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Iron County register., 1881-10-27
The Laws of Livery.

Differences between the livery-stable
man and the hirer of the horse are very
frequent, and generally, though the
owner of the animal may get pecuniary
redress, it is the poor brute that mostly
suffers. To ride or drive borrowed
or hired horse to the devil has become
common saying. One or two recent
English cases are worth commenting
upon, as showing that that very much
abused person, the liyery-stable keeper,
has certain rights. s ig --.9
A man hired a horse and carriage at
Ipswich, with the understanding that he
would drive to Colchester and return
the same day, distance of twenty
miles each way. The person who had
the horse and vehicle drove not only to
the place specified, but to a town ten
miles further on-working the horse
sixty miles within the specified time of
hiring. The horse died next day. The
veterinary surgeon was of the opinion
that the animal had been overdriven.
The defendants counsel argued that
the agreement was to drive /" through"
Colchester, but the jury did not think
so, and the plaintiff won the case, with
a verdict of f21, the value of the horse.
Deviations from fixed route between
two places, when horse is hired and
injury is sustained by the livery-keeper,
may bring penalty on the hirer. Be-
tween New York and place called A
the distance may be thirty miles, and
the livery-stable keeper knows the dis
tance. But if the hirer takes round
about ways to reach there, increasing
the distance travelled, knowing the
proper or shorter road, he is, unless he
has specified to q go-as-you-please
method Of journeying, liable to dam
ages. As to damages to vehicles, so
constant with awkward drivers, it
would be quite wise if q tariff of charges
were put up in livery-stables. Then q
man would know before he started wha:
his rig was worth.-LoweH Courier.
Iron County register., 1881-10-27
MY MILLIONAIRE.

Now, Jennie, this way to the carriage,
Wen lock ont the turmoil and style;
Ana you haven't seen me since my marriage?
II seems such wearisome while:
And you've brought me a cluster of flowers
That grew by my old country home;
An! they whisper to me of the bowers
Ana woods, where the merry winds roam.
My dear, you are fresh as fairy
That's born in the wild forest way,
Not d bit artificial and airy,
Not bit like the girl of to- day.
And once We were children together,
And went to the same district school,
Side by side in the bright summer weather,
Through quiet lanes, shady and cool.
Well, / wish was back in the cottage,
AS careless and happy as you.
But my birthright was given for pottage,
Dee1dediy poor pottage, too.
You know 1t was mammals ambition
That should be bartered for gold,
TO better my humble condition."
~ so was accordingly sold.
Oh, yesi have velvets and laces-
= The finest turnout in the town,
"A yacht that the blue water graces,
= And jewels all fit for a crown;
i live in fair palace, shining
With everything costly and grand,
And yet, am ever repining-
The loneliest soul in the land.
My husband? All, like him better
The further he stays away, Jen.
He's naught but a bothersome fetter,
And only three score years and ten.
I've squandered his money at leisure,
A butterfly life have led,
And noU am sick of such pleasure,
And curse the dark day we were wed.
I'D forgotten to ask of you, Jennie,
About my old schOolmate, Sam True,
Whom fortune ne'er vouchsafed penny,
But gave him strong heart and hands, too
1ou know we were fond of each other
"a. (Ah he had a fine, handsome face),
But my poor, maneuvering mother
Took a different view of the case.
What! married? ridiculous fellow,
To that freckle faced Polly Gray?
Why, she's grabbed and withered and yellow,
And forty if she is day;
How could he choose so ungainly
A woman, with instincts 80 low,
And does she imagine, insanely,
He loves her? 1 arould like to know.
But here are my prison doors waiting
To fold me again in the gloom.
Let's have done with this serious prating,
With you will laugh at my doom.
Wen have music and mirth cen to madness,
And Joy, ii it isn't too late;
Wen play a sharp game upon sadness,
And dance a fandango with fate.
Mary Il. IngersoH, in Chicago Ne,os.
Iron County register., 1881-10-27
DUBLIN. Oct. -.

Nt i- COMMENTS ON THE ARREST.
The Secretary Of the Land League was In.
terviewed shortly after Parnelps arrest. He
expressed much astonishment, exciaiming,
excitedly: "Lct them come on ,. we a-e
ready for them 10 Sf'A .Uurt Htal
Dillon said this was tine most trying and
critical moment that had occurred In their
history during the past century. He said
that the statement'that Parnell had intim-
idated the people was false. He (Dillon) de-
fed anybody to point 10 q single speech Of
Parnell in favor OF intimidation. His arrest
was due to private malice. 1t was the duty
of the nationto deal with the matter coolly
and with judgment, and to maintain tho
struggle within the law. she.ag
POLICE PRECAUTIONS.
The Detective Superintendent who ar
rested Parnell was accompanied by six de.
tectives, and the cab conveying Psrnell to
prison was escorted by two cars filed with
police. ttut Hn.aW :.
The guards at Kilmainham Jail have been
doubled. li'sA atuJsi
A military force in Dublin n held In read.
iness for action in the event Of N emer.
gency. ~ 3Ai
Additional guards and two two.poundcrs
have been stationed in the upper castle
yard.
Carlow, Kildare, Longford, South wcx-
ford and Wicklow Counties, and certain
baronies in Meath have been proclaimed un.
der the Coercion act
Iron County register., 1881-10-27
THE AMERICAN sYMpATHrzERs.

.4 NEW YORK. Oct. ii.
Patrick Ford has issued an address TO the
Land Leagues Of America, anent the arrest
OF Parrieli, in which he says: f"IYshmcn
must restrain their impulses. Reason, not
passion, should rule the hour. Never did
the Land League have a better opportunity
TO manifest its moral power than now, new
er did II become the duty of the Irish peo-
pie to exhibit the virtues OF self-posscs-
sion, discipline and obedience TO the
Land League more than now. Through
enlightenment and organization tho
people will assuredly come into. possession
Of their inheritance. Much has been ac-
complisbed locking to this end. Already
Gladstone himself has openly confessed that
the Land League is the only government I'm
Ireland now with any moral force behind IT,
Hence he makes war upon It. He presents
arms to the majesty of ideas which are in
vulnerable and immortal. No man who boz
lieves in the superiority OF mind over brute
matter can entertain doubt respecting tte
final ISSUE" riHiaa '-H
Iron County register., 1881-10-27

ure to MIN TO Talk on any SUBJECT with
one whose mind was well informed and
impressionable. .-rs
thought of this after he had gone,
for he seemed in what he said to have
let new light in upon his own charac-
ter. He has always shown himself
pleased to talk with me; and he seemed
at his best last night, when we talked
uninterruptedly alone. May it be that,
while he enjoys laugh with Lola, he
finds higher enjoyment in rational and
Intellectual CONVERSE? There is point
in the character of Leonidas I think I
could make more clear to him. sheuld
like to pursue the subject. / will lend
him the History of Greece again. It
would be pity that he should go yet.
I will not speak to Miss Grindle-at
least not until have explained to him
that point in the character of Leonidas.
Jnae 26th.-It is nine hours since the
ceremony was finished; but my hand
still trembles while I write that Mr..
Lindsay was married this morning, in
the presence of Mr.. and Mrs. Williams,
to-Mary Meryon!
Lola was right; Mary is deep. For
surprise on the top of surprise-this
turns out to be not q six weeks love-
match, but the completion of an affair
of seven years. standing. They were
engaged before ever he went to sea !;
aad he came here never knowing whom
he was to find; and they knew each
other the moment they met, when he
entered the room, that night he first
dined with us! Nay, she knew him be-
fore, when his name was told us by Mrs.
Williams. And yet not q word to any
of US from either of them. Joking with
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The Russian Peasants.

The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Standard gives some Illus
trations of the peculiar ideas at present
agitating the minds of peasants in the
interior of Russia. He says: In one
province the peasants went in a body to
q large landowner and informed him
that his land would shortly be divided
among them. The proprietor induced
several of the chief men to go with him
to neighboring town in order to dis
cuss the matter further, and on arrival
there the peasants were taken to the po-
lice station, and there treated to round
number of strokes with a rod. They
were then allowed to go home. and no
doubt succeeded in convincing their
comrades that the idea of a speedy re-
distribution of lands was mistaken one.
In another province the peasants In
formed their employer, large proprie
tor of land and manufactures, that they
had received ukase from the Czar, or
dering them to wreck his property. The
employer asked and obtained two days
grace, and meantime he informed the
authorities. The peasants were made
to produce the ukase, which proved to
be forged, and, after being impressed
with the falsity of the order, the peas
ants were allowed to disperse. From
the above and many other instances, ii
seems clear that the revolutionists are
not idle in turning the times to accoun,
by raising false hopes in the minds ol
| the ignorant masses.
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Soothing ReuOse.

The day emphatically belongs to earth
we yield it without reluctance to care
and labor. We toll, we drudge, we pant,
we play the hack-horse we do things
smilingly from which we recoil in secret; !;
We pass by sweet spots and rare faces
that our very heart yearns for, without
betraying the effect it costs; and thus
we drag through the twelve long hours,
disgusted almost, but gladdened withal,
that the mask will have an end, and the
tedious game be over, and our visor and
our weapons are laid aside. But the
night brings freedom and repose; its in
huence falls cody and gratefully upon
the mind as well as the body; and when
drops the extinguisher upon the light
which glimmers upon the round, un-
touched pillow, we, at the same time,
put out world of care and perplexities.
Leigh Hunt says: "It is delicious
moment certainly, that of being well
nestled in bed, and feeling that you
shall drop gently to sleep. The good is
to come, not past; the limbs have Just
been tired enough to render the remain
ing in one posture delightful the labor
of the day is done. A gentle failure of
the perceptions comes creeping over one !;
the spirit of consciousness disengages
itself more and more, with slow and
hushing degrees, like mother detaching
her hand from her sleeping child; the
mind seems to have balmy lid over it,
like the eye /; it's closing closing
tits closed. The mysterious spirit has
gone to make its airy rounds"
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Didn't Happen to Know Her.

While old Skidmore was passing
through the cemetery he came to what
was evidently new inclosure, over the
railing of which bald-headed man was
leaning and gazing with what might be
called lively resignation at simple mar
BILE slab in the center. This stone bore
the somewhat curt inscription "Here
lies Jane B. Diffey, aged forty one. +"
Relative of yours p said old S., paus-
ing sympathetically. "Wife," explained
the widower, with a beaming smile ;
"got her under yesterday week at 4:15
p. m" Skidmore was disguised at the
mans cheerfulness, SO he said: "Well,
if it was my wife seems to me I'd put
more of an inscription over her than
that. A trunk label would contain more
information than that stone" "Dare
say, dare say" replied the surviving
Difey, "but-you don't happen tc
know Mrs. D., I reckon, eh?" "Had
not the pleasure. pleasure great
scott! Well, if you had known hel
you'd understand how 1 feel about
the matter. My friend, the chise
won't do her any good" And with 6
smile like an electric light ia fog, the
hereaved party unbuttoned his ulster
and made break for a passing car
San Francisco Post.
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LOafng.

Does the young man who persists in
being n loafer ever reflect how much less
j. would costto be decent, respectable
man? Does he imagine that loaferism
is more economical than gentility? Any
body can be gentleman, if he chooses
to be, without much cost, but it is mighty
expensive being loafer. 1t costs time,
in the first place, days, weeks and months
of it !; in fact, about all the time he has,
for no man can be a first-class loafer with
out devoting his whole time to it. The
occupation. well followed. hardly affords
time for eating, sleeping, dri-, we
had almost said drinking, hut on refec-
tion we will except that. The loafer
finds time to drink whenever invited, at
the cost of friends. Once fully embarked
on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid
farewell to every friendly sail that sails
under an honest and legitimate flag.
Your consorts will only be the bucca-
neers of society. 1t costs money, for,
though the loafer may not earn cent
or have one for months, the time lost
might have procured him much money,
if devoted to industry instead of sloth
1t costs health, vigor, comfort, all the
true pleasures of living, honor, dignity,
self-respect, and the respect of the world
when living, and, finally, all right of con-
sideration when dead. Be gentleman,
then it is far cheaper.
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The Horse and the Man.

The man has cut away the frog be-
cause he thinks the horse will be in
iured if the frog touches the ground.
He has then cut deep groove at the
base of the frog. This is to give we'll
opened heel, as he is pleased to call it.
He has scooped away the sole to "give
it spring." He has scored deep notch
in the toe for the shoe. This is evil
IDENTIFY conservative relic of the time
when nails were not used, and the shoe
attached by three pointed clips ham,
mered over the edge, one in front and
one on either side. Then he has i'm
proved the whole of the outer surface of
the hoof. As the Creator has furnished
this part of the hoof with thin, hard,
polished plate, forming sort of varnish
which is impervious to wet, the farrier,
as matter OF course, rasps it all away
up to the crown. And as the Creator
has placed around the crown fringe of
hair, which acts as thatch to the line
of junction and throws off the rain upon
the waterproof varnish, he cuts this
away with his scissors. Lastly, the
Creator having given to the horny hoof
a mottling of soft and partially trans
lucent brown, gray-blue, yellow, black
and white, never exactly the same in
two hoofs, much less in two horses, the
farrier takes blacking pot and brush,
polishes up the hoofs until they look
like patent leather boots, all four exactly
alike, and then eontemplates his work
with satisfaction. In his own words, he
has "turned out a finished job of it."
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Paper Making.

The most ancient form of paper known
was made from the papyrus seed. The
inner cuticle of the stalk was separated
into thin layers by ii sharp point, the
slips laid side by side and covered by
another layer placed at right angles,
made to adhere by pressure and then
dried. The sheets were afterward beaten
smooth with mallet and polished with a
piece of shell or ivory Parchment and
vellum dressed skins-began to be used
in place of papyrus in the seventh CEN
tury, and shortly after the art of making
paper from vegetable fibre was introduced
into Europe from China. 1t was made
from cotton. The Spaniards appear to
be the first to use rags for its manufac-
ture, and the oldest specimen of linen
paper having date is a treaty between
the kings of Aragon and CASTLE in 1177.
The Germans attempted the use of straw
in 1855. Paper has been made of many
different substances-potato vines, grass,
bark, oakum, silk, tobacco, thistles, will
low, cork, corn-stalks, Eastwood and ban
tam being only small part of the list.
The first paper-mill in America was es-
tablished i'll 1000, near Philadelphia.
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SOME MEXICAN STATISTICS.
A Neighboring Republic of which We
Know Little.

Mexico is Federal republic, COM
prising twenty States, one Terri
tory and one. Federal district, that of the
capital. The total area is TAI ,313 square
miles, with population of 10000, 600.
This population is classified, each race
and mixed grade having its own sepa-
rate name and special status. The pure
races are classed under three Spanish
names, as white, Indian and negro. The
various race mixtures furnish the Mexi-
cans with twenty-one separately named
grades. There are about so, 900 foreign
whites, 1000, 900 native whites or Gre
oles, 5,0OO,OO Indians, and the balance
are mixed races, with a few pure ne
groes. One-tenth of the Mexican nation,
occupying chiefly the table lands, and
residing mostly in the cities, own nearly
all the developed mines, lands and other
property. The remaining nine-tenths
are the laboring classes.
With the most favorable results it
must be years before the railroad COM
panies shall reap their full reward, yet
it is not impossible if no financial de-
preston shall interfere, and provided
the Mexican Government proves able to
meet its subsidy promises, that such
roads as shall be economically built and
honestly managed may at least pay ex.
penses from the beginning. In this con-
neetion is worth noting the population
of tie leading cities to be connected by
each road.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The weight of an average male adult
is 140 pounds.
The average man measures about five
feet three and one-half inches.
The human skeleton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones.
The carcharodon (shark), the fore
father of the man-eater of to-day, was
from 100 to $50 feet in length. A good
sized horse and cart could have been
driven into its mouth.
THE female spider spins the webs; the
male is wanderer. In nine cases out
of ten the female eats her husband up.
Eleven skeletons have been found in
one madame's "back yard"
EVERY adult man has l, 400 square feet
of lungs or, rather, the mucous men,
brane lining the air-cells of his lungs, if
spread upon a smooth, plane surface,
would cover an extent of l, 400 square
feet |..t
ROMAN gladiators received sometimes
as much as 50, 900 per year by the sale
Of the mixture of oil and sweat, called
strigamenta, which was scraped from
their bodies after their contests. This
mixture was made into pills, which were
sold as a tonic for endowing strength
and prolonging life,
THEMIsToCLEs could call by their
names the 20,00 citizens of Athens.
Cyrus is reported to have known the
name of every soldier in his army. Hor-
tensius (after Cicero, the greatest orator
of Romeo, after sitting a whole day at a
public sale, correctly enunciated from
memory all the things sold, their prices
and the names of their purchasers.
THERE was once curious saying in
England, "When once hempe is spun,
England is DONE" which became O
prophecy fulfilled when James i. as
cended the throne by the death of those
sovereigns whose initials spelled the fa-
tai word, Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip
(Mary's Spanish husband), Elizabeth.
england was done," then, since James
OF Scotland was King.
WRITER'S on natural history describe a
hideous reptile known as the fishing
frog, which angles for its game as ex-
pertly and with as great success as the
most adIoit fy-isher. He is clumsy,
awkward swimmer, but nature has COM
pensated him for his unwieldiness by
furnishing him with an equivalent for a
rod and line, with bait always ready for
use. Two elongated tentacles spring
from his nose, which taper away hike
actual fishing rods. To the end of them
is attached by a slender flament, which
serves the purpose of a line, bait in the
form of shiny bit of membrane. The
hooks are set in the mouth of the fisher
man down below, and in order to induce
the fish to venture within reach OF them
the angler stirs up the mud at the bot
tom with his fins and tail. This attracts
the fish, and conceals him from theii
observation. He then plies his rod the
glittering bait glows in the water like
living insect. The dazed fish are taker
in great numbers, perfectly circumvent
ed by the trick of the crafty angler.
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A MinisterinI statement.

Rev. G. A. Harvey, DID,, is the popular e.
nancial secretary of Howard University, and is
specially fitted to Judge of merit and demerit.
In recent letter from Washington to friend
he said 'sI have for two years past been ac-
quainted with the remedy known as Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and with its re-
markable curative efficiency in obstinate and
co-called incurable cases of Bright's disease in
this city. In some of these cases, which seemed
to be in the last stages, and which had been
given up by practitioners of both schools, the
speedy change wrought by this remedy seemed
but little less than miraculous. lam convinced
that for Bright's Disease in all its stages, in
Guiding the first symptoms, which seem SO
tofore discovered can be held for one moment
in comparison with this"
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HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
fFrom the House hold. 4

To REMOVE Rust FROM SrovKprPK.
Rub with inseed oil (a little goes o
great way); build slow fire till it is dry.
Oil in the spring TO prevent it from rust
ing.
To CLEAN BRAss.-Immerse or wash
IL several times in sour milk or whey.
This viii brighten II without securing.
It may then be secured with wooden
cloth dipped in ashes.
To PRESERVE Eaos-Take o patent
pailful Of spring water, pour it into q
stone jar, take one pound Of lime, one
pint Of salt; let it stand for three days,
stir it every day, then pour it off and put
In your eggs.
To REMOVE INK STAINS FROM PRINTED
BooKs.-Procure o pennyworth Of oxalic
acid, which dissolve In q small quantity
Of warm water, then slightly wet the
stain with IL, when 1t will disappear,
leaving the leaf uninjured.
To Cur GLAss.-Lay the glass on q
piece Of twine or whipcord; heat an iron
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Making Kid Gloves.

The Troy (N. W Times gives de-
scription of glove manufacture In a
town near Troy as follows:
In this factory nearly all the stock
used is imported from France. The
skins on arriving at the factory are first
put through a process of "shaving,"
which is done with abroad chisel, and
all the imperfect parts of the leather are
cut off, The skins are then taken to the
table cutting-room, where thirty cutters
are employed in cutting the skins into
oblong pieces, after which they are sent
to the "slitting" room, where the fin
gers are cut and the gloves are ready tor
the sewing machines. Thence we fol-
low them to the making room, where
ninety steam sewing g-machines, run by
women, are kept busy stitching the
seams, and twenty other women are en-
gagged working button-holes and putting
on buttons. The gloves are now ready
for the "laying off" room, where a
number of long-hol;ow forms, like out
stretched hands, are stood upright from
a table. If one were in need of good
warm shake of the hand, he could be
accommodated here, for each of these
hollow forms is filled with steam, and
gives the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worn. Another room
is the sorting-room where the vari-
GUS colors and sizes are fitted for the
market In the stretching process is a
peculiar sewing-machine which does the
beautiful overstitching of the seams. In
this factory over 200 hands are employed
and about seventy-five dozen pairs OF
gloves made daily. The glove cutters
average from $75 to $50 per month in
wages, and the makers (women) from
$50 to $40 per month. A beautiful
glove is now being made called the
mosquetaire, from imported mocha
skins, but dressed in the village, which is
better than any imported glove, and the
day seems to be coming when American
gloves will be known as superior to all
other makes. The skins used will cut OF
average about two pairs of gloves.