Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-01
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A rARRof ia Montgomery, Ala,, sings
airs from Pinafore !, c9rrectlys and in
splendid manner.
A CHINESE boy in Pekin has recited
the whole of the New Testament in his
: native, language. Yfslf3FurT
Z THE prettiest gold pieeelnoowAcircula
ing in France is the 20-franc piece bear
ing the head of Napoleon for the year
1905. 1t looks like the coin of an old
Roman Emperor.
Miss PAYNE of St. Paul became a Sc
cret smoker! when txes gentlemen
called she hurriedlv thrust q lighted CT
<xv garette into horTpecksA Rndx was soaIl
abfaze, Receiving burn, that were almost
Al Auburn (Me. man, as years old,
Z dined Thanksgiving Day with his mother,
whom he had not seen before since he
was three years old, although he had
r. lived within 100 miles of her all the
time. Sz.' 3 -,
40" AN orchestra consisting of two violins,
cornet, a base VOL and an organ, all
played by convicts, and a choir of II
prisoners, is a regular accompaniment
W Of the Sunday services inSAubdrn IN. "
Prison. rf'i
The oldest Masonic relic in the world
was sold for $178 in Toronto, Canada,
the other day. 1t is the Masonic certifi-
cate of Souter Johnny, of Burns's ''Tam
O'Shanter," and was issued by St. James
Lodge, Ayr, in 1799.i Pinned to the
corner of the diploma is a lock of High
land Mary's hair. & ..tA
The ssyvaste Not's Society is COM
posed of Sunday-school children at
Brighton, England. It's members saved
in y months about 1925 worth of refuse
paper, and sold it for the benefit of two
little girls, who were thus supported at
- the orphanage. r 1T rr
= IL lTaHE schools of nee5fe- work, painting,
clay modelling, painting on porcelain,
wood carving, telegraphy, 1ISbit-hand,
cooking and various other arts, are now
offering opportunities for girls of every
J variety of scapability The, school If
wood carving and modelling, now estab-
lished at the Boston Museum sof Fine
Arts, offers advantages to pupils at very
low rates. Its instruction is of thor
ough and valuable sort such as not often
offered to young men.
sta THE Sisters of Charity in the United
States number jig in charge of JOG
establishments for the care of orphans,
= ginfants, widows, patients; insane and
= ~@ school children. All Of these instit,I-
tions had their origin ins the zconsecra-
ton and labors of one woman, Mother
Seaton, who began in 1908 IN MARYLAND
the formation of a sisterhood IN connec-
ton with a school, and that was the
parent of similar societies, now widely
scattered throughout America.
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short time ago in an English Work
house, was an extraordinary character
- He had been well educated--and two
fortunes had fallen to him, one of $780,
600, the other of 100000. Both for
tunes were spent in ostentatious living,
so that he became utterly destitute and
s.5- was sent to the Work-hollse. There he
lived many years quietly and contented-
's@- ]y; and the Injuries which he enjoyed
were obtained by writing poems for
country newspapers and sermons for
neighboring clergymen.
SIX boys at Hennepin, Iowa, organ
lied as bandits, on plan suggested by
a thrilling novel which they had read
They could not find natural cave, and
-, therefore dug one in the side of a hill
Their first exploit was to rob all the
clothes-lines of the neighborhood on
washday night. Great excitement en-
& sued, and several innocent h.anps were!
arrested but the mystery was explained
when, on the following night, the young
and were caught taking a load of the
clothes to the nearest city .14-~s-1
CAPTAIN BAssETT. the Assistant
Doorkeeper of the United States Senate,
became page in that chamber through,
- the influence of Webster in 1881. AZ
remember" says the Captoin, "one
rainy day Webster told me to 90 and
get a hack. | hunted for long time
and came back wet and tired without
finding any. Webster was always veryt
friendly with me, and SO came to be
quite familiar with him. On this occa-
sion, being rather cross, l rushed up to
Webster and said, with boyish rudeness,
Il can't find any hack Webster just
looked at me. But what glance! |
would rather endure any thing than an
through the floor. Then Webster said
Go and get that hack 1t is needless
to say the carriage was feund.'
aquarium which contained an alligator,
as well as a number of goldfish, craw-
fish and a trout weighing three-quarters
of a pound, but of late all but the alli-
gator have disappeared. One evening
the thief was discovered, and found to
be a large rat that had worked his way
into the house through the drain-pipe.
A loud squealing aud alligator
ing was heard, and the rat was found
dozen feet from the s4unrfu1r here he
4 had s,lcceeded IN Gaf fyal& de young
4 alligator up and downsh6af Is l5lled with
hower-pots and plants. The. rat was
s evidently surprised at the fghting and
J noisy qualities ofsthi4 M Kind of fish,
's' but he would probably have been the
victor had he not been discovered and
dubbed. The alligator still lives and is
loss of blood and few pieces of his
tough hides q 4 X AS
The Chinese Encyclopedias, to which
the famed Britannica is a primer, has
8 just been completed under the imperial |
sanction, and may be had at any of the |
bookstores complete for matter of
$500. 1t consists of 5000 volumes and |
is dirt cheap. Works of this character |
are by no means new in the Chinese EN- |
pire, and people who form their esti-
mate of the intelligence and culture of |
its people by the specimens found in
America misjudge race that, though |
not as progressive as the western peo-
pies, are yet ingenious and curious. In
the geography and topography of the
immense empire its scholars are
marvelously well informed, even. 10
the minutest particulars. and no incon-
siderable sportionl of the Dycl0psedia is
, devoted to information of this kind, with
which Chinese are expected to he rea-