Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-05
HERE AND THERE.


Gov. CORNELL of New York signed
his first message with gold pen made
from Egyptian coins 1000 years old.
A CHICAGO man has a woman's
tooth grated into his jaw, and now every
time he passes a millinery store that
tooth fairly aches to drag him up to the
window.
IT is said in Arizona that miner,
doubling the capabilities of certain as
sayer, got an old potato, dried it thor
oughly, pounded it up fine and then sub
mitted the powder for assay, and the re-
suit of the assay gave yield of $40 to
the ton.
A RETIRED Spanish soldier, Lopez, is
112 years old. He recently sent to his
son at Columbus, Ga, letter, saying
that after 40 years of army service he
has been retired on ST. 800 year. The
son who received the letter is only 70
years old.
THE famous Greek bandit, Spanos,
has been captured, tried in Athens, and
sentenced to death. No one knows the
exact number of murders he has COM
mitted. On one occasion he decapi-
tated 40 prisoners. A favorite di-
version with him was to cut out the
tongues of the captives whose lives he
spared.
AT a performance in a London the
alter, where mother has terrific COM
bat with two ruffians for the possession
of her child, large Newfoundland
dog that had got into the pit along with
his owner, a steamship engineer, leaped
over the orchestra, and, landing on the
stage, seized one of the fellows, and
was with great difficulty removed. He
had been a companion of children.
MR.. WHITELAw REID of the New
York Tribune has just sent party of
35 homeless New York children West,
under the care of an agent of the Chill
dren's Aid Society. Their destination
is Springville, Iowa, where homes will
be found for them, chiefly among farm
ers of the vicinity. Mr.. Reid expects
to send another party about the same
size before the season for spring work
opens.
Mrs. SCOTT SIDDoNs.gave reading
at the Asbury University, Greencastle,
Ind, for the benefit of the institution.
She wore handsome evening dress, cut
as low at the neck as is ordinarily worn.
On the following morning she attended
the religious services, land was vehement
ly prayed for by professor, who de-
scribed her dress to Providence as
to herself and insulting to
the audience The students, however,
took herpart, land the controversy waxed
very warm.
Mr.. JAMES GRANT of Davenport. said
to be Iowa's richest man, is setting
good example for other wealthy citizens
to initiate. He has no children of his
own, and yet has raised in his own home,
and educated, and set up in business,
some fifteen of the children of dead or
helpless parents. In this he has deposit
ed some of his vast fortune in the great
bank to come, and it will pay him the
largest dividends of all his investments
when dividends most will help him.
AN old resident of Washington County,
is now in Jail for selling
liquor without a license, and it is
recalled that since 1916 he has been pros
ecuted for the same offense 38 times,
and has been fined an aggregate $500.
Counting the time of the Court and ju-
ries, what was paid to witnesses and
officers, and what it required to board
him in jail, the amount expended by
Washington County to suppress this old
offender amounts to $5, 900, or probably
more.
A FARMER in Lancaster County, Pa,
who was rich, died within few years.
Once when his house took fire the men |
engaged in the harvest field quit their
work long enough to 60 and put the
fire out, and thus saved the house from
burning up. When he came to settle
With his men, when harvest was over,
ne deducted the time they were at the
ire and refused to pay for it. One of
hem, having refused to settle that way,
brought suit before Justice and recov-
cred for full time, at the expense of sew
,ral dollars to the farmer for costs.
For the first time in the history of |
says an Iowa correspond
snt, member of the House has come
here with his wife, and they have gone
nto the lucrative business of taking
ooarders. Not merely &c few friends
or company" They have gone about
n the most cold-blooded and business
ike way-advertising. 1t is all right, of
course, and much more reputable than
,ome of the ways Congressman have of
Killing time here, but it strikes Wash
ngton as trifle odd.
THERE is point in the geography of
he United States that is not generally
,nown, and that is Driftwood Point.