The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

During the sealing season o, Bar
clay's Sound, Pacific coast, which closed
few weeks ago, forty-eight Indian
fishers were drowned by the swapping
OF Canoes Chicago Times.
j. G. Brown, who lives q short.
distance above Columbus, Ga, killed a.
snake and threw it out in front of his
gate. His chickens afterward ate Of
the snake and seven of them died on the
spot.-N o. Rodyune.
| Mrs. Gladstone. who was described;
by Disraeli as without a single re-
deeming vice." usually wears a rusty
black silk costume with well-worn boots
and gloves. She avoids fashion. that She
may save money for the poor.
All You is the prettiest Chinese GIRL
ever brought to America She was one
of the wonders of San Francisco's Chi
nese quarter, and as such was pointed
out to all tourists. One of these, an
Englishman, has falleni in love with and
married her.-N y Sun.
The Petersburg (Va. Hnder-Appeai-
expresses the belief that nine-tenths OF,
the duels fought in this age are the re-
suit of sudden impulse, of mistake as tcz
motives, or of belief that no bodily
harm will be done either of the parties
fighting.
Professor King, the balloonist, as
cended at Cleveland recently in COM
pany with A. d. Davis, of Chicago
and Rose Kennedy, of Springfield, ILL.,.
who were married in the balloon, and
made q wedding trip in the clouds
landing a few miles from the city,
Chicago Journal.
1t is said that q certain gray-haired
old begger in New York is a lady who
was once engaged to be married to-
Justice Salmon Z. Chase, and who be-
came insane years ago, after the en-
gagement was broken. Her name, it is
ascertained, is Lucy E. Malcolm, who.
was once very beautiful woman.-N-
y. Herald.
"A traveller, while walking among
the ruins of Caracalla's baths, in Rome,
came near being killed by a stone
dropped from a considerable height by
a crow. He had ventmed too near
their nests, and they picked up stones
in their talons, scared to a height of
nearly one hundred feet, and let them
drop. Some of the stones weighed n
pound.
The country is prosperous, and an
observing writer says: ''One of the
best evidences of prosperity is the
large number Of marriages. There are
thousands more who should seize the
golden opportunity and begin to live.
Whnn y,,an -,
post and has loved no good woman, he
has lost his best chances of life for
happiness, and the sooner he calls a
halt and thinks it over the better. 1t is
all nonsense for strong, healthy man
to say he can not keep wife. Obi
caJ0 Journal.
"A Paris cabman found three hun
dred dollars in his cab a year ago and
deposited it at police headquarters. The
money was not claimed. and the finder
was therefore informed that he might
resume possession of it. In the ex-
uberance of his, delight he offered
twenty-franc piece to the first police
man he met, who forthwith arrested
him as suspicious person and marched
him off to the nearest station-house,
where, however, the affair was salts
factorily explained. The pair subse--
quently had a grand carouse, and the
incorruptible policeman was suspended
for two weeks for neglect of duty.
Samuel Whitaker, longtime
dweller on ''the bottoms" in Clark
County, Missouri. concluded to pull up
stakes last winter and 90 where
high water would never come. With
this laudible intent he selected g.
farm on the Platte River, Nebraska,
put in forty-five acres of corn during
the spring. to say nothing of the patch
Of potatoes, onions, ETC.. and was con-
graduating himself on his fine prospects
for crop up to a few days ago, when
the river rose rapidly and so covered
his farm that nothing green was visible
In mingled sorrow, anger and disgust
the old man started back to .'Old Mis-
souri,. y Chicago Tribune.