The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The next meeting of the American
Medical association will be held at San
Francisco, on the first Tuesday in June,
1894, instead of on the first Tuesday in
May, in order to permit of discussion
of the code by the various societies that
meet just before the meeting of the
National association.
"A New Years dance at Cedar, Tex,
was interrupted by the killing of three
of the dancers, the fatal wounding of a
fourth, the serious wounding of two
others, and the disabling of half doz-
en- mere by pistol and rifle bullets One
girl was shot dead, another received a
bullet in the face, another was wound
ed in the middle of the forehead, and
another through the right arm 1t was
all over in a few minutes but it broke
up the dance.
Mr. Charles b. Corey, of Boston, is
tramping and punting about the
swamps in the Banana river country,
Florida, with novel addition to a
hunters outfit Venomous snakes,
spiders and other such 'varmints" are
quite plentiful in that region, and give
hunters much trouble, so Mr.. Corey had
made for use on the trip pair of
aluminium leggings. They are light,
convenient to wear and very comfort
able safeguard. Mr.. Corey got four
bears on one trip last week.
United States naval officers are, on
the whole, better paid than their Brit
ish brethren of the sea. but the latter
have certain perquisites, amounting
sometimes to several hundred pounds
per year, and these perquisites are the
envy of our officers If the reorganiza-
ton of the pay table were not SO tick
lish a matter almost every officer of
the navy would be glad of the chance
to ask that a perquisite to cover the
cost of entertaining foreign dignitaries
be made part of any new table.
An aluminium violin, invented and
patented by Cincinnati musician. is
highly spoken of, both by players and
critics. 1t is made in the same shape
as the ordinary violin, but looks, OF
course, like silver. and is exceedingly
light Many advantages over wooden
violins are claimed for it One was
used in concert in Indianapolis few
days ago, and newspaper critic com
ments that, while it seemed to lack in
vibratory power, it had peculiar quail
ties, which added greatly to the bril-
liancy of tone.
| When the water was withdrawn
from the lake near Geysc- spring, in
Saratoga, the other day, an immense
quantity of trout and p ckerel was
captured, many of them beng of great
size. 1t is thought that the minera
water impregnated with gas was the
cause of the uncommon abundance anC
fairness of the fish-that the stimulus
of the mineral constituents and ga:
sharpens the appetite, invigorates the
nerves of the stomach and promote:
the digestion of the fish. causing theu
to laugh and grow fat"
~ haven't bought anything in {
long time that has afforded me more
comfort" said solid citizen of New
York city, "than pair of old-fashioneC
wooden gloves that bought the othel
day. picked up one morning in the
hall pair of wooden glow, belonging
to my boy. l found when l came t.
ask him about them that H. wore then
skating; put them on and found then
very comfortable indeed. have beef
accustomed to wearing purely conven
tional gloves, just now, for instance
red dogs skin; but now put on thes'
fine, soft, wooden gloves and leave the
red dogs at home"