Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-13
GENERAL.

Elisha Jewett, of Freeman, Maine,
who has voted for President eighteen
times, saws his own wood and cuts his
hay still, in spite of his ninety-one
years.
-Cohoes, N. Y, furnishes another
argument against sbangs.'' A girl
winder in mill was caught by her front
t'bang" in revolving bobbin, land badly
hurt.
The associated Railroads of Virginia
and the Carolinas have established three
immigrant homes along their lines for
the purpose of sheltering and in every
way caring for newcomers until they
can be located in homes of their own.
Gen. Sheridan has returned to Chi
-cago after trip of six weeks through
the Big Horn Mountains and the yell
1ostone region. His party travelled $50
miles and killed seventeen elk, half
dozen buffaloes and number of bears.
"A Denver girl advertised for pro-
posals of marriage. Her father pub
hshed card to say that her advertise
ment was merely a foolish freak, and
that nobody should regard it seriously.
Then the girl came out with declara-
ton that, being of legal age to choose
husband for herself, she had taken her
not mean to abandon the plan.
Nearly all the ice imported into
Great Britain comes from Norway.
When the business began it came from
Boston. the nearest port to the cele-
brated lake called Wenham. The purity
and solidity of the ice of this lake soon
won for it a reputation for all that could
be desired in the article. But it was
found that as good gathering place
was situated on the coast of Norway,
which was, of course, much nearer Eng
land, and to keep up the name one of
the lakes there-Lake Oppegaard-was
dubbed Wenham Lake.
Without doubt the only stonecutter
in the whole world with sufficient assur-
ance to court a widow while engaged in
the very act of recording upon monu-
.mental marble the virtues of the late Ia
vmented lives in Louisville, Ky, and his
name is Benjamin Ferguson. The court
ship advanced more rapidly than the in
scription, and when the latter was
only half completed the former ended in
a wedding. The elegiac pair are now
taking the customary journey, but the
stanecutter has agreed to finish the cpl
Eaph as soon as they return.
Mrs. Sarah Davis, of Washington,
who died quite recently, was the only
person who ever shook hands with all
the Presidents of this country except
President Garfield. She was in her
ninety-fourth year, and was born in the
District near Bladensburg. Her hus-
band, John Davis, who died about twen-
ty-five years ago, had charge of the ma
w yard during the war of 1912, and
took all of the records and other valua-
bic documents of the Government to
Montgomery County in wagon to
save them from being destroyed by the
British.
Lieut.. D. A. Lyle has eaten grass
hoppers out West, and he lately read a
paper before Springfield science asso-
citation praising them as food. Although
they naturally have a disagreeable smell,
ne says that when cooked they become
pleasant to both smell and taste, no
disguise being required. They can be
eaten after boiling two hours, with pep
per and salt, and thus prepared are not
easily distinguished from beef broth.
Fried in their own oil they have nutty
flavor. One drawback to their use as
food is the bones in the small locusts,
though in the larger ones these can be
easily removed.
An extraordinary suicide is re-
ported from the city of Brunn, Ger
many. Franz Valdez, a young man
who served as secretary to physician,
agreed to fight a duel with nobleman
in what they denominated "the Ameri-
can style of dueling," according to
which they were to draw lots to see
which of the two should blow his brains
out. Valdez drew the black ball. He
had until the 18th of May to shoot him
self, but his antagonist extended the
time two months to enable him to ar
range his affairs. When this time had
elapsed Valdez requested a further ex-
tension, but this being refused by the
, nobleman, who branded him as cow
ard, the young man, on the 10Th of Au-
gust, deliberately drove a bullet through
his head. He left letter commenting
the girl to whom he had been betrothed
to the affections of a friend, and request
ing his acquaintance to make credita-
bic showing at his funeral.