Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-24
NUMBER 6.
Various Matters.

Various Matters.
IT is reported that King Cetewayo is to
visit America. aet 3a
This years peach crop is estimated at
5000, 900 baskets. 4aas4s -
ALL the leading bugs are now personated
in silver iewelry.
OF all American watering places, Newport
is most English in tone.
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPoFYoRD chooses
the night time for writing.
PiTTsBURG is turning out glass slabs to
supplant marble on furniture.
AN Allegheny saloon-keeper was fined five
dollars for trying to hang himself.
THE Smithsonian Institute has been pre-
sented u lock of Sir Walter Scott's hair.
LOUISE MITCHELL, the famous female So
cialist of France, will lecture in America next
; fall.
THERE are in this world eighty people try
ing to make living by protesting to cure by
prayer.
i A MONSTER elephant christened Jingo has
succeeded Jumbo In the London Geological
Garden.
A WORK on the "Lives Of IIlustrious
Shoemakers" will soon be published in
London. sr
BROWNSVILLE, Neb., has . one-headcd
girl baby with four perfect legs and four per-
feet arms. .h
JOE JEFFERSON gave his daughter, who
married Fargeon, the author, 1000 as =
wedding gift.
A THIRTEEN -YEAR-OLD girl living near
Houma, Louisiana, has q light.brown beard
two inches long.
CHICAGO has 800 churches with an aggre-
gate attendance of 100000, which Is about
half the seating capacity. 9s
THE case of the Detroit negro convicted of
marrying white girl is to be made test of
the Fifteenth Amendment.
AUSTRALIA has come to the front with a
big tree, said to be 43O feet in height, with a
circumference of sixty feet.
J, THE army again bears upon its rolls the
revered name of Winfield Scott. He is
Chaplain for Nevada post.
A CLINTON COUNTY, Pa, man killed six
teen rattlesnakes last week, and sold the fat
Of the reptiles for six dollars.
AN old inn-keeper says that not over one
in five of the summer hotels In this country
+ will yield profit this season.
} PROF. EsMARCH, an eminent German sur
; geon, says General Garfield might have been
) alive but for the doctors treatment.
. COLE YOUNGER, who Is imprisoned in
: Minnesota with his two brothers, Is writing
, their combined biography as train robbers.
THE smallest circular saw In practical use
3 is a tiny disc about the size of dime, which
is employed for cutting the slips in gold pens.
CHARLIE HALL, of Kappa, ILL, aged II, has
returned home after trip to New York city.
He made his way along by begging and steal
ing.
Cot. r. G. INGERsOtL's cottage Is spoken
of as ''The cage of the happy family" and
his eight girls are called "Ingerolps Sunday
!, school class"
The King Of Ashantee has performed an
unprecedented act in drinking liquor In pub
lie, the occasion thus honored being Queen
victoria's birthday.
A PRETTY girl of 1s, neat in dress and po-
lite in manner, is a bootblack in Galveston.
She has a chair at street corner, and makes
from $3 to Sc day.
: WILHELMINA ROUSSEAU, known to all
, Philadelphia as beggar, accumulated about
49, 900 in five years, and has returned to Bel
) GUM with her fortune.
EVANGELIST BARNES acknowledges his
first reverse. He has failed to save many
sinners in Dayton, Ohio, though he gave q
month earnestly to the job.
FIFTY New Workers have organized the
"Order of Cranks." The foundation rule Of
, the order is that no member shall agree with
another in any expressed opinion.
A NEW bullet-proof treasure-car has been
put on the Southern Pacific. One part is
made for carrying money and the other for
carrying five or six armed guards.
CHICAGo's birth list shows q great mSor-
ity of girls. "Nothing is left undone," says
n st. Louis paper, sby those lake -dweilers to
make the big census of the FUTURE"