The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

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According to the annual police re-
,ort of England, recently issued, 12,4ll
children under ten years of age were
ost in that country last year. Only SIX
we're recovered.
"A picture of Meissonier. called
The Rise" purchased quarter OF a
century ago by Napoleon Ill. for $1,000,
s now valued at $4,000. 1t is owned
~ Queen Victoria
The Southern darkey has belief
hat amounting the eyes of a shying
lorse with water in which chameleon
has been boiled, will cure the horse OF
he bad habit.-Louisrille Courier
Journal.
Some of the cleverest detectives in
New York are women. They are of
he different types of beauty and mind
calculated to gain this or that mans
confidence and learn his secrets.-N. Y.
Herald.
Two little boys planted third
standing. in the sand on the beach at
Long Branch SO etiectually that when
the tide came up they couldn get him
,ut. and but for timely aid he would
nave drowned.-N. Y. Sun.
The bonnet of the day is described
Is handful of beads and the business
end OF feather. This is better bon
net than that of last season, which re-
,embled an embroidered dishrag.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A married woman in Connecticut
writes the New York Crematory Com
oany: "Can You burn 4 man before
ne dies? If You can l will be pleased
20 give you job on my husband, who
IS of no earthly use to me or any one
else. "-Hartford Post.
-''It was amicabIy arranged" re-
piled the Texas gentleman to the Goro-
ner. II called him q liar, and he de-
manded an apology with six-shooter"
"And did You make one?" asked the
Coroner, 81 did, sir" .'Was it ac-
cepted?" "Yes, SIR" SLOW was il
then that YOU shot him." II had to do
so to make him understand my apol-
ogy.-Teras Siftings.
L. Fl. Lardner. Secretary of the
New Orleans Water Works Company,
claims to have clarified great reser-
voir of Mississippi River water con-
tanning 12,750,0J0 gallons in twelve
hours, at cost of one cent. per 100
gallons, by continuously pouring into
the stream of water running into the
reservoir solution OF from. o.
Times.
In Massachusetts, there are twenty
trades in which the women and chill
dren preponderate over the men by a
large majority. They are the making
of awnings and tents, buttons, dress
trimmings, carpetings. clothing, cotton
goods, wOolens, fancy goods, max and
linen. hair work, hose, rubber, mixed
textiles, paper. silk, sporting goods,
straw goods and worsteds.-Boston
Post.
One of the Concord philosophers
is credited with lucidly rerlarking that
life means feeling, and feeling means
the presence of a principle in all its to-
tality in every portion of an extended
whole; only such presence could con-
stitute an extended or continuous
whole, since an extended whole which
was not all at once present to some
thing unextended could not be extended.
Such life must be worth living.-Har-
per's Bazdr.
"A new danger threatens society,
and it comes in the shape of the bicy-
Gle. The bicycle is almost noiseless on
good road, and young men driving
their sweethearts would do well to keep
sharp eye in the rear, as some very
funny things have been witnessed by
wheelmen riding behind buggies. 1
heard how one wheelman rode behind
a buggy for some distance. quite I'M
decided as to whether the p. city girl
in the buggy, all dressed in white, had
a black sash on or not. He tried the
experiment of riding close up and blow
ing his whistle. and the black girdle
disappeared as if by magic. She was
wearing coat sleeve with an arm in it.
Letter is ST. Louis Spectator.