The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1 bS06t0N oO0StFs
The King of Bavaria has spent
s250.0Oo for chandelier from the
Nielsen mandatory.
--Cedrac the Saxon. the famous boar
hound. is the largest dog in the world.
He weighs more than 200. pounds.
There are 625.5z5 Odd Fellows in
Great Britain. gain of 1887 dur ne
last year. The number of deaths in
1884 was 7,07S.
-Avenet an gondolier makes, on an
average. four francs, about eighty
cents. day the year round. On tn 5
he will marry. rear q fam.ly and put
some money by.
| In giving his daughter $3.50. 900,
| the Duke of B, dford gives her about
half years income. HIS rural prop
erty Yields that sum, and he owns an
immense district in London as well.
A Madrid man has invented a cane
that contains complete set of topo-
graphical and telegraphic instruments,
a Photograph and a lantern. 1t is in
tended for the use of eng ineers in the
army service.
There ale 40. O00, 900 women and
girls in China. nearly all of whom are
uneducated and ignorant. Chinese
women are secluded, and it is contrary
to custom tor a stranger of the male sex
TO speak to one.
As carrier pigeons in China are fire.
auently molested by birds of prey, an
ingenious plan for protection is en-
ployed. Ten small bambo tubes are
attached to the birds tail by means of
threads passing under the W ng<. Tie
hasty flight Of the bird produces a
whistling sound. and this keeps rds
of prey at safe distance.
A few years ago. says the London
Standard. the Young people of En-
gland became imbued with the roller
skating craze, and rinks were built all
over the country. The fever. how
ever, was as brief as any other :vaga-
les of fashion; the enthusiasm died
away. the Kinks were deserted. the
investors lost their money. and roller
skates disappeared in the land.
Mime. Hurtrelle. well-known soci-
ETY. belle in Paris. was arrested for
drunkenness. In defense she stated
that she read that the surest> way of
preserving furs from moths was to
place them in an empty spirit cask.
She accordingly purchased one and in
it put her cloak. The weather being
chilly. she required the garment, and
the alcoholic fumes produced intoxica-
ton. She was acquitted.
In London there is said to be n
burglars company. which conducts
business in a systematic manner. 1t
has number of inspectors, who
travel over Europe in quest of open
ings for work. and mechanics who
can open the most elaborate safes.
Finally. there is solicitor who nego-
tiates the restitution of bonds for
commission of thirty-tive per cent.
All the managers have received a prison
education.
TO incarcerate n man as a lunatic
in Denmark nothing is required but a
certificate from competent medical
practitioner stating that the individual
in question is insane. Any one in Den
mark is ent tied to keep private asy-
lum without license, and the patients
in such an asylum are not under State
control. Denmark has an excess of
lunatics, due CHI ely to the Scandinav-
ian habit of constant dram drinking
They are we'll cared for in spite of the
defect of the lunacy laws.
According to the So. James Ga
zctte the bar at this moment is the
most over-stocked profession in En-
gland. The Law List of 1884 COM
prises 2i2 pages of counsel entitled to
practice at the English bar. and each
page contains on an average rather
more than thirty names. thus yielding
a grand total of about 300 practit on
ers for England. and those British
possessions where English counsel
have right Of aud ence. This total
does not include the members of the
Scotch bar or of the Irish bar, or of
the bar of the Isle of Man.