The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

There almost seventeen hundred
horses which can trot mile in 2:30 or
better.
The quickest time on record made
by steamship from Florida to New
York was made a few days ago by the
steamer ChattahoOche in seventy-two
hours.
"A butcher in Poughkeepsie, N. T.,
killed an OK a few days ago, and on
opening its paunch found therein five
hundred dollar certificate of stock in
the Poughkeepsie bridge.-NY. Sun.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that wife may recover
money lost by her husband at gambling.
That is more than the husband can do
for himself.-Louisuiie Courier-Jour-
nal.
The adulteration of Chinese teas
with American catnip leaves is not so
objectionable, inasmuch as the action of
the added ingredient is quieting on the
nerves and induces sleep.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone has given
large lot of land near Nineteenth and
X Streets, Washington, and $4,000 in
money for the erection and maintenance
OF a home for needy widows of the Epis-
copal persuasion Washington Star.
"A Montreal clergyman was too i'll
to preach on Sunday, but he wrote q
sermon, and, by the use of telephone,
heard it delivered in his church by an
other preacher as he lay on his sick-bed
In his chamber.-Chicago Journal.
There were thousands of Irish in this
country prior to the Revolutionary war
but not five per cent. were Roman Cath
olics. Nearly all were intensely Protes-
tant. In rural New England Roman
Catholic was a rarity half century
ago.-M. Y. San.
The Weldon On. CO. News saws:
Some time since we published long
unusual Christian name which belongs
to a colOred man living near here. We
have since heard another, this time a
woman's. 1t is: Clarissa Sophronia
Teddy Whitehouse De Appletree Bur-
ton.
"A Vermont man bet a neighbor
that he couldn't walk half mile with
out looking to the right or left, and
just as the man started on his walk set
two dogs to fighting about halfway
down the track, and won his money as
easily as could be.-Boston Post.
-Pointed-toed shoes, on the auth
ority of the best shoemakers, are going
out of fashion, and ere long will only
be worn by the ''commoners." A
salute of fifty guns, loaded with baked
apples, ought to be fired from Gov
ernor's Island as demonstration of
JOY unconfined.-N Y. Mail.
Sir Arthur Kennedy, the Governor
of Queensland, who has set diplomatic
circles in a tluttar by his annexation of
New Guinea, is seventy-four years old,
and, before assuming the Governership
of Queensland, had successfully ruled
over Sierra Leone, West Australia, Van
covers Island, the West Africa settle
ment and Hong Kong.
The stage beard looks as much like
beard that grew there as cows tail
would if tied to the bronze dog on the
front porch. When You tie a heavy
black beard on young actor whose
whole soul would be churned up if he
smoked full-fiedged cigar. he looks
about,as savage as bowl of mush and
milk struck with a club.-lNontana
Gazette.
The following is the schedule of
rates adopted by the trustees of the
big Brooklyn bridge: Foot passengers,
one cent; car fare, five cents; one horse,
or horse and man, five cents; one horse
and vehicle, ten cents; two horses and
vehicle, loaded or unloaded, twenty
cents; each horse beyond two attached
to any vehicle. five cents; neat cattle,
each. five cents; sheep and hogs, each,
two cents