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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01
Japanese Fans.

A Japanese journal furnishes some
interesting information respecting the
fabrication of fans. Here, as in many
other branches of industry, the principle
of the division of labor is vigorously OBJ
served. The bamboo sticks are pre-
pared by workmen in their own homes,
while the incised ornaments of the lower
portion of the fan are confided to more
skillful hands. who dress the handles
according to the sketches given by the
designer. In the same way, the artist
gives to the engraver the motives which,
IN his idea, will prevail the next season
and will insure ready sale. He it is
also who chooses the colors for the
pieces already cut out, as also the color
for each isolated detail, and, finally, the
different decorations for the back of the
fan. The paper made use of to in
sert the leaves of the fan is all Japan
ese; it. is peculiarly suited for this
purpose so much SO that an attempt
to employ foreign paper had to be
abandoned. The papers from America
were tined, but rejected; but experts
will tell one that the native paper used
in this branch of industry is much in
ferior to that uselin the past. Former
", when the country had no relations
with the outer world. the most expen-
sive fan made cost scarcely a pound.
Since then, however, there have been
numerous commissions for much larger
sums. The current price of ordinary
fans is, for hundred, from fifty yen or
dollars to fifteen yen. The number OF
fans furnished for the Philadelphia
Exhibition of 1876, on commission, was
no fewer than 800, 900, the price of
which was estimated at $4,000. For
merly the fan trade rarely exceeded 1O,-
600 articles yearly throughout the whole
country, but during the last twelve
this period commences is not stated by
our informant, there have been exported
nearly 5000, 900 of articles from Hiogo
and Yokohama. Highly appreciated as
are the products of Hiogo, those OF
Toxic are by far the most esteemed,
not alone for their beauty, but for their
superior cheapness. - Cor. American
Architect
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01

foot of the ledge you viii almost never
find round one.
How. then. has it come about thas
there are so many rounded stones IN n,
our fieldsP Did God make them round
at the creation? We might perhaps
think SO, il He did not show us in every
mountain brook and on the shores Oh
our lakes and the sea His machinery
still Mt work turning angular stones into
rounded ones.
BY watching the action OF the waves
on q pebbly beach any one can see ior
himself how constantly the stones along
the shore are kept rolling over one an
other by the motion Of the waves. Al
most everything we can now find upon
the beach had the angles and corners
worn off long ago, but now and then
some fragment shows the rounding
process still under way. :.
Brooks and rivers also, especially IL
they are broken by rapids or waterfalls
will show the observer how g. the wa
tiers were the stones" When tho
streams are high, stones are rolled along
in the current and become more or less
rounded by striking against one another
and against the bottom. Where Q
stream pours over ledge a basin will
be found below in which the deep water
boils like pot or whirls about in strong
eddies, dashing the stones against ono
another. In every such place the
stones will become rounded, for tho
corners will of course break of moro
easily than the stones will break IN two.
One will seldom find anything larger
than cobble-stones in our streams Mt the
present day, and nearly all the stones
are small pebbles, while here and there
along still reaches of the streams are
beds of sand, each grain Of which Is .
small particle probably broken from tho
larger stones in the process OF rounding
them.
All these things almost any boy or
girl, whose eyes are open and who does
not live on the prairie, may see right
about home, and find the stones worth
looking at and talking about. In ways
like these we may believe that the peb-
bles of all sizes, in the fields, the streets,
the walls. were rounded by the action
of water. We may not only say that
God made them round, but see how He
shaped them as they are. The pebbles
are troublesome enough sometimes in
the garden, but every one Of them
tells long and exciting story of frost
and storm and flood to those who know
how to read it. Christian Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01
Vegetable LOafers.

Vegetable loafers, as weeds of a
troublesome growth have been appro-
priately named, are legion in number
and the fight against them should begin
early and continue increasingly through
out the season.
To carry on an intelligent warfare
against noxiOus weeds it is necessary to
know somewhat of their method of pro-
pagatlon White daisies, iron-weed and
other pests which spread from both
root and seed ought to be dug out of the
ground previous to the maturity of their
Blossoms, in order to destroy the seed
crop for that year as well as the germ
which produces the stem and blossom
the next. This is accomplished with
the greatest ease directly after rain
when the ground is soft. When enc
mics of this character have multiplied
themselves to such an extent as to rem
der digging out impracticable the only
remedy left is to pillow up the infested
ground before the seed natures.
Burdocks which spring up quickly
after having been mown above ground
will soon succumb, provided the cutting
Is done few inches below the surface.
Elders and briars that thrive persistent
~ in neglected places are in time de-
stroyed by moving down, twice year
during May and August. Flowing up
the land and narrowing out the roots is
IN effective mode, especially when the
ground is afterward planted with some
such crop as corn.
Milkweed may be exterminated by
constant cutting. Plaintain will die out
if not ,permitted to ripen its seed for
two years. That most troublesome OF
plants. Canada thistle can be conquered
by choking and smothering it with some
crop which overtops it and deprives its
leaves Of sufficient light and air. Rye
has been sown on thistle-infested fields
with good results, especially when it
was followed with clover and timothy.
The mowings the thistles receive when
the grass is cut assist in enfeebling their
growth. May and August are the best
months in which to NOW weeds that die
from loss of foliage.
There is much to be said both for and
against summer fallow for the destruc-
ton of weeds. A fallow certainly re-
duces the pests. but so long as stock
feed on weeds the land will again be
seeded with them when manure is APP
piled. Therefore the time never ar
fives when farm is free from noxious
egowths of one kind or another which
call for more or less fighting against
them. The warfare. as has been init
mated, must vary in kind with the
nature and growth of the weed and be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01
Animal Intelligence.

Ina lecture on Animal Intelligence de-
livered not long since before the British
Association Prof. George I. Romanes
laid down the extraordinary PROPOSE
ton that "the only difference between
animal intelligence and human intelli-
gence consists in this: that animal in
telligence is unable to elaborate that
class of abstract ideas the formation OF
which depends on the faculty ofspeech."
This is startling doctrine; and yet some
of the authentic anecdotes embodied in
an article on this subject in the current
Westminster ReUiew seem to 90 far to
support it. What, too, are we TO say
of the act of the Mount st. Bernard dog
at Salem last week mentioned in yester-
days Evening Post, when this saga
cious creature, seeing n child on rail-
road track over which q train was swift
ly approaching, dashed forward in the
nick of time and dragged the little one
from the point of dangerp
The amazing intelligence of the
Scotch collie dog, which will bring
home in safety from long distances
whole flocks of sheep without leaving
one behind, and which will even sepa-
rate its masters sheep from others
when they become intermingled, II not
Indicative Of reason gives token of n
faculty which for the purpose in hand
is not inferior to IL. DIR. Lindsay, in
fact, directly claims for certain of what
we call the lower animals an intelligence
greater than that of the human savage;
and there are feats recorded of various
animals in the Westminster paper re-
ferred to of which probably millions Of
human beings would be quite incapa-
BILE.
An incident for which wo can vouch
has never to our knowledge been given
in print, and Is n contribution worth
preserving to the discussion in hand.
A gentleman was induced by the skep-
ticism of some friends TO make wager
to the following effect: He undertook
to send favorite dog. n Newfoundland,
from place more than mile from his
house for flute which was to be put in
its usual case in the owners room. The
doors of the house were to be closed
and no one was to accompany or direct
the dog in any way whatever after he
received the instructions of his master.
The dog actually accomplished the feat.
He got into the house by n window
opening on n piazza. made his way to
the room, found the flute and took it
safely to its destination. The sagacious
creature had been used TO carry the
flute for his master, who was brilliant
amateur, and had Of course been pre-
viously shown where to look for II in
the room. The same animal often took
pennies to the butchers and bought his
own meat.
1t must be admitted that there are
some domestic servants, to say nothing
Of the savages referred to by DIR. Lind
say, whose intelligence might easily
fall short of that of the shaggy hero Of
this little story.-M Y. Evening Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01
AT Shrewsbury, England, q fort

AT Shrewsbury, England, fort
night ago Emma Fawcet, the proprietress
of circus, was fined eight dollars and
costs for having taken on Sunday ten
vans and thirty horses through the town
between the hours of twelve and one.
The bylaws under which the fine was
imposed prohibit the driving of any
beast, animal, cattle, poultry wagon or
cart. laden or unladen, through the
streets on the Lords Day. and the high
est penalty for the offense is twenty five
dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01

The conductor after punching her
ticket handed it back to the old lady.
to be held, of course, until he should
collect the tickets ut the other end of
the road. She looked at the hole made
in the ticket and then threw IL out of
the window. When the conductor
made his final trip through the train,
she told him what she had done.
"What did you do that forP'' he asked
in amazement. Faith, an IL yez didn't
want it, shure didn't naither, an I
flung it out. the little hole yez made In
it an all. "-Ezchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01

unceasing. With constant culture, gen.
erous fertilization and the employment
OF clean seed, it is hardly possible for
any weed. however tenacious of life, to
gain possession of ones fields.-M Y
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01

An Irishman who had O pig in his
possession was observed to adopt the
constant practice Of filing it to reple-
ton one day and starving It the next.
On being asked his reason for doing SO,
he replied. "Och, sure. and isn't Il
that like to have bacon with n strake
o. fat and q strake q lane aqually, one
after the t'otherP'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01

The happiness Of your life depends
upon the quality Of your thoughts;
therefore, guard accor lingly, and take
care tina: you entertain no notions un-
suitable TO virtue and unreasonable 20
nature. Marcus A,lLoninus.
, 1880-09-03
The Mother-Love Of Birds

So rongly is the mothers love devel-
oped'in the stork and the lark that it
amounts to heroic passion. The storS
which spends the winter in Egypt and
the summey in northern and western
Europe, likes to build its nest on the
top of some steep gable-roof. Such q
nest is real nuisance 1t is from three
to five yards in diameter; it swarms
with snakes, lizards, frogs, toads and
other disagreeable creatures; it becomes
in the course of time, so heavy that it
will. break the roof if not artificially
propped up from below. Nevertheless,
for various superstitious reasons, the
stork is not only welcome, but even
courtea by the European peasants, and
it cannot be denied that the reverence
with which the bird is locked upon is,
to some extent, deserved: If the house
takes fire, and the young storks happen
to be at an age in which they cannot be
saved by being brought away from the
nest, the stork mother does not leave
them. Standing erect in the nest, flap
ping her wings to watt away the smoke
and flames, and crying out now and
then some strange Egyptian dirge, she
remains with her young ones, and per-
ishes with them. The sky lark, which
builds her nest in the meadows, runs
away from it when frightened by somo-
body's approach, four or FIVE yards, un-
der the clover, and ri1es then perpen-
...diicularly in the air, pouring forth all
ner song in The widest strains in order
to divert the attention. But the peas
ant boy knows that as long as she re-
mains hanging at the same point in the
air, he is still four or five yards from
her nest, and he uses the direction of
her movements and the ring OF her song
to find out the exact spot If then it
happens that the yourg larks are about
70 break through the shell Of the egg
at which the mother instinct of the bird
is in the hight of excitement, while her
Sbodily strength is much exhausted from
the laying, she will drop down dead
from the sky the very moment the nest
is touched. ...t .
, 1880-09-03
A Plucky Iowa Boy, 4g

An exciting encounter, occurred on
Monday night, at the farmhouse Of Dan.
bel SOLOMON, ten miles south Of Hastings,
Iowa Mf!oSolomon was = away at the
time, andibisisoh had, on Monday Jaftgr.
noon, sold 2,500.Lbushels' Of corn, for
which heehad been,paid in cash. It's
Ishpposea gthatl this fact became known
outside, of the family, Ny. and Mrs.
| Saonion usual ySoccupied a. front;roSm
on the first floor, but during the absence
of her husband, Mrs. Solomon had gone
into an adjoining room to sleep with her
two young children. They had been
in bed but short time, and had not yet
gone to sleep, when Mrs. S. and her son
logan, who slept up stairs, heard the
front door open. Logan is O youth of
but eighteen, but is giant in strength,
and has unlimited pluck. He arose and
quietly slipped down the stairway, when
he heard the following conversation be-
tween the two men
'Does anybody sleep in the other
rooml" asked the first. "
"No," replied the second, 81 think
not.p ..
Upon this Logan jumped from thu
stairway into the room in which the
voices were heard. 81 One of the robbers
fred in the direction of the sound, the
report Of his pistol being followed in
stantly by two snots from his accom-
plice. None of the shots took effect,
however. In another moment the he
roic boy was engaged in hand-to-hand
conflict with both villains. With a
superhuman effort he threw one of them
across the room, and getting the head of
the other under his arm, lie took his pis-
tol from him and shot him through the
head, killing him instantly. He dropped
the lifeless body of his assailant on the
floor, and throwing the pistol down
started for neighbor's house and in
formed him what he had done. They
both returned to the scene, md lighting
a lamp, were Mortified to find that the
victim was a well known lad of the
neighborhood. The other man on being
so roughly handled by Logan had picked
himself up and hed, The dead man had
always hitherto borne a good reputa-
ton.
, 1880-09-03
How the Captains Patent Worked.

Having piped all hands to splice the
main brace, the captain had the first
mate of the farm tow out the horse and
wagon, and ascending the quarterback
of the craft, he took possession of the
tiiler ropes Gas he styled the reins) and
said;
"Now, boys, my invention is very
simple-I might make million dollars
out of it, luebbe, bat amt going to pat
ent 1T you can use it if you want to.
I've simply fastened a twenty-fathom
line on to the mizzen axle Of the craft,
and put on stout grapnel. | shall
bring this here hoss along the road under
double-reefed top sails, and then one of
you cusses scare him-open an umbrella
at him, Or something; then, when he
goes tearing along about twenty-five
knots an hour, and won't answer to his
helm, I'll just drop the anchor and ride
out the gale. Git upT'
The horse came jogging gently down
the road, when, according tpi the pro
gramme, The first mate pushed out and
hit him a belt over the nose with a
blanket. The terrified stood on his hind
legs for moment and then struck a
course northwest by north with great
celebrity The4interested spectators be-.
held the fearless captain sitting unmoved,
though the buggy bent and careened be-
fore the breeze, Then with a triumph
ant smile they saw hip heayeBopt the
anchor, ~with-a merry .SYo, Ieaye no =,
The grapnel, dragged for moment in
the treacherops sands of the road, then
caught in9 rock, Captain aCornwell
rose into The airihks a bird onsthe wing
and sailed majesticaAy forward, alight-
ing on his ear. The horse stood on his
head Tor a second, and then resumed his
onward course yat the rate of at least
seventy miles an hour, and, amid a
|frightful crashing, ripping, tearing and
Smashing, all the wagon vanished into
thin air, except a piece of the mizzen
| to which the anchef had been fast
ehaHlG gtsE R M~+y5A
Capt. Cromwell can't preciSely y under
stand why, ,swhen the tackle held, he
wasn't ablet ride out the gals, butts
not discouraged and vii. repeat the ", y
pertinent as aoon as. he has lad new
buggy made upon lines of his own de
signing Life insusanceycanvasser
bearing down upon him. from all quar-
ters, and, the liyeliest interest is mani
tested in. the sneighoorhood We wish
thegallant captain all success i sg aa s
, 1880-09-03
Burdette's Boy.

Bob Burdette, the Hawkeye man, has
a wo.year cid boy, and this is what he
writes of the youth "He rans about
l50 miles a day, and wouldn't quit then
1t it wouldn't grow dark. He is very
busy. He has all the care Of me, and,
in addition to his regular routine duties,
he manages thousand things no one
else would think of. Yesterday morn
ing before 10 o'clock he picked and ate,
regardless Of maturity or color, pint
of wild strawberries, followed wagon
half mile down the road, got lost in
woods, choked the fountain with gravel,
fell out OF hammock, stung himself
with bee, ate some strange looking
berries that his mother knows are deadly
poison, played with mad dog--his aunt
says she knows it was Ead--talked to o
tramp who came to kidnap him (it was
an honest farmer coming in to the cir
Gus, but the boys aunt and mother
united ON the tramp and kidnap theory,
stepped on red llzzard, built dam and
fell into the brook, ! helped him build
the dam; in fact, L confess that ! built
the greater part of it, and enticed the
prince to assist, but he fell into the
brook himself, and all the statements to
the effect that l pushed Him in, and en-
couraged him enjoy it, are simply cam
paign stories, circulated for political
effect" ........ ....... ..
, 1880-09-03
wonderful sagacity of a Dog.

rbo story of a dogs sagacitY i0 inter
t;ng 10 all admirers of animals The
s'TIn s'IIn4inr one is strictly true; About
ilU,n,ontv.fye iU, years ago an extraordinary
wv .r was waged against the canine in
,ahitants MI, Of Portsmouth, and a great
lumber lumber died by poisoned food thrown
;.u ;nto the streets. A gentleman who
n~ued in,u a highly priced pointer, fearing
G" t%ot his dog might also become victim,
S;Iatermined ;It to send him out of reach of
tTo danger He therefore gave him to
Contain Heman EIdredge, of the New
York Packet Company, who took the
doc to New York on his vessel. There
Ho % was sold to gentleman who admired
Iis M remarkable beauty and intelligence.
The purchaser carried the dog to his res
;dence on Staten Island, and tied him in
his ward, enclosed by seven-foot fence,
where he was fed and petted to make
him happy. The gentleman was sur
nrised next morning when he found that
Bruno had gnawed off his rope, clear ed
The fence end escaped, Not being will
ipg to part with his newly acquired
property SO suddenly, he went I'M
medately to New York, and has
tened to Coentees Slip to Captain
Eldredge, but the vessel had sailed
for Portsmouth. He then went into the
office of Stark. Lewis, agent Of The
packet company, and asked if ANYBODY
there had seen the dog. @He was in.
formed thataBruno had been there. ana
about the wharf early in the morning,
but had not been seen there for an hour
or two. TIE gentleman reNc ctantly gave
up the search, and thinking he had lost
his dog, returned to his home. His
astonishment was great, however, when,
upon entering his stable yard, he saw
Bruno contentedly gnawingAa bone at
the kennel door, The dog greeted him
with that respectful and Submissive air
which all vell,bred dogs assume when
welcoming their masters bone, Bruno
did not tell what difficulties be ehcoun-
tered in his attempt to return to his old
home and master. 1t was, however, no
easy task for strange dog to traverse
the streets of New York, and obtain
passage to Staten Island on the ferry
boats, unaccompanied by any human
protector, and without a single penny in
his pocket to pay his fares. Bruno's
purpose in running away from Staten
Island was to take passage back to his
Portsmouth home in the vessel which
carried him away. Finding the vessel
had sailed, he returned, like q Eagacious
dog that he was, well knowing that II
he did not claim tho protection, OF his
lost master ne would be in the pitiable
condition of a lost dog. And yet there
are those who deny that animals have
reasoning powers. s.5@s.
, 1880-09-03
Beware Of Malaria.

The prevalence of malarial diseases in
country and town indicates a danger to
which we are all exposed. These dis
eases are easy to contract and hard to
eradicate. But Warmers Safe Pills
neutralize the poison and cure them
They are equally effective against al
bilious troubles. D.
From relative of VIM. Prescott, the
Historian. ...u.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. Is, 1880.
H. II. WARNER & Co.-Gents |
shall not cease to recommend your Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure to the patron
age of ali my friends, who are afflicted
as was, with that terrible and danger
GUS disease, Bright's Disease Of the Kid
neys. 1t cured me completely. ~
With great respect, thy friend,
.a JAS. S. PRESCOTT.
, 1880-09-03
His Honor was Sympathic.

The Great Grizzly EXterminator of
California was brought before Justice
Moses to answer to charge Of having
been drunk on the street He had been
privately informed at the Jail that hunt
ing was the peculiar weakness of his
Honor, and advised tc appeal to the fel-
low feeling of the court. Judge Moses
looked sternly at Medicine Bill and said
"William, you are charged with being
drunk; what haye you to sayl"
"Well, yer Honor, l may have been a
little of, but yer see I've just co me in
from bear hunt, and felt like having a
good time"
'Bear hunt, did you ssyT asked the
court with evident interest.
eyes, sir, Pm the boss grizzly killer
OF the Yosemite. Show ne q grizzly an
I'll show yer some dirty work. I'm a
bad man to clean up after, ! am"
"Well, now, this court isn't any slouch
Of a grizzly-slayer itself, The tribunal
Of justice used to hunt bears and sleep
in blanket over in California. You've
heard Of Grizzly Adams and Mountain
Charlie, of course" ~. ,..
Medicine Bill admitted that he had,
and in fact was intimately acquainted
with both these mighty hunters. a ,3s
'"Well, this coart had the honor of
teaching both these gentlemen the knack
of catching grizzly by the tail and pul.
ling his spine out"
Medicine Bill had cften seen them do
it, and heard them tell how they learned
the trick from his Honor.
The court looked solemnly at Medicine
Bill, asked him how long it would take
him to get out of town and point him
self toward the Sierra, where the grizzly
roams in his native wilds.
Medicine Bill allowed that if he didn't
break leg he wouldn't be more than
ten minutes inside the city limits, and
the court told him to go.