The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
AT q press banquet held in New
jersey few days ago, at which thirty
six editors were present, it was found
that not a single man of them could sing
song, tell a snake story, nor point out
good spot for fishing.
When man '.mysteriously disap-
pears nowadays his friends don't be-
gin dragging the river or casting around
for murderer until it is known how
his books stand and how much money
he has borrowed.-Detroa Post.
After a bale of cotton had been
stolen from q colored man in Dublin,
Ga, the thief could not be detected be-
cause every colored man in the town
stoutly protested his own innocence, and
as stoutly accused some other darby Of
the deed. In the general hubbub the
real thief escaped.
Recently they had an "Eisteddfod'
in Chickering Hall, New York, at which
one man read an 'Englynion and an
other recited an 'Awdp' and another
the "Cwydd y Farm Fawr," and then
the whole crowd stood up end sang
"Hen wlad fy nhadhau." And then the
roof of the hall fell i'm. Y Graphic.
"A Boston correspondent of the Provi-
dence Press says: ..Mrs. Amory, of Bos-
ton, when dining in London with dis
tinguished company, gathered in honor
of her relative, Lord Lyndhurst, was
asked if Mrs. Stowe, whose Uncle Toms
Cabin was the sensation of the day,
was black, like the characters she de-
scribedr' l5F
The altitude Of nearly all the arabic
valleys in Montana averages from five
hundred to one thousand feet less than
the most fertile ones of Colorado and
Utah. And the highest mountain ranges
in Montana-six thousand feet-have
no greater elevation than the plains have
at Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory
Chicago Times.
Upton, President of the collapsed
Rochester IN. W City Bank. does not
know a good thing when he has it. He
put fortune in oil, and had an oppor.
tunity to unload at good profit, but, in
the vernacular of the worldly, she
wanted the earth" There came an
oleaginous decline and Upton slid down
on it.-Chicago Herald.
"A pulling match to see whether
two mules could pull bag of sand
weighing 500 pounds attached to one
end of a 300-foot rope, the wager being
fifty dollars a side, came off at Prescott,
Arizona Territory, last week. The
mules walked away with the baggage as
easily as if it had been loaded in light
wagon. Considerable money is said to
have changed hands.
The number of mysterious deaths
among the occupants of the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio, has led to an in
vestigation and the investigation to the
discovery that many of the old soldiers
are murdered on their way from Dayton
to the Home, for the money paid them
as pensions. 1t is said that at least one
case can be proven and that prosecution
will be begun. Dayton roughs are sus-
pected. Chicago Herald. D..
Unlike the duelists who have recent
ly been attracting the attention of the
whole country were two chivalrous
of Pensacola, Fla. One was
thirteen years of age, the other few
years older, and both loved the same
girl. They met, shot at each other and
were carried from the field of honor, the
one with bullet hole through his knee,
the other with similar hole through his
cheek go
One day recently Judge Greer, of
OglethOrpe, Ga, heard loud call from
he street. "What do you wish?" asked
he Judge of a young man who sat in
buggy. pretty girl being by his side.
please marry u.s." said the youth.
'Shall II" inquired the official, looking
1t the girl. ''Yes," she said, and the
overs were married as they sat in the
buggy. After the couple had ridden
away the girls father drove hurriedly
Up, to swear at empty air-N. o. Pea
Iune.
1t is a mistake, saws the London
Lancet, to both rise early and take late
est. The rising early is good as habit
If life. if it does not mean robbing nature
If her opportunity to recruit the ex-
lausted strength of brain and body by
,rolonging sleep when that necessary
luxury is at length enjoyed. If we must
it up half the night, it would be better
o sleep half the day than to rise betimes
md go in for arduous labor after insult.
icient rest. Early rising is harmful
without early resting.
In his annual message Governor
Jrittenden, of Missouri, referring to the
ong hours which street car employees
re compelled to spend at their work,
avs: Those employees are naturally
eprived of all domestic associations and
opportunities for physical, moral OF
Mental improvement. 1t is not in the
interest of the State to permit such de-
hands to be made upon any class of its
itizens. 1t is a compulsory labor and
gainst the sentiment of the law and the
lstincts of humanity, and should be