The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
Every flower about the house certi-
hes to the refinement OF somebody.
Dogs belonging to the aboriginese
and those kept BY Europeans in South
Africa are bitterly hostile to each other.
A straggler almost invariably loses his
life.
Wing Chin Foo is the editor of q
Chinese newspaper in this city. Him
catchee news on Wing. No much Chin.
Him no Foo, by big majority.-N Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on the LIST of January, 1776, over the
camp of Cambridge. 1t had thirteen
stripes of white and red, and retained
the English cross in one corner.-N. Y
Herald.
"A Portsmouth On. H. man indig-
nantly denies that that town is falling
into decay. He says that the buildings
erected there forty years ago are as good
as ever, and they haven't needed any
new ones since.
-Everything American is the fashion
at present in the City of Mexico. and the
Mexicans are beginning to adopt many
of the customs of this country. Ameri-
can ladies find especial favor in the eyes
81 the dark-eyed senors.
"A Cincinnati man who suddenly got
rich in hog speculation has read some
where that every family, the richest and
the proudest, has skeleton in his closet,
and now he is skirmishing around to buy
a skeleton, as his wife and daughter want
to be in style.-Boston Post.
Brooklyn cannot be first in anything,
it would seem. without exciting the envy
of numerous brood of rivals. The first
stroke of lightning recorded this season
occurred here, and several cities are mad
enough about it to tear down their tele-
graph poles.-Brooklyn Eagle. r.
"A scientific writer says that low
forehead does not always indicate ignor-
ance. Neither does high forehead de-
note knowledge. Many a man whose
forehead extends clear over to the back
of his neck does not know enough to pull
down his vest.-N. Y. Advertiser.
"A western Minnesota editor, in
writing up an excursion, said the ma
jority of the fine ladies present wore
sacks of daintiest description. The COM
positor got it ..socks of the dirtiest de-
scriptiOn," and the poor scribe has made
three Intellectual attempts to commit sui
eide in consequence.-Chi Chicago Herald
Three Georgia girls each drank
several egg-noggs and whisky straight,
then got in buggy and started off in
high spirits for party. From the fact
that they were subsequently found
asleep in fence corner, while black
smith was scraping up the remains of
the buggy with hoe, it is fair to infer
that the party passed off without their
presence Chicago NeUs.
"A smart thief in San Francisco
stole knife and pair of scissors from
a tailor's shop. When the police caught
him and searched him they found only
a hammer. He had no knife and no
scissors. Patient investigation showed
that the fellow had stolen the hammer
in the pawn shop where he had sold the
knife and scissors for ten cents.
The sarcophagus ordered last fall
by President Arthur, to be placed above
his wife's grave on South Ridge, in the
Rural Cemetery. Albany, N. Y, has been
placed in position. 1t is of Italian
marble, about eight feet long and two
feet high, and rests upon massive triple
pedestal. Around the upper edge, in
raised old English letters, is this inscrip-
ton:
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
ELLEN LEWIS HERNDON,
WIFE OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
Born in Culpepper, C. H., August 80. 1887.
Died at New York, January Il, 1880.
"A man living about twelve miles
from Chattanooga, Tenn, owns q rock
ing-chair that has paralyzed him and all
his neighbors. Mr.. Winchester, an old
invalid, who had used the chair for
many years. during which time he was
partially paralyzed, died last week, and
his wife sold the chair to Mr.. Mcintyre,
who removed it to his home in the neigh
borhood. Nothing unusual was noticed
until the latter part of last week, when
the chair, which was sitting in the room
was seen to violently rock
and then cease. Mr.. Mcintyre, who was
present, removed it to another part of
thc ioOll, Wucu IL d. ain Ieptdlcu It's
strange action.-N Y. Times.
1t is related of Gustave Dore that
many years ago. while on tour in
Switzerland, he happened to lose his
passport. Arriving at Lucerne, he
asked to be allowed to speak to the
Mayor to whom he gave his name.
"You say that you are M. Gustave
Dore," replied the Mayor, land be-
lieve you; butt he added, producing a
pencil and piece of paper, ''you can
easily prove it." Dore looked round
him and perceived some women selling
potatoes in the street. With a few
touches he cleverly reproduced the
homely scene, and. appending his name
to his sketch. presented it to the Mayor.
"Your passport is perfectly in ORDER"
the official, ''but you must |
allow me to keep it as souvenir. and
to offer you in return one in the ordinary
iorm."
Air Clocks.
Although the grand programme re-