Iron County register., 1880-08-05
1900. Vership.
GENEkALa Aerfafin1

GENEhAL. exist,ng Be.
ONE city heard from is saK name and
the new census. Lowell, Msp this day
larger number of inhabitants Geoss dus y,
body living there expected WI by him.
found. ENs,
w. III. VANDERBILT, it is annd
authoritatively, pays for bringing
Alexandrian obelisk over. He 81
lated that it should not cost over SO
600.
WIN. BANKS, a noted Liverpool ship
builder, has left $500, 900 to his grand
daughter, Susan Meyers, the wife of .
laborer at Greenpoint, opposite New
York city
The uncertainties of the theatrical
business are illustrated by the fact that
Miss Nelson, after . season of great
success in the East, has been playing to
almost empty houses in San Francisco.
TEN families will soon depart for Zaco-
MIA, on Puget Sound, Washington Ter.
ritory, under the direction of the Brook
lyn IN. " Cooperative Colonization
Society. They will settle under the
Homestead Law.
! A TRAMP consented to do q small Job
at digging post-holes at Carson, New,
though labor was contrary to his Gus
tom. He returned to his employers
house in an hour, threw down his
spade, and said he had changed his
mind. He had found $3.50 worth Of
gold bars which some miner had buried.
LABoULAYE, President of the Franco
American Union, states that Bartholdi's
statue of Liberty would be ready for
erection in the harbor of New York in
1888, the centenary of the Treaty Of
Versailles, which concluded peace be-
tween England and America.
THE people of Maryland demand that
the law against dueling be enforced.
The people of neighboring States have
got notion Of going to Maryland to
fight their duels, and the results are very
fatal to the cattle pastured near the
places where the deadly combats take
place.
A SOCIETY for prosecuting the sys-
tematic excavation of ancient sites In
Egypt is in process of formation. Sew
eral Egyptologists have promised their
support. Miss Edwards is contemplate
ing lecturing tour in the United States,
with the object of assisting the fund.
A GREAT effort is being made to i'm
prove the dietary of the German SOL
diers. 1t is now recognized that 1t Is not
sufficient to merely supply q man with
enough bread and meat to keep him
alive, but that his bodily vigor, and con-
sequently his efficiency as o soldier, will
be increased if his diet partake of .
more varied character, and II cooked in
more varied manner.
Miss SUSIE PEARY, seventeen years
oil cf,,Iant -, ho Noxu Ynrk nj
College, recently swan from the foot Of
dock above Fort Lee, o distance Of more
were against her. She has not been In
considerable distance. Before long she
is to make ten-mile swim up the Hud-
son to Yonkers.
MONS. LIE PAGE RENouF suggests
that the ancient obelisks of Egypt
might have been intended to serve 40
lightning conductors. The evidence IN
found in an inscription from the tenn
pie at Edfu, published by Brugsch-Bey
in September, 1875. In the thirty y-fourth
line OF this text ''two large obelisks" arc
"for the purpose of cleaving asunder
tHc IA AC1Ncu.
OLD Mrs. Sheppard collects about
$4,000 I'm rents every July as
Dayton, Ohio, and puts the money in .
bureau drawer. As she lives alone, the
folly of keeping so much money by her
was long ago explained to her. In 1873
masked robbers entered the house and
took the treasure. In 1879 the robbery
was repeated in precisely the same
manner. This year she hid IL carefully,
but the rascals choked her until she
told them where il was. She now
promises to put the receipts for 1881 in
the bank
A BOZ temporarily in charge OF an
elevator in the Syracuse IN. Y Savings
Bank building, thought he would like
to see the elevator work. He pulled
the rope, and to his surprise the elevator
ascended rapidly. Reaching the top Il
struck and reversed itself, breaking tho
starting rope, and the car descended
rapidly to the bottom. When the car
was raised the body of the engineer was
found beneath It. He had been killed
instantly.
THE Dumas family has always been
remarkable for strength and address.
One night at the play Gen Dumas, the
grandfather of Dumas the younger,
flung man out of stage box on to the
stage. Dumas the elder was of Her
culean strength, and Dumas the younger
excels in all games of strength and skill.
He is master juggler, and he can put
a frame of knives round human head
leaning against board with the most
consummate surety of hand. George
Sand was brilliant pupil of Dumas the
younger, and i'm her later years she used
to amuse herself for days with this peril
Gus pastime.
THE agitation for seats for shop and
saloon girls has taken practical shape
in Scotland. Recently staff of ladies
made a tour of the chief warehouses
and shops in the leading thoroughfares
of Edinburgh. and made inquiries rs TO
the accommodation in the desired direc-
ton. The subject had been agitated in
a daily newspaper for some time back,
and the committee found that in several