The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A SINGLE book in the Earl of Ash.
burnham's library, known us the al
bani Missal," an Illuminated ancient
Ms, has been valued at $4,000.
The first work of the Egypt explor.
ing expedition of London will be the
excavation of Raamses, one of the two
cities mentioned in Exodus, as built BY
the forced labor of the Jews.
Prof. Huxley makes this point
''The French attend to their own Ian.
gnage, the Germans study theirs; but
Englishmen do not seem to think il
worth their WHILE
MIR. Robert Doeg, of Scotby, En-
gland, q well-knOwn minister of the
Society of Friends, having refused to
pay the war addition TO the income tax,
has just had his goods distrained upon
for the amount.
-Boetel, the new tenor over whom
European opera-goers are in ecstacies,
was formerly, Ike Wachtel, 8 cab
driver. His old companions in that
trade in Hamburg, where he was dis
covered, have just presented him with
silver ''whip of honor which cost
$3.50.
Sadly ungallant, too, is the tickle
Mr.. Biggar. A friend asked him, just
after the court had condemned him &c
pay $4,000 to Miss Hyland: "Why did
you kiss her foot?" because" growled
the honorable member from Cavan, sit
was handsomer than her face"
The old ladies in the country, who
get good deal of enjoyment out Of
what Charles Dudley Warner detests,
will not agree with him when he says:
II am weary of going to funerals which
are not my funerals, no matter how
chatty and amusing the undertaken"
An ingenious English tramp has
been in the habit of securing satisfactory
quarters for himself by skillfully feign-
ing temporarily lunaey and getting
accommodated in asylums, of which he
has resided in forty. However, he tried
his little game once too often at Chester
lately.
The historic mountains of the old
world are bestirring themselves. Ararat
is shedding avalanches instead of catch
ing arks. Etna is luxuriating in little
eruption. and from the volcanic ashes
falling on the coast of Norway it is
thought that Hecla is making things
interesting for Iceland.
"A rule of the railway companies
provides that dogs shall not ride in pas
senger carriages. but a big and fero-
cious-looking bulldog walked into
carriage the other day. appropriated n
whole seat, and rode 200 miles unmo-
Tested. .He had such q meaning
smile" was the guards apology for not
ejecting him.
Colonel King Hartman, the new rep
resentative of Aublin County, is said to
be the strongest member of the British
House of Commons, and there are many
stories in circulation of his deeds of
prowess in the many electoral contests
he has participated in. On one occa-
sion, for example, he armed himself
with q huge shillelah and literally
''cleaned out the whole High Street Of
an Irish town.
The chief of a Nevada band of Piute
Indians has hit upon happy way Of
restoring to sobriety, and at the same
time Furnishing, the members of the
band who get under the influence Of
fre-water. He causes them to be
lowered into an abandoned mining shaft
forty feet deep and keeps them there,
feeding them on bread and water. until
they are perfectly sober and willing to
promise to abstain in the future. The
cure has been found very effectual.
A bankrupt's lot is not q happy
one in China. The broker of q
silk firm in Shanghai which had recent
ly suspended payment was set upon in
the street by creditors of the firm,
beaten and hung up by the cue so that
his feet swung clear of the ground.
Having been discovered by the police in
that painful situation, he was taken for
protection to the police station, followed
by the creditors, who declared that ii
he fell again into their hands they would
bite him to death and eat him after
ward.
One night lately middle-aged man
asked the Sergeant at a Paris police sta
ton to arrest him because he was ut
terly destitute. He described himself
as Baron Won R and gave as his
place of domicile Vienna. Papers proved
that he spoke the truth. He had held
an important post, which he was COM
PEELED to resig on account of scandal.
Then he took to Baden and Monaco and
lost all. Then he gave German les
sons and got employment as clerk in
several business houses, but was dis
charged as incompetent and earned
3 living as cleaner-up in various work
,hopS From that he caupo IN picEipn
up living on the street
A Woman Hanged in 176S.