The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF 0eNe8Al INTEREST,"
Key West has one hundred and
thirty-One cigar factories, each en-
Ploying from ten to three hundred
hands.
Germany devotes nins million
acres to the cultivation of the potato.
The yield last year was twenty-three
million tons.
The story comes from Paris that q
sausage-maker there displays placard
in his window announcing: Every
link carefully inoculated BY NJ. Pas
| teur."
! Ordinary everyday English speech
employs only about twelve hundred
words, according to q stenographer
who has made q careful examination of
the matter.-N. Y Times.
Pale young celery and eucalyptus
are the names of two new tints of
green. The former is almost like the
pretty linden green; the latter is o very
soft sea Chicago Mall.
THE Washington monument"
writes Potomac penciler IN the Troy
| On. W Times, '.is great disappoint-
ment to visitors. While the structure
is in reality $50 feet high, it does not
appear, in the eyes of the average
mortal, to be over 25O.
There is one fishing town on the
Maine coast where, if you should shout
out Captain on the public street, ten
out of every dozen men within reach OF
your voice would turn to you and ask:
..Well, what yer want?" They are
captains of fishing vessels.-Boston
Transcript.
The language of sealing-wax
promises to supplant that of flowers.
Red wax must be used for business
only, black wax for mourning and blue
to signify love. Five tints of blue are
made, to express all the gradations of
passion. Pink wax is for cOngratula-
tons. and white is for wedding and ball
Chicago Times.
One of the largest trees ever put
into the water by Skagit logging
camp was one that was at Jackson g. a
few miles above NJ. Vernon. The tree
contained three twenty-fOur-fOOt logs
which scaled as follows: Butt, 7.5l2
feet; second, 5,732; top. $3.50 total
of 5000 feet of lumber in the tree.
The diameter at the small ends was 7S,
II and GA inches, respectiveiJ.-Cai-
caqo Enterprise.
| The Queens birthday present to
the Crown Princess of Germany was Il
..full-dress'' carriage, and it has been
dispatched to Berlin. The Interior is
lined with blue silk damask, uith gold
fringe and tassels. The outside is of
claret color. with lines of crimson. and
all the mountings are of brass On the
doors and panels the English and Prus-
sian arms are emblazOned in relief
London Truth.
1t is some time since we saw bet
ter condensed piece of reporting than
the following paragraph from u medi-
cal paper: ..ln the Solferino mine.
Nevadaville, Col, q loose rock knocked
A. Warren out of the bucket. A piece
of jawbOne was found at the twelve
hundred-foot level and piece Of skull
and his coat at the thirteen hundred
foot level. These comprised the recev-
cradle effects. IN. Y. independent.
The population of London now ex-
ceeds every other city, ancient or mod
ern, in the world. New York and all
its adjacent cities combined are not
equal to two-thirds of it. Scotland.
Switzerland, and the Australian colo
MES each contains fewer souls. while
Norway, Servia, Greece and Denmark
have scarcely half as many. Yet at
the beginning of the present century
the population of all London did mos
reach one million.
The Paris Figaro has published an
article on the Manufacture of Skele-
TONS" in which the writer says that
Just out of Paris there is an establish
ment where human bones of all sorts
are collected and, after being carefully
prepared, are fastened together with
wires, and when the work is done it is
impossible even for the scientific eye to
detect anything wrong in skeleton
that has been made up from the bones
of several different individuals.
The electric bell system has been
developed to such a fine point in New
York hotels that by moving a pointer
upon dial and then pressing the bell
the guest can indicate to the Office his
desire for his bill, coupe, a carriage.
writing materials, chambermaid. mes
senger, boots, water, porter, fireman.
ice-water or hall-bOy. At one hotel
the dial is divided into three sections;
one for eatables, one for drinkables
and third for ordinary hotel service.
N. y. Tribune.