The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-16
MIsCRLLANEoUs.

Rhode Islands Reform School for
Boys has no locks on the doors and NO
bars on the windows. There is very
rarely an attempt to escape, though the
100 inmates include many lads who have
been considered incorrigible.
AN eastern merchant who never adj
vertised was found lying dead on the
counter in his store the other day. 1t is
thought the body had lain there for sew
eral days before being discovered .-Du-
Iuth Tribune.
The Shenpao, Chinese newspaper.
gives an account of a man thirty-four
years old, with thirty-two children
sixteen pairs of twins. The father is a
poor farmer and the children are SUD-
ported by their neighbors.
An Ohio family of six weigh ton
an average of 277 pounds each. The
fathers weight is 4S0 pounds, the moth
er's 286, the Oldest 3O7 and the weight di-
minishes to the youngest who weighs 1T
pounds. 1t must be unpleasant for any
one of them when the rest of the family
sit down on him.-Detroh Free Press.
"A Chicago man started business
in competition with the postoifice. He
delivered letters anywhere in the city at
q cent apiece and sold stamps at even
lower rate by the thousand. He did
well until a fine of $3.50, with promise
of the same punishment for every letter
afterward carried, closed his enterprise.
Chicago NeUs.
In Pulaski County, Virginia, a few
days since, Mr.. David Smith, Jr., and
Miss Lizzie King, romantic couple,
undertook runaway match. The ele-
ments sided with the girls father. who
captured the lovers. took them home,
and made them get married in decent,
prosaic' style. His only objection to
Smith was his extreme youth.
"A liking for One-story factories has
been developed among the manufacture
ers of New England, and they are being
built in many cases where the nature of
sites permit. They are said to be eco
nomical, handy, safe, and free from that
vibration which looms impart to tall
structures. An immense flax mill on
this plan has just been opened at ia
maica Plain, near Boston.
"A prize was offered by a lot of butch
ers in Flushing, L. L., for the nearest
guess to the weight of hog. One man
had dreamed the night before that the
porker weighed 1917 pounds. and he put
these figures down. The other guessers
laughed and jeered at him, but his time
came when the carcass was laid on the
scales. He hit it to the fraction of
pound. $50 .#.
-Dielman had been chief clerk of the
Hotel Emery, Cincinnati, for a number
of years. The owners decided to make
him the landlord because they regarded
him as very able and honest. In exam
lining the books for the purpose of letting
him start anew, they discovered false en-
tries covering his stealings of thousands
of dollars. Instead Of being the host of
great hotel, Dielman is now dis
graced fugitive.-Cincinnati CONNER
ctat. ....
A remarkable thief has been caught
in Chicago. He is young. handsome,
well educated, very gentlemanly and
wonderfully audacious.s He lived sew
eral months at the larger hotels, dressed
in such an extreme of the fashion rs to
attract attention. and paid his bills
promptly; and all the money was OBJ
tanned by sneak thieving in the rooms of
fellow guests. In one instance he took
a bag containing negotiable bonds worth
$1,000. When aught at last by watch
man. lie drew a pistol and attempted to
escape by murder.-ChicGgo Ne'os.
A New jersey doctor is trying to
form a Joint stock company which he
wants, to form for the purpose of saving
400, 900 lives in this country per year.
The prospectus of this company has been
issued and sent to large numbers OF per-
sons. The doctor offers to reimburse the
stockholders and devote one-haf of the
enormous sum he is to receive toward
destroying disease altogether in this
country and putting an end to the pres
ent medical fraternity, which he calls a
dynasty licensed to commit unlimited
murders every year.-N Y. Times.
Mr.. Arthur Fowles, marine artist
of Ryde. England, met with sad end
recently. He was sketching the yachts
in Eishburne Greek, about two miles
from Ryde, and his son, only about sew
en- years of age, was with him. A mar
liner who had been shooting wild fowl
on the beach left his gun upon sort of
staging. 1t was noticed by the little
boy, who lifted it up. The charge ex-
ploded and struck Mr.. Fowles, who was
only few PAGES distant, in the head,
killing him instantaneously. He leaves
a wife and several young children.
Ezra Clark. an old settler of Kirk
land, N. Y, and prominent manufact-
nrer of that place, died recently, aged
eighty-six years. He was thrice mar
ried, his last wife diving few months
ago. Three children survive him. A
remarkable fact in his history was that
of occupying the same house and farm
for eighty-six years, and of residing in
two counties-Herkimer and Oneida
and in four different towns-New Hart
ford. Paris. Kirkland and Whitestown-
at the same time and under the same
roof, the house being on the dividing line
Cor the county and town.