The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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The Spaniards shout ''Oye! oye"
("Hear! hearty when using the tele-
phone.
| In Porto Rico an outlay of two dol
lars viii clothe an entire family of six
person, for year.
The new English Postmaster-Gen-
eral. having gone down to his office
and let himself in with 1atchkey, was
promptly arrested by a detective and
held until identified as a nOn-dyna-
| inter.
1t is estimated that the grand balls
given by the President of the French
Republic cost from $4,000 to $20.OO0
each. About 5000 guests attend each
of the balls, of which two are given
every year.
Many physic' ans of small practices
in London keep chem st shops, and on
certain hours each day see patients,
prescribe, g We advice and furnish med
icine for the bagatelle of one shilling
each patient.
The hobby of Abraham Price, well
known in England as the Chester
miser," who died recently, was to col
lect secondhand books. The worth
lessness of the collection may be in
ferred from the fact that about twelve
thousand volumes were sold for about
$3.50
An anus ng incident in connection
with the police precautions at the Law
Courts happened in London the other
day. One OF the Judges was stopped
at the entrance in Carey street and re-
quested TO show the policeman the con-
tents of his bag. The Judge at once
acqu;esced and was then allowed 10
enter.
M. Louis GODDARD, the famous
French aronaut, is dead. One of his
most memorable expedit ons was the
voyage IN 1868 from Paris to Hanover.
W tn the Geant, of which Nadar was
the Captain, and which had very per-
ilous descent. During the siege of
Paris GODDARD accomplished several
nrial ascents for the government of the
defense.
-Nettle cultivation is now being
tried in Germany for the sake of the
strong fiber. A lady at Langenschwal-
bach, near Wiesbaden, has made very
successful eXper .ments with the weed
during the last few months, and has
now persuaded several neighboring
agriculturists to plant an acre of first
class wheat land with nettles, to see if
the quality of the fiber can be i'm
proved.
The oldest specimen of pure glass
bearing anything like date is little
nodded lions head. bearing the naILe
of an Egyptian King of the eleventh
dynasty, in the Slade collection at the
British Musean.- That is to saw, mt the
period which may be moderately placed
at more than 1900 years II. c., glass
was not only made, but made with
skill which shows that the art was
nothing new even at that tinse.
"A few lays after Dickens death
an Engl:shman, deeply grieved at the
event. made aplgrimage to Gad's Hill,
and as he was having some re:rsshment
at the famous John Falstaff Inn, near
at hand, the effusiveness of his emo
tons prompted him to take the waiter
into his co lfidence. "A great loss,
this. of Mr.. Dickens" said the pilgr m.
"A great loss to us. SIR" repl ed the
waiter, snaklng MS Heau, me Hdu ali
his ale sent in from his house"
L eutenant-C Colonel Philip Eyre.
who lost his life in the battle of D.ilka. I
was once a clerk in the Dublin Post |
office. He was careless in his work, |
and one day the head of the depart
ment angrily told him he never would
earn his salt as clerk. what shall | |
do. then?' asked Eyre. Better go
and enlist. You'd make q good tar
get" Next day Eyre did not put in an
but late on the second
came strolling in ieisurely. "Well.
SIR" demanded the engaged chief, sex
plain why you were absent without
leave yesterday" "Oh, took your
advice and enlisted. Thought L i just
call in and bid you all goOd-by-"