Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-28
GENERAL.

The Superintendent of the census
has been requested to look over the 3d.
900, 900 names on his book by Southern
woman, who wants to find the residence
of her lover who left her some years
since.
"A French cook, who lately returned
to Paris from tour of inspection in the
United States, was asked his opinion in
regard to the American kitchen and re-
piled: ala cuisine Americana est IN
vrai assassinat!" American cookery
is murder in the first degree.
The genuineness of the philanthropy
of Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson has just
stood severe test. Smallpox having
broken out in Stamford, CT, where she
spends large portion of her time, she
at once volunteered as a nurse, thus
showing that she values her life no more
than her money when the interests of hu-
manitY are at stake.
"A French paper says that besides
the well-known noble houses there are
in France 305, 200 families who between
1860 and 1889 received letters patent of
nobility. In large number of cases,
however, their descendants seemed to be
ignorant of this circumstance, and in
some instances have even been prose-
cnted for carrying armorial bearings to
which they were in truth fully entitled.
Canada has unwittingly gone into
an arrangement by which the United
States gains population at the expense
of the Canadian treasury. The Gov
eminent made bargain with steam
ship company running to Montreal to
pay twenty-five per cent. of the fares of
all emigrants who intended to settle in
Canada. This reduction is commonly
taken advantage of, it has been discov-
cred, by persons really bound for this
country.
AT the beginning of the thirteenth
century the ports OF England ranked:
Lynn, Hull. Eighty years later, Boston,
sixteenth century Lynn was the most
important port; then came Hull, Var
mouth, Exeter, Bristol, while Boston
and Newcastle was looming up. Fifty
years later Bristol was winning the race,
to have her nose put out of joint in an
other half century by Liverpool.
A st. Petersburg correspondent
writes that in the latest budget of the
Russian empire, the division allotted to
the household expenses of the late Car
includes fifteen hundred roubles for pro-
viding birch brooms (Ruthen besen) for
cleaning the Winter Palace. Estimating
the cost of each at the retail prices in
st. Petersburg, he finds that no less than
eighteen thousand of these brooms have
been used every year for the Winter
Palace! Nearly fifty must then have
been worn to the stump every day in the
late reign. -. To-
= In olden times English tramps
prayed for deliverance from He'll, Hull
and Halifax. This is explained by the
chronicler Fuller, who relates that there
was q peculiar s'Gibbet law offering
special facilities for the hanging of idle
and dishonest in Halifax, while they
avoided Hull because it was ''terrible
unto them as a town of good govern
ment, where warrants meet with punt
tive charity" I" Punitive charity" is
good, and might be applied to advantage
in this erring and straying season in
many other places outside of Hull.
An English peer and some friends
were returning from the races. In the
adjoining compartment were eight sport
ing men, who, cleaned out by successive
failures, were travelling without tickets,
hoping by turn of good luck to escape
payment. At last one of them struck
upon a brilliant idea. Pulling his cap
down over his eyes and buttoning his
coat he went to the carriage of the noble
lord and his friends, and, assuming an
official air, collected all their tickets.
These he distributed among his friends,
and on reaching London the noble lord
narrowly escaped seeing himself and his
friends taken into custody for attempting
to defraud the railway company. TWAS
only by paying their fare second time
that they escaped from the clutches of
the railway servants. If s'. .
The authorities at Clinton IN. W
Prison are rejoicing in the return Of
Richard Henry Thornton, the horse
thief, inasmuch as the owner of that i'm
posing name is renowned for his man.
agement of pigs, of which there are
about 200 in the prison yards. Thornton
is sixty mine years old and was first SEN
fenced to State Prison fifty years ago.
During this half century of crime he has
worn the prison garb forty-one years,
having served twice, he affirms, as hired
substitute for others who were guilty,
once from Hudson and once from Sche-
nectady. The prison now seems to him
like a home and he takes no little pride
in seeing it well kept in all respects. He
took back with him on his latest return
four dozen eggs, by means of which he
hopes to improve the breed of the
Warden's fowls. I'd 5000 ...i.r
AS soon as the death of the late EN-
press Dowager was announced in China
the mandarins and all high officials of
the Empire put on garments Of pure
white, and these were worn for twenty
seven consecutive days. The regula-
tons which prescribe official mourning
also require that the red buttons upon
their caps shall be replaced by blue but
tons. On the twenty-eighth day they
put on black clothing, which must be
worn for 100 days. They are also for
hidden to marry within that period, nor
can they indulge in any of the usual So
cial pleasures. The lower orders of the
people must also be clothed in white,
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