The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Tho British training ship Warspite
has rescued %, 400 childr from pow
.rty and degra lation and trained them
'or che sea. Ef
The. Oldest Empires, living is Au-
yusta of Germany, who Is seve ty-one
vesrs old. The Youngest is the Queen
of Servia, who is twenty-e ght.
M. De lesseps is veriiable Gar
gantua in the matter of ilattery his APP
petite for notoriety is Unsuitable, and
The Paris papers are constantly filled
with paragraphs about himself. his wife
and his children.
Five n swspape-s devoted to mysti-
,ism and spiritual SIN a Q publishe in
france. four in Belgium, eight in pain
and three in ermany. In fact, mysti-
ism is becoming fash enable, an the
last new marvel is discussed in every
drawing-room and at. every dinner ia
BILE.
The Wurtemberg Minister of the
Interior has ssued orders tat hence
forth young 10 ks of either sex shall not
be allowed to dance together in places
of public anus ment. He, however.
will relax this order n the case of mar
rage parties, if the Originators If the
ent rtainment + rnish the poll e with
the necessary moral guaran les"
-Horsetiesh is, according to United
States Consul Ballou. largely e ten in
Alsace. The retailer sells the choice
cuts for about eight ents per pound;
for ordinary. six cents. A large guam
10 in x1,,v a fv,,. Df
sages. All horses are, before and after
being killed, given strict exa nj atm,
and # found in any way diseased are
rejected.
"A resolution was pas ed recently at
meeting of the EnglisI CT urch Union
de lining to accept the prop sed Court
o Final appeal, or any secular court
tanning to reverse a spiritual senten e
A re olution was also pa sed urging
that no re obstruction or regu alton o
&c lesiasti al courts oulda uire spirit
ual valid ty ave rom the authority of
The ynod of the c. urch.
Editors in German-Poland are learn
ing with engean what is meant by
liberty OF the press under Prince Bis
marck. One of them has spent fl G
months of the past year in.prison. and
mas six months more in prospect. An
other has been condemned to eleven
and one-third M 'nths' imprison uent.
A third is now in prison Tor fifteen
m nth. a fourth for three months, and
fifth for four months.
A le, turer at Ed nburgh on the
Shetland Isles said lately ''Of the hun
dred islands and islets which con tituie
c Shetland group not more an about
twenty Ell hit are said to be inhabited.
Washed on their Western sides by the
wild ayes Of the Atlantic Ocean, and
on their Eastern coasts by the no less
tempestuous pillows of the Northern
Sea, they look like W at perhaps they
the skeleton long sin buried
peninsula. TLey are an island Len
mark.
The dwarf trees of China are curl
osities of ore try. Eye"y lid knows
how the [ hincse cramp thei wo mems
feet by bandaging them wen they are
infa is, and thus nder it imposs bic
'or them to walk 1t is, however. won
der ul to see m mature oaks, chestnuts,
pines, d cedars growing in flower
pots, fifty yea : old and yet not loot
high. To do thi take a young plant,
cut off its tap root. and place it in a
basin in which there good soil kept
well watered. 1 it grows 90 rapidly,
dig down and shor en- in seve al roots
Every year leaves grow smaller, and
the little dwarf tees make interesting
pets.