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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Russian Superstition Breeding Madness

Not only does the vast majority of
Russian peasants believe firmly in witch
craft, but the name of its superstitions is
legion. There is scarcely a village in
Russia without its 6 Jurodivi," or in
spired idiot, its Kaldunja," or sorceress,
and its g Klikusha,'' ahysterical scream
ing woman, subject to fits, who is an
especial object of fear and reverence to
her neighbors. A strange illness, at
tributed by some of the eminent Russian
Psychologists to the effect produced upon
the nerves by all these silly superstitions,
has made its appearance in several prov
inces of the Empire among the hardy
and robust rural populations. No effica-
cious method has as yet been devised for
treating this malady, which generally
eliminates in insanity. The village priests
regard it with Indifference, and make no
effort to discourage the demoralizing
credulity in which it originates. The
district surgeons shrug their shoulders
over it, and confess their inability to
comprehend the phenomena of its genesis
and incubation. Meanwhile, it appears
to be rapidly spreading, and largely re-
cruiting the ranks of the .tChlisti,' a
fanatical sect which practices fasting and
self-castigation with the most shocking
results to its followers to
those of the female sex.--Lo'don Iete-
| graph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Mortality Statistics.

The latest mortality statistics of the
principal cities of Europe and America,
published by the German Imperial San
itary Bureau are based on returns for
the seventh week of the present year,
and make the death rate per 1000 in
habitants reduced to an annual average
as follows: Hamburg, 27.9; Berlin, 28.5;
Frankfort, 22.8; Stockholm, 26.5; Wen
ma, 28.8; Dresden, 22.2; Trieste, 40.6;
Brussels, 1913; Paris, 37.8; Amsterdam.
1922; London, 35.5 Liverpool, 1913; Dub
lin, As. 1; Edinburgh, 10; New York, 21.7;
Philadelphia, 1873; st. Louis, 1915; Chi
cago, 1873; San Francisco, 1926. The
death-rate in New York was, it will be
seen, very moderate as compared with
that of most European cities. The re-
markedly low figures given for other
American cities suggest suspicion that
the system of reporting deaths to the
municipal authorities in those places is
not thorough. If only twelve people in
a thousand die annually in San Fran
cisco and ten in st. Louis, those cities
must be profitable fields for the opera
tons of life insurance companies. 1t is
possible, however, that the error is not
in undertaking the number of deaths but
in overstating the total population. West.
ern cities are fond of taking imaginative
censuses for themselves when the Fed
eral census fails to meet their expecta-
tions.-N r Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22

still nicer, it can be deliberately embroid-
cred on canvass in Berlin wool, and fin
ished by the upholsterer or finished at
home by putting large cord around the
edge to suspend it by, with balls or tas-
sells to correspond.
Fern holders are very pretty made OF
a lantern globe, when no other glass
presents itself, and ornamented with
transferred pictures. Another style is
with frame for the back, and pocket
in front, formed of long oat straws, cut
ting them between the joints, winding
them with very narrow strips of gilt
paper, so that it will show as much of
the straw as the paper. Sew the straw
frame together at the corners, leaving
an inch or so, rustic fashion, then finish
with tiny cord and tassels.
The back should be six inches wide
and ten long, the front lacking four or
five inches of reaching to the top, and
joined at the bottom. When the two
frames are completed, stretch on them
pink or white carleton, lacking it under
meath, lightly to the straws. Then paste
embossed pictures on the front piece and
upper part of the back.
Suspend with cord and tassels. An
other cord and tassel at each upper cor
ner of the front piece is fastened to the
back in such manner as to let the front
fall forward few inches to form a
pocket.
Another fern holder can be made of
Bristol-board pinked and ornamented
with pictures and put together in the
same manner as the last described.
The carleton has a fairy-like appear
ance that is very charming. Tassels or
balls for these delicate-looking articles,
should be made of pink and white zephyr
or something equally dainty and delicate
in color.-C0r. Rural NeU Yorker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Fishing in Guiana.

It Is q strange journey up the broad
deep current of the Essequibo. The
fish-cartabac and pacu-have even
rows of teeth like the incisors of NAM
mails, and, like the very odd fish called
sheepshead'', are justly esteemed q
luxury on New York and New England
tables. The teeth of the Esscquibo fish
are employed not i'm grinding up the
molluscous food which gives such de-
lightful flavor ~ the sheepshead. but in
browsing upon the aquatic plants which
grow in the swiftly running water. All
is strange in this oldest Of countries.
The cartabac and pacu are not caught i'm
nets or landed by rod or line, but are
shot with arrows made of lorg
straight reeds--the hower-s.alks OF
the wild cane, fitted with q
movable arr6w-heady TO which the shaft
is attached by piece of cord In such n
way that when the point pierccs the
fish the barbed head comes of the ar
row, but still remains attached TO IL by
the cord. Fish are not only shot but
poisoned. and so cleverly poisoned that
their flesh is none the worse. Pad
ding up the great rivers under the
overhanging boughs, the traveller Is sa-
luted by the fall of an occasional igua-
ma, two or three feet in length. n good
ly animal to eat, albeit hideous lizard
in outward semblance. The iguana,
whose flesh when well cooked Is like
that of chicken, has two awkward hab-
its-one of biting fearfully, another of
when seized letting go its tail at the
base. leaving IL In the hands of the
would-be captor, and making of tail
less to its burrow.--AH The Year Round.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Queer Signatures.

The practice of signing as a mode Of
giving formal assent to written contracts
or charters is probably as old as, and in
one sense we may say older than, the art
of handwriting. Amongst all peoples the
art of authenticating a document was ac-
complished by the most illiterate per.
sons, either by affixing stamp with the
signet ring they carried, or by initiating
the process OF signing by some other and
ruder device. Conspicuous amongst
these more rustic maneuvres was that
which Gibbon mentions as adopted by
Theodore, the great Ostrogoth King OF
Italy. He had a gold plate made in
which the first few letters of his name
were cut in the Greek character; and
when paper had to be signed by him
the plate was laid upon it and His Ma
jesty, passing the pen along the paper
in the interstices of the metal, traced by
these means the royal signature, which
he could never remember in any other
way.
A still more barbarous and ungainly
device was that which was invented, or
at least practiced, by the Turkish Sultans
of Iconium, when that town was their
capital. They simply dipped their hand
in the bowl of ink presented to them,
and laying it fiat upon the paper or papy-
rus, left the indelible impress of it in a
gigantic and most conspicuous shape. A
somewhat similar habit is reported from
India, where landowners in the Mahratta
country are, or were until lately, accus-
toned to dip their thumb in the sandal
dye, and by pressing it on the paper
leave their sign manual, or, as in this
case, it should perhaps be called, their
sign digital. This was in the case of
rajahs or zemindars, who could not write
their own name; but it is said that in an
other part of India Brahmin who was
highly educated resorted to practice
very like that of the Iconirm Sultans
whenever it was his intention to make a
very generous and comprehensive grant,
the character of which he thought would
be well typified by the mark of the open
hand. 1j
The origin of the "mark'' with which
illiterates now sign is enveloped in some
doubt; but it would be quite wrong to
suppose that the cross they now use was
employed in very early times. On the
contrary, it is said that for many CEN
turtles after the Dark Ages those who
could not afford to wear ring or keep a
signet used to make some special and
peculiar mark, such as an arrowhead,
in which it was supposed, and perhaps
rightly, that their autograph could be
recognized,
1t is well known to any bibliophile
that William Shakespeare spelt his own
name in several different ways. In
France, Malesherbes spelt his in at least
five different ways at different times.
Raphael signed most usually in Latin,
but sometimes in Italian. Napoleon al
tered the spelling both of his Christian
and his sirname. So Mary Queen of
Scots, whose English was most feeble,
signed indifferent1y as MARY MARIE
and "Marye." A number of persons
have dropped the conclusion of their
names and signed with the first syllable,
either making sort of illegible scratch
to represent the other letters, or simply
emitting them altogether, as did Theo-
doric.-Londoaa Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Domestic Economy.

"A SpenQCnr1IC Is DrOIner 10 m1Ser.
Let us avoid both extremes. The maxim
that ga penny saved is two pence
earned should be remembered, es-
pecially by people in moderate circum-
stances. The difference between a penny
earned and a penny saved is this: in the
former case you have to work for it, in
the latter you do not. Some families
dress well and live well, while spending
less than half as much as some others
who never have enough to wear or eat.
The difference is simply one of economy
and prudence. There are poor, hard
working families, always complaining of
hard times and poor health, who ignore
Indian meal as an article of diet; fine
bolted flour they use, and that contin-
ually. Perhaps they imagine that meal
does not agree with them. Doubtless
they have weak stomachs, as the result
of eating too much concentrated food.
Give horse nothing but flour for few
months, and 1 venture to say he would
not be able at the end of that time to di-
gest hay, or even oats. Let my wife
make one of her good old-fashioned
loaves of rye and Indian bread, the rising
material of which is composed largely Of
stale bread, doughnuts, gingerbread,
etc., with a cup of molasses in it to give
it good color and flavor, and place it
on the table beside the best fine wheat
bread that can be made, and you will see
that nine-tenths of those at table, old or
young, will take the coarse bread in
preference to the fine, and yet the coarse
bread costs only about one-third as much
as the fine, pound for pound.
Harriet Beecher has well said, if house
keepers would take more pains to cook
well the coarser articles of diet, people
would not care nearly SO much for food
that is finer and richer. Take as simple
dish as .'hasty pudding '-when proper
ly made, it is dish &c fit for king"
but when half cooked or seasoned, it is
fit only for pigs or chickens. Cooking
is just as truly chemical process as any
result secured in a laboratory. And as
in chemistry, the least deviation from
proper proportions in given compound
will give a result entirely different from
the one sought, so it is largely in cook
ing. May heaven bless the careful, con-
scientious cook-she is a means of grace
as well as of health, for who can praise
and serve his Maker as he should with a
diseased stomach or gorged liver.
How few farmers have a good bed of
asparagus, so desirable in early spring
between ebay and grass" when the
whole system cries out for fresh vegeta-
bles, and yet such bed is easily started,
and will last for fifty years. Some
farmers do not {" feel able' to afford their
families any kind of meat but salt pork,
summer and winter, and yet they can
buy good. fresh beef from the butcher s
cart for less than what they would sell
their everlasting pork, and by "boiling
down. in the kettle with few light
dumplings you can have a fresh meat
dinner that will be eaten almost as
heartily as roast turkey. But time would
fail us to show the difference between
the prudent, economical housekeeper,
who thinks as well as works, and the
person who works hard and pondereth
not.-Cor. NeW England Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
roxCIrsro~q.

CONCIrsrO~a.
tory and Character OF the dircasc. and state
ment of the existing laws. the orders OF this
Department under them. with. some surxca.
commerce with other Nations, and With scne
remarks rs 20 appropriate tegisistion ~ Com
ON he r. Inc sym 1e o.
the conclusions at which this department mas
arrived. They as follows:
tious iung.fcvcr In neat cattle, a. readily COM
municafed among them as emall-pox among
mankind, not only by actual contact but oy
2 In this country IL has never Developed dc
novo, but has always been Introduced by con-
Z IL may be prevented by incubation, but
that remedy Is not 60 DO thought OF I'm this
country under present Conditions, ,.o, :, ,,ou, n,ne
TO sixty days, usually not excccdinT forty: ana
its symptoms. when developed. are easily cis-
tineuishable by experts from those OF otn'r
5. The only proper method Of srpprcssisn ing
struciion Of ali diseased or exposed cattle, and
a thorough puriiicafion OF buildings wncre
they have been kept:
lists or has ever existed In any State west OF the
Allegheny Mountains.
!. IL does not now exist IN the unneu sts ~
Canada, and IL docs not now exist m thst 90
s. Tho disease now exists only In the eastern
MIA and perhaps in parts OF Maryian Virginia
and the District OF Columbia.
~ The general course Of traffic In cattle "
from the West to the East. Only Few. ana
those of blood stock Of great value, pass west
ward, or into Canada from the East.
10. At the present time, with ordinary care
cattle may pass from the western states,
which almost exclusively furnish cattle Tor
expectation into Canada, and through Can
ada, Portland and Boston to foreign ports
without danger OF Infection.
IL. With proper restrictions ngainst contact
with other cattle near the scabsard. cattle may
pass from the Western States to the ports OF
New York, Philadelphia and baltimore Tor ex-
portntion without danger OF infection.
II. State and municipal regulations arc not
to be relied upon To prevent the importation
and spread of the disease, or TO elect It's extir~
patton. .
I3 Stringent quarantine regulations arc cs-
sential tothc prote Let ion of this country against
its introduction.
IL. Veterinary Sanitary Commission.
whose duty IL shall be to investigate all re.
ports Of the existence OF the disease, to collect
information respecting II, and report 90 some
department for publication. Is essential To cfi-
cient action on the subject.
Is. Authority I'm such commission to co-opc-
rate with State and municipal authorities In
preventing and Graduating the disease by
supplying money out of appropriation by
i've, and I'm accordance with the acts OF Con-
gress In reference TO the National Board OF
Health.
10. The authority I'm such board to promptly
isolate and slaughter infected and diseased
cattle, wherever found, and TO award compcn-
agency TO cxtirpate the disease. IL II for Con-
gress TO consider the policy aud legality OF con-
ferring such power. Very respectfully.
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22

A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy re-
Gently occurred at small village called
Silverstreet, IN Newberry County. N.
c. Mr.. w. Spearmau, q respectable
gentleman of means and well known ne
. successful farmer. upon coming into
his house just before dark, found his
younger brother at the supper table.
II want to speak TO you. brother" hc
said, and simultaneously drew a large.
sharp knife out of his sleeve. fbe
young man, not suspecting anything:
bent over, asd the other made q strike
and cut his throat. severing the jugular
vein and casing almost instant death.
The slayer ten rushed into the adjoIn-
ing room, with the knife In his hand.
and sought lis wife. He threw his arm
around her heck, likewise cutting her
throat. With blood stained hands he
then laid tie keen blade TO his own
throat and made m ugly cash four
inches long When assistance came II
was found hat the two men were dead
The wife shortly afterward expired.
Mr.. Spearnan was sober man. and
was thought to be on the most Affection
ate terms with his brother and wife.
The only ntional hypothesis Of the sw-
fui deed isthat Spearman was suffering
under temporary alteration. ,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22
Socialism In Germany.

HERR BEBEL, Socialist. complained
in the German Parliament the other day
of the manner In which Socialists are
treated. His colleague, Herr Fritsche,
is followed everywhere. He went into
q tailor shop to order coat. and a de-
tectivc entered as soon as he went out
and insisted upon the tailor's telling
everything that had been said. Herr
Hasselmann, another Socialist. walking
in the Thier Garten, noticed man dog
ging him. He tried for an hour and n
half to escape, and then suddenly
turned round and confronted the spy,
who confessed himself and his business,
and showed the document authorizing
him to act as he was doing A boy Of six,
teen, the son Of q Socialist, was ordered
to attend police Office. and then. after
heing Piled with liquor, was closely ex-
amined as to his fathers conduct. Herr
Bebel accused the detectives OF even
worse offenses. Some of them entered
the houses Of banished Socialists and in
suited their wives and daughters. In
one case a woman saved herself by
seizing broomstick and threatening
to use 1t on the officer IL he did not 90
away at once.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22

1t may interest American dancers to
learn that the :. Liverpool lurch'' and
the Boston Dip are no longer the
fashion, having been replaced by the
g Boston grip and the "South-sea cud-
de-"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17
improvements.

The Katie elevator is rapidly near
ing completion and we expect to be
ton in our next issue.
The foundation of the Masonic Hall
has been laid.
Mrs. Isaiah Garrett is making pre-
parations TO build residence on her
lot just opposite the residence of Mayor
Endom.
We notice two neat little cottages
have been added to the southern por-
ton of our city.
Material is being collected upon the
lot corner of Wood and Hall streets fol
the erection of a parsonage by the
Baptist congregation of this place.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17
SHERIFF,s SALE.

John Chafre Bro. & Son, steele eco. ,As'nees
VS.. No. 1853.
Thornton, Edwards 81 Robinson.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Ouachita,
9th District Court.
DY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FL. FA.,
ID to me directed from the Hon. Fifth
District Court, in the above entitled and
numbered suit. have seized and will offer
for sale at the Courthouse door, in the city
of Monroe, La, on
Saturday, the 18th day of January, 1881,
the following described property to-wit:
A tract of land lying on Bayou DeSiard,
outside of the Island, in the Parish and
State aforesaid, known as the Stevens bend,
and composed of lots six of section nine,
lots one, two and three of section ten, the
west half OF north east quarter, the west
half of south west quarter and the north
| west quarter section, and lots five, eight,
nine and ten of section fifteen, lots four,
| five six ard seven and south west quarter
of section sixteen and lot eight OF section
| twenty-five, all in township nineteen. north
| range four east, and containing in the ag-
| pregate eight hundred acres more or less
| together with all the improvements thereon
| Seized as the property of the defendants
and will be sold to satisfy said writ of Fl
IA, and costs.
Terms of sale, cash. with the benefit o
appraisement. }. Il. MCGUIRE,
Monroe. La, Dec 18th. 1880. Sheriff.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17
MARRIED..

At the residence of Col. r. Richardson,
Monroe, December 49, 1880, by the Row. w.
a. Mason. Miss LIZZIE SIMMONS, of Monroe.
and Mr.. J. =. IRRELEVANT, of Delhi, La.
We acknowledge the receipt of a Kind
remembrance accompanying the above an
nouncement, with the compliments of Col.
and Mrs. Richardson. We drink hearty to
a full realization of all the hopes of Mr.. and
Mrs. Irrelevant. They will find shadows
and clouds; may they always be light and
aynnoScent.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17

There are are two matters about
which farmers cannot be over-cautious
this winter. Some time ago the
alarm was given that cotton seed of
this years growth were faulty either
the germ destroyed, or not well ma
tured. The investigations made by
planters as to the condition of their
seed warrant the belief that the greater
portion of the seed grown this year are
worthless for planting purposes, and
the oil mills, we believe, have, for that
reason, either reduced the price of
seed, or have that step in contempla-
ton. Planters who have seed of last
year-as some have-will do we'll to
preserve them for planting, as they are
known to be sound and reliable
The sweet potato crop of this year
was abundant, but the greater portion
has rotted in the ground, the farmers
delaying to gather it until the wet
weather made the gathering impracti-
cable, or the preservation of that
housed almost impossible. There will
be, in this part Of the State at least,
a great demand for sweet potato seed
when the time arrives for obedding.
| out" Those farmers who have sound
potatoes, large or small, will act wisely
by seeing that the cook visits "the
bank" sparingly, and by keeping q
sharp lookout for predatory visitors.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17
Changes.

MIR. N. &. Skipwith and family have
removed to Delta. 1t is with regret
that we of Monroe are compelled TO
part with them, but Delta is to be con-
graduated upon this acquisition to her
eiety.
DR.. Mccormick has taken possession
oil his property formerly occupied by
Jas. ID. Oakly, Esq, and Mr.. Oakly
has removed TO the K@hler house &C.
cupied by Mr.. Skipwith prior TO his
removal to Delta.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17

~.
Epilepsy or Fits treated With Sk W.
succoHSs AZ AL cnsea are. cer6xully 0xaM1nees<
prospects Of cusing 3. 81, :. ~, s,.-..x
Debility, treated by mesiicino elpne, hsa
heretofore proved useless and ev6n injurIs
GUS. They do no good y the untveksst te@-
timony Of All honest physicaAns. TnouA-s
Antts have ssdoctorou,t Tor these comptrlnthy
their constitutions together, but tho Doctor
combines medical treatment with electric
ty,the electricity boing generated by
simple electrical apparatus that any ono cara
Constipation, the pane o. so many lives
and the most prolific source Of ill.h0alth,
cured by simple method, with little or no
insdicilie. u. s. ..,..,...
without pain Or xpogure. 5, ....,
Structure OF the urethra snd Hec5nm cnreu
without surEtcal peration snd witnouy
pain; Tape Worns 0isohses O.. ene Ntuieyhs
Bladder. Private Diseases, Eheumatism,
Neuralgia Nervous aud SICK tionunche,
Asthma, Weak, Painful and Sore Eyes,
Noise in tho Ears. All Skin Diseases. scrof.
ula, Tumors, Loss OF woes elc:; succsss-
fully troated by Improved rsincdles;
~ nj, sssssn for reply. NJ
N. II. No names made public without the