The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

For eighteen years clock i'm the
house of w. ID. Mullin, of Delaware City,
DEL, was silent. The other day il struck
one as the family sat down to supper. 1t
then struck eight and resumedits silence.
Nowadays, when the traveller in the
Holy Land asks to be directed to the
Mount OF Olives, he receives some such
reply as follows: go to the telegraph
! station; turn to the right and follow the
railroad until you see beer-garden.
then steer for the beer-garden, and YOU
can't miss it"-N. Y. Independent
Eastern ladies have o very pleasing
and fashionable habit of Knitting silk
stockings for their very particular gen.
tlemen friends. and the very particular
gentlemen friends evince a very pleasing
and cheerful alacrity in accepting them
in lieu of the inevitable smoking cap or
embroidered slipper.-Christnaas Hint.
"A novel question is agitating the
residents of Tucson, Arizona, as to
whether q female who went through the
marriage vows with man on his dying
bed is maid or widow. The technical
proposition is that the physician ex-
claimed, just as the minister was pro-
nouncing them man a2d wife: MY
God, he's dead"
The model for the Lee monument
to be erected at New Orleans has been
completed and accepted by the Monu-
mental Society. General Lee is repre-
sented standing in an easy attitude.
wearing the full uniform of Lieutenant
General, the hand resting on the hip. a
favorite and almost constant position of
the great leader of the Confederate.
armies. The bronze statue will be fifteen
feet three inches in height. Chicago
Times.
Some genius has invented little
article called ''fire-kindler. Unless
it is made in the shape of a coal-oil-can,
the newly imported girl will not touch
it. If it contains something that will ex-
plode and knock the domestic end over
end over two or three chairs. and burn
off her eyebrows, without doing any
other damage, there may be large de-
mand for the .'fire- kinder. Chicago In
ter Ocean.
During a Deadwood quarrel the
other night woman was seen to rush
between the eombatants, and throwing
herself before one of them exclaimed to
the other: Don't shoot, oh. please don't
shoot him." Greatly affected, the foe
lowered his revolver and asked in tremu-
lous tones: :. Are YOU his sweetheart,
wife or sister?' 90 Mo- answered the
peacemaker, s' but this man has n room
at my house and owes me three weeks
board.-Denrer Tribune.
An eccentric but very handsome
" turnout recently seen on the streets
of London is described IS follows: 1t
consisted of dark green dog-cart of
very light structure, with the wheels,
body and shafts picked out with red,
drawn by Il beautifully symmetrical mule
with light brown harness. The gentle
man who drove this equipage was a well
dressed. swarthy personage-a West In
dian Creole-attended by an English
groom in irreproachable livery.
1t is the - good old custom" of the
FLUTES. who believe in the survival of the
fittest only, to kill off all the children
that are deformed or idiotic. Near
Dayton. New, lives squaw who has y
deformed and idiotic boy. The other
day delegation of braves went to her
hut to kill the boy, but the mother fought
so valiantly with tongue, teeth and nails
that she held the eXecutioner and his as
sistants at bayantil some of her white
neighbors, aroused By her outcries, went
to her rescue and drove off the attacking
force. Chicago Times.