The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

--Tsmail. the ex-Khedive, Is going to
i've in England. He has purchased Caen
Towers, Highgate, luxurious mansion
with twelve acres of ground, for $780,
900.
"A Cincinnati young lady. whose
vanity is largely in excess of her common
sense. has partially destroyed her sight
by the use of preparation for coloring
the eyelashes and ''tinting" the eyelids.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
There hasn't been a meeting Of the
Concord School of Philosophy for over
four months. and it isn't to be wondered
at that Columbus wagon-maker de-
clares that the hind wheels of wagon
should 60 in front.-Detroit Free Press.
"A pleasant reflection for young
people affected with neuralgia is state
ment i'm French newspaper, that a GER
tain lady's hair became '.gray as a
badger" between the hours of two and
seven p. m, during very severe attack
of that disease.
When college students cease putting
wagons astride the ridge-poles of gym
nasiums, enticing stray horses into col.
lege belfries and climbing lightning-rods
after flags, it will be time enough to talk
about putting up fire escapes for them.
-Harper's Weekly.
An exchange announces in a tone OF
surprise, 1.-The Car and Czarina have
been dancing at ball" We fail to see
anything very strange about this. Even
in Chicago married people sometimes
dance together if absolutely necessary
to make up a set-Philadeipna NeDs.
William Walker, aged twenty-three,
was killed by a blast at Readsboro',
Mass, recently, while walking on the
highway fifty rods from the place Of
blasting. A three thousand pound rock
flew from the blast across Deerfeld Rlv.
er and struck Walker, crushing him into
jelly. A mother and two sisters were
dependent on him for support.
The Gardeners Chronicle Oondon)
tells of the effects of the so-called sting
ing tree. The sting of single hair OF
it on the hand of victim gave rise tc
severe pain over the whole of one side
of the body. followed by numbness and
partial paralysis. A sensation OF losing
the senses or "becoming insane" was
experienced, and the severe symptoms
lasted for two hours. The punctured
spot remained painful for nearly a month.
The elaborate patchwork quilts, SO
dear to our grandmothers and still oc-
casionaliy exhibited at country fairs,
have been eclipsed as monuments of
misapplied industry. There is at Red
car, a small village in England, model
of Lincoln Cathedral built of 100000
old corks. twas made by plOwman.
who worked at it for ten years and seven
months before completing his task
Chicago Herald.
-Berlin's Jumbo" the pet elephant
which carried children on its back in the
Geological Garden, recently killed its
keeper and '.cleaned OUT the rest of the
menagerie. Sentence of death was
passed on the brute, but it was difficult
to execute the stern law, and the SEN
tence was committed to five years soil
tary confinement with big chain and
paddock.
The Cleveland Society for the Pres.
ervation of Weights and Measures has
resolved: THAT this society earnestly
protests against any action on the part
of our National Government in the COIN
age of its currency, or in any other man
ner, that will directly or implicitly in
dorse the French atheistic sentiment that
There is no God and that the mo to
on all our coins shall be: In God We
Trust W
I'm Mr.. Robert Buchanan's new
play the hero snowballs his rival to
d ,ath." 1t is very cold day for a
rival when he gets left in such cool and
fatal manner. The villain of the play
should have his skull split open by bow
on clipper knocking his legs from
under him. Any other superfuous
characters in the cast might be made to
skate through an air-hole.-Nor11stotcis
Herald.