The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-17
Observation-Disclosures.

"A few establishments where women
may stop to have their boots cleaned
and polished may be found in New
York.-N. Y. Sun.
An Indianapolis dog lived FIVE
weeks without water or food, its faith.
full and sagacious master having for.
gotten that it was locked in.-Indian-
apolis Journal.
-Superstitious residents at Newtown,
Conn.,, believe that Sherman w. Pratt
is possessed by devil, because he lay
| several weeks in coma-like stupor
and has since spoken in an unintelligible
| jargon, which to them is some unearth-
ly language.-Boston Post.
A young English lady has shown
what the fair sex can accomplish in the
severe sciences. She had been refused
admittance to q series of lectures by
Prof. Huxley on biology, but at last
gained his consent, and has beaten her
25O male opponents.
The portraits on the new postage
stamps that come IA use October l are:
one cent, Franklin; two cent, Jackson
three cent, Washington; five cent, Gar
field; six cent, Lincoln; seven cent,
Stanton; ten cent, Jefferson; twelve
cent, Clay; fifteen cent. Scott; thirty
cent, Hamilton; ninety cent, Perry.
The cabinet of the Territorial
Pioneers of California has been en-.
riched by the donation from Gilbert
Palache of two five-dollar gold pieces
coined in San Francisco by private per-
sons in 1S49 and 1850. Other additions
of early-day relics are continually be.
ing made.
John W. Shipp, of Nashville, on
being assigned to a room in hotel al
st. Augustine recently, gave the bed.
ding an examination. Under a pillow
he found pOcket-book containing
S31, 900, which proved to be the prop.
erty of w. j. Green, a banker from
Utica; N. Y.-Chicago Times.
Sixteen completely petrified human
bodies are said to have been recently
discovered in Pine Mountain, Campbell
County, Tennessee, in solid limestone
rock with fragments of petritied wood
Near by is also a cave. the walls of
which are decorated with paintings Of
extinct or imaginary animals.
At Milbrook, Canada, during re.
cent thunderstorm, according to the
Messenger of that place, horse harm.
essed to buggy was fastened to afence.
During a terrible lightning flash and
thunder crash the buggy was thrown
completely over the horse, the shaft
stuck into the ground and broken, anG
one wheel thrown some distance away,
The same storm shattered to splinter:
eight telegraph poles in the vicinity.
"A piece of lime which boy carried
in his pocket was the cause of his deatf
from blood-poisoning. 1t is the first in
stance on record of a boy S pant spoke
going back on him. To think that bras:
wire, rusty old knife blades, decayeC
fruit, cobbler's wax, fish hooks, putty,
mice, hedgehogs. can be carried with
impunity, yet there's all this fuss about
little bit of lime that looked as limo,
cent rs piece of chalk. Chicago NeWs.
Lord Dufferin, who is equally pop.
ular in Canada, in India and in En-,
gland, owes much of his success to two
Irish women-tO his mother, who was
| one Oh tne SneFludilS- anu 10 HIS WIG.
who was one of the Hamiltons of Kill.
yeagh Castle, County Down. He tells
the story that on one of his visits to the
castle, when he asked the driver of the
car what was the news, the driver, who
did not know him, answered.: They
say that one-eyed Dufferin's goin' tc
marry the purity Miss Hamilton.
| Chtca1O Tribune.
A short. middle-aged colored mar
can be seen any morning coming out OF
Steinway Hall, New York, sometime:
led by the arm by kindly old gentle
man, and generally grimacing and ges.
ticulating in a strange fashion. This is
Blind Tom-once great phenomenon,
and about whom more diverse criti.
ciSms have been written than any other
musician in the country. Music is still
a mania with him. and he has to 90 ur
in Steinway Hall and work off his mys.
ferrous energy every morning at a con.
cert grand. And it is said that his
improvising draws crowd of curiou:
experts about him yet.-N. Y. Times