Iron County register., 1880-01-08
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A sCHoOLMAsTER at johnson, Iowa,
has been fined for whipping girl be-
cause she corrected his misprOnuncia-
ton of a word.
SECRETARY THOMPSON is described
as being as inveterate smoker rs is
Gen. Grant; he smokes from 10 to Is
cigars a day. He is a great joker also.
A STRANGER who " had left his bag
gage in another town, wanted to put
up his false teeth against the price of a
lodging, in Bloomington, ILL.,, the other
night. IN eN8l Fstsh<S
To add realistic effect to- "Uncle
Vi Toms Cabin" at IIoganspOrt, Ind, a
live bloodhound was introduced, and the
brute heightened the realism by break
ing his chain and biting an actress seri-
,ously. sa -
A BIRD dealer at Des Moines sold a
parrot for $40, with the assurance that
it did not know any bad language; but
the purchaser soon found that it swOre
like u trooper, and has sued to recover
the money.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA KEY says he
can remember when Andrew jackson
used TO stop at his fathers, who was a
Tennessee farmer, and young Key
always had the job of polishing off Jack
sons horse. - -.'t
DIR. BIRscH of Belgium has canary
birds of the Norwich breed. Before and
after they molt he feeds them with white
of egg sprinkled with cayenne pepper,
and their color becomes red. So he
says. +. jluf43Ia
a WOMAN recently sold her baby in a
bar-room in Horsham, England, for
S4,37, to u man who had taken fancy
to the child. He left the place with his
purchase, but the woman followed him,
snatched the infant out of his arms,
slapped his face, and ran away. ET .,
NATIONAL debts were of little impor-
tance until the French Revolution.
They now amount to about $2S, ,000, 600,
600, mostly owed by European States
for wars incurred by disasters and in
which common people had no voice
These debtsand standing armies are now
the cause of poverty.
CAN Boston beat this for apiDg "cul
chawp" A young lady at q Louisville
hotel on one morning comes down tC
breakfast with a copy of u certain maga
zine in her hand. On another morning
she has q different magazine, and on the
third morning still another magazine
She is governed in her choice by the
periodical, the color of whose cover har
monies best with her costume.
WHILE Henry Cords of Baraboo
Wis, was showing sled on which was
seated three young ladies, the ice broke
He succeeded in saving his sister, who
/. was one of the party, but persisted in
the attempt to rescue the others. He
was 10 years of age. When his body
was found he had a young lady under
each arm dead.
In Bavaria 13.42 out of every 100
births are illcgitimate children; in Aus
tria, 1908; in Denmark, 1899; in
Scotland, S.S7; in Germany, s.75; in
France, 7.21; in Italy, 7.07; in Eng
land, 5.11; in Roumania, 3.43: in Ire
land, 2.36; in Greece, 1.4S. The ex-
cess in Bavaria and Austria is due to
laws prohibiting marriage except to
those with certain income. -
In 1875 tin box was fished out of
the Seine containing more than 500 let
ters addressed to divers persons in
Paris. This box-set afioat miles above
Paris-had been hermetically sealed,
and was furnished with little metal sails,
that it might catch the current of the
river at every point; but it had failed
to achieve a successful voyage, and laid
at the rivers bottom for years with its
freight of letters for the besieged Paris
ians, some of whom, however, had the
qualification of receiving them five years
after date.