Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-12

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| Notes Of the Day.
Sojourner Truth has been lecturing in
Michigan.
Harvard now has the largest class of fresh
men-275.
"Real Diamonds"is yearnful hope of Anna
Dickinson. ~
Amateur musicians are slowly depopulat-
ing Lowell, Mass. esf as
Some Chicago ladies smoke cigarettes at
the public restaurants. i'' =
| A Michigan cow got mixed in q clothes
line, and paraded the streets clad In under
wear. ....t
| Two Toronto elopers were SO and 10, with
the forty years seniority belonging to the
woman.
1t is said that Queen Victoria intends to
spend portion of the coming winter in the
south of France.
| A young Virginian has invented machine
called the "lung destroyer" Itturns out 100
cigarettes minute.
Some one, not an editor, has made the
novel discovery that the cat is nowhere men,
tened in the Bible.
| Charles e. Gilman has Just completed his
fortieth year of continuous service as Town
| Clerk of Somerville, Mass.
A colored woman in Washington was seized
with fits, fell into a wash tub only partially
full of water and was drowned.
An Italian organ grinder, enraged by bad
business, smashed his organ with an AK at
Springfield, Ohio, and made bonfire of the
pieces.
John B. Cough will open the lecture sea-
son at fremont Temple, Boston, ON Monday
evening, October 18th. He Is in excellent
health.
4 The Australian cricket. team takes away
from England Ell 900 in hard cash. BY the
last match at Remington Oval they netted
over f900.
A Pittsburg farmer, whose two little lost
girls had been found by the police, was so
glad that he danced a breakdown in the May
or's office.
4 The National Dress Society of Great Britain
offers prize of ESQ fori' the design of female
and health" The tdivided skirto has been
: condemned. ga}'a }Tf95 s9f
A Norwegian missionary in Zululand re-
ports that he has baptized twenty adult Zu-
lus since the war, and that thirty others are
in q hopeful condition. Day and night schools
are in full operation. stI tS
The explosion of kerosene lamp at Ply
' mouth, Me-, did not hurt Mrs. Miles much,
and the loss of the dress which she wore was
of small account; butin a burned pocket was
81 300 in paper money.
Rideau Hall, the residence Of the Govern
or-General of Canada, is shaky old struct-
ure, and frequent repairs are necessary to
make it look at all like a place. 1t is now
being fitted up by decorators.
II OF the $235, 900 assigned to the National Lii
brary, i'll the French budget this year, SAG, 900
is for binding and 100000 for cataloguing.
The process of isolating the library from 9TH
er buildings has cost over 81 100000.
! A man advertised as an "ex-priest" who
was engaged to lecture at Saginaw, Mich, ),
was found to have been an Episcopal cler-,
gyman at Milwaukee, whiskey-selle in
Texas, and a hair-dye hawker in st. Louis.
A ragged tramp complained in WASH
ington police court a few days ago that he,
while asleep in park, had been robbed of a
pair of Henry Clay's pantaloons, which he
, had been keeping as memento of that great
man.
} Curious Detroit people continue to wonder
| what the stable keeper is going to do with
the three elephants he bought at auction the
other day, although he tells them that he in
tends to use them in the lumber woods this
; winter "swamping out logs"
An edition de lu1e of Mr.. Blackmore's
novel. "Lorna Doone," is about to be pub
lished. This will be the twenty first edition
OF the, book. Young noyelists may be COM
/ forted by the fact that "Lorna Doone" went
begging among the publishers for long
time. I
The fastest railroad building ever done is
now in progress on the Canada Pacific. For
the last fifty days it has advanced at an aver
age rate of over three miles a day, the work
including grading, track laying and bridging
all complete, with side tracks whose length
is not counted.
/ For the best Sewing Machines, go to the
Agency of the Genuine Singer, one door south
Of the REGISTER office, Ironton.
n4-Sm JAMES WEIGH, Agent.