Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-10
Various Matters.

rics a cane
An Artesian well at Hope, Ark, has
been sunk 800 feet.
Gladstone's favorite drink Is an egg
beaten up in sherry.
James Parton Is very retiring, and
goes little In society.
Miss Clara Morris Ii o Hne critic, and
greatly int terested In art
North Carolina is third In the Inst Of
copper producing States.
Hatton, the Iowa man, who succeeds
Tyner, was born In Ohio.
Horatio Seymour 10 surrounded at
his home by books and birds.
M. Gambetta never gees within the
doors Of any place OF worship.
Geo. w. Cable, the novelist, IL n lit
tie bit Of a fellow, full OF fun.
The National Prohibition Alliance
will meet at Atlanta in March.
Whittier receives every year no fewer
than 200 requests for his autograph.
The crop Of peanuts In Tennessee Is
inferior; the nut is small and huiYy.
David Davis IL q Marylander by
bi rth, and an Ohio man by education.
Tennessee marble IL supplanting It
allan in many sections of the country.
A penny edition Of "Uncle Toms
Cabin has been published in London.
Senator Edmunds IL worth about
s3O0O 900 and reads great many books.
A man Of 90 Is suing ut Des Moins
for divorce from wife OF IS.
A five-ton hammer was put up In the
Altoona railroad sho,s a short time ago.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, says he would
walk rather than ride on . railroad pass.
The average English jailbird gets 26O
ounces OF food, the average pauper i6s ounces.
The book trade Of Boston reports the
best business known In that city for several
years.
President Garfield's portrait Is to be
placed on the hve-cent international postage
stamps.
King Humbert has wonderful mus
tache-the heaviest, darkest, and nercest I'm
aginable.
Gov. Roberts, Of Texas, is still gay at
seventy. He leads the german and dances
gracefully.
George Macdonald, the novelist,
parts his hair In the middle, and wears . very
long beard.
Georgia farmers pay about $500. 900
yearly to have their cotton weighed at tho
warehouses.
Capt. Boyton is reported 10 have
made s15 0)0 by padding around I'm his life-
saving dress.
William III. Vanderbilt's daughter Is
one Of the most simply attired young ladies on
Fifth avenue.
A tunnel has been cut through an ex-
tinct volcano in New Zealand. II is 1900
yards In length.
Lemons are being shipped North
from Lake Weir, Marion county, Florida, in
large quantsties.
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, Is TO
marry Mile. Jessspcn, . beautiful woman
worth Rs5, COCOON.
The pawnbrokers of Great Britain,
4s72 IN number, take in during year ZOO
900 Of pledges.
The National Cotton Planters Asso-
citation will hold their annual meeting at At
lanta December 9th.
The Emperor of China has seventy
wives, whose silks cost him about half the
land tax OF the Empire.
Within the past month nine wealthy
gentlemen from the North have become citi-
gems OF Macon, Georgia.
Judge Folger, the new Secretary Of
the Treasury, Is sixty-four years Of age and
native of Mass ichusetts.
The various new business enterprises
In and around Pittsburg will, for the finish
inz, require e100.00OO)o.
Miss Arthur, daughter Of the Presi-
dent, is . oionde-haired young lady now At.
tending school at Albany.
| The Crown Princess of Prussia (Vic-
toria's eldest dAushter) 10 said TO be the most
popular woman In Germany.
Miss Annie Louise Cary has sold her
house I'm Portlsnd. Maine, and will hereafter,
It IL said, live in New York.
DIR. Roberts, of New Orleans, is intro
ducing the cotton seed butter. lie says that
IL is superior to the COW product.
During the fiscal year 473.000 acres
OF public lands In Arkansas have been disposed
OF by the Uuited States Government.
A Memphis, Tenn, painter, who NOV
ed to Leadville, COL, few years ago, 10 now
the owner Of mine worth sl 100000.
The six unhealthiest cities In the
world are st. Petersburg. Charleston, Malaga,
Alexandria, waissns, and Buda- Pesth.
The Eontaine locomotives In use on
the Canada Southern Railway are cspable OF
attaining q speed OF ninety miles an hour.
Sheep cheese is very popular In Aus
tria, and an enterprising Austrtas bas start-da
sheep dairy near Chattanooga WITH ooo head
The survey Of the canalroute between
Atlanta snd Gainesville, GS, has been maize,
and the estimsted cost u the enterprise is
s2 5OOO0O.
General Sherman IL nm inveferate
smoker. He puffs furiously, but seldom or
never finishes o cigar, leaving st least one-haif
OF II . stump.
The Iai gest and finest turquoise In the
| world 10 in the crown Of the Russian Cxar. IL
wss found In the mines Of New Mexico nearly
two centuries ago.