The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
husCELLANEOUs.

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A man over seventy years % age Is
said to be in Jail at Penn Yam because
his son, to whom he gave fortune of
S40, 900, can't afford to pay few hun
dred dollars for his release.-7roy N.
y Times.
Oscar Wilde told Liverpool audi
ence that while off the Pacific coast of
the United States he saw a seal basking
on rock on whose back was painted
the announcement of manufacturer of
tooth powder.-N. Y. Graphic.
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind of the city. Each benefi-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars. The object of the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions.-N. Y. Herald.
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been success financially. but is
to be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She will be able to carry about
10000 tons on each voyage, and from
this fact the owners are led to hope that
the scheme will be remunerative.-Chi-
cdgo Inter Ocean.
AT a barbecue given at Satartia by
the citizens of YazoO County, Miss, a
MIR. Warrington objected to the way
his son was cutting up sheep. This
enraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
almost in two. The elder Warrington
died in few minutes. The son escaped.
st. Louis Globe.
"A family in Craftsbury, VT, IL
terribly afflicted. The father has
cancer on his forehead; two daughters
are rapidly running down with the con-
sumption; son, on whom the family
has largely depended for supper Z, is in
very poor health, probably in cons-mp-
ton. and the mother. worn out with
labor and anxiety, is raving crazy
Rutland Herald
Not especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo
sition of finery and jewels at Saratoga
this season. They seem to have gone
there for the express purpose of ex-
hibiting their wardrobe, and if you do
not stare at them and make remarks
they seem offended. This is the way
the social wind is blowing just now
N. y. Mail.
Elder Isaac Augur, who recently
died at the West Pittsfield. Mass. J.
Shaker Family Home, was the son OF
the man who originated the business OF
growing ''Shaker garden seeds" He
inherited his fathers business enter
prise and shrewdness, and during many
of his sixty-four years of life, enjoyed
high reputation throughout the State
as a raiser of fine cattle, particularly
HOlsteins. Since his nineteenth year
he was the business head of the family.
Boston Post.
Although it might be reasonably
expected that any husband would know
his own wife, yet, strange to say, Joseph
Millen, of Baltimore, whose wife went
on the excursion which ended in the re-
cent frightful accident, recognized her
features at glance among the victims
on the wharf, further identified the
body by close inspection, and went
home crushed with grief and horror.
There he found Mrs. Millen in perfect
health, to the utter bewilderment of his
senses. She had returned to the city
by an early boat and was ut home
when the accident occurred. Baltimore
american.
"A beautifully carved match-safe
made of fine white sandstone was re.
Gently found in the Nevada State Prison
quarry. The safe was carved by NJ
Pritchard, a convict, and is an elaborate
affair some ten inches in height and the
same in width, with an arch over all.
On the arch is gilt cannon, and on the
base, in panel, is bas-relief repre-
sentation of an eagle holding spears in
his talons and resting in the angle
formed by the crossing of two Ameri-
can flags. This is also gilded. On the
ends, which are nearly four inches
through, is the representation of the
Stars and Stripes, surmounted by the
monogram 81. E. c." The ends of the
box are also handsomely carved. Chi.
cago Times.
"A writer in the Portland (Oregon)
Ne,Cs, describing recent journey, SAYS
in the exaggerated language of the grea
West: ''From New York to st. Pau
the ride was commonplace, unmarked
by special incident save few DAYS
stop at Chicago, that busy city where
men go on the run from eight o'clock in
the morning till four in the afternoon.
whether they have anything to do or
not. The day L arrived everybody was
rich; next day they were all poor but
the Armours. McGeoch & Co. had failed
for many millions, and a break in lard
threw fortunes into confusion. Such il
Chicago-always to be the great cen
trail city of this country"