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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-03
Ar.kan.SaW or Arkansas.

The true pronunciation of our State
is receiving that serious attention which
its Importance requires. A joint COM
mittee from the Eclectic and Historical
Societies have had the matter under
consideration, and will report at the
May meeting of the latter. While the
latter pronunciation, above indicated,
.accenting the middle syllable and
sounding the final s, has the sanction of
some polite usage, it is understood that
the committees are largely and decided
ly in favor OF the original pronuncia-
ton given by the French, and will re-
port the pronunciation as nearly cor
rect, which is in use by the mass of old
citizens, giving the Italian sound of a
in each syllable, the final silent with a
slight accent on the first and last sylla-
bles. The only objection to what is
called the vulgar pronunciation is that
the final saD is too broad. 1t should
be s0, with the sound of in father. 1t
is to be hoped that some settled pro-
nunciation will be established, which
photographers may intelligently adopt
"a thing which has never yet been
done.-Little Rock (Ark. Gazette.
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WakefulneSS.

Women require more sleep than men,
other things being equal, the nervous
system being more active. Few per-
sons after fifty can sleep longer than
seven hours, unless they are hard out
door workers. Healthy childre under
ten ought to have ten hours for sleep;
school girls from twelve to eighteen
ought to sleep at least nine hours. But
from various causes there is a great diff
ference in the amount of sleep required
by different persons, hence each should
observe for himself how much sleep he
requires and arrange to give nature that
much every night; if unusual exertions
are made any day, sleep longer the
night following. If kept up several
hours later than usual, on chance occa-
sions, arrange not to be disturbed in
any way next morning, and when ma
ture wakes up, get up and do not sleep
any during the day, but 60 to bed at
the regular hour and the increased
soundness of sleep for that night will
make up for the loss. If you
go to bed, give orders to be
do not sleep wink during the day, go
W UcO do yum lCS,uial oiiiiC, WIN I'LL
rections to be walked up as before; in a
week you will find that you can go to
sleep promptly, thus you will soon find
out how much sleep your system re-
quires, and act accordingly. Always
avoid sleeping in the day time; for if
you require seven hours sleep and spend
that much in sleep at night, whatever
time you spend in sleep during the day
must be deducted from that seven hours,
or you will soon become wakeful again.
If you wake up in the night, either go
to bed two or three hours later, or when
you wake get up, even if it be but one
o'clock in the morning, and do not sleep
moment until your regular hour for
going to bed. Nature loves regularity,
and the four hours sleep from ten to
two is worth six hours after twelve
o'clock. The great rule is retire at a
regular early hour and get up always as
soon as you wake, if it is daylight
Halls Journal of Health.
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The Hotbed Of Nihilism.

The attention of the Russian Govern
ment is considerably occupied with the
theological seminaries of that country,
which seem to be hotbeds of Nihilism.
The clergy forms in Russia distinct
class, and the theological students,
who are clergymen's sons. are kept in
strict confinement within the seminary
walls where they lead most unhappy
life. Without this restraint it would
be impossible, it is said. to recruit the
ranks of the clergy. When they leave
college their hearts are full of hatred
for = Government which has treated
them so harshly; they readily listen to
revolutionary suggestions, from what
ever quarter they may come, and upon
returning to their native villages be-
come apostles of Nihilism. It is hardly
expected, however, that the Govern
ment viii endeavor to check the evil
otherwise than by violent means-a
course which will inevitably make mat
tiers worse.
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The ElectrOphOne.

The French papers announce the sue
cessful working Of a new instrument for
the transmission of sound. The exper-
iment was tried lately at Mans, Chef
lieu of the Departments of Sarthe, in the
office of the Maison chappee, the COM
munication being with the foundries of
Antoigne, some fifteen miles twenty-
four Kilometres distant). The results
were very far superior to anything ever
effected by the telephone. The machin-
cry consists simply of small wooden
case, enclosing another case of glass.
Upon the latter are disposed little cyl
inders of pure carbon, which, by their
differences of conductibility, transmit
to the receiving post the vibrations of
the voice or other sound. 1t is an ex-
ceedingly simple apparatus, but one
denoting profound knowledge of the
laws of acoustics. Moreover, it can
be set up or taken down in minute,
and does not get out of order. The
transmission of sound like that of the
ordinary telephone is by means of tel
egraphic wire, one wire only being used,
for allowing the earth to return the cur
rent gives better results than when two
wires are used. At twenty-four kilo-
metres of distance different voices were
readily distinguished. An air played
upon a flute in closed room adjoining
and some thirty feet from the electro
phone was heard with wonderful clear
ness. With this instrument one does
not have to speak into any tube or open
ing but near the instrument in the Or
binary voice. During this experiment
at Mans the passing of railway train
within fifty feet did not interfere in the
least with the clearness of the trans
mitted sounds. The inventor of this
instrument, M. Maiche, declares that
the instrument will work at any dis
lance, and has not the least doubt that
the human voice can be transmitted by
means of it from France to America
through the Atlantic cable--M. Y.
Gr1nhic
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Fat and Lean Pork.

Some of our readers may think this q
contradiction, but it is quite possible to
grow pork with that happy medium of
fat and lean SO much relished The
greatest obstacle to it is the general
method adopted in feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on fat, and with scant proportion of
albuminoids to grow the muscles or lean
meat. Pigs have thus been grown and
fattened for so long time that they
seem to have taken on only lean meat
enough to hold the body together. Ex-
cept when ON grass, the pig is piled al
most wholly with corn, which is excess
lively rich in starch and fat. Some
breeds have become so constituted that
they will get fat on grass. The pig, in
its natural state, does not get excess
lively fat, but is nearly as lean as beef
animal. If young pigs are fed on nitro
genouS food, such as skinned milk and
grass, they will be found to grow rap
idiy-extend the frame and muscular
system, having only fat enough to round
out the body to comely shape. Pigs
should always be full fed; but this does
not necessarily mean examining with
corn, which merely piles on the fat till
the young pig becomes diseased. 1t is
this mode of feeding for so many hundred
generations that has transformed our
swine into Jumps of fat with few strings
of muscle to tie the ball together. To
reverse this work of improper feeding
will take some time, but it can and must
be done. Witness the great change
from those overgrown fat hogs which
| were Dragged of years ago, but are now
seldom seen, because the market does
not call for them. We do not under
value corn, which is the best fattening
food the American farmer possesses;
but we should be glad to have them
avoid its too free use in feeding pigs,
and substitute more heterogeneous food.
such as oats, peas, wheat, bran or mid
dlings, little oil meal, decorticated
cottOn-seed meal, rye, bran or barley
any of these. Corn may be fed sparingly
with clover or skinned milk. Our Ca
madam neighbors can raise fat and lean
pork with grass, peas, barley and corn.
We must have grass diet for pigs gen.
orally, and, with this grain may be fed.
Farmers sometimes forget that the pig
is a grass-eating animal as much as the
horse, and needs fibrous food to keep
him healthy. Nicely cured clover is
relished by pigs in winter, especially
when raised on grass. If you want fat
and lean pork, a strictly corn diet must
be reserved to the last stage of feeding,
simply to harden the pork; yet a little
corn may be fed all through the life of
the pig, only giving these other nitro
genous foods with it. Pork grown in
this way is relished by most people, and
will always find ready local market.
No more important question than the
above has ever been discussed in our
| columns. At one time lard was the
most valuable of all the hog product;
but it has ceased to possess exceptional
value, and now the desideratum in pork
production is to bring about good de-
| velopment of flesh.-Honse Weekly.
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man, feeling his helplessness, gathers
up into society that all may help each
other, and may hold the hand Of each
other when dark days come. Thus
| what atheism pointed out as a defect
becomes an evidence of Master Mind.
Brutes die at q regular age, man at I'M
known times, because Nature permits
brutes only to live, but to man the
higher possibility of living well and
| beautifully. With the brute existence
| is the end desired, with man tho end
sought by the Creator is the quality OF
his existence. Brutes die, indeed, but
man only can pronounce the word -
tomb.
These several details will serve to IL
| lustrate our theme that much of the
| success of man as to property and as to
| learning, and rs to morals and charac-
ter come from the books sealed which
no man can open. The unknown OF
tomorrow is as to property, and fame.
and Learning a constant allurement, and
as to death q constant softening Of all
vanity and all hardness of the heart.
An old King once commanded that
death should never in any way DO
mentioned in his palace. He wished to
assume, and have il assumed, that he
should always reign. And no one for
years spoke in his hearing any snch
hateful words, but some Dutch mer-
chants, having once been admitted to
his presence, alluded to the death OF
European King, and the solemnity OF
the self-constituted immortal made 1t
known by the shadow on his face that
the silence of his family and his court
had not silenced the secret thought In
the spirit.
In such a world, where all of our
youth stand to-day in presence OF these
unsolved things, the line OF duty is
clear-it being TO approach all OF them
with the most possible of wisdom and
integrity. As the pilots who guide the
steamers down the rapids OF the st.
Lawrence hold hand that Is very
strong and steady, and have heart
| full of one thought--the safety and hap
piness of all in the boat-so must man
move down the channel of this life with
his eve marking well the whole way,
and with hand powerful, and with
heart full of wishes for the welfare OF
all. He must avoid the vices that cloud
the mind or sully the honor. and thus
move on toward the unfolding of the
future on either side of the sepulcher.
While John looked and wept much that
no man could open the book, behold
there came from the Eternal Throne
One greater than man, and when that
Hand touched the volume its seven
seals began to fall asunder. And this
much became disclosed: That in the
Kingdom of God and Christ there Is no
success for vice or sin, but that the
combined voices of angels announce the
| doctrine that they who do Gods com
low your highest duty. will find that
years near or afar, and will open many
a sealed page, and will read to you in
this life or the next words that will
make amends for the "much weeping"
of the times that were dark.
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Notes and Why's of Travel.

Why should SO many second-class ho-
tells with the furnishings, structure and
general Inconvenience of a generation
ago rival the genuine first-class houses
only in their prices?
Why is the American hotel breakfast
or dining table such silent, sad, seri-
Gus affair? Why dare no one raise his
or her voice above a whisper? Why
does it so often seem as if the corpse
was laid out in the next room?
Why does every one prick up their
ears when you make an audible remark?
Why cannot we import little French
ease and gayety at our public tables?
Why have some hotels such imposing
"wine lists on the backs of their bills
of fare when the bread is poor, the COT
fee chicorized, the tea feeble, the veg
etables over sailed and the meats
greasy?
Why might not brakemen be drilled
in some preparatory school of railway
elocution and there taught so to enun-
ciate their syllables that the anxious
passenger shall catch some ineligible
sound? Why should "ville'' be the
only syllable heard of 'Bogusville," or
hannah the only ineligible hearing
given of Susquehannah? Why not make
the brakeman call the name twice rath-
er than that the perplexed passenger be
carried past his place of designation
once?
Why do not all hotel chambermaids
cleanse hotel bureau drawers of the re-
mains of odoriferous lunches, medicine
walls and general uncleanliness left by
former dodgers?
Why should the hotel waiter keep this
guest waiting so much longer for his
dinner-and poor one at that-than
the man who slips a quarter into his
dusky palm?
Isn't it funny and sometimes tedious
to find but two walters at table to every
square acre of dining room in your So
per day hotel?
Isn't it amusing, yet withal exasper-
ating to see head waiter directing the
movements of these two walters and
looking on complacently while you wait
half an hour for dinner, and all at your
So per day hotel?
Why do some landlords encourage a
chronic lot of town or village loafers to
dawdle about the front entrance to
stare every lady guest who comes in or
goes out?-N. Y. Graphic.
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wen 10 do Indian considers it incum-
bent ON him to have trunk, If he can
get It for money or credit. The last
items Of furniture are two low stools,
which attract our attention by
their singularity. One is made of
the dry, hard skin of the alligator $
breast, curved inward so that the scaled
surface forms the seat and the incurled
edges the feet. the other is the shell OF
large terrapin, common in the neigh
boring woods. Under the roof there
is geral, or staging of poles, for man
dioca baskets, dried fish and various
pots and kettles. The most of these,
however, are in little shed-like kitch-
en- back of the house. Every Indian
dwelling, no matter how poor, has Its
kitchen separated from the main struc-
ture. The primitive Fireplace is formed
of three large stones; for bellows there
is little NATHAN, or, very likely, the
putting lungs of the brown cook. Among
the articles of cuisine we may observe
an iron kettle, or a tin coffee pot; but
these are by no means necessities;
most of the older women can manu-
facture their own cooking-ware of coarse
clay.
JOaO's wife IS willing enough to show
us how the earthen kettle and jugs are
made; indeed, she was preparing for
her potter's work when we came in;
the dried balls of clay have been soaked
in water over night and are now ready
to be kneaded.
There are calabashes and turtle-shell
pans, and gourd bottles, and wooden
spoons; baskets, small and large; clay
lamps for burning tish-oil and SO forth.
Joao's wife has few coarse plates and
bowls, with knives, forks and spoons,
which she has purchased in Monte Ale
gre; very often the plates are replaced
by native earthen-ware, and the bowls
by calabashes, and it is no unusual ex-
perience for a traveller to be reduced to
the Indian eating implements-the
fingers.-From " Brazl,'' ETC., by Hu-
bert H. Smith.
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What Small Things DO.

The close of the eighteenth and the
beginning of the nineteenth century
was distinguished for the wonderful
revelations made by the telescope. The
vastness of the universe dawned upon
men. Some found in these revelations
of planet and satellite, of distant suns
and more distant nebule, fresh con-
firmation of the words of the Hebrew
king:
"The heavens declare the glory of
God; and the armament showeth His
handiwork."
But there were others who insisted
that these discoveries made faith in
Christianity impossible to an astrono-
mer.
what is this world" they asked,
"but an insignificant star--among
millions of starsp How can an astrono-
mer believe that it, one of the smallest
of stars, was the theater, and its ephem-
eral inhabitants the objects, Of such
providential interpretations as the Bible
allegesP" "Why should the Creator
of the universe thus distinguish one of
the smallest of the countless stars that
move in spaceP"
1t was to meet this and similar OBJ
jections to Christianity that DIR. Chal-
mers preached his Astronomical Dis
courses" He met the revelations of
the telescope by the revelations OF the
microscope. II, ran his argument, the
one revealed a vast universe above
man, the other revealed universe be-
low him. Why should not He who
formed and cares for the bodies of mill
ions of animalcules interpose in behalf
of the souls of millions of menP
We were reminded of this argument
in reading Prof. Barnard's article in
the Popular Science Monthly entitled
Micro-organisms and their Effects In
Nature" In It he shows that creatures
too small to be seen by the naked eye
are far more important rs food pro-
ducers, as scavengers and as builders,
than all the larger animals that have
dwelt upon the earth. Infnitesimal
though they are, they, nevertheless,
exert an enormous influence on man
and other organisms. and on the air,
the water, and the solid earth.
Such revelations of the microscope
show the depth of meaning in the words
uttered by Jesus Christ to prove, the
special providence of God:
Eye are of more value than. many
sparrows."-Youth's Companion.
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Grass.

We think there is more attention just
now given to the cultivation of grasses
than heretofore. Still the most popular
of our grasses and forage plants, the
most approved seasons of sowing, and
the best modes of managing them, are
very likely to be the results of our fore
fathers best experiences, and we would
by no means hasten to inaugurate a
revolution in these matters, merely be-
cause few isolated instances show
that something better did occur in a
few cases. Yet we know that changes
are continually occurring in the circum-
stances of agriculture. 1t may have
been that the kinds and modes of Gull
ture were not intrinsically the best, but
the best which the circumstances af-
forded, and with our changed circum-
stances why may we not find some
things better suited to us now, than the
things which our forefathers left us?
These reflections will always favor the
isolated cases of successful change re-
ferred to, and we should always hold
ourselves open to review and re-ex-
anime even our most hme-honored
practices. Sowing grass alone, instead
of setting it with grain, is attracting
much attention in connection with the
labor question. 1t is not only the alb
solute superiority of the grass crop un-
der one or the other of these systems,
but whether the extra labor of two
plowings will compensate for superior
ity, is one of the great considerations.
But it is a well-known fact that when
grain and grass are sown together, the
grass does not grow very strong in con-
sequence of the struggle with the grain,
and hence strong weeds get chance to
compete with the grass. In this case,
the weeds soon conquer the legitimate
occupants, and in year or two the
owner finds his grass has run out, and
he has to break it up again for corn or
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Howard Colored School at Co
Iumbia. S. c., has 700 pupils.
Boston University has $40 students
1897 young men and lib young women
IAN effort is being made to raise
S25,000 for a scientific building for Dick
inson College, Carlisle, Pa
There are now three departments
in operation in the University of Gin
cinnati and the total number of students
Is larger than at any period in its his
tory.
Glasgow, Scotland, has the best
ventilated University in the world. The
central steeple rises to height of 2OO
feet, and 1000, COO cubic feet of pure
air are forced into the building every
hour.
of the $3.50, 900 required to put the
Harvard Divinity School on a proper
basis, 100000 have been subscribed,
and the committee now make an earn
est appeal to the Alumni, and to all
ministers interested. in unsectarian
theological education, to aid in making
up the remainder.
The University of Michigan has
sixty-hve instructors, with ten assis-
ia L
i, 427. The work and the organization
of the School of Mines are dropped. A
new chair--that of the Science and Art
: of Teaching-has been established, and
instruction in Sanskrit is now provided.
Archbishop Purcell said, in a recent
j. sermon at Cincinnati. Sc now solemnly
declare before Almighty God and this
congregation that not one dollar of the
money that was entrusted to my care
was lavished in luxury by myself or
agents, or expended in any manner for
our personal benefit; and no matter how
unworthily | may appear in your eyes.
humbly ask that you pray to Almighty
God for me-" His health has been very
bad since the financial disaster in his
diocese.
The college book of Harvard gives
statistics showing that out of 943 Har-
ward students who graduated between
1869 and 1875, inclusive, $500 were
Unitarians or Liberals, PIT Episcopali-
ans, 1875 Orthodox Congregationalsists
forty-six Baptists, twenty-five Presby-
terians, sixteen Methodists, twelve
Swedenborgians, eight other Trinitari-
ans, two Quakers, fifteen Catholics, two
Jews, one Mormon, and 113 undecided.
Seats are furnished the students at the
expense of the college at any church of
their own election.
The Western Church Building So
ciety is new Protestant Episcopal or
ganization, whose President is Bishop
Whipple. Its mission is the building of
churches and parsonages in the region
between the Mississippi and the Rocky
Mountains. Its plan is to help churches
which show disposition and ability to
help themselves. 1t stipulates that a
oh urch shall raise three times as much
as it asks for from the society, and that
no help will be furnished to church
on which debt is to remain. The de-
sire of the promoters of this society is
to encourage needy churches in build
: ing with economy and to secure con-
svenient houses of worship rather than
very gorgeous ones.