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

A little nut brown made: A peanut
in roaster.
"Kalakaua" in Hawaiian means "ths
day of battle.
All sorts of furniture are now made
out of paper.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe il writ
ing new story.
The Emma Abbott receipts for two
weeks in Denver were $27 500.
At least 5000 Michiganders will
have to DO wintered by charity.
Lowell Courier: "The more house
keeper has the more she kneeds."
A farm at Brainbridge. Ga, is to be
devoted to training hunting dogs.
Vennor announces that "a very sig
nificapt November is approaching"
at occasionally drop into poetry" as
the man said when he fell into the ed
itorial waste basket.
In Washington photograph gallery
eight men are kept busy making por-
traits of Guiteau for sale.
Joe Jefferson has hoofed it across the
histrionic boar ds for forty six years. and
is good for long siege yet.
"a babe" says a writer, "is q moth
er's anchor" And about the first
thing she does is to weigh it.
The New Orleans Picdyune says
corners on grain follow wheat through
weevil report as well as good.
Mrs. Booth, the widow of the great
tragedian, Is still living at Long
Branch. She is over 80 years old.
A Syracuse banker brings suit for
damages against paper that stated
that house he owned was haunted.
During Kalakaua's absence his king
dom is in charge of his sister, who bears
the wild, weird name of Lilinokalina.
Gather, an Alabama weather proph-
ct, says that a very rough winter may
be expected in this country and In Eu-
rope.
The Courier-Journal says that Rus
sian word coming through the tele-
phone breaks all the furniture in the
room.
The unusual courage of Greenland
women no longer excites wonder. 1t is
ascertained that there are no cows
there.
The American system of transport
ing trunks between residences and
railroad trains has been introduced in
to Berlin.
Mr.. LongfelIow is in good health
and spirits. His blue eyes are
bright and his cheeks have the flush of
wholesome age.
A Chicago editor asks "Is man the
highest animal?" And is answered:
mo, sir; the highest animal is usually
the weather cock"
Peter Bogart and wife, Of townsville,
Pa, have been married seventy-five
years. They are each 95 years old, and
are in excellent health.
The geographical congress in Venice
passed q resolution in favor Of the
prompt execution of the canal through
the Isthmus of Corinth.
Mr.. Edison ia reported by the Rubber
Era to hold So, ,000, 900 worth of stocks
in the various companies formed to in
troduce his incandelight.
When a man tells a story he thinks
is funny and the crowd does not catch
on, his face falls naturally. 1t is affect
ed by the force of gravity.
Clara Barton, the world -honored
apostle Of the Red Cross Society, has
been lecturing in New York for the
benefit of the Michigan sufferers.
"What fine, protuberant forehead
YOUR baby has, Mrs. Jones! Did he get
it from his father?" "No," replied
Mrs. Jones; "he got 1t from q fall down
stairs.
MIR. Flint is a member Of the Wis
consin Legislature. He Is not at all
hard citizens, yet some paper are throw
ing out base insinuatiOns about flint
and steal.
A poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is
"to live within his income," whereas
the difficulty he experiences is to live
without an income.
Thievish collectors of autographs
have cut over one hundred signatures
out of the correspondence Of General
Anthony Wayne In the State Normal
School Of Pennsylvania.
A Boston mendicant said to gentle
man: 81 should like to have ten cents
to appease my hunger. I have forty
cents, and with ten more / could get
quite decent supper"
The weight of q cask Of water pulled
out the teeth of the "Man with the Iron
Jaw" while he was performing at the
Indiana State FAIR. and fell on his
breast, crushing him to death.
The divers who raised eighteen cans
of nitro -glycerine from under forty-five
feet Of water and six of mud, at Winni-
peg, seriously said good-by to their fami-
lies every time they went down.
A Paterson, N. J., youth. to abate q
nuisance, dressed as a young woman,
accepted the escort Of pertinacious loaf
er, and, getting him to a lonely place,
gave the coward "a sound thrashing.
weeping widower fell into his wife 8
grave during q funeral at Decatur, H.,
and as he claimed out his language was
SD shockingly profane that the clergy
man felt compelled to reprove him.