The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Pensacola. Fla, has a new yacht
club with the astonishing name: 'sSaw
Wood and Say Nothing" One of its
rules is: "Church one Sunday, yacht.
ing the next"
The price of wife in Siberia is
eight dogs, and some of them are con-
sidered dear at that. When the wife is
dressed up the difference in the article
of barter is. to all appearances, very
slight.
"A salt lake in Kenn County, Neva.
da, is very valuable and quite u curiosi.
ty. In the winter the lake
fills up with water. and when the water
recedes from the shore it leaves very
fine quality of pure salt Chicago
Times.
Young Andrew Hall, of Brooklyn,
whose mother is wealthy, has married
negress, and the family are endeavor.
ing to have the marriage set aside on
the ground that he is lunatic. But
Andrew vows he is not lunatic. and
that he ''would sooner loose $500, 0OC
than his black Mary" -Brooklyn, IN.
~ Eagle.
in several States there are law:
against selling liquor to common drunk.
ards. The method of posting up in
conspicuous places list of all drunk.
ards in town has. worked wonders in
several communities: A man has to be
pretty far gone to desire to see his name
posted in such a list.-ChicdIo Times.
A tarantula fight was one of the
interesting events the other day at a Los
Angeles (Cal.,) saloon. First scor-
pion and tarantula were pitted. the
latter killing the former. but losing a
leg in the contest. The wind-up was
between the victor and LARGE black
tarantula, in which the latter killed the
former.
The brontosaurus is one of the ami
mails now extinct which once inhabited
America. 1t is probable that we have
no occasion to be sorry that he is en-
tinct. He was about fifty feet long,
and must have looked like n snake
mounted on four legs set under the
middle third of the body. He had a
small head and a large tail. and weighed
about twenty tons.-N. Y. Sun.
One of the most singular sentences
ever imposed was by Judge Krekel, of
of the United States District Court, re-
Gently. An illiterate prisoner was sem
fenced to Jail until he could learn to
read and write. and another offender
was sentenced until he could teach the
former the art. In little over three
weeks the prisoner appeared. able to
write a fair letter at dictation, and both
men were discharged Louis Globe.
"A Hallettsviile CTex.) boy shot at
n rat that was crawling along ioist
near the cornice of house. The bull
let struck the ioist, killed the rat,
struck knot, glanced, and. at an an
gle of ninety degrees and downward,
struck the boys father. who was walk
ing some fifty yards distant. The gen.
tleman's thumbs were in the arm-holes
of his vest, and the bullet entered his
arm at point directly over the heart,
penetrating to some depth, but drop
ing out.-N. Y. Times.
There seems to be growing belief
that Boston is losing her position of
the center of culture, partly because
great literary men are decreasing in
number and partly because Bostonians
do not demand the best class of litera-
ture. Some one from the West said
recently: 1--WE know we need culture,
and we are determined to obtain it.
You, in the East, think you can sim
bibe' it in the atmosphere. Consequent
ly we are gaining, while you are los
ing" Chicago Herald.
Orders having come from Europe
that tight pants must 90, the days of
the full-fledged dude appear to be num-
bered. 1t is hard to imagine a dude
attired in any style of neither garment
other than that which fits him so close
ly as to impel the suspicion that it
must have grown on him. The dude
of the future will be a dude only in
spots, and posterity will deplore
fashion which has stolen from the dude
of their daddies his most distinguishing
feature and most conspicuous trade
mark. Chicago Neos.
The large number of children left
by the late lamented Gen. John B.
Hood, have been adopted by various
parties throughout the Eastern and
Southern States. A singular coinci-
dence is related in connection with
three of the gentlemen who have thus
taken the place of fathers of these in
teresting children. Messrs. Russell,
Adams and Mckee were classmates at
Yale College They all married, but
have no children. Without consent OF
action, or even knowing what the 9TH
,rs were about to do, each applied for
md was given the charge he now has.
Philadelphia Record,