The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27
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There are many war mules scatter
Cd throughout the country, but wal
horses have most all died out
"A large prairie wolf was captured
one day. recently. in Manatee County.
Florida; . rare capture in that part Of
country.
| "A rat recently made its nest out Of
bank notes at New York. Only thirty
dollars in fragments were subsequently
recovered.
| To die is easy enough-but living!
There's thetest. Any body can die. but.
ali. the infinite difficulty of living
Chicago Journal.
Capitalists of Los Angeles, Cal,
have established factory for the manu-.
facture of rope from the yucca plant,
better known as the Spanish bayonet
1t is rumOred that there are oveI
fifty thousand square miles of swampy
land east of the Mississippi river that
night, by draining, be made profitable
farming land.
Oscar Root, of Erie. Pa, in quar-
rel with Martin Stadt Miller. had one
of his fingers bitten by the latter
Blood-poisoning set in, and now Root i:
a raving maniac.
The planet Mars has more land thar
the earth. and the latest theory is thai
Mars is inhabited by race of being:
similar to our own. but longevity there
is far less than here.
Red hair is now fashionable in
Paris. The orthodox tint. according tC
the London Graphic, is a deep blood
red. not auburn. produced by decOc
ton of henna leaves.
Five men have been convicted and
sent to prison at Olympia for attempting
to evict the Chinese from that place.
Their sentences were five hundred dol.
lars and five and six months imprison-
ment.
In Kentucky town stands statue
of George Washington, who is repre-
scented holding hat in his hand. A
pair of woodpeckers discovered his hat
one day, and forthwith set about making
nest in its crown.
What every married man in this
country wants is trained, fierce-looking
little mouse that will appear whenever
called. 1t will stampede family quar-
rel in less time than it takes to provoke
one.-Macon Telegraph.
An Atlanta (Ga.) citizen recently
scratched the end of a needle out of his
head. Twenty years ago his nurse
dropped him on the floor, and his head
struck the needle, which was broken off
i'm his skuIl.-Ahanta Constitution.
"A pair of native sparrOws marched
up to the very cannOn's mouth at Fort
Willett and built their little nest inside
of it. The gun was loaded, and the
bold intruders might have Jared badly
had not their presence been discov-
cred before the discharge of the gun
"A canyon or ravine by any other
name would form as picturesque a fea-
ture of the landscape. surely; and yet
an indignant reader writes to the Star
complaining of its use of the word
''gully" in describing the valley through
which Rock creek takes its romantic
name.-Washington Star.
Ina b. McLane has secured the con-
tract for carrying the United States
mails between Eureka and Palisade,
New, on days when the train, which
leaves tri-weekly, is laid Off She is
having a tricycle. constructed at San
Francisco to run over the Eureka and
Palisade track between those points.
The distance is ninety miles, and the
fair Ina expects to make the run in six
hours.-M c1go Times.
-Still-trolling for bluefsh is favor
lite method for angling with many fish
ermen. and there is peculiar excite
ment and exhilaration about it, as one
stands waist deep in the surf that surges
around him and feels the tug at his line
that tells him his fish is hOoked-an en-
cItement that is heightened as the big
fish is drawn shOreward, struggling
tiercely in the surf, and scattering the
salt spray in showers along the path of
his enforced journey.-Boston Herald.
The curious question has been ask
ed why oaks and elms are especially
liable to be struck by lightning. 1t was
declared in 1887 that the elm. chestnut,
oak and the pine were the trees most
often struck in America, and in 1860 &.
j. Symonds stated that the elm, oak,
ash and poplar were the most frequent
ly struck in England. A Magdeburg
record, covering ten years, reports in
juries to PCS trees, 165 being oaks, 81
Scotch frs, % pines. and 20 beeches. 1t
has been suggested that the frequency
with which oaks are struck is due to the
presence of iron in the wood. Chicago
Times.