The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A young gentleman new to jour.
nalism turns down the corner of page
in the dictionary SO that he may easily
find the word when he looks for it
again.-M 7. Herald.
The Bench Show having had its
day in New York, it is now proposed to
get up Dude Circus, with prize of
five hundred corsets for the one with
the most parabolic back. M Y.
Graphic.
-Genesee Valley, N. Y, once cele-
DRAFTED for the quantity and quality Of
its wheat products, seems to be under
laid throughout by a vast bed of salt,
much of it not over five hundred feet
below the surface.
Owing to drought in the tropical
countries the supply of cocoanuts this
season will probably be short. But il
The corn and wheat crops of the United
States do not fail, we ought to try and
worry along.-Cicago Journal.
"A Delaware boy recently lost one
of his feet in consequence of wearing
sight shoes. These produced assesses,
which gradually ate up the bones OF
the foot, so that surgeons were obliged
to amputate tn: Y. Sun.
The law of New Jersey requires
railroad companies to make a return to
the State of all fatalities that occur on
their lines. During the thirteen years
between 1869 and 1882 there were L..
902. 1t is probable the fatal accidents
in other States reach no smaller pro-
portions, so that the aggregate of sta
tistics would be appalling, though little
attention is paid to the factors as they
occur from time to time.-Piladelpkia
Press.
Near Rome, Ca, is about an acre
of the evergreen known as the Pente-
verian, or Aqueous tree. 1t is pecu-
liarity of the tree that whenever its
body is touched by the human hand OF
body in the summer season or in warm
weather, simultaneously with that
touch q shower of water falls from the
leaves, which continues to fall as long
as the human and vegetable contact
continues.-AtlantG Constitution.
Under the head of society news"
a rural paper of Arkansas says: "Ma-
jor Jack Muggle, so well known in this
community, and who sells goods at
Black Fork, and who recently married
the beautiful and accomplished Miss
Higtores, yesterday shot and killed
Colonel Blowgill, a gentleman of much
merit in business but tritie slow in So
ciety.-ArkansdU Traveller.
The daughter of German Baron
committed suicide in New York, re-
Gently, driven to that course by destitu-
ton. She had been cast off by her father
for having married against his will.
After the death of her husband, which
occurred in q few months, she fitted
herself as nurse and physician by TAX
ing a course construction in the Royal
Medical College, of Saxony. She then
came to this country, but though she
was an unusually intelligent and accom-
plished woman she failed to find enough
employment to keep her from want. and
at last took her life in despair.-M. Y,
Tribune.
Mr.. Gould, like every poor man,
can afford the luxury of joking. A
newspaper reporter went to him the 9TH
er day and asked if the report was trRe
that he had given Tiffany S3OO,O0G
tOntract to decorate Tie interior of his
residence, to which MIR. Gould replied
that the amount was incorrectly stated.
6. 1t should have been S3,000.000," hit
said. Then the reporter asked him a:
TO the truth of some absurd rumors
about what he was going to take with
him in his yacht cruise around the
world. 81 have decided" replied the
great monopolist, % to take nothing
with me but the Brooklyn bridge"
"A bridegroom. alighting at the
house of his intended bride in the Rue
St. Denis in Paris, few days since,
was struck by bullet fired from re-
volver, and fell bleeding to the ground.
Before the would-be murderer could be
seized he had swallowed prussic acid,
and in two or three minutes expired.
He proves to be the uncle of the bride,
man of about seventy-five. A letter
was found upon him stating that he
loathed the man chosen by his niece,
and had therefore killed him. The
bridegroom, whose wounds were seri-
Gus, was carried into the house where
the wedding party were ready to start
for Marie