The Iola register., 1883-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


Quincy, Fla, seems to be a bad
place for Swedes. OF one hundred who
went there in 1874, the last one has
died.
Lake Moosehicmagunticjocknah-
makantajus, in Maine, wants to become
summer resort, but no tourist has ever
yet had the courage to ask for ticket
for that station.-Chicago Herald.
Zone By One the Roses Fair is
the poetic headline with which the
Pittsburgh Telegraph caps the latest
Boston failure. .'Goat-hairs Swept from
Lodge-room floors'' is what the head
liner of a Cincinnati paper calls its.
secret society items.
dollar gold piece, which actually con-
tanned S4.63 worth of gold, was stopped
in the Boston Sub-treasury few days
ago. 1t is said to have been so we'll
executed as to place experts at variance
and to make it a difficult question to-
determine whether it was made from a
die or by superior casting.
The Sumterville (Fla.) Times is
responsible for this story: "a party of
gentlemen, recently, fishing in lake
in Sumter County, had their boat at
tackled by monster alligator. For
tunately they had rifle on board, and
succeeded in killing the saurian. When
hey got the body ashore it was found
70 measure fifteen feet in length and
weighed over eight hundred pounds.
When cut open whole hog was found
in its stomach"
After describing the repeated fail
ures of tumble bug TO get his ball out
of rut, the indianapolis Ne,os adds
FINALLY he plowed out space, like a
sort of railroad cut, with smaller
slope than the buggy track, and pushed
his ball triumphantly out through it
Was that reason? 1t was exactly the.
course an engineer would take. 1t.
was exactly the course taken. to raise
the great winged bulls of Nineveh.
Has tumble-bug got a mind?"
"A few days ago Colonel John ID.
Washburn, of Worcester, Mass, was.
the guest of gentleman at summer
resort hotel. He happens to resemble
President Arthur in some respects, and
on the strength of this resemblance 81
wag started the story that he was the
President. The result was that every
body in the place crowded to the hotel
to get look at the distinguished guest.
When told of their mistake they ap--
peared to be incredulous, and during
the whole of Colonel Washburn's stay
he was dogged about the streets by a
rabble of curiosity-seekers.-
HERALD
Speaking of the American trotting-
horse, Mr.. f. E. Nipper says that it is
very probable that the trotter will finally
surpass the running horse. Besides
mathematical evidence, he advances
the following: The trotter carries his
body more steadily-with less of rise
and fall-than the runner, and it seems
very reasonable that this should result
to the advantage of the trotter, when
the process of developing and adjusting
his muscles and chest shall have been
sufficiently carried on. so that the con-
fest between the two animals shall have.
been reduced to matter of muscular
capacity. Chicago Journal.
Although bulls are popularity sup.
posed to be of Irish origin, it is uude
niably true that some of the best, or
worst, come from English literature
Notable is the one of which Sir Robert
Godschall was guilty. A copy of an
important letter was produced in court,
the original having been lost. The
cautious Judge looked over his spectacless
and gravely inquired whether the copy
was taken before the original was lost
or after. 1t was the same gentleman
who, hearing that some one had had the
smallpox twice and died of it, asked
whether he died of the first attack or
the second. Chicago Times.
chihuahua, Mexico, a city of 25, ,00Os
people, is now building its first street
railroad. A new State house and a.
new mint are also in the course of con-
struction. They are being built of
stone. The blocks are being brought
in on huge wagons with wooden wheels,
the rims, or tires, of which are ten;
inches wide. The oxen are yoked as of
old. by the horns, and goaded by man
with long stick with a sharpened nail
at the end of it. Blocks of stone weigh
ing fifty and dseventy-five pounds each are
brought in on burro mules, saddle-bags-
style. One burro trudges along under
two of these heavy blocks.
John Moranda PLAYED the hero sue
cessfully in Salt Lake City for week.
He carried one arm in sling and said
that he had hurt it by fall. Then his
confederate, William Naylor, came for
ward with thrilling account of having
been robbed by highwaymen, who
would have murdered him had not
Moranda gallantiy fought them Off
"He's so modest that he lied about his
arm," Naylor added: lit is wounded BY
bullet. The scoundrels took my last
dollar, but as soon as get remittance
from New York he's got to take his re-
ward" Both men were lavishly enter
tanned while pretending to wait for the
draft, and they found it easy to borrow
several hundred dollars before the time
came for disappearing.-Chicago Tri6-
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