Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-22
HERE AND THERE.

ACI NcW AcdA CcnCIo W AOuI young
ladies-Miss Matthews, daughter of the
ex-senator; two Misses Jones of Gin
cinnati, and Miss Lucy Cook, Mrs.
Hayes's cousin.
JOHN MADDoCKs and Henry Quin
of Dublin, the former in the clear and
unencumbered possession of $4,000
year, and both in full possession of
health and competence, committed sui
eide early in the century for no other
reason than that they were tired of the
UNMARRIED repetitions and amusements,
to them unexpectedly insipid, OF ex-
istence.
A CHICAGO thief shaved off his mus
tache after robbing lady in the street,
and by that means made it impossible
for her to identify him when he was ar
rested; but he could not long resist the
desire to look his best, and three months
later, when the new mustache had grown
like the old one, she recognized him in
crowd, and he has been convicted.
A LITTLE boy starved to death, at
Pittsburg, in consequence of throat
disease that prevented his swallowing
any thing. He lived four weeks with
out eating or drinking. His pleadings
for food were pitiful, and he frequently
dreamed of enjoying sumptuous repasts,
only to awake to dreadful hunger and
thirst. Just before he died he asked his
mother if they would have good dim
ner for him in heaven.
THE German Government recognize
ing the danger of smoking tobacco by
youths, have seriously taken the matter
in hand, as it considers the practice
dangerous to the constitution. In many
towns the police have received orders
to prevent all youths under sixteen years
of age from smoking. A Belgian ply
sician considers it causes color blind
ness.
A YEAR-oLD child fell out of car
window, the other day, near Parkers-
burg, Va, and every body supposed it
would be killed. The mother was
frantic with grief. The train was
stopped, and a party went in search of
the wait, when it was found, half a
mile back, sitting on a pile of brush,
crying Justify. The child was wholly
uninjured, save a slight bruise on its
head.
The protector of the Sutro Tunnel is
of the opinion that the hot water which
is so troublesome in the Comstock
mines, comes from a depth of ten or
fifteen thousand feet, where the rocks
are at high temperature; also that
there must be some connection between
the water of the Comstock lode and
that of the boiling springs at Steam
boat, six or seven miles distant.
VISITORS to Edison's laboratory at
Menlo Park, N. Y, are warned not to
enter the room where the dynanlo-elec-
trio machine is at work; but they 60 in
all the same. Several valuable watches
have been spoiled by the electricity
reaching their works; and one lady, on
New Years Day, STOPPING down to look
at something near the machine, was
Mortified at seeing all IKE hairpins dart
ing from her head to the generator, be-
side which she was.
2 INKS. ANN E. GARRISON, Of South
Bay City, Mich, has obtained verdict
of $1,000 against a saloon-keeper of
that place who sold her husband liquor.
She sued for $40, 900 damages, alleging
that before her husband commenced
drinking he was worth $15 900, and had
an annual income of $4,000; but drink
took it all away and made him drunk
en-, shiftless creature, and unable to at
tend to business. He is now in Cali
.fornia.
A NICE little tragedy was enacted at
Deadwood, on New Years Eve. Bessie
Woodwork, variety actress from
Philadelphia, suicided by blowing out
her brains with revolver at the Olym-
pic Theater. She was playing an en-
gagement at the Olympic, and, as the
clock struck IL, ringing in the New
Year, put the pistol to her forehead,
pressed the trigger and the deed was
done. She was only 18years old. Her
lover, an actor, had cast her OF.
AN extraordinary operation-per-
formed by devotee of surgery as re-
storative art-recently occurred in the
Pennsylvania Hospital. A beautiful
girl of 16 had been shot in the face by
a jealous lover, and had apparently
been disfigured for life-her whole face
being pitted with shot and powder.
The enthusiast, however, set to work,
and, after extracting the shot, picked
out each separate grain of powder with
a needle. The patient has now entirely
recovered, and her skin is said to be as
smooth and clear as an infants.
THERE is story of nobleman who,
when his purse was demanded, said to
the highwayman all right, but whose
that follOw looking over yOflr shoulder.