The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Queen Victoria's maids of honor
are eight in number and receive 100
year each.
There is more crime in Rome and
vicinity than in any other region of the
world having the same population.
bombay husbands cut off their
wives noses for punishment. Ina sim
gle week five such cases were Lately re-
ported.
"A London newspaper. devoted to
hotel interests, laments the fact that
the hotel business of England is grad
ually slipping into the hands of for
eigners, owing to English inactivity.
Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mex
leo. spends only a few thousands a year
In her mad house, and the accumulated
interest of her immense fortune has be-
come enormous. Her heirs will be her
brothers.
Many visitors who are surprised at
seeing members sitting in Parliament
with their hats on forget that this is
really the revival OF a once general Gus
tom. Instead OF being a survival from
the days of open-air parljaments it is
rather a Renaissance of the long pc
Rod during which men almost inva-
riably kept their hats on, even in church
and at the dinner table.
The most artistic of Italian furni-
ture, made from precious woods inlaid
with god, mosaics and ivory, is turned
out in Bergamo by firm that has been
engaged in the business during a CEN
fury. Old and new specimens of its
workmansh p are much sought after by
foreign connoisseurs for the adornment
of palaces and country villas.
The new Partisan rial machine is
cigar-shaped and pointed at each eX-
tremity-not simply underneath. as is
usually the case. There are seats for
tive aronautS in the car. The balloon
has a directing apparatus and rudder.
The force is obtained by series OF
electric accumulators of ten horse
power. The balloon Is operative for
four hours.
I'm recent sermon in birmingham
Cardinal Manning said that men were
laboring to cfface from the law of the
land the very name of God. Politics
was goddess. Philosophy was goddess.
Science was goddess. 1t was the same
with education. There was no true
education without religion What had
made England great? lot warfare,
not conquest, not politics nor legIsia-
ton. it was the one faith and the love
of Tod and of the neighbor. 4.
"A singular method of preserving
histori al records has been discovered
in Ireland. On Case Hill, near Bel
fast, there was a short time ago an an
Gent caste In order to protect its
ruins from the ravages of time and
passing vandals, some local antiquar-
ians determined to surround it with 3
wall, and employed a contractor to
execute the work. The wall was fin
ished IN due course, but when the
antiquarans came to admire the castle
it was gone. The contractor had used
the ruins for building materials, and
not a stone OF the castle remained.
The terrible operation lately sub
mitted to by Lord William has directed
attention to maladies of the tongue.
Une of the most extraordinary cases
was that o, Thomas Forder, at v in
chester, in 1924, who was apparently
In every respect healthy until within
about twenty hours of his death, when
he complained of soreness on his
tongue. which gradually swelled until
he was suffocated. A post mortem
failed to discover any cause, and the
verdict was: ''Died by the visitation of
God. in consequence of sudden dis
ease and enlargement o. the tongue"