Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-06
GENERAL.

The Rev. Phillip Brooks, of Bos-
ton, was taken for champion g strong
man the other day at Bangor. On ar
irving at the wharf he could not find the
baggage-master to remove his big trunk
from the carriage, so he picked it up
himself as easily as if it had been a
sachel and carried it across the wharf.
andrew Plagnor, of Louisville, was
"a. His practice for many years was to
read the Bible two hours every Sunday
morning, and work hard all the rest of
the day making wooden spoons, which
he peddled during the week. He lately
became convinced that he was a Sab
bath-breaker. His offense seemed to
him enormous, and he. drowned him
self.
Phoebe, New, is the pOssessor of
big graveyard, occupied exclusively by
the bodies of gentlemen who died with
their boots on. In times past, when
such burials were common, the cemetery
was kept in some style, but now that all
the glory has dep. .rted from the mining
towns, the graves are neglected, the
headboards have gone to- decay, and
soon there will be no distinguishing fea-
lures between the resting places of the
old-timer, who slew his score of fellow
mortals, and the ''tenderfoot,' who re-
ceived a death-wound in his first ARRAY.
An extraordinary case of company
promoting was recently brought under
the notice of the magistrate at Bow
Street, London. Ledru Rollin Reynolds
was the name of the accused person; but
he had many aliases. An agreement
had been duly drawn up and signed for
the purchase of the lease of the Silver
Valley Mine in Cornwall, and Reynolds
had issued a prospectus for the forma-
ton of limited company on the strength
of this. But there was no such mine
SO say the prosecutors; there was no
lead worth speaking of in the locality
indicated. The vendors of the lease
were also imaginary. The prisoner was
held.
"A whale recently was stranded on
an outlying point of the island of Walls,
Orkney Men, women and children
rushed to the spot with knives, pitch
forks, and more primitive weapons, and
cut the monster in fearful manner, I'M
til it was supposed that life was extinct.
Ropes were afterward procured and fas-
tened to the whale, and boats were pro-
ceeding to tow it into the harbor. With
the rising tide the whale floated; but
as the boats were being rowed away in
triumph with the prize, the whale sud-
denly took a fresh lease of life and started
seward, in turn towing the boats. 1t
was only after being dragged over three
miles that the men succeeded in cutting
the ropes and saving their boats from
being swamped-
During recent storm in Orange,
VT, q large meteoric stone fell on the
farm of Smith Martyr. When it struck
it was somewhat shattered, and the
fragments cut large holes in the ground
and fences. OF the largest piece, cor
respondent of the Montpelier Argus
says: CAT the time we visited the To-
cality it was SO hot we could not get
within twenty feet of it, but since then l
have been to the spot and made exact
measurement. 1t is eight feet four
inches long, and two feet five and one
half inches in diameter. OF course from
its size and from the force with which it
struck, it may extend eight or ten feet
into the earth. 1t stands at about an
angle of Is degrees and came in a di-
rect line from that angle, as it can. be
plainly seen where it burnt the trees, it
coming through a little distance off in
the edge of the woods. The appear
ance very much like Stag from iron
works. 1t did but little DAMAGE
The colossal crane or derrick the
most powerful in the world-which has
been in process of construction for sew
eral years at the Royal Arsenal, Wool
wich, England, is now an accomplished
fact. The size of this apparatus may be
judged from the curious details pub
lished, as, for instance, more than l 300
tons of iron have been used in it, manu-
facture, while the brass bearings alone
amount to more than three tons. The
design has been that this monster crane
should be capable of lifting three or four
100-ton guns at once; the purpose, how
ever, for which it has been mainly pro-
vided is not to do work which other APP
pliances could accomplish in detail, but
rather to meet the probable necessity
for dealing with pieces of ordnance so
enormous as to defy all the means at
present available for mounting them in
their carriages. The motive power is
steam, and, although calculated to raise
1000 tones in case of need, the APP
paratus is also fixed for raising small
weights at accelerated speed, and thus
adapted, in many instances, to facilitate
The ordinary operations.