The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
Ono of the New York papers has
facilities for printing twenty-six copies
per second.
The United States uses more soap
to each inhabitant than any country in
the world.
A club, whose object is to suppress
the use of tobacco, started recently in
Apilachicola. Fla.
Augusta, Fla, has a brick-yard
which was established in the year 1920.
and has turned out over 250, 900
bricks.
The editor of Vermont journal
offers his paper free for six months to
every newly married couple in his
rneighborhood.
The queen of the turf, Maud s.,
lives chiefly on warm mash, but oeca-
sionally eats candy and gingerbread
N T. Herald
A monthly allowance of $3.50 for
the support of cat was a recent item
on the payroll of the Lexington (ky.)
Fire Department.
An effort is being made to cul-
tivate the nettle, with the object of OBJ
| tanning from it a material suitable for
weaving. Chicago Herald.
Tobacco was first smoked. then
snuffed. and lastly chewed. Pipes
came first, then cigars. in 1915, and
finally cigarettes.-Chica5o Herald.
A Raleigh On. CO. sportsman re-
Gently went out with 1l5 cartr dye.
and returned with III robins ard one
rabbit, having missed only three shots.
AT the end of 1884 there were 2s5,-
600 miles of railway in the world,
which would make line from the
earth to the moon, with 5000 miles to
spare.
Toast and marmalade and a cup OF
tea is the fashionable breakfast for
young society men in New York, who
| never retire before three a. mn. J..
Graphic.
In Idaho four mountain bears got
into the corral of Miss Tollert and
killed sixty-four fine Angora goats
before the plucky girl drove them of
with no weapon but an axe.
An old clock. made in 1915 bv
Bowly. of London, is now owned by
Mr.. Morse, of West Bridgewater. who
has refused 81 900 for it. Ii runs eight
DAYS and has q calendar dial.-Boston
| Post.
1t is fact, perhaps not generally
known even to the citizens of this
State, that Georgia is the largest State
east of the Mississippi. Everybody
knows that it is the best.-iuQuStd
(Gd. Chronicle.
The dude collar, the tall, stiff
choker, resembling a wristband, which
has been so much carcatured. has had
its day. Though not entirely extinct,
it only flourishes as a last relic around
the necks of few superannuated sports
and second-ciass mashers.-N. I. Her
aid.
DR.. J. Smith Dodge, in pointing
out the road of success to the students
graduating from the College of Dentist
~, warns them against the too free
use of the muscle which wags the Jaw;
also against loading their breaths with
the fumes of whisky and tobacco
Eealh Monthly.
The pronunciation of .'tuberose"
English paper, and the decision that
the word is a trisyllable has been at last
unanimously reached. The flower is
lily. and the name is from the French
"tuberose. called from the tuber-like
bulb of the plant. Shelley pronouuces
the word in three syllableS. Chicago
Tribune.
A gentleman with ticket from St
Paul to WATERFOWL arrived at Syracuse
recently, and WAS met by two ladies.
who asserted that they were his wife
and daughter. At first he did not know
them, but st last realized who they
were. He had been absent twenty
seven years in Winnipeg. and did not
expect to meet his relatives n Syracuse.
-Wa.ertoUn (N. y Times.
"A natural ice-cave, according to the
Alta California, exists thirty miles east
of Fail River Valley. Cal. in the Mount
Shasta region. There are huge col
umus of ice, chambers of ice, and ice
hanging from the ceiling Ike blades of
polished steel. forming a picture OF
grandeur. The residents of the valley
haul their summers supply OF ice from
the cave.
The telegram read: THE Mahara-
jah ofNepaul has rendered -, 900 picked
Goorkhas for service in Afghanistan."
The printer made it read: The Maha-
raiah of Nepaul has rendered $1,000
picked Gherkins for service in Afghan
istan." 1t m ght have been worse. Nc
doubt picked gherkins would be quite
as acceptable as ..picked Goorkhas" in
Afghanistan, though we don't know
what 4 picked Goorkha is.-NorriSt0lcn
Herald.
-..Hawkeye Bill" a noted fox
hunter of Litchfeld County. Conn,
hunted foxes all winter and didn't get
a single one. His wearied, disguised.
and famished hound came into New
Preston the other day, and at one guIp
guped down eighty-three cents worth
of beef>teak winch a worthy citizen had
laid down for moment. The citizen
wants eighty-three cents, and Hawk
eye BIZ is preparing to go through
bankruptcy. The hound IS the only
one of the lot with peace on his mind
Hartford Post
During the stormy season accurate
predictions for the Pacific coast are not
so easy to make as those on the Allan
tic coast, because here the storms come
in from the ocean and strike the coast
with little warning. while the storms
of the Atlantic coast generally move OF
the land, and their movements can be
studied before they strike the ocean.
This disadvantage can be partly over
come by having an independent bureau
here. devoted TO the special study of To-