The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


The biggest days receipts in the
history of the Brooklyn bridge were
taken on April so, 1889, the day of the
centennial anniversary celebration.
They amounted to s5,01S.sO.
"A story comes from Lander, Wyo.,
that an unknown hunter was killed by
silver-tip bear, the hunter also killing
the bear. The bodies of the bear and
man were locked together in a death
grip. The bear was killed by knife
thrusts, while the man was crushed to
death by the silver-tip's powerful and
fatal hug.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers
Fore, have invented a new kind of
harp, made entirely OF wood Instead
of strings, the inventors use strips of
American fir. The sound is produced
as in the ordinary harp, by the contact
of the fingers; but the players wear
leather gloves covered with resin. The
tone of the instrument is of remarkable
purity.
"A workman at Elizabethport was
hit in the neck by a steel splinter from
machine at the New Jersey copper
works recently. The chip penetrated
the flesh and lodged in the windpipe.
The next day he was seized with vio-
lent fit of coughing, which loosened the
steel and he elected it The wound
bled freely after being inflicted, but
the man is now we'll
Students passing through a ravine
near the poor farm at Charlottesville,
Ind, found what they at first thought
was a dead man. He was only In a
trance, and, as he disappeared five
weeks ago from the poor house, it Il
believed he was in a trance all that
time. His clothes were rotted off, and
he was covered with vermin. He had
eaten nothing in five weeks.
"A resident of Washington street.
Waterbury, Conn.,, has invented new
plan to circumvent chicken thieves.
He uses copper rods for roosts, and
these he has connected with battery
in his bed room. When thief Hampers
with the hen coop an alarm rings at the
proprietor's head, and by pressing a
button a shock is sent through the
fowls crow and cluck in yociferous
unison.
"A Chinese beggar does not often
appeal to white families for aid, but
one came to a Portland, Ore, residence
the other day, was taken in and given
a lunch of chops, potatoes, bread and
coffee. The meal over, he produced the
cil ind ,f ill
ly lighted it. and, cooking his feet on
the table, filled the kitchen with smoke
When told to go, he said: mo wante
go; heape hkee here; heap enjoy self"
In one minute and half afterward he
was kicked out of the house.
"A goose with an artificial leg is the
happiest fowl in Alpharetta, Ga. Il
belongs to Mr.. j. ID. Broadwell, and
some weeks ago an accident deprived
it of foot Therefore, when the
goose travelled, it had to move slowly
with comical hop, and could not keep
up with the rest of the geese. Mr..
Broadwell took joint of cane and
fitted the leg of the goose in the hollow
of the cane, bound it to the leg Of the
goose with cord and cut off the lower
end OF the cane even with the unin-
jured foot The goose now walks with
ease.
Father Won der Heyden, of the
Catholic church of Boise City, took
bag of gold to the assay office with the
view of obtaining the cash 1t was
valued at 1923, was assayed fifteen years
ago, and the stamp with the date was
legibly to be seen thereon 1t had be-
longed to party in Idaho City, who
had kept it all of the long years Mr..
Cunningham, the assayer in charge,
paid the cash on the bar. The interest
on its value at 10 per cent. for fifteen
years would have amounted to s., 1894 50, |
or il placed at compound interest at /
per cent a month to little more than
81 ZOO.
The singular sight was witnessed |
in the harbor one morning of man in |
a small boat making a cruise with a |
shark for motive power, says the Pa |
mama Star and Herald. Boat after boat |
went to his assistance, until a string Of |
seven, manned by twelve hands, was in |
the procession, but the sharks move
ments increased with the increased |
weight, and after leading his captors .
merry dance for long while he sue
ceeded in throwing ont the harpoon and
effecting his escape. We hear that the
length of the brute was estimated at
being nearer twenty than fifteen feet
a customer not to be rashly tackled sin.
gle-handed.