The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An Arkansas man who stole canoe
seven years ago has just been foated into
Jail.
The Philadelphia Times expects to
live long enough to see every body in this
country sleep in hammocks during the
summer.
IA town in Connecticut had a mar
riage, an elopement, a fire, funeral, a
circus, murder and thunder storm on
the same day, and Deadwood is asked to
take back seat.-Detron Free Press.
-Bandboxes are said to have been so
called from their having been first used
for holding the minister's bands" or
wide collars, such as Milton wears in his
portraits.
"A Toronto woman, arrested for
beastly inebriety, objected to the use of
the word sdrunk" as applied to her con-
dition. She thought that the expression
denoted vulgar mind. She was giyen'a
few days in jail to think up better
SYNONYM.
"A good farm in Indiana has been
allowed to run to weeds for five years,
because of the belief that it is under the
curse of former owner, whose ghost
walks the fields at night, and would
make it unpleasant for tenant.-Pitts-
JurQh Post.
"A woman in Rome, Ga, the Courier
of that city says, has made from the juice
of one watermelon pintof thick, golden
syrup. Georgia papers are agreed that
there is fortune for the man or woman
who succeeds in making sugar from
melons.
AT GAINESVILLE, O., recently, William
Smith had an eye knocked out. He was
playing with little girl in the hall of
the Zane Hotel, when, catching his foot
In the carpet, he fell against the back
round of chair, completely bursting his
eye. The entire ball of the eye was taken
outby occulists. Theyoung man suffered
terribly.
Sir Walter Crofton, long head of the
Irish prisons, points out that while in
England all the convict prisons are
periodically subject to an Independent
outside inspection, no such inspection
has, with one brief exception, been made
In Ireland for twenty-five years. The
prison departments have been left I'M
checked to govern as they please.
They have queer notions of "power"
on the Penobscot River. At the Fort
Point House few days ago a young
Bostonian who "does" elocution read an
affecting selection in such manner that
he sent one of the young ladies into
mysteries; and one of the Bangor papers
speaks of the mysteries as singular
tribute to his power as reader. boston
Post.
Montreal, Canada, must be the
earthly heaven of letter-writing lovers
The postal officials there refuse point blank
to deliver letters to any person other than
the one to whom they are addressed. A
husband can not get his wife's mail nor
can father successfully demand the cor
respondence intended for his children,
provided the children are more than nine
years of age. 1t has been SO decided and
so it remains.
The Denver Tribune suggests to the
Malley boys, who are starting out on a
tour of the fashionable resorts, that
"there are too many trees about Denver"
to make it pleasant for them in that
quarter. The Chicago Inter- Ocean,
speaking in similar strain, says: There
are good many places in the United
States where fast young scapegraces of
the Malley stamp would be in danger of
running out of wind"
The champion nuisance is the fellow
who borrows newspapers on the cars.
Because a person has laid his newspaper
On his lap, that is not to say he is done
with it. As he rides along, thinking over
what he has read, he may often wish to
refer to the paper, and it is an imposition
upon his politeness that it should be in
the hands of somebody else. Newspapers
are cheap enough and are to be read
everywhere. Be man enough to pay for
your own reading.-IoCd State Register
The statistics of longevity in Prus-
STA are striking In December, 1880,
there were living 359 persons who were
at least 100 years old, 12S of them being
men and 231 women. OF the men
thirty-two were still married; of the
women five were. Twelve of the men
had never married and nine of the women
never had. Of persons born between
17S1 and 1870 $685. were still living, the
men being 2,025 in number and the
women $3.50. The records further show
that the number of persons born in the
last century and still living, those, there
fore, who were at least so years of age,
reached total of " ,66S.
of the late Congressman ARENAS
Hale the Boston TroUeller says: 'He
was always regular and temperate in his
habits, and total abstainer from intoxi-
eating liquor and tobacco, and enjoyed a
remarkable degree of health during his
whole life. He was accustomed to drive
out alone till recently, and within few
years has been seen wheeling bag of
meal from the store to his residence, dis
daining the lazy ways of younger men.
With the exception of his hearing, he re-
tanned full possession of his faculties,
physical and mental, and his address to
his lodge on his 95th birthday is spoken
of as one of the finest ever delivered
before Masonic body. His only living
direct descendant is granddaughter,
who lived with him. His only son was
killed in his own sight, by runaway &C
cident, several years ago.