The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-22
FoREleN. GOSSIP.
"A Geneva orgsn-grinders left .
|orfune of S14. O0J to his heirs.

-A Geneva orgsn-gnnder4 lett
fortune OF S14, 900 to his heirs
There is an actress in Germany
nam q Amanda Bettina Kreuswanger
Rosal Bakerman Zwinkehut
"A French woman who has been .
widow for niuety-siN years is still liv-
ing at Auberine. She claims to be 1913
years old.
"A Partisan dame recently gave q
ball to her female friends. and asked
each to bring living animal. All ex-
cept three brought Their husbands.
The asphalt pavement in the town
of Reading. England, was recently
raised and broken by large num-
Der of mushrooms growing underneath.
The Gillian newspapers announce
the recent death of a certain Don Jose
Miguel Herrara at the are of one hum
dred and twenty-five years, and aver
that his age is well-attested by official
records.
: Princess Delgorouky, widow OF
Alexander H.. goes into the country
for the summer and manages to make
life quite endurable there BY taking a
whole hatel instead of room or two in
1t. Ii is the Belvedere at Lucerne.
The city of Bamberg is the first to
practically Apply the law against the
public disturbance of piano playing at
untimely hours in the case Of a girl.
who, greatly to the annoyance OF the
neighbors, practiced at an open win
dow. The code prescribes fine OIL
adequate IMPRISONMENT. The munich
pal court let the fair culprit off with 81
and costs.
The to.al mu ster o. tie House OF
Lords is SIS. Of these five are mem.
beTs of the royal family. wlo, in &C
cortance with usual pract ce, alb tain
from divisions on political gu ion.
OF the rema nder, 2sS rank as Tor es
and 2ls are usua ~ classed las Liberals.
But many nominal Libe ais, like Lord
Bradbourne and Lord DuIEsven. usual
" vote against the Government on party
gu stions.
i'm Belgium the murderer is sen
tenc d to Imprisonment Tor life. but
may often be seen, according to { G
Paris Temps, going about unshackled
or working at some easy occupation
ike toy-making" La Ita'y he IS Sc.
cured to the wall of an almost dark cell
pv chain flve feet in length, which is
r.yeted to an iron ring around hi:
suk e. and watch does not al ow him
to take more than one step in any di-
rec ion.
AT the recent annual meeting Of
the English Cooperative Union the re
port showed that at the end of lSS:
there were in Eng and and Wales LOS:
societies, including thirty-siN VIII CT
were pr sductive. The aggreg ate mem
Der hip was $4,000; the sales nearls
Gz3,00O, 900, and the net pr fits Fl, 49,,
e00; the share capital near Y 1000
0O0. and the loan tt, 2S0,OO0. In Scot
land there were 2S2 societies, with /;
membership of $500; and in Ireland
there were Ii societies.
1t is not unlikely that the diamond
field of Brig IA, New South Wales. vii
Iual in richness the FIN ,us Kimberly
district of South Africa At Bin era
within the last few months, hundre ::
of diamonds have been discovered, an
the size and number of the gems ar,
said to increase with the depth of tn,
dIggin S. 4 very formidable OBJ tack
to the development Of the Locality ha:
he n remov ii by the discovery o
abundance of watlr TO diamond was =
ing AMI other purposes at no greater
depth than fifty or sixty feet from The
surface.