Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-26
HERE AND THERE.

ILLINOIS farm products amounted to
5000, 600, 000last year, which is double the
product of all the gold and silver mines
in the United States
A RAILROAD doing IN ordinary bust
ness requires for its current operations
supplies to the extent of 81 900 per mile
per year, exclusive of rails, locomotives
and cars.
SOCIETY bellies in Washington now
affect the banjo, which they are learn
ing to play. There are many costly
ones with ebony handles and silver
mountings.
A PLEASANT evening game in Detroit
is for each player to oil his hands and
then try to turn door-knob. The one
who succeeds first gets hunk of taffy
on a string.
RANDOLPH, N. Y, has been the scene
of romance which, in point of faith
fulness on the part of the woman, is
equal to that of Longfellow's Evange-
line. Miss Betsey Knight, who died a
few days ago at the age of eighty-five
was in her girlhood betrothed to a young
man in Ohio, and shortly before the day
of the nuptials he died. Miss Knight
refused to believe it, and remained faith
full to him all these years in the hope
that he would return and claim her.
THE Scranton CPa.) Republican as
serts that the following story is true {:
"Mr. John Merchant came to this
country from England some ten years
ago, and settled in this city. His sister
preceded him some nine years, and UNI
til last Saturday they did not know of
each others whereabouts, and yet they
have both been living in Hyde Park dur
ing this time, and have attended the
same church. They spent last Sabbath
together at his residence, and were as
happy a couple undoubtedly as could be
found within the city,
REV. WILLIAM M. BARRY, an &C.
centric clergyman of Worcester, Mass,
left a will which is Enthusiastically
odd. What is left of his estate is to be
applied to the support of service in his
former church. He left directions for
all his papers to be burned, that no no.
tice of his death was to be published in
the papers, that his coffin should be a
mere plain box, that he should be buried
n his poorest clothes, an express wagon
to be used in the place of hearse, that
his grave was to be dug anywhere and
entirely unmarked, and that the only
service at his funeral consist of the read
ing of two psalms.
1T often happens that two women
claim the same man for husband, but
it is rare that one woman claims two
men, neither of whom wants her. But
such is the condition of divorce suit
in New York, originally begun by the
second husband, with the connivance of
the first, to show that the second mar
rage was undertaken before the divorce
from the first husband was granted. A
decree in favor would have left her
married to her first husband. He
changed his mind and resisted the de-
cree, but the Court had decreed that the
divorce was invalid, which leaves the
second husband free, but binds the first.
THE San Francisco Call, referring to
William A. Beck and the late Miss Mel
lie Croker of Sacramento, says: "The
lady, who is well known in this city,
being related to one of the railroad
magnates, her father having been also
one of the originators of the Central
Pacific, was engaged to be married to
the son of an ex-Secretary of State, now
in this city. A few days before she
died, in New York, the young lady made
her will, disposing of 100000, which
was in her own right. Remembering
her comparatively poor friend in this
State, she inserted clause in the will
giving the young man 100000 in gold
coin as parting gift
OLIVE LOGAN writes that every day
during her stay in Madrid she saw the
King and his new wife, together or
alone. They drive in Royal state; in
deed, with outriders and escort of cav
airy, and open carriages drawn by four
horses. Alfonso is dark-eyed, dark
skinned Spanish boy of %, generally
dressed in a ight-gray overcoat, prim-
rose-colored gloves, and tall black hat.
Marie Christine is far from being a
beauty. Thin to the verge of scrawni-
ness, with high cheek-bones and a great
hook nose, she is as plain a young girl
as one would see in days walk. Olive
Logan feels convinced that this second
marriage, so hastily contracted, is not
liked in Spain.
The certificate of Drs. Craik and
Dick, the physicians who attended
George Washington at the time of his
death, has just been unearthed from a
Georgetown newspaper of 1899. 1t does
not appear in any of the biographies of
Washington. The certificate concludes
thus: ''He was fully impressed at the
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