'clock and three
every day in hot weather. The lazy
MeXicanss are compelled to lose either
their siesta or considerable trade.-N. Y.
Sun.
Willie and Jennie Ridge, he thir-
teen and she seven, drew seven dollars of
their fathers money from New Haven
savings bank and disappeared. They
were found two days later wandering
about the streets of Hartford, and as
tonished that their fund should SO soon
be exhausted by the expenses of travel.
-Neo0 HaUen Register.
The children of Donaldson, the lost
aeronant, are at present living in Roches-
ter with Mr.. Keller, a well known
printer. They were boarding with him
at the time of their fathers tragic death,
and since then he has cared for them as
his own. There are two of them, boz
and a girl, aged respectively ten and
twelve years.-N. Y. Post.
Two Sunday excursion managers
who were lately arrested at New Haven,
Conn, have been released by Judge
Studley, on the ground that the statutory
prohibition does not merely imply ply
steal and absolute necessity, and that
some things may be necessary and merci-
full in a crowded city that would be
neither in farming district.
Inventor Edison tells reporter that
he does not believe submarine tele-
phone comes within the region of posi-
bilities. He says: "The present condi-
ton of the art will not permit sound to
be audible by submarine or underground
conveyance more than few miles. 1t
is all they can do to talk across the Eng
lish channel, and that with the very
best instrument yet constructed"
AT Fish Greek, n. Y, is a driven
well ninety-eight feet deep. When it
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forty feet high or more, and still it has
very heavy pressure and never freezes.
The water contains magnesia, salt, and
sulphur, and has a very peculiar taste.
This well emits gas which burns equal
to any manufactured illuminating gas,
giving brilliant, clear fame, without
smoke or offensive odor.
The city of Texarkana is a phenom-
email city. 1t lies in the two States of
Texas and Arkansas, hence its name.
The State line runs through the center of
Its chief street, and on each side lisa pop
ulation of three thousand, though only
eight years old. Four railroad lines CEN
ter there 1t has an Italian-like climate,
tramps are not tolerated, the Sunday law
is enforced, money is plenty and the peo-
pie are prosperous.-N. Y. Tins.
"A story comes from Staunton, Va,
that one day recently a stranger asked
Chief of Police Walters if he knew of
Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey in that city, ex-
planning that he had, twenty-five years
before, when boy eight years old, run
away from his home in Staunton, and
had not heard from his family since.
Capt. Walters knew the lady, and took
the stranger to the house, and there was
a joyous meeting of mother and son.
in certifying to the death of MI.
JamesJ. Sullivan in New York recently,
DIR. Willard Parker declared that he
died from poisoning the system with
tobacco" The deceased was twenty.
six years of age, a book-keeper, and had
FUSED tobacco so constantly that his sys-
tenn had become impregnated with nico-
tine" and the significance of the matter
is that Mr.. Sullivan smoked cigarettes
almost exclusively, the empyreumatic oil
uniting with the nicotine, forming a
deadly poison, resulting in this instance
fatally, and at an earlv age.
A news item states that "an Ohio
farmer who started for a neighbours to
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