The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-13
MIsCRLLANEoUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
| Smoking six cigars day killed
Chicago youth in fourteen months, but
he seemed to enjoy 'em.-Chicago
Herald.
| Visitors to California are struck
with the peculiar pronunciation of the
phrase, 1.-THE big trees" The adjec-
tive is lost in the noun, and both are
uttered as If big trees were one word,
with the accent on the second syllable.
The heirs of Captain Aaron Biddle,
q Revolutionary officer, claim about
nine miles square Of land in Salem
County, New Jersey, including large
portions of Pennsgrove and Pennsville,
under q title found recorded in Salem.
IN. Y Sun. lra
One of the curiosities in the Laredo,
Texas, money market is the introduce
ton of Mexican bank notes. The notes
are of all denominations, and pass at
the same rate as Mexican silver coin.
The first paper money ever issued by
Mexico was in the present year.
There is an old disused and flooded
quarry near Chicago which is SO full of
gars and swapping turtles that it is sure
death for any fowl to go in the water.
The owner says he will give prize to
any one, small boys included, who will
clear the water of the rapacious crea-
tures.-Chicago Necs.
On the New York & Hartford Road
the other day the hands on q freight
train caught q party of tramps in car,
locked them in, and on arrival turned
them over to the police. Out of this
grew the story that the tramps had
captured the train, while really the
train captured the tramps.
I'm horse-car the other day, as the
conductor approached young passen-
ger, the little fellow was seen to turn
first pale and then red, and when the
official held out his hand for the fare,
the young sufferer gasped out: "Will
you please charge the money to my
father, Mr.. A. L; I've swallowed
my moneyr"-Boston Courier.
The granary of L. M. Mcintosh, on
the bank of the Sacramento River, at
Chico, was mysteriously robbed night
after night. A watch was set, and then
large flock of wood ducks was seen
entering the granary through broken
window pane in regular line. After the
last duck had got inside, the watchers
secured the window, and, going inside
armed with sticks, killed 1873 ducks
which had been feeding on the grain.
San francisco Chronicle.
"A curious experiment was made re-
Gently at Paris to determine the power
of a crocodile's jaw. The animal was
fixed on table with its upper jaw con-
nected with dynamometer. An cleo
trio shock caused him to give a sudden
snap. Three hundred and eight pounds
was marked on the instrument. 1t was
calculated that the contractile force of
the muscles causing the movement was
/ $40 pounds. The muscles on an or
binary sporting dog had $50 pounds of
contractile force.
"A butcher, of Springfield, Mass,
says that the housekeeper who asks for
white veal encourages law breaking and
buys poor meat. The whiteness is due
simply to the loss of blood, the animal
having been bled twenty-four hours be-
fore it was slaughtered. The farmers
do the bleeding, because the meat then
fetches q better price; and the people,
who have foolish fancy that white veal
is the best, are in way responsible for
the brutal process creating it.
Farmer Weeden, of Rhode Island,
has been prosecuted. His two large
barns were burned twelve years ago,
with cattle and horses. Last year his
outbuildings were destroyed, and bot
tie of dynamite was found in the ruins.
Next the fences were torn down, re-
Gently the family tomb has been viO-
lated, wires have been stuck in his
moving field, his well poisoned, and
his house bedaubed. He says he knows
no reason for the outrages. The auth
critics fail to protect them.-N. T. Sun.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart lives in COM
plete retirement in her great marble
palace. Occasionally she is given to
fits of desperate dependency. She will
lie on her couch for hours, refusing
sympathy from her dearest friends. On
the wall is picture of her husband
concealed behind curtain. To that
she will go and, pulling aside the cur
tain, gaze at it for an hour at time.
Then the certain will not be drawn for
days.-N y. Tribune.
The matter of providing a corps of
trained nurses in every community re-
ceived attention in the Cleveland meet
ing of the American Medical Associa-
ton. A member recommended the es-
Enlistment of schools for the efficient
training of nurses of both sexes, ''such
training to be brought about by lectures
and practical instruction, to be given
by competent medical men, either
gratuitously or at such reasonable rates
as shall not debar the poor from avail
ing themselves of their benefit" The
dependence of the physician on the
competent and faithful nurse was &C.
knowledged.