The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t is said that in London every
fourth person receives gratuitous medi-
cal attendance.
THE Siamese system of hazing, 81"
says the Rochester Post, sis to allow
each Siamese college student to have
two wives"
Miss Emily Faithful says of Ameri-
can women: Il am satisfied that most
of them have a pretty good time of it. "
The wives of most of the Mollie
Maguires hanged in Pennsylvania few
years ago are keeping dram shops in
the neighborhood of their husbands
old homes.
The ninety Mormon missionaries
who are working mainly in Tennessee
calculate that, the South will afford
them about seven hundred converts this
year.
"A man has invented chair that
can be adjusted to 800 different posi-
TONS 1t is designed for a boy to sit in
when he goes to church.-Erchdnge.
-"Is it a crime to be woman?"
asks Mrs. Blake. Certainly it is! Mr..
Daniel Maguinnis will please rise and
propose his favorite toast: Success to
crime. boston Post.
Canary colored diamonds are much
sought after at present, as, indeed, are
all curiously colored stones. Pink dia-
monds are another of the fashion of the
moment.
"A Kentucky school-master got a
verdict of seventeen dollars the other
in a emit hrnt orb of hh
tees for damages from a cold caught
running after them to get his pay.
"A man ninety-nine years old. living
in Unity, n. H., without using spec
tacles, recently shot four squirrels with
an old musket which once belonged to
a soldier in the revolutionary war.
The Philadelphia Nescs is right
when it testifies that 1.-The testiest ticket
agents, most arrogant conductors and
proudest brakemen are always found
on the worst run railroads"
1t is the boast of prosperous
merchant of Athens, Ga, that he started
in life as the Circassian beauty of a
side-show, in proof whereof he exhibits
enhancing photographs of himself in
short petticoats and pink stockings.
Candy and corrosive sublimate are
kept on the same shelf in Nebraska
stores. If the child lives, it is candy; if
it dies, it is corrosive sublimate. One
of the simplest things in the world
Rochester P0st-ErpreSs.
AT Irkutsk, Siberia. they sell milk
by the block, each block having a stick
frozen into it for convenience in carry
ing. You can get milk with stick in
it in this country, but the stick does not
always make it easier to carry.
-Importations of macaroni are said
to be increasing very rapidly, but wheth-
.er the fact is due to a growing love for
it among our people, or to the large
number of Italian gentlemen laboring
on railroads, we are not prepared TO
state.-N Y Sun.
Edward King advises Americans
who visit Europe this year to. provide
themselves with passports, give political
gatherings wide berth and deny them.
selves the pleasure of denouncing the
established institutions of the countries
through which they pass.
An elevated-railroad locomotive
dropped hot Goals on a horse, and the
horse hurt boy. 1t has cost the road
5000, in spite of the claim of the rail-
road in court that the owner of the
horse ought to pay damages for not
having horse that would stand still
when hot Goals fell on him.
A Sunday paper recently repub-
lished the Cleary-Weeden prize-fight,
fought in March, 1876, near Newark,
Del, and the story was read by two
young bucks named O'Brien and Law
Ter, residing at Jackson's Patch, near
that place. They became so animated
over the account that they repaired to
an adjoining grove, made ring and
began fight. The mill was lively and
hotly contested until the fourth round.
when LAWYERS arm was broken. This
ended the fight in O'Brien's favor The
youthful pugilists are only fourteen
years of age and heretofore bore no en-
nifty toward each other The fight was
witnessed by quite large gathering.