The Iola register., 1883-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The New York jewelers. say that
last winter saw the most profitable trade
ever known in their line.
"A woman living near Jacksonville,
Fla. contracted the smallpox by
handling q pet dog which had been in
the habit of laying around the small
pox hospital. Chicago Times.
Chinese are being smuggled into
Washington Territory from British Co
lumbia. Eight are reported to have
been murdered by Indians who were
rowing them across.-Sdn Francisco
Chronicle.
In the game of ball between Grip
Piled players in Philadelphia recently,
the two-legged one-armed side had an
easy victory over the two-armed one
legged nine.-Philadelphia Press.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean advocates
. Columbian celebration in the year
1892, to be held. of course, in Chicago.
Christopher Columbus should be con-
suited about this matter.-N 7. Com
mercial Advertiser.
"A Jewish girl at Elmira, N. T.,
recently married young Catholic law
yer. Her father draped his house with
symbols of mourning and sent q notice
of her death to local paper. She had
escaped from the house by climbing
over the back fence.-Bnfalo Express.
The weather editor of the Norris
town Herald advises women folks to
take their flowers in doors on the nights
of July 20 and q, to prevent them
getting frost-bitten. Wiggins predicts
that the twentieth day Of July win be
the hottest of the year.
"A sensation was caused on Broad
way, in New York, the other day, by
the spectacle of an elegantly dressed
lady bringing out dish of ice-cream to
her iveried coachman. The latter ate
it on his box, and then the lady returned
the dish to the restaurant, came back
and drove off.-N Y Tribune
"A case containing one thousand
slung-shots was received at New York
the other day, consigned to man
named Neayer. There ought to be some
law prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of these articles. They are never
used for good purpose, and the police
ought to confscate them as they do
burglars toOls.-Chicago Inter- Ocean.
According to Mr. Dana, of the Sam,
it costs from eight to twelve thousand
dollars per week to run a first-class daily
newspaper in New York; say at the rate
of ten thousand week. or half mill
lion dollars a year. A first-class paper,
therefore, must clear that amount be-
fore it can begin to make any profit.
"A young gentleman of an aspiring
turn of mind has been passing himself
off in Italy as the son and heir of Ma
pOleon III. Of course, a rich widow be-
lieved him, but when she found him out
he took to the road as a highwayman.
At last he robbed the mails, and at the
Turin Assizes was condemned and sent
to penal servitude for twenty-0ne years.
Timothy Carroll, while going to
his work the other morning on the West
Shore Railroad, near Cornwall Landing,
n. Y, crawled under train that stood
on the track near the foot of hill, and
just as he emerged from under the car
a huge rock that had become loosened
and rolled down the bank distance of
nearly hundred feet, hit him on the
head and killed him instantly.-N. Y.
Ledger.
Woman, Heaven bless her! She is
always practical. A Providence paper
tells of one who presented her husband.
professional man. a small fire-proof
safe for his home Office. After the work
men had spent an hour and half in
moving it into the house, she remarked,
"If it takes you as long as that to move
it in, should like to know what we
would do with it in case of fire. y
Buffalo IN Y Express.
"A San Francisco professor spells
potato as follows: ''Ghoughphtheight-
teeau," and declares it to be correct ac-
cording to the following rule: ''Gh
stands for p, as you will find from the
last letters in hiccough. Ough stands
for o, as in dough. Phth stands for t,
as in phthisis, Eigh stands for a, as in
neighbor. TIE stands for t, as in ga
zette, and eau stands for o, as in nbeau."
He can go to the head.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.