The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-01
FoREIas GOSSIP.

during the year 1888 $4,000, 600
gallons OF beer were drank in Ger
many.
"A Stuttgart doctor SAYS that corpu-
lent persons may become thin by sleep
ing on and wearing animal wool.
"A broom of royal hair is used to
sweep before the shrine of Buddha in
the Buddhist College at Colombo.
The hairs came from the head of the
King Of Cambodia, who was purposely
shorn for this pious duty.
The new uniforms of the Russian
army are so severely simple that they
are almost ugly. Even the time-hon-
ored metal button is discarded. the fast
enings being hook and eyes hidden
from sight.
There are innumerable cats in the
underground railroads of London. No
one has ever seen one OF them without
its tai cut off showing its narrow es-
cape from the thousands of passing
trains.
DIR. Fox declares that morbid ter
ror Of consumption is rapidly develop
ING among the less intelligent classes
in treat Britain by the constant leitera-
tor of the talk about contagion, aud
that consum tive patients are neglect
ed by friends and relatives by reason
o. this terror.
"A curious device of journalistic en-
.erprise has been hit upon bv the Bona
partist Petit. Copora,, which informs its
readers that, in order to prove the in
terest it takes in their welfare, it will
place at the disposal, on and after June
l. two eminent physician of the faculty
of Paris. These doctors will be at
tached to the staff of the newspaper,
and will give gratuitous consultations
60 subscribers and their wives.
The new lightning train which is to
run between Lisbon, Berlin and ST. Pc
tersburg viii accomplish the distance
in ninety two hours, a saving OF TWEEN
ty-four hours as compared with the fast
trains hitherto. 1t consists of a bag
gage, a restaurant, a saloon and n
sleeping car. all arranged with every
appiian e of modern technics. The
sleeper contains luxurious bathroom,
the saloon car tourist library, and q
readinw-room stocked with leading
journals.
One of the most extraordinary
criminal defenses known to legal rec
ords is that of man named Des STAR
dins, who in 1921 was tried, on his own
confess son, as an accomplice with
louvel. the assassin of the Duke de
Berri He contended that his confess
sion ought not to lie believed because
he was so notorious for falsehood that
nobody would give credit to wori he
said In support of this he produced a
host of witnesses, his friends and rela-
tives, who all swoie that the excessive
" bad charac er which he had given of
himself was true, and he was declared
not gully.
-Cne of the most extraordinary in
stances of the rise in value of picture
is the story of 1.-The Monarch of the
Glen" Landseer painted it for the
adornment of the House of Lords; it was
returned to him with civil vote of
thanks and refusal to hang it on the
walls of 1.-The Upper House. A pur-
chaser, however. came forward shortly
after the illustrious animal painter had
received his snub. and became the pos
SCISSOR of the picture for Sl,50l. Early
last Nav, at a sale of private collie
tons by Messrs. Christie II Manson.
The Monarch of the Glen was put up
for $4,000, and. after an animated
bidding. was knocked down to Mr..
Ealon, NJ. p, for $4,000.