The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A st. Louis Judge proposes to pu..
Town, flirting. AZ shall, he said in
discussing case, e'dismiss every case \
Of Misunderstanding where it can be
shown that the woman first flirted with
the accused"
"A Hartford photographer had posed
"a pretty country girl for a picture.
When he came out with the prepared
plate she smelled the chemicals and
rushed out, declaring he was going to
chloroform her
"A Lexington (Ky.) doctor hangs
out the following sign: s'Dr. Tooles,
scientific carver of toes and limbs; spec
ialist and expert in removing rheuma-
tism; corns and cramps extracted &C
cording to nature" atn.,
The word Deseret, so commonly
used by the Latter-Day Saints, is term
found in the Book of Mormon, and sig
nilies 'honey-bee>" 1t has no reference
to the desert, IS has been commonly
supposed.
This country is enthusiastically
spoken of by an English visitor as a
land where the reaper runs all summer.
Beginning in Texas in May, and some
times earlier, the harvest travels north.
ward by steady marches until it ends
in September in Northern Dakota and
Minnesota.
In the old North burying ground in
Hartford, plain, substantial block of
granite has been lately placed. 1t
/ bears the following strange inscription:
s'Those who cared for him while living
will know whose body lies resting here;
to others it does not matter" .'Who
was he?" everyone asks.-NeU Raven
Register.
Mr.. Buck, an Old gentleman of Sus-
quehanna, Pa, says he knew Joseph
Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and
remembers the prophets attempt to re-
peat the miracle of walking on the
water, having built a submerged walk
in the river. Somebody cut a section
of the planking the night before, and
the impostor barely escaped drowning.
Charles Dickensfs reported to have
i~assisted' at seance once, and re-
quested the attendance of the spirit of
Lindley Murray. He was sooR in
formed that the spirit awaited his ques-
tioning. care you the spirit of Lind
ley Murray" asked the great author OF
the great grammarian. 81 are" re-
piled the mcorporeal visitor. Mr..
Dickens was Immediately coEihced.
Near the steamboat wharf at La
coma, n. H, is a nearly air-tignt brick
vault with capacity of five to six hun
dred bushels in which are deposited the
wood ashes made by the steamer Lady
of the Lake during the summer season.
The other day the vault was opened the
first time since the steamer stopped
running. period of about five months,
for the purpose of taking away some of
the ashes, when the astonishing discov-
erv was made that the center of the
mass was as hot as when taken from
the furnaces and the Goals were still red
hot.-Boston Herald.
A novel chase was witnessed in East
Marlborough, Pa, the other DAY. Two
foxes were discovered chasing q COM
mon cat in a woody hollow. Ehe chase
was nip and tuck affair when first
noticed, and so continued for a few Sec
onds, when it was suddenly terminated
by the cat bounding up atree, and in so
doing dispis yed a cunningness that must
even have surprised the foxes. They
were close upon the heels OF the cat.
and tabby. realizing her danger, ran,
| first behind the tree and then up, SO
that before her pursuers could stop and
getin posiion to jump she was up out
of their resch.-Rhilddelohia Press.
"A Milwaukee hotel man having
grown tired of numbering bedrooms,
now names chem. 1t is rather startling
to hear The hotel clerk, with his quill
toothpick in his mouth, call out: Take
the gentleman's baggage out eff Ireland
and send it up TO Siberia" AsGive the
large gentleman and his tcide the
Mammoth Cave" ''Give him Hard
Luck" g. Put him in the Chimney"
s'Put him in Salt Greek, Orif yeu prefer
you can GO 10 Hades.' Ameng the
names are Showhegan, Sky Parton. Ge-
henna. Vienna, Vaderland, Marfower.
! Plymouth Rock. ''-Dctrou Free Press.
The death is announced of Leopold
I Never, the pianist, who visited this
country thirty-fre years ago. He had
a certain degree of execution and ele-
gance of touch, but that was all. He
was. however web patronized by some
aristocratic old ladies in Vienna, and
was invited to play at court before the
Emperor Ferdinand, whose brilliant in
| telligence was nL exactly an ornament
to the line of Hapsburgs. After Meyer,
who was rather stoutish man. had
played. the Emperor spoke to him. and
said: MY dear Mr.. Meyer. l have heard
List Meyer bows low, l have heard
Thalberg (Meyer bows lower stilD, bun
not one of them perspired like yonn
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