Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-29
HERE AND THERE.

ABD-EL-KADER is not dead, rs was re-
ported, but is in the enjoyment OF excel
lent health.
In a lawsuit at Nashville, Ind, In
volving question of paternity, baby
was put in evidence, in order to show its
resemblance to the alleged father.
A YOUNG lady went from Alabama to
Rome to marry an Italian Count with
whom she had corresponded, but the
Counts wife and four children raised so
many objections that the marriage didn't
take place.
TWENTY kegs of gold were received
in Chicago from New York the other
day. Each weighed about 800 pounds,
and contained s75 200, making $780,
600 in all. This money was sent to Jim
Keene in payment for wheat.
IT is fashionable in Massachusetts,,
this winter, to ride in the Oldest sleighs
that can be obtained. A wealthy Pitts
field man proudly uses one that is over
hundred years old as to body, while
the leather wings of the dashboard are
more ancient by half century.
The place known as the "Tombs OF
the Kings" short distance to the north
of Jerusalem, has recently been pur-
chased by French lady, and by her or
ders excavations have been undertaken
there. Capitals and other architectural
remains have been found.
THE Pope's new paper, the aurora,
sells for 20 centesimi, or cents, and is
printed on whittier paper than any other
journal in Italy. The leading articles
are written by men of European reputa-
ton, and refer chiefly to social and po-
litical topics connected with religion.
The type is very large, like that of the
old Osseruatore Romano, the organ I'M
der Plus TX.
Mrs. SCHREIBER was assured by a
San Francisco fortune-teller that great
trouble would come to her in conse-
quence of speculation in stock, If she did
not quickly get out of that sort of bust
ness. 1t happened that Mrs. Schroeder
and her husband had just risked all their
savings in a stock operation, and the
words of the fortune-teller frightened
and worried them so much that they
committed suicide.
TOBY HUGHES was not considered OF
much consequence in San Francisco,
where he was a brokers' clerk. He
quietly bought 10000 shares of Chal-
lenge mining stock at 81 share, which
was all that it was worth. Through a
friend, ne went through the form of
daily selling some of the stock mt an adj
vance, being always himself the pur-
chaser. In a month he got the quota
ton up to $3.50, though there had been
no real sales. Then he left with sew
eral brokers bogus orders from Flood,
the millions man, to buy it mt So. They
thereupon purchased Toby's 10000
shares, and he, with the $4,000 profit,
hastily quilted the city. Challenge has
dropped back to 81.
A WOMAN at Stockton, Cal, who had
a drunken husband, was waiting late at
night for him to come home. The lamp
was in her bedroom and she was in the
parlor. Hearing a noise outside, as IL a
man who was drunk was trying to find
the gate, she went out, and sure enough
a drunken man was there. She helped
him into the parlor,a as she had been used
to doing, and placed him carefully on the
lounge. After hard struggle she got
his coat and vest off, and then pulled at
the boots Gas she thought they were),
but they would not come off. At length
she felt up about the ankles and found
that the man had shoes on-something
that her husband never wore. Striking
light she saw he was a stranger.
The question has been raised by the
JesOish World of London whether the
Afghans are not of Jewish origin. That
paper asserts that the prevailing type of
the Afghan physiognomy is strongly
Jewish-more so than any other living
race, while in their religious customs
considerable analogy can be traced
between them and those of orthodox
Jews. In the case of certain branches
of the Afghan people this is particularly
striking-so much so that one writer
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found in them the descendants of the
lost tribes of Israel. All the native
Afghan histories contain detailed
accounts of the early history of the
Jews from Abraham to the captivity;
and, although the bulk of the population
was converted to Islam years and years
ago, it is stated in local history that IL
was not until the middle of the tenth
century that Judaism was entirely given
up and Islamism had become the pre-
vailing religion.
EMPEROR NORTON the First is dead.
He reigned in San Francisco, and firm
ly believed in his self-imposed title.
His subjects were old Californians, who
humored his within by paying the as