The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-13
msCELLANEoUs.

MISCELLANEOUS.
For giving tobacco to . giraffe in
Central Park New York man was fined
$500.
I'm limestone quarry, near Salt
Lake, a tremendous blast of 3,205
pounds OF powder was fired recently. 1t
dislodged about SOC tons of stone.
The Puget Sound Courier, published
at Olympia, Washington Territory, says
it is nothing unusual there to see man
taking a wheelbarrow load of silver
dollars to the land office to pay for land.
The will of the late John Holmes, Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, divides his property.
estimated at $3.50, 900, into twenty equal
parts, six of which are bequeathed to
benevolent institutions of that city.
The word ..that" is perhaps the
only word in the language that can be
used five successive times with absolute
correctness of grammatical construction.
For instance: He said that that that,
that that gentleman made use of was
perfectly right. See?
"A New Jersey man wrote to the
Postmaster of New York City as follows
"Would you accommodate me by send
ing me the names of all the - family
which is on record at the Post Office OF
in city Directory. am very anxious tC
find out about my Posterity, which have
been absent from and parents had nc
record Of for Twenty-eight years.-M. Y
Herald.
"A correspondent of the Western
Rural recently sent sample of sugar
bought at country store for good cane
sugar. An analysis instituted by thai
paper showed that fifty per cent. of il
was grape sugar (made from corn, and
worth about four cents pound, and il
also contained large quantities of sui
phur. The chemist pronounces it a vile
compound.
The great bridge over the East river.
to connect the cities of New York and
Brooklyn, will, within the course of g
few months, be finished and thrown
open to the public, and it has been de-
termined that it shall be free to foot pas
sepgers; the fare in the cars for ride Of
mile and a-half being five cents, and
that the tolls for animals and vehicles
shall be so low as to reduce the ferriage
on the river boats as much as possible
N. Y. 7ribune.
The Charleston Is. CO. Nesos agar
calls for the enforcement of the repeal
of the law against dueling, being now
moved thereto by the publication of an
advertisement in the Barnwall Sentinel,
by lawyer, Major L. w. Youmans, in
which he denounces another lawyer, l..
b. o. Bryan. of Allendale, S. c., as liar
and a coward, the latter having refused
his challenge to fight duel, growing
out of quarrel arising from apetty case
in which they were opposing counsel.
1t appears that Bostonians wait
until they grow up before they allow the
local wave of culture to strike in. Az
examination of the younger children OF
the public schools of that city, made by
DIR. Stanley Hall, showed that eighteen
per cent. of the number had no knowl-
edge of cow further than they gained
from pictures; siXty-one per cent of
those examined had never seen an ant;
sixty-five per cent. had never seen corn
growing; ninety per cent did not know
where their ribs were nor exactly what
they were, while only sixty per cent.
were ignorant of the location of their
stomachs. Some of the children stated
that flour came from the grocer, who
gets it directly from God; others said
that meat is dug from the ground or
picked up from the meat-tree.-M. Y.
Sun.
"A party of street laborers in San
Francisco disconnected the water pipe
through which the engines of a public
school were supplied. The engineer
|. noticed that the water in the boilers was
getting low and attempted to let in
more. Not a drop flowed. His hair
stood on end when he realized that in a
few minutes there would be an explo-
sion which would shatter the building
and probably kill half of the great num-
Der of scholars up stairs. Wild with
fright he dispatched the janitor to see
that the connections were made again,
but he himself stayed at his post to be
the first one to perish in case Of accident.
A deep drawn sigh of relief escaped him
when he heard the water flowing and
knew that all danger was past. A fear.
full disaster was barely averted.