The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-10
MIsCRLLtNEOuS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
During the past year sixteen muir
ders have been committed in Pennsylva-
mia for plumber where the sums yielded
were less than six dollars. However, il
isflo great trouble to kill man. Detroit
Free Press.
IAN eccentric man in New York
restaurant ordered beefsteak and ice
cream and covering the former with the
latter, ate them with evident relish. The
elegant walters knew not whether to
laugh or to call the police. =
The block Of stone to be sent by Ne
braska for position in the Washington
monument has been completed. 1,
measures four by six feet, bearing the
States coat-of-arms carved in ento-rc-
lief, two feet in diameter, and Nebras-
ka's motto, Equality Before the Law, "
IN letters of solid silver. Surrounding
this is wreath, ornamented at the an.
giles with enriched rosettes.
Postage stamps, autographs. etc.,
do not satisfy the collectors of Siuga.
pore, China, some of whom have a ma
mia for collecting human heads. One
enthusiast was SO interested i'm the era
NAL developments of the explorer Witt,
in the service of the British North Bsr-
neo Company, that he recently killed
the scientist and added his head TO his
Interesting collection.
I'm the current number Of the Penn
Magazine of History aud Biography. Mr..
Townsend Ward says that the firm of
Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, whose
head, John Baynton, a merchant of en-
lnence, died IN 1873, lost SO much by
Indian depredations that, it is said, they
had assigned to them in compensation
what now forms the State of Indiana.
Whether they felt satisfactorily compen-
stated is doubtful. but probably their de-
scendants to-day would. could those be-
fore them have held on to it.
Frank Hanson, a hunchback, com.
mitted suicide in San Francisco after
meditating such deed for twenty-seven
years, He used to say that his deformitv
came from a blow given him on farm
IN Central New York. where he worked
when a boy; but it is thought he was mis-
taken, and that the chastisement had
nothing to do with the spinal disease,
which gradually twisted him into a
frightful shape, He discussed suicide q
great deal with his acQuaintances, and
at last committed it.
"A Philadelphia jury was called upon
to decide in customs ease, whether a
jew sharp is a toy or musical instrH-
ment. The question put to the expert
witnesses was: "'Is the iews-harp CAPABLE
of producing succession of harmonious
souudss' One witness PLAYED TO the
jury 1.-The heart bowed down." and
1.-The Skids are ont today and the re-
porter says that the jury seemed restless
and depressed. Their verdict was that
the iew's-harp is a musical instrument.
Great excitement was caused at
Reading, in England, the other day. BY
the grand open-air demonstration of the
Salvation Army. The procession was
headed by eleven girls dressed in the
style of Italian peasants, carving tam
bourineS, with which they accompanied
the singing; one of them who had been
lately turned out of doors because she
Joined the Army" caused great deal
of notice by wearing large white pima
fore, upon which was written text OF
Scripture The feeling shown through
out the service was intense The sing
ing was accompanied by piano. harps,
comets, trombones, drums and flies, the
maidens occasionally executing q war
dance
While recently staying IN water 12S
hours in Boston, Captain Webb used as
a dining-table board about thirty
inches square, with az edge raised about
it to prevent the water from splashing
and wetting the food and also to prevent
the food from slipping into the water.
In the center of this board. underneath.
was 4 handle similar to the handle of a
mortar board and with this the Captain
steadied and supported it with one hand
and fed himself with the other. When
nature demanded that he should sleep.
the Captain drew his legs into the posi-
ton they would take if he was sitting
down, and folded his hands behind his
head.-N T. Post.
Medical men have ALWAYS differed
rs to whether the best medical treatment
Of frozen persons was by gradual or a
rapid application of heat. ITO settle
the natter says KnOroLedge, ..Lapt-
has made series of very careful
upon dogs, with the follow
ing results: Oftwenty animals treated
by the method of gradual resuScitation
IN cold room, fourteen persisted; of
twenty placed at once in warm apart
nent, eight died; while of twenty imme-
iiately put into hot bath, all recoy-
ered." These experiments will probably
influence the practice of medical men in
Russia and northern Europe, where the
question of restoring animation in per-
IONS suffering from excessive cold is of |
requent occurrence every winter.