The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

The nortlernmost place in the world
where rye and oats mature is at Kengis
in the Swedish province of Norrbotten
forty nine miles to the north of the Polar
circle, whereas the northernmost spol
where corn is grown is at Muoniovara
Einety-eight miles to the north of the
circle. Chicago Times.
Three hundred dollars year gives
spacious and elegant residence in
the Azores. Servant wages are two
dollars to five dollars month; one cent
= pound buys the finest grapes; meal
and chickens cost about fifty per cent.
less than here; fish are excellent and
abundant, and vegetables are plenty and
cheap. @
-On DR.. Glenn's ranch in Colusa
County, California, in the same field,
were to be seen at the same time one set
of men thrashing out this years crop,
another set seeding for next year. and a
third set summer-fallowing for the Sec
ond years crop, while in another part of
the field a fine volunteer crop was coming
well forward. ias- m
A somnambulist at Louisville, KY,
created a decided sensation at four
O'Clock one morning by appearing in a
skin costume on the roof of his house and
executing " Humpty Dumpty" dances
so near the ewes that his legs often pro-
jected over the edge. He was secured
and thereby awakened and no harm be-
fell him. Chicago Herald.
A gentleman in Washington has in
vented machine consisting Of numerous
mirrors rejecting the suns rays from
one to the other with such effect that
they will reduce wood to ashes, melt
metal. boil water and cook vegetables.
To boil kettle and cook beefsteak by
using the sun when the thermometer
marks 100 Will be boon to housekeep-
ers.-Detron Post.
"A man while camping near Russell,
Arizona TerritorS, recently shot at
rabbit from the camp near boarding
house. The ball from the rifle missed
the game struck an adjacent rock. from
which it detected from its course almost
at right angle, and, passing through
window of the boarding house, struck
miner in the breast, inflicting quite
bruise.
DIR. Deuker, of st. Petersburg, a
physician having treated hundreds of
children at the hospital for diphtheria,
says he has met with the best results
from the following treatment. As soon
as the white spots appear on the tonsils
he gives cold drinks, acidulated with
hydrochloric acid, and every two hours
a gargle composed of lime-water and
hot milk in equal parts.
There were found on the person of
a young Englishman who committed
suicide at Bordentown, N. j., by drown
ing, seven locks of hair belonging
to as many different persons, pre-
sumably sweethearts A cruel wretch
insists that il is no wonder that he killed
himself. One sweetheart is about all
that one ordinary man can endure, and
the young Englishman is said not to
have been extraordinary.
DIR. Wilson, of Meriden, has found
that malarial diseases invaded Connect
cut in 1860. in the town of Southport, in
a wave scarcely more than twenty
miles wide, spreading laterally from this
line of progress only after reaching the
northern boundary of the State. and oc-
cupying about fifteen years in its march,
This migratory feature of the disease
has not been heretofore noticed in
America, though not unknown on the
continent of Europe. - 1872 ri.
The bean-blower with which the
modern schoolboy loves to torment the
children round about him and his teacher
on the platform is only feeble imita-
ton of the '.sumpitan'' with which the
aboriginal Dyaks of Borneo 60 to war
The sumpitan is a blow-pipe about five
feet long. and the arrows, which are
made of wood or fish-boneS, are thin and
sharp, and are generally dipped in the
poison of the upaS tree, which, though
virulent, is not always deadly. This
singular weapon is used with the great
est accuracy of a range of twenty yards,
but it viii carry a hundred.
"A farmer in Cayuga County, New
York, who was short of help, the other
day had big field of potatoes to dig.
He bantered a neighbor to take the job.
and the latter offered to do it for one
potato from every hill he should dig.
The contract was closed and the digger
put in his best work with his digging
fork, and at the close of the d.y he
loaded the tubers into wagon and
carried to the farmers bin, taking one
from each hill as he loaded. He only
secured fifteen bushels for himself. but
of course did not stop to pick out small
ones. At fifty cents bushel this made
a very fair days work.