The Iola register., 1891-10-30
PASTE AND SCISSORS.
Henry George is 81 years old.

henry george ls oZ years oiu.
The Bodleian Library has now half
million volumes and grows at the rate
of 120 day.
Cornelrs new library. the gift OF
Henry w. Sage. will have accommoda-
tions for 470, 600 volumes.
Gladstone has q fondness for having
Lopgfellow read aloud to him, now
that he can't read Homer.
James Russell Lowell. c. A. Dana.
DR.. Holland, Walt Whitman, Julia
Ward Howe and Queen Victoria were
all born in 1919.
The introduction of the rubber tree
into the Bahama Islands has not proved
successful commercially, as the trees
secrete little rubber.
China has Just coined silver dollar
which will be accepted in trade in
place of the Mexican and Japanese
coins heretofore used.
A Lawrence (kas.) man is becom.
ing enormously stout on Indian medi-
cine which he was advised to take for
the purpose of reducing his weight.
lucky. have made provision for de-
pendent ex Confederates. Several
States have established homes. Others
paw pensions varying from $40. 900 to
$125. 600 annually.
Jerome K. Jerome, the author and
playwright, has one child. daughter
of 8 years. Jerome is a tall, broad
shouldered young man with light hair
that is becoming trife thin on top,
and light blue eyes.
Colonel Francis Barring, a member
of the English banking family. is de-
voting his time to sculpture, and has
just completed a bronze statuette of
Miss Lefty Lind in Carmen" of
which the critics make favorable men,
tion.
The house which Benedict Arnold
occupied when young man in New
Haven is still standing. He was 8
compouuder of drugs. and the sign
which swung before his little shop is
preserved BY the New Haven Hi stori-
cal Society.
The Japanese language is said to
contain so. 900 words. every one of
which requires q different symbol.
1t is quite impossible for one man to
learn the entire language. and well.
educated Japanese is familiar with
only about 10000
Sir Henry Pottinger has just leased
in Norway what is perhaps the largest
sporting estate in Europe, the area be.
ing about the size of Yorkshire, and
the game varying from the elk to the
rhyper. while the salmon and trout are
in abundance. The immense tract in
cludes weld. ford. moorland and river,
but is very thinly peopled.
MIR. Romanes, of London. has an
ape that he has taught to count-not
very far up. indeed. but as far as five.
He knows the numbers and the words
that indicate them. His method is to
take straws one by one into his mouth
until one less than the required num-
Der have been collected; then. taking
up an additional straw, he hands it
over, together with those in his mouth.
Aunt Emily Ward, who recently
died in Detroit got her name of aunt
when she was still young girl by her
charitable nature. She never married,
but spent her life largely in helping
young people in poor circumstances.
She is credited with having brought up
fourteen men from boyhood to ma
turity. one of whom is ex-Postmaster
| General Don NJ Dickinson.
An ingenious advertising dodge is to
be found in Paris. Small pointed pa.
per bags, something like those grocers
twist up. have been noticed on the
pavements. These. when opened. have
been found to be hand-bills. which
would never have attracted any notice
unless curiosity had prompted some
body to look and see whether there
could be anything in these old screws
of DanHrs