Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-11
NUMBER 43.
Various Matters.


Various Matters.
Nine. Nilsson proposes to make Paris
her future home.
Nearly 2. 500 Immigrants arrived daily
during last month. .rs
Garibaldi has. improved in health
beyond all expectations.
The country uses million postal
cards every working day.
Robert Toombs is losing his eyesight.
and will soon be entirely blind.
Mr.. Tyndall once spoke of Darwin as
1.-THE most terrible of antagonists."
Mr.. Cross is proceeding with the hi
ography OF his late wife, George.Eliot.
The new Gazette de Jerwsulens pal
estine) 10 to be in English, French, snd
German. @ .9r II ssu s
In New Zealand the women wear
their hair short, and the men wear
theirs long. - 4, s.-.x
Officers and men on the Panama
| canal job are. dying faster than their
places can be filled.
Mr.. Chilicott, of Colorado, was farm
laborer in 1860, aud is now member of
the United States Senate. s.
The census Of Canada shows that
nearly $4,000 natives of the United
States live in the Dominion. af
Chicago finds it cheaper to compel
people to use broad wagon tires than to
mend the miserable pavements.
Suicides and suicidal attempts, in
consequence Of the late financial disas-
ters, are still ocurring in France.
Massachusetts finds the Hoosac tun-
mel q big bore, as it has cost the State
81 100000 since it was finished"
The coffin used at Pleasant Ridge
(Ohio) funeral was painted red, white.
and blue, and draped with Union flags.
During March tho real estate trans
actions in San Francisco figured up to
81, ga ,6s2, representing the sale of 2l4
parcels.
The School Board Of Reading, Penn,
has voted to close the public schools on
the day Jumbo visits the city with Bar
NUNS circuss
Mrs. Sarah Holstein, of Norrist0wn,
Pa, died recently, aud left provision
in her will that no woman should be
allow ed at her funeral.
A mortgage on personal property
which was recorded in Boston the 9TH
or day provided for rate Of interest at
SO per cent. per annum.
The Dean Stanley memorial fund
now amounts to about SIS, 600, some
thing more than 5000 having been
contributed by Americans.
The Palatka Journal predicts that
people who carry small dogs to Florida
next winter will find the doors of many
hotels closed against them.
Mauritius up to 1857, when fever broke
out, was so healthy as to be an Anglo
Indian sanatorium. Now it is almost
as dreaded as Sierra Leone.
Perry Belmont's mother is daugh-
ter of Commodore Perry; he comes
naturally by the Perry in his name and
the pluck in his constitution.
Alexander II. Stephens voice still
retains its wonderful ring and can. be
heard easily in all parts Of the Hall of
the House of Representatives.
Switzerland has had to pass a law to
protect its Alpine flower, and the coun-
try round London cries for one to save
the wild prinlroses and cowslips.
The roads leading to Wood River.
Idaho. are crowded with people maxi
ing their way to the gold fields in all
kinds Of conveyances and on foot.
"Home, Sweet Home,n is the last
thing played at the ..President's recep-
tions. and it is said to give warning
like the cocks growing in Hamlet"
Mr.. Gillig, of the American Ex-
change in London, says &C, 900 Ameri-
cans will go to Europe this summer,
and the exodus has already begun.
Mr.. Tennyson has carefully revised
his new play, which has been given to
Mr.. Irving, on the pledge that it il to
be brought out within given time.
Large quantities of cabbages are be-
ing raised in Florida this season for
northern shipment. They are chiefly
raised in the vicinity of Tallahassee.
The Rev. Joseph Cook Is tour in India
is described as q great success. His
lectures are regarded by the Hindoos
as triumphs Of eloquence and wisdom.
Mrs. Carlyle said she never was i'm
love with her husband; she married
him from ambition and was more than
gratified, but her life was most miser-
able.
Wing, one of the Chinese students
who were recalled by their Govern
nent, has returned apd will continue
lis studies in the scientific department
It Yale.
The jamestown (Dakota) papers re-
port that from twenty-five t. thirty
men sleep in chairs in the hotels in that
own every night because they cannot
set beds.
An interesting international exhibi-
ion of newspapers and reviews is now
'pen to Dresden Over 1900 periodi-
'als, printed in fifty-five languages, are
Exhibited.
How many people are there" !" asks