Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
GENERAL.
Shanghai purposes holding an In
exhibition in 1888.


ternational exhibition in 1888.
"Pinafore " has ut last got over to
Berlin, and viii soon re produced at the
Friedrich wilhelm Theatre a. Amor
au Bord." 'Mt
A woman who was accidentally
wounded in the hand by q rife shot
from boat of a British gun vessel has
received from the Government u, 600.
The number of insane persons In
the United States is put down by experts
at 10O, 900, and the same authorities say
that from ten to twenty per cent. are
durable by present methods.
"A teacher Of sewing was wanted In
q girls normal school in Philadelphia,
and of thirteen candidates who present
ed themselves only two were able 30
pass creditable preliminary examine
ton.
"A spark from the engine caught In
the light lawn dress of . lady on Jer-
body with wooden shawl or overcoak
Volunteer fremen tore the lady . clothes
off, and she was not much burned but
felt much "put out"
AT the Royal Palace in Berlin forty
thousand wax candles are instantane-
ously lighted by single match. The
wicks are previously connected by .
thread spun from gun-cotton, on ignit-
ing one end of which all the candles are
lighted simultaneously, and thus the
whole of the seven hundred apartments
are lighted at once.
A curious experiment is being tried
in several corps of the Russian Army.
This consists In the introduction of dogs
instead of men as sentries. For this duty
the wolf dog of the Ural Mountains IL
found most suitable, as this animal win
growl at the presence of an intruder in
stead Of barking outright, and thus in
citing all the dogs in the camp to do
likewise.
An aged man, afflicted with cata-
lepsy, has been placed in jail ut Had
lyme, Conn.,, on complaint Of two mar
ried daughters, for failing to support
his family, the youngest member Of
which is twenty-four. His case arouses
a great deal of sympathy and indigna-
ton in the town, and he would be in
stantly released If he did not decline
TO be liberated by anybody but his
daughters.
The waiter girls in Philadelphia
restaurants are being largely superseded
by black and white men. A colored
waiter was interrogated on the subject,
and he in confidence informed the re-
porter that ode reason de bosses couldn't
get along wild de gals was cause dey all
got fellahs and de fellahs am waited on
berry well but de fellahs dat amt got
no gals dey don't git muffin till de res
am tended to-"
"A wholesale drug firm of Louisville
have received letter from customer
who reminds them. that they procured
his first wife for him, and she having
died he wishes them to provide just such
another "that would do for q house.
keeper" He wants one badly, and he
doesn't care what money she has, or
even il she is fleshy like No. /. But she
must be Gas good and clean house
keeper as Mary"
AT the Chepstow, England, Petty
Sessions, Harriet Prichard, an old
woman, whose husband had been i'll for
long time and in receipt Of parish re-
lief,w charged with stealing two eggs,
valued at two-pence. The case having
been proved, the bench told the prison.
er that she had made herself liable to
three months imprisonment, but rs
there was nothing previously known
against her, they sentenced her to seven
days, with hard labor. The severity Of
this sentence is condemned in the Lon
don papers.
The immense herds, now aggregat-
ing 20,000,OO0, which roam over the
rampas of the Argentine Republic, and
now form, with the sheep, almost the
whole wealth Of that country, are all de-
scended from eight cows and q bull
which two Portuguese brothers, named
Goes, took to the Spanish colony there
in 1868. It Is only within few years
that any effort has been made TO inn
prove the much-depreciated stock Of the
country. As yet only few cattle near
Buenos Ayres have. been crossed with
short-horn breeds. bid
George Fuchs, boy Of nine, few
days ago came from the backwoods Of
Canada with his violin, and played in
Wallis piano rooms, Buffalo, the work
of the greatest artists in an astonishing
manner. He plays De Beriot, Wieniaw-
ski, Ernst and Chopin nocturnes per-
fectly. The Buffalo Express says:
His ear is so accurate that he can tell
insIdntiy, uHu 81 Idpiuiy tuotl - uliH-
cult to follow him, the notes In any chord
or discord that may be played, as many
notes being taken in as the hand can
grasp! He can also sing any note asked
for, striking in succession the most diff.
cult intervals with perfect accuracy.
Blind Tom is clumsy bungler in these
tests in comparison with this boy. Al
the piano, though unable to reach the
pedals, and never having received les
sons on that instrument, he extempor-
lied in manner that many an old play
er has never been able to accomplish,
showing, as his little hands that can
scarcely reach an octave fairly whirled
over the keys, q wealth of Imagination
and an Unborn sense of harmonic modu-
lation and resolutions, of rhythm, form
and phrasing that were simply astound-
ing" I77.t ..sap
He Loved Secluded Life.
0You are LIVING n very aocludod lifa "