The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

Some of the farmers in San BeN
uardino County, Cal. are killing birds
by placing poisoned apples on trees.
A man in Winthrop. Me-, plays the
piano. organ, violin, banjo. cornet. fife,
xylophone, bones and guitar, and whis-
ties like nightingale. The Maine peo-
pie are proud of him.
Smoking has become so prevalent
! in South Australia that q measure has
been INTRODUCED in the Legislature to
check the practice in youth. 1t i'm
poses a fine of five shillings to five
pounds upon any person under eighteen
who shall smoke pipe, cigar or cigar
cite.
A New York surgeon has resuscl-
! tated man who was almost suffocated
by gas escaping in his room at hotel
by means of TRANSMISSION of blood, The
blood was pumped from the arm of a
healthy negro into that of the almost
smothered man. The result is regarded
as valuable to medical science.-N. Y.
San.
An old Spanish lady named Julia
Benites recently died in San Francisco
of osteomalicia, or mollities ossesum-
J disease in which the bones lose their
salts and become like so much gritty
gelatine. so that they may be bent into
any shape and even tied in knot The
disease is rare. and results usually from
scrofulous faint
Criminals are becoming so defiant
and hardy and crime is exhibiting itself
in so many unnatural and monstrous
forms, that the public cannot afford to
be specially romantic, nor even scien-
!tific, in its treatment. In plain truth,
the public does not care what the scien-
tific treatment of crime and criminals
is.-St. Louis Republican.
I'm many parts of Spain farming op-
erations have made little or no progress
since the expulsion of the Moors The
same sort of pillow is used now as then,
! oxen tread out the corn after the an
cient Oriental fashion, and women sep
arate the chaff from the corn by tossing
the grain up in the air during keeze
of wind.
Something new in the funeral line
is the holding of the regular church
services in the evening. all the friends
and acquaintance attending. The
next morning the remains are taken &c
the cemetery, the family and most init.
mate relatives being the only persons in
attendance. Another innovation is the
using of sons and nephews for pail
bearers.-Chicdgo Herald.
There was once in Georgia a.most
remarkable old man who at the age OF
one hundred and one years, became the
father of boy whom he lived to see cast
a ballot. This son is now seventv-five
years of age. is as full of vim and en-
ergy as person in the prime of life.
can split rails rs well as anybody, and
is said to be able To outrun anv man OF
his age in the world. His oldest brother.
were he living, would be $50 years OF
age.-itidHtd Constitution.
drowning a bear was the feat ac-
complished recently by James Hum
phrey. of Cohoes. While rowing on
Long Lake he saw bear on a small
island in the middle of the lake. He
thus describes what followed: Il
jumped ashore and loaded up with
lot of stones. l had just got back to
the boat, when Fred shouted Here he
comes gave the bear fusilade of
rocks, but he paid no attention to them.
but started for the other shore. We
followed. and l peppered him pretty
lively with the rocks, and finally drove
him back again to the island. He
again started for the other side. We
headed him back with stones, and went
for him. gave him one that luckily
stunned him. Before he recovered 1
grabbed him by the ears and held his
head under water until he was dead.
The bear weighed two hundred
pounds. Troy IN ~ Times.