The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Tichborne claimant is. exhibit
ing h mself to small aud ences in En-
gland to earn living.
of the 217 members who in 1921
formed the Paris Geological Society
said to be the oldest organization of its
kind-only one is now living.
VIII lie elephant hunt NO recently in
the Garrow II lis, in Bengal, Lords Ar
thur and Henry Grosvenor captured
eighty-five elephants in three drives.
1t has always been the belief of
Mrs. Burton, wife of the well-known
traveller. that since England took the
Koh-i-noor diamond. proverbial for the
ill-luck it brings, nothing but disaster
has attended all concerning British In
dia.
"A fatal duel, ar:sng from a most
trivial cause, IS reported from Cologne,
where two officers met recently, and,
after the exchange of seventeen shots.
one of them was mortallv wounded, eX-
pirng within an hour. The cause of the
duel was that one of them put on the
Others cap.
"A young Englishman has had his
LEFT leg spec ally exempted from the in
surance granted him by several COM
pan:es, whose losses through the sud-
den weakness of that LIMB had led them
to be wary in the matter. Hence
clauses in his pol cy provide that he can
not recover unless proof is made that
h $ N jur. es shall not have been caused
by the faulty member.
The Lancet says that appetite is a
most misleading sensation, only re-
molelv related to the actual demands
OF the organism. If we only ate more
| del .beratclv we should find half our
accustomed quaint t. o. food sufficient
TO satisfy the most eager cravings o.
hunger. and hence save ourselves from
the evils of dyspepsia, or. Oh the other
hand. Il tendency to over increase in
weight.
Timber RATS on the Rhine are a
not ceable charactpriSt of that his
tore RIVER A single raft has often
| eight or ten small houses on it, and
from 400 to 800 workmcn, .owers and
pilots. The vast pile is steered by
means of immense oars, and is so con-
structcd rs to TWIST Ike huge snake
IN the narrow channels. The sale of a
raft ut the end of the voyage often real
ICES about Slj0.000.
Porto RiCan ladies. although as
dark as mulattoS, carry with them to
all public places face powder made
from grand ny peculiar shell, and
when they think no one is looking their
way they give Their faces fresh coats of
e do. IL. h,,t
good breeding makes the observer tech
niCally blind to the ludicrOus comb ma
ton of black nature and white pulver-
lied shell.
The increase of the criminal class
in England has by no means kept pace
with that of the general population.
In the fifteen years from 1869 to 1874
tho population of England and Wales
is augmented by nearly j,OO0.CU0 SOILS.
but the rrson population had actually
fallen by more than l,jO0. Ii England
had gone on producing erin mails at the
rate ut which she was turning them out
in 1859. she would have had Il pr son
population in 1884 of something like
l4,C0O. instead of one below 10000.
The public baths of Vienna are
said TO be the finest in the world. The
building itself. says the EHg'i&t }!e-
chanic, is situated IN the heart of the
city. and incloses basin 1916 feet in
width by SIS feet in length, and vary
ing in depth TO twelve feet. The enor-
nous quantity of water conta ned in
THIS BASIN is renewed three times Il day.
The whole shmcnt has accom-
modat:On Coz 100 persons, and is
open from MAY LIST to October3lst and
from five in the morning until dusk.
There is also bath. restricted to
ladies'. open from nine in the morning
unit one. and the Vienna ladies' are
especially good swimmers.