Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
HERE AND THERE.

Francisco. Hitherto fve-cent pieces
have been the least coin received.
AT Madrid, Spain, sentries exposed to
the "death breath,' blowing from the
Guadarama Mountains, are changed ev-
cry half hour.
In the poorest quarter of Rome, Italy,
a crowd of furnishing workmen stopped
a cart load of bread, and in a twinkling
carried it all off, There is terrible des-
titution there.
THE Lowell CMass.) Courier mas its
Boston news sent directly to the office
by telephone from the Hub. Instead
of the familiar line " especial Dispatch"
etc., the columns of that paper are
headed I" By Telephone to the Courier"
NOT long since storm occurred in
Florence, Italy, which rendered loco
motion impossible for nearly twenty
| four hours. The streets were covered
with three feet of snow, and the roofs of
several houses fell in beneath the unex-
pected weight.
THE Mormons have no scruples over
telling the truth about the dead. At
recent funeral in Salt Lake, President
Taylor remarked: He died drunk
ard-and he will find a drunkard's
grave. He has gone to he'll, and there
is where he deserves to 60"
"MAY mouse never leave your cup
board with tear in his eye!" and cen
closed please find fifty cents, which
received from a young man in payment
for a kiss,'' the latter headed, Let the
Good Work Go On" are among the
messages sent with contributions to the
Irish relief fund of the New York Her.
aid.
GRORGE ZEIGLER, of Butler, Pa,
was out hunting RABBITS. While passing
through a piece of woods he saw
squirrel sitting on a limb, an unusual
sight this time of year. He fired. The
squirrel did not drop. He fired twice
more before it fell When he went to
pick it up he saw four squirrels lying on
the ground. They were all joined to-
gether by strip of flesh that passed
from one to the other. Three of the
squirrels were dead, and the other one
died soon afterward. They were all full
grown and well developed.
THE word telegraph was first brought
into use about 1898 or 1894, when the
French directory established machines
for communicating intelligence between
Paris and all the principal towns Of
France. The British Government soon
after adopted the same measure. The
authority for this assertion will be found
in Rees's Encyclopaedia, 1919, vol. 35.
The word does not appear in Johnson's
Dictionary until the edition of 1918, and
neither does it occur in the Grand
French Encyclopedias of Diderot of 177S..
Mrs. MARY JANE RozELLE, aged
1O5, the oldest resident of Oswego, n.
Y, is a remarkable example of preser-
walton. She has several children living
here whom she visits, walking to their
various houses as sprightly as a girl.
Her form is straight, she talks rapidly
and intelligently, and says she has per-
feet use of all her senses. Her maiden
name was Kline, and she was born in
Montreal in IVA. She has had fifteen
children, nine of whom are living,
aged 60, g., 65, 63, 81, so, and two
others younger. Her own family con-
sisted of three sisters and seven broth
ers, of whom one only survives, aged
50. She was married seventy-five years
ago, being the second wife of Peter Ro-
zelle, who died aged no years and
months, the father of twenty-five chill
dren.
j. F. BORTER, of the European
House, Williamsport, Pa, was opening
an unusually large oyster, when he was
astonished to see something jump out
and alight in pail of water, where it
swan and darted about as lively as a
trout in brook. There was only a
small part of the oyster in the shell, the
rest having been devoured. The strange
object that had inhabited the shell was
fished out of the pail of water. 1t
proved to be a bright-eyed odd-looking
fish, of a description never seen nor
heard of in these parts. 1t is three
inches long. From over each eye an
ugly looking horn, half an inch long,
protrudes at nearly right angles. 1t has
small appendages on each side of the
head, which might pass for ears. I'M
mediately behind these is wing-like
fin, on each side of the body, which is
smooth and covered with brilliant black
spots. Mr.. Parker has placed this Gu
riosity in an aquarium.
WHEN Mr.. Fowler, Colonial Secretary |
of the Honduras, was recently exploring
the interior of the colony, he was over
taken by drove of peccaries, and had
only time to take snap shot at the first
of them and scramble up tree, drop
ping his rifle in the performance, before
the whole pack were round his perch,
crashing their teeth at him, grunting