The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Artesian wells have been known in
China from times unreasonable.
A walking stick concealing. q
matchbox and cigarette holder Is q
late English device.
An English shoemaker has patent
ed a reversible boet, which may be
worn iu1iferently On either foot.
1t is a belief ef the Buddhists of
| Ceyloa that if e woman behaves herself
properly she viii eventually become a
| man.
A women's rights association has
been formed in Paris under the title of
La Ligue DIES Femmes. The claims of
IFS members are to be defended at the
Chamber of Deputies by N. Laguerre.
The tomb of Rachel, Jacob favor
| lite wife. is - the cross nc of the Beth
/ lehem and Hebron roads. about mile
from the modern Christian village Of
Belb-Jela. 1t is square white struct-
ure made of plaster and rooted over
with dlapidated doGe.
The Mahdi has little trouble in
| feeding his army. The native will live
upon cake of black bread and a few
lentils and an onion. and never care
for animal food. All that an Egyptian
! clearinghouse keeper requires to set
up business is sew dates, few or
anges, peck of lentils and onions,
and q half-dozen pones of black bread.
The story is published respecting
| the origin of balloons that Nine.
! Mcntgolfier had washed her petticoat
to wear to great festival on the
next day. and hung it over a chating g
d sh to dry. The hot air. swelling out
| tae folds of the garment. lifted II Up
and fioated it. The lady was as
tonished and called her husbands at
! tention to the sight. 1t did not take
Montgolfier long TO grasp the idea OF
the hot-air balloon. nF.f
The Brazilian law of 1871 pro-
vides that all children born TO slave
mo hers can not obtain their freedom
until they are twenty-one years old.
and must serve their mothers owner
until that time. A traveller says there
never was a nation on the globe in
which slaves were treated with more
dabolical cruelty than they are to-
dav in the coffee-produciug provinces
of Brazil. The punishments practiced
are simply barbarous. There ART
still l 200. 900 slaves in the empire.
In the collection of British state
| Jewels kept in London Tower are halt
a dozen crowns. the royal wand, solid
| gold stick. three feet seven inches in
| length. the ROYAL communion service,
three large fonts, all of solid gold, out
o. which theroyal CHI ldren are baptized
| besides numerous other valuable pres
euts that have been presented TO the
State by friendly soyereigns. The en-
Z re collection is valued at $4,000. 600.
much of,which sum is represented in
| the rare stones that grace the Crowns
and scepter, the famous Kohinoor, the
second largest diamond in the world,
being one of them.
-Toconfirm other cxperienceof'troP-
| ical thunder storms. Mr.. j. J. Meyrick
reports that very few persons or build
inys are ever injured by lightning IN
the plains of India, although at the
commencement of the monsoon storms
occur in VIII ch the lightning runs like
| snakes ali over the sky at the rate OF
| three or four flashes Il second. and the
| thunder often roars without 4 break for
! an hour or more at time He sup
pose the rarity of accidents to- be due
to the great thickness of the stratum of
the heated air and its effect in keeping
the clouds so high that most OF the cleo
trical discharges pass from cloud to
cloud, and very few reach the earth.