The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Garfield monument to be erected
at Washington by the Army OF the Cum
berland will cost 600, 200.
"A fifth of the population of Paterson,
N. j.. or say 10, 900, consists of the girls
who work in the factories there.
The old parsonage house occupied
by President Arthur's father at Green
witch, N. Y, was sold recently for $75.
1t is a great discovery, if as claimed.
they have found how to serve any num-
Der of subscribers on single telephone
wire.
| The Rev. Mr.. Lavelle is the promo.
ter of lottery in Montreal with 81 ,OOO.-
600 capital, which has received the ap-
proval of the local government.
| Jesse James, the outlaw, says he
will kill twenty men before he is taken,
and every detective in the West seems tc
fear that he may be counted one of the
twenty.
A card was sent to President Ar
thur recently asking prompt admission
on the ground that the applicants wife
was an intimate friend of one of the
Presidents grooms.
-Forty-seven million dollars were pu,
into new buildings in New York City IN
1881. We thus see how little Mamma
Symptoms dire prophecy affected om
business life.
John McAuley, one of the toughest
and toughest bummers of New York,
lately experienced religion, and has
gone to work as a missionary in the
toughest and toughest parts OF the CITY,
The arch itect of the new Metropoli'
tan Opera House at New York says that
It will have the largest auditorium Of
anv theater in the world, even exceeding
that of La Scala, at Milan, which is now
the largest.
) The London Law Journal is of the
opinion that a Judge should have the
power to remove prisoner from the
courtroom and proceed with the trial,
if Justice cannot decorously be admins.
tered in the prisoners presence.
The wife of Engineer Melville Of the
Jeanette has been married to him
seventeen years, four of which she has
enjoyed his presence with her. The rest
of the time he has been in the ice packs
of the frigid zone.
john Ballard of Columbus, o., died
recently at three o'clock in the morning.
At that hour, his friend, Henry Ward,
at GAINESVILLE, awOke, called for his horse,
c saving that Ballard had called him
and he must 90; and in two hours he was
I dead.
1t does not require mine in order
to start mining company. The feeced
/ ones, however. find that even the Wild
est companies do have mine. The
officers demonstrate to them, after q
time, that what was yours is now mine.
Boston Transcript.
= Joseph Smith, of Oswego, rushed
;, home the other day to shake hands with
. his wife and bid her farewell, as he felt
y that ne should die at once. To her in
= ouiry he said he felt well, but was sure
u that his time had come. In fifteen min
. utes he was dead.
a "A correspondent of the Chicago
n Tribune says: ut is fact that no one
A. will be found to dispute that we have II
n Chicago at the present time entirely tot
much crime to the square mile" AbOu
how much crime would be the cOrrec
thing.-M Y. Graphic.
Attorney General Cleaves, of Maine
in his annual report, favors the restora
~ ton of capital punishment. He says thu
Of convictions for murder in the first degree
during the present year alone exceed tn
lie number during the three years previou
IN to the abolition of the death penalty, ant
N are nearly equal to the number occurring
during the three years following.
Il Baroness Erlanger, wife of the bank
r. er, ordered her carriage to take her t
\. the Ring Theater in Vienna the night i
" was burned. Accidentally the coachmar
arrived fifteen minutes later than Orderet
80 and the Baroness escaped the horrors o
~ the fire. Strangely enough, like della.
prevented her intended visit to the Mic
- Opera House on the evening it was burne'
" last March.
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Min
:, lister, gave farewell ball in Washington
! recently. The Washington Star says
~ 1.-The decorations within and withou
y the two houses they occupy have neve
been surpassed here. All the projection
of bay windows, doorways and cornice
~ of the buildings were brilliant with lights
= showing the red, green and white of tn
- Mexican national colOrs. The nam
= Mexico and the coat of arms of that re
u public blazed in gas jets. On entering
tropical plants and cut flowers were see
IN grouped in corners and adjoining man
as tells and tables. The stairways were ais
It; entwined with green. Smilax trimme
W chandeliers and mirrors. The visit
1t through the rooms terminated in the en-
closed garden in the rear, which wa
ed brilliantly lighted and its walls lined wit
e. tall plants. The large picture of the Cit
c. of Mexico still covers the wall in the real
r, and on the balcony by which the ballroom
lis is approached are panels representa-
it. scenes from peasant life in Mexico. Tn
floor of the ballroom was covered wit
ce white linen, and dancing was kept u
g merrily until late hour"
y, London Penny Papers.
ny -
h; Indeed, good journaEthat is,