The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

No one can look into the future.
Voltaire's house is now used as repos-
itory for Bibles Y. Graphic.
The Empress of Austria is learning
TO set type in her boudoir at Vienna, so
as to print with her own hands some
poems she has written.
A machine has been invented which
takes leather scraps and turns out alli-
gator skin of the incest pattern. They
even counterfeit the smell by using
onions and kerosene oil.-DetrOH Free
Press.
Tennessee is Kidding itself. of the
gambling fraternity. Gambling has
been made felony, and strict enforce
ment of the statute is causing stam-
pede among those who have hitherto
followed the profession in that State
n. Y. Herald
"A paper published in Biddeford,
Me-, contains an advertisement offer
ing for sale ''a cottage of nine rooms,
all furnished, with stable, including nice
boat and piano directly fronting the
ocean" This gives the piano a grand
opportunity.
"A Vermont editor wants to know
what gives color to pure water. We
don't know what they generally use up
in Vermont, but down this way it is
generally something that is not legally
sold except under a license. LOtUeG
Commercial.
A noted "dude" has died in Phila-
delphia. He was a baboon in the
Geological Garden. His postures and
gait were exactly like the current
American imitation of the London
swells, and he showed just about
enough intelligence to complete the
ikeness.-PtiLaleli,hia Press.
Bill Nye, of the Laramie Boomerang,
writes that he has SO far recovered per-
feet health as to be able to sing after
his old manner-'.like bobolink''-
and that in consequence of so much
melody the value of real estate in his
immediate neighborhood is much de-
pressed.
"A wretched old digger of CLAIMS,
Asa Dyer, recently died at New Bed
ford, leaving several thousand dollars
in bank and several hundreds hid
away in tomato cans and under the
Va Ills llONtl. VI WI
$500 in greenbacks was so mutilated as
to be worthless. Boston Herald.
The New Orleans Picayune calls at
tention TO the alarming number of par
dons and combinations granted under
the auspices of the present administra-
ton in Louisiana, and predicts that I'M
less there is great change for the better
in this respect the tribunal of Judge
Lynch will be very soon set up in every
parish.
The necessity for some regular sys-
tenn of railroad time is illustrated by
the fact that a traveller going from
Boston TO Denver over the Hoosac Tun-
mel, New. York Central, Canada South
ern, st. Louis & Pacific, Wabash and
Kansas Pacific lines, has to set his
watch no less than seven times-for
Boston, Albany, Hamilton, Chicago,
st. Louis, Jefferson City and Denver
Chicago Tribune.
OF course Mr.. Talmage must have
his say about topics of the day. In the
course of his sermon last Sunday he
spoke of ''that creature with pointed
shoe-toe and tight-bandaged limbs and
ELBOWS drawn Dack ana lnnnlueSlmal
cane and sickeuing swagger and idiotic
talk, born in America, Yet a poor copy
of foppish Euglishman, the nux womb
ca of modern society, commonly called
the dude. IN. Y. Herald.
A fisherman on the Straits. SAYS the
Benicia (Cal.) NeaO Era, after having
hauled most of his net into the boat,
found some difficulty in getting in the
remainder. Upon investigation hefound
that an enormous shark had swallowed
four or five fathoms of it, with the
corks. leads and three salmon which it
contained. After a hard fight the
monster was dispatched and towed to
shore, and after being dissected the net
and fish were taken from him. There
was also found within his cavernous in
terror an iron row-lock. several cans of
salmon, part of boat-hook, a large
can which had been used as float for
the end of a net, and a trip-hammer,
evidently from some pile-driyer.