The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A billiard room loafer at Denver
bet five dollars he could swallow live
frog, and live frog six inches long and
two inches beam went down his throat.
Denver Tribune.
The London Medical NeUs, after
weighing the arguments for and against
the theory that consumption is caused
by a specific bacteria, decides that the
balance of proof is in that direction.
The champion stallion stake organ
lied by Pierre Lorillard was assigned to
the Louisville Jockey Club on its bid of
S10.575, and will be run at the fall meet
ing of the club in September.
On account of the demand for ALI
gators Florida man has begun to cul-
tivate them, and has 1900 of the rep
tiles ready for shipment. They are to
be sent to all parts of the country.
"A visionary local financicr, who had
a thousand ways to make fortune and
not a single one to make living, is de-
scribed bv friend as ''a man so san.
guine that the mere getting hold of a
shoestring makes him think he is al
ready the owner of a Wash
ington Sunday Herald.
DE Lesseps writes that the proposed
inland African sea is perfectly feasible.
Shafts have been sunk to the depth of
two hundred and twenty feet, meeting
with nothing but sand. and the entire
ground has been carefully gone over,
requiring only one hundred engines re-
presenting the labor of 100000 men to
make it success.
Major Henry Bull owns large and
very valuable lot almost in the center of
the city of Providence, X. l., for which
no deed or title exists. Itwas purchased
from the Indians by one of his ancestors
in 1886. 1t came very near passing out
of the possession of the Bulls about one
hundred years ago through a game Of
old sledge.
The Government Printing Office
has recently completed what is probably
the largest single order for printing
ever issued, namely $4,000, 900 of labels
in red ink for the Treasury Depart
ment. The job required 1000 reans of
fine paper and $1,000 worth of red ink.
1t was completed within six days after
the Oruer was received.
A bee which accidentally gets into
a cake dough can be baked and come
out alive, and the man who ascertained
this fact by getting into his mouth at a
wedding breakfast piece of cake con-
tanning one of the insects, was nightly
surprised, and scared the landlady who
sat opposite to him into a fit by the
e., hn do hot hn tn
cessity and took the insect out and
swore and beloved wildly for water
Boston Post.
1t is said that in Helena, NJ. T., and
Portland. Oregon, servant girls get
thirty dollars per month. Even at that
rate of wages servant girls are scarce.
The reason why is that girl has not
been in the Territory or State a week
before she has an offer of marriage. So
pressing are the offers that the girls in
evitably succumb after short resistance.
Still, girls waiting for offers or service
will do well to learn the true facts in the
case before emigrating to the single
woman's Utopia.-Chicago News.
On the road between Bridgeport
and Trumbull is n house which is minus
front stoop and the sill of the front
door is several feet above the ground.
This lacking stoop has history. When
the house was built it had stone steps
which led up to the front door. A few
years ago man driving by the house,
seeing the steps, thought he would like
to procure some like them. He offered
the owner of the house fair price for
them, which was accepted and the steps
were carted away. The owner of the
house loved money. and it is said that
rather than 90 to the expense of putting
up another stoop, he has since used the
back door of his house exclusively
Hartford (G.) COurdnt.