Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-30
GENERAL.

NArcHEz has three colored women
over 100 years old.
MAGNOLIA, N, c., is q fragrant place,
A resident there has 284, 900 tuberoses
in bloom. RI 4 81 II
THE eastern part of Central Africa il
to be explored and italian interests
maintained there. ~ 81 -
IT is estimated that one Of the fallen
stalagmites in the Luray Cave of Vir-
ginia was forty centuries in forming.
GEORGE TUCKER, an inmate of Au-
burn On. " Prison, has just inherited
$4,000. His sentence viii expire in
1885.
The Chang family are the Smiths of
China, and fill almost half the space in
the Celestial city directories. .dir
h THREE men were about to cut q water
melon in saloon at Athens, Ca, when
it exploded with loud noise, sending
fragments flying all over the room. One
man had an eye destroyed by the ex-
plOsiOn. iaiaR .lss. t5rfa tltt.T .
i'i WITHIN a circle drawn with q radius
of sixteen miles, with the public build
ings of Philadelphia as a center, there
are over a million Inhabitants. A SINH
lar treatment of New York would show
a population of two millions. n9' aS3 (
A MAN condemned to four years. i'm
prisonment at Cusano, Italy, starved
himself to death. From the day of his
sentence he refused to take food, and,
no compulsion being resorted to, he died
at the end of thirty days. .'''l
A NEWPORT woman at a prayer meet
ing turned to her husband and whis-
pered: f" Father is very sick, and we
must 60 home" Though they had left
him well, it was only by the most active
exertions that he was kept from dying
of cholera morbus.
p In cutting down large willow tree
in the old town cemetery at Newburgh,
N. Y, few days ago, marble foot
stone was found Embedded in the trunk
two feet from the surface of the ground.
The tree in growing had picked up the
foot-stOne and drawn it from the earth.
MARIE MAsCAL took walk in New
Orleans with q rival of the man whom
she was soon to marry, in order to tell
him that he must cease his attentions.
Her affianced husband saw them to-
gether, and, refusing to hear her ex-
plauation, peremptorily broke his en-
gagement. She therefore desired to
die, and tried to throw herself before a
locomo i've, but she slipped on some
wet grass, and only lost leg. Her
lover is now convinced of her loyalty,
and will marry ho-. aff. a.
A BLIND beggar was in the habit of
frequenting- the Point des SITS. Peres,
France, where he u, 1 to station him.
self with a clarinet and very intelli-
gent poodle. Contributions poured
freely into the little wooden bowl which
the dog held in his mouth. One day
the blind man, who had reached an adj
vanced age, was not to be seen. He
had fallen i'll. His companion, how
ever, continued to frequent the accus-
toned spot, and the passers by, to
whom he was familiar, understood that
his master was unwell and, touched by
his fidelity, dropped their pence into his
bowl in increased numbers. The beg
gar went the way of all flesh, an event
which the willy poodle carefully kept to
himself until he also became an absentee
from the Pont DIES SITS. Peres. The poor
animal was found lying dead in cellar
near his former masters abode, a sum
of 10000 francs in bonds of the Orleans
Railway being discovered under the lit
ter on which he was stretched.