The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-20
MSCELLANEOuS-

Maud s., vanderbilt's pet,- has a.
stable built on ground worth q thousand.
dollars per foot.-N =. Sun.
The Waterbury Comm american.
tells OF five ladies who were schoolgirls
together and intimate friends, of whom.
four have died of cancer, and the fifth
is now attacked by the same disease.
"A priest in Montreal, Can, Rev.
MIR. Sentenne. advises that the money
now spent in public professions be used
in erecting statues of celebrated Cana
dians in the squares of that city.-Chi--
eago Journal.
The Supreme Court of Vermont
holds that witness was competent, al
though he was dumb, uneducated in the
use of signs, and only able to assent or
dissent in answer to direct question
by nod or shake of the head.
Many of the great English lawyers
have been very uncultivated men. This
was pre-eminently the case with Sir
William Follett, the most brilliant adj
vocate of the century. He knew nothing
but law, to which he gave almost all his.
time when student at Cambridge
A German economic writer says
that Russian gold mines yielded last
year $50, 100000. The great Increase
in production dates from 1877, when
the Government abolished the heavy
tax on gold mining. The output prom
ises to become very large indeed.
The Princess Isabella, of Bavaria
recently married to the Duke of Genoa,
is described as looking like a wax
statue, without particle of color in
the face; rich, auburn hair; dark, visit
full eyes, and the figure of Juno. She
is very timid and retiring, and even her
smile Is tinged with sadness.
AS burglar alarm the old and
truly rural dinner bell is better than n
dog or revolver. A venerable lady
at Mr.. Greeley's old home, Chappaaua.
tried it the other night and it worked
to charm. Its loud uproar bursting
upon the midnight air could hardly fail
to arouse the neighbors. Our country
friends will do well to transfer the bell
from the garnet to the chamber Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
"A gamecock attacked little boy
near Troy the other day, and when he
was rescued the cock was savagely
shifting his face. There were three or
four cuts down the forehead and face,
that reached to the bone, but the most
dangerous was hole made by the spur
in the socket of the left eve between
the ball and the bone, the spur pene-
trating the entire depth. The child
will lose the eye.-Iroy IN. r. Times
When man, especially if he has
had a military experience, hears street
band, or even hand-organ, playing u
martial tune, he instinctively braces up.
and keeps step to the music. Then he
realizes what he is doing and feels the
absurdity of marching to such music,
but somehow he cam help doing it. and
his efforts to lounge and not walk in
time are the most exhausting of his life
Boston Posf.
The Government has decided to.
make no further grants to colonization
of railway companies in the Northwest
for the present, and until the present
chartered railways are completed there
will be no further sales of lands If,
however, it is found necessary in the.
interest of the country to make further
grants, the price will be raised fifty
cents per acre. This conclusion was ar
rived at owing to the rapid increase in
to the Northwest.-CAi--
cago Journal.
An enterprising but very indiscreet
jeweler of Baltimore displayed gilded
nickles in his show windows for sale,
and among his customers were Deputy
United States Marshal and a secret serv.
ice detective. The jeweler, when ar
rested, said he sold the gilded coins for
watch charms, but as the sale couldnot
carry with it any obligation on the part
of the purchaser to use the charm foI
that innocent purpose. Uncle Sam was
not satisfied with the excuse.-Bahi
more Sun.