The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A street loafer who not long ago i'm
suited a Philadelphia lady, was rather
astonished when she borrowed horse
whip from neighboring carriage and
soundly thrashed him.-Erchange.
An Alabama gunsmith has adver-
tised ''gunns and ravolvirs" for the last
two years, and he says his sales have been
just as good as if he had broken his neck
to spell more correctly.-DetroI Free
Press.
William H. Vanderbilt intends to
build, at the corner of Park Avenue and
FOrty-second Street. New York, a man.
moth hotel, similar in design to the
Charing Cross Hotel, London.-M y.
Sun.
Baker SAM wood-hauler of
Eureka, New, had put away, buried in a
stall, the sum of $4,000 in twenty dollar
gold pieces, and when he went to gaze
upon his treasure two weeks ago he
found to his utter dismay that all was
gone.
AT Moore's chapel, Bedford County,
Tenn, few days ago, during divine
service, stray swarm of bees made an
attack on the horses, and caused COM
plete stampede, singing some of them
most to death. The meeting was broken
up for the time.
"A Springfield OILY genius stole a
neighbours mangel wurtzel beets. ex-
hibited them at the State Fair and took
the first premium. The neighbor afore-
said discovered the fraud, caused the
arrest of the genius and the transfer of
the premium. Chicago Herald.
Montgomery, Ala, is the scene of
many rem arkable occurrences. not the
least of which is the odd birth Of dozen
chickens. A child upset basket in
which was 4 hen setting upon a dozen
eggs. The accident broke the shells and
so alarmed the child that the little ones
father patched up the eggs with linen
and paste and reset them. In due time
they all Matched, and the chicks are not
cracked either.-N Y. Herald.
A nine-year-old daughter of Con-
gresham Van Voorhis, of Rochester,
was playing on the lake beach, near
Charlotte. with other children. Her
dress came in contact with fire the
children had built, and almost instanta-
neously the little one was enveloped in
flames. Quick as thought her little
brother, but two years older, seized her
in his arms and threw her into the lake.
She was completely submerged, and was
taken from the water well drenched, but
the heroic act unquestionably saved the
little ones life. She was somewhat
burned about the hands and wrists, but
escaped other injury.
The sewing machine shark is not IN
exclusively American excrescence. At
Burnley, England, recently, a sewing
machine company sued poor woman
upon an agreement to deliver up sewing
machine if default were made in paying
anv of the installments. As a matter OF
fact all the installments of half a crown
weekly had been paid. except the last,
and yet the plaintiffs came into court to
demand the sewing machine, at the
same time refusing to refund any of the
money paid on account, and relying on
the terms of the agreement. The Judge
denounced the document as ''most in
famous one, and non-suited the plain
tiffs. refusing to grant q case for su-
perior court.-Chicago Times.
A st. Louis observer has discovered
that the cause of a mans death, as re-
ported by his physician, will indicate
the financial standing of the man when
living. When poor man dies on ac-
count of having drank too much whisky
the physician registers it as drunken
ness'' or alcoholism" but if the de-
ceased was rich man the doctor puts it
as nervous prostration,' ''pneumo-
nitis," general debility" ''mania a
temultentia," ..methysia' or '.ivrog
nerie.n If he is only moderately wealthy,
a man is likely to get ''delirium ire
MEMS or '.mania potu." The moral
is that it is better for man to die rich.
Chicago Ne,0s.
The shocking destruction of a school
house, together with its inmates, includ-
ing both grown persons and children. is
reported from the town of Grodno, the
capital of one of the Government de-
partments of Russia. A hardware dealer
used the cellar of the house for storing
powder, in which he secretly conducted
contraband traffic. While he was
moving about incautiously in this place
with a light, the powder was ignited, and
the whole building was blown into the
air. The number of persons killed was
not, at latest accounts accurately known,
but many disfigured corpses and mangled
limbs and fragments of bodies have been
taken from the ruins.