Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
Various Matters.

Various Matters.
Reformers In Vermont are advocat-
ing the formation of anti-tobacco socie-
ties.
The London Cuckoo says: "Amcri-
ca has very nearly taken our meas
ure."
Six lines of railroad now enter Den
yer, and three more are coon 10 bo
added. .tt
Some Japanese have started a factory
at Newton, Conn, to make Japanese
articles.
Bedford, Indiana, furnishes the stone
for the new Cotton Exchange Mt New
Orleans.
A silk mill, to employ 900 hands, 10
building at Hawley, Pa. Fine water
power there.
The Rev. Robert Collyer hunted up
his old anvil i'm Yorkshire, and has it
in his study.
Mr.. s. J. Tiljsn is enlarging and al
| Il ~
cost of $4,000.
The London Tablet says that the in
como Of Iroquois's owner is estimated
at 5000 day!
| Forty thousand dollars hnve been
subscribed toward Richmond's Lee
Monument fund.
Seth Green is placing 1000, 900 Cali
fornia trout In the small streams and
ponds Of New York.
Florida figures her melon crop Mt
s, 900, 900. not counting any melons
smaller than water pail.
Twelve scientific farmers graduated
from the Iowa Agricultural College
this year--six of each sex.
The fourth annual meeting OF the
| American Bar Association will be held
at Saratoga. August IL, Is and 10.
The widow Of the novelist q. =. X.
James is living at Green Bay, Wis.
Tho daughter has been visiting Ore
gon.
In thirty-one years Gen. Sherman
has been but once late for dinner. His
wife is the authority for this state
ment.
Robert Tirroll, of Cambridge, Mass,
n colored student Of Harvard COLLEGE,
is head waiter Mt an Eastern summer
hotel.
Dry goods clerks In New York parad-
ed the streets the other week with such
notices as "Slavi hours must be abol-
ished.
Tho New York, Lackawanna md
Western railroad will build u $4,000
bridge at Sparta, N. Y, four hundred
feet long.
Fashionable mountain and seaside
dresses are now made Of awning stripes.
They harmonize with the shade of tho
front stoOp.
}, Mrs. Langtry will visit New York In
October next, and, 1t is said, apartments
have been secured already for her Mt
, the Westminster.
In two hours n railroad committee at
Fort Worth, Texas, collected S2G0, 900
subscriptions. for new railroad, from
twenty-five citizens.
Iowa crop: $4,000 bushels corn less
than last year; half crop wheat; two
thirds crop hay; three times the area
of flax over last year. H'|
r The average English and America n
, brain is said to weigh 45.7 ounces.
. against French. 4i.6; German, AL +;
Italian, A; negro, 40.5.
Thirty-five Vassar girls graduated ns
Bachelor Of Arts, "and the New York
Star suggests that the title be changed
to "Oid Maids Of Arts"
q Peter Cooper has decided TO open
g schools of instruction in type-writing
0 and photography in Cooper Institute,
: New York, at n cost Of $4,000.
One Of Florida's recent i'm migrants is
u Maj. III. B.Church, Of the English army.
u His regiment Daring the Zulu war lost
r 80 officers and nearly 1000 men.
q The Boston Globe conceived new
!, motto for the Fourth of July-"Molons
and collie, one and. d.inseparabIe, now and
n, forever. T. pluribus cucumbers.
5. BY actual count the extent Of new
l. operations in the Allegheny oil field
v has reached an aggregate Of eighty rigs
4 up and buildings and wells drilled.