Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
Various Matters.

Sugar of very fair quality is now
made from rags.
Bob Ingersoll is said to be uncom-
monty fond of fried onions.
The late Judge Colt, of Massachu-
sets, left a $4,000 estate.
A Hartford editor says that shark,
boiled, stuffed and baked, is good eat
ing.
Dan Rice commenced his career as a
jockey for Henry Clay. He is about
60 years old.
Ex-Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, left
S., 900 for drinking fountain in front
of the Detroit City Hall.
| A girl who pitches her voice for con-
versation by means of tuning fork is
curiosity in the Catskllls.
The Lake Okeechobee region in South
Florida, it is found, produces native
variety of the India-rubber tree.
Wade Hampton. who is passing the
summer at Dagger's Springs, Va, has
been very successful at fishing this sea-
son.
Some New England groceries still
bear signs with "West Indian Goods
on sale," recalling Salem's past glO-
ries.
1t is said that iron or steel immersed
in q solution of carbonate of potash or
soda for few minutes will not rust for
years.
| Gen. Ward B. Burnett, Of New York,
is the only surviving graduate of West
Point who was q general in the Mexi-
can war.
Women of the warehouses; at Louis
Vile and Cincinnati are made to break
rock on the streets two hours every
morning.
It is rumored that Gov. Plaisted, of
Maine, will be married in October. He
il making extensive repairs in his house
in Bangor.
The credit system is beautiful thing.
Only about Is per cent. of all the judg-
,nents obtained in the higher Of fCnica-
go courts are collected.
There have been heavy rains of late
lust where rains ut this season of the
year are most rare-in Arizona. Much
damage has been done.
A Cincinnati wholesale merchant
says the best quality OF whisky is Or
dered by the VermOnters and the
worst by the Boston dealers.
A single grape vine at Cajon, Cal.
bears five tons of fruit, the weight of
which has broken down the sturdy oak
tree on which the vine climbs.
i California raises great quantities of
mustard seed, but cannot succeed in
refining it, SO the bulk goes to En-
gland, and returns as Durham mus
tard.
A Maine man Of wealth left his es-
tate 80 conditioned that his heirs will
lose their income six months for ev-
ery breach of toial abstinence
pledge.
Alexander Burns, a grandnephew of
the poet, died in Louisville the other
week. He was one of the oldest and
most capable engineers OH the Western
waters.
Gen. H. Hill, who was one Of Lees
division commanders, IL now President
of the Arkansas University. The school
has 44O students, and Gen. Hill makes
u popular executive.
They tell at Newport of a girl who,
by wearing III enormous sunf1ower on
her front, got mistaken for target. and
was pierced .,y an arrow from near
sighted archer's bow.
The grave of Gen. Braddock, defeat
ed near Pittsburg in 1865, Is few miles
east Of Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa,
on the old National pike. There is no
monument or stone to mark it.
The Lebanon Shakers number $50,
two-thirds Of whom are women and
, girls, and their property is valued at
81. 100000. Members relinquish all
claims on retiring from the commu-
nifty.
George Miller, only six years old,
set off an infernsl machine in a crowd
ed San Francisco theatre. 1t was only
a wad Of cotton full of Cayenne pepper
and alcohol, but its burning cleared the
house.
The White House has had no general
overhauling since it was rebuilt in 1915,
after it had been destroyed by fire by
, the British troops, on the occasion of
their raid upon Washington in the war
of 1912.
The men of an opera company organ
lied for New England tour are to pa
| rade on the dav of the entertainment