Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-12
HERE AND THERE.

Mrs. ROSE MCMAHON, aged 100 Yeas,
has just died at Dubuque, Iowa. She
was the oldest woman in the State.
Mr.. S. G. GREGORY of Albany, N.
Y, announces that he will have ready
in 60 days a flying machine, with which
he will make n trial-trip to London,
England, going at the rate of 80 miles
an hour. .....
AFTER the ceremony had been per-
formed at a Fall River Mass wedding,
a former husband of the bride presented
himself. He had been away four years,
and she had supposed herself widow.
He offered to leave her to the rev
husband, if she would give him her
child, and she closed the bargain on
that basis.
THE system of hotel fees to menials,
says an exchange, had its origin in q
semi-barbaric age, when none save the
wealthy and aristocratic travelled far
from home, and when royalty and aris-
tocracy gave, not only to those who
served them wherever they stopped, but
flung aims to the poor on the high
way.
OBERLIN, o., is in high state of ex-
element on account Of the discovery
that the use of tobacco is increasing
among the college students there. The
rumor that new cigar and tobacco
store is to be established has produced
rrraa4 ;nd;or, alton x,,l,;oh hos oxnraooad
itself in mass-meetings, where resolu-
tons hostile to the traffic were passed.
THE folly of the existing system of
Indian management, remarks the New
port Or. ~ News, sis seen on small
scale in the persistent keeping up of a
separate nationality in Rhode Island,
where we have tribe of Narragansetts
with not single Narragansett Indian
in it,
A BosToN druggists blunder has
nearly cost lady her life. Having a
prescription for compromising three
herbs, he got two of them wrong. One
was for humuli, or hops, for which he
substituted what he supposed to be
hamamelis root, but which, upon inyes-
tigation, proved to be aconite root.
THE Ute chiefs now in Washington
are said to paint their faces carefully
every morning, thereafter strutting to
and fro on the street exhibiting their
charms of color. As for Ouray's wife,
she spends her time at the window OBJ
serving the dresses of the ladies' who
pass, and has been making divers inef-
fectual attempts to arrange her green
blanket gracefully rs trained skirt.
THERE is in the archives" of Mr.. A.
b. Hull of Danbury, Conn, an old flint
lock shooting-iron that was carried by
his father i'm the Revolutionary War and
with which he fooled Tory by poking
it up from behind rock to draw his
fire and then killing him. 1t would APP
pear that the Tory drew fine bead, as
the bullet from his "fowling piece"
struck the flint lock and has since re-
manned imbedded therein.
A SNOWMAN from the United States
purchased circus that was on a tour in
Mexico, and substituted the stars-and-
stripes for the Mexican flag that had
been flying from the tent-pole. This
was in chihuahua, where the hatred of
this country is intense. A mob UNDER
took to haul down the new flag, but the
manager and his performers drove them
off. That night regiment of local
soldiery demolished the whole show, and
the company were compelled TO fly for
their lives.
THE soothing influence of music when
applied to the savage breast was illus
trated by a recent event in Washington.
The other day, it is related, the whole
party of braves gathered at the window
to witness the strange sight of an timer
ant organ grinder. The musician was
finally induced by the offer of several
pennies to 60 into the yard of the hotel
and serenade the aborigines. As soon
as he began to turn the crank It was too
much for Indian blood, and retreat
from the window followed. Headed by
Jack, the party silently filed down stairs,
out through the kitchen into the yard,
and scrutinized the wonderful thing.
After giving them an hour of unalloyed
pleasure, the grinder, becoming weary,
was forced to desist, and the Indians re-
turned to their room. The music had
done'its work, however, for when they
got up stairs series of dances were in
dulged in which would have made song
and dance man turn pale with envy.
A PAINFUL revelation was made the
other day in New York court, when
some twenty or more children belong
ing to the so-called " Shepherds Fold"
were brought into the room by the Of
ficers of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, and represented
as being the victims Of a sham charity,
which, under the pretense of caring for
poor and helpless little ones, secured
the aid of the benevolent without stint,