Iron County register., 1882-03-23
NUMBER So.
Various Matters.

In California gum tree roots will run
sixty feet in eight years.
| Daniel Webster used to shoot what
small fish he wanted for bait.
DIR. Lewis, a Chicago opponent Of
vaccination, has died of smallpox.
It is estimated that %, 900 New York
ers will go to Europe this summers
Shrimp canning has b"en added to
the list of industries in New Orleans.
Not even the thinest crust of ice has
been seen in Shreveport, La, this win
ter.
Maine has three Mormon churches
and more than dozen Mormon preach
ers.
A United States cent of 1893 sold at
auction in Baltimore the other day for
$500.
Boston girls are now wearing hats
made after the fashion of police he'll
NETS.
A letter written in German by Prince
Albert was recently svld in Paris
for $50.
Major Andre bandaged his own eyes
ant assisted the hangman in adjusting
the moose.
Queen Victoria remains faithful to
that ideal material of elderly ladies',
| black silk.
Canada had TO pay $li 900 tor the
Governor-G recent tour in the
north west.
One thousand men are employed in
the mills of Pensacola. Fla, and all
joining districts.
The New York Mail knows of cler-
gyman's wife who has lost $4,000 in
stock speculations.
a party of professional gamblers,
backed by luck, have broken four Mil
waukee faro bands.
Applications for passes for the Gui-
teau execution are coming in from all
parts of the country.
Two hundred dollars worth of celery
| was sold in one patch Ia Nassau coun-
ty, Fla, last month.
The latest anti burglar machine in
vented III the South fires off young
cannon and lights lamp.
THE Tomb" and "The Morgue" are
the enlivening pet names of boarding.
houses in \ suburb of New York.
Nearly all the walks about the city
of Jacksonville, Florida, are perfunied
with the scent Of orange blossoms.
The bill recently before the Wiscon-
sin Assembly to prohibit the sale of
tobacco to minors has been rejected.
A Mr.. Pickins OF Colorado, has be-
come the father of triplets, and has
named them Grant, Hayes, and Gar
field.
From fifteen to thirty births, that are
witnessed by medical students, take
place every twenty-four hours in VII
emma.
A Cleveland paper asks to have n
utilized" by the display Of electro
lights.
Sophia Bernina, who recently found
her way into Switzel land, il the only
woman exile that has yet escaped from
Siberia.
John Russell Young, rumor says, will
soon marry Miss Julia e. Coleman. "a
niece OF Ex-Governor Jewell, Of Com
necticut.
The American Bible Society refuses
to send out a certain Burmese Bible be-
cause the word "baptize" is translated
immerse."
The London Spectator. speaking of
Je1f. Da' Is book, says he has strongly
pronounced faculty of seeing things uI-
side down.
DIR. Qppenhcimer tells the Medical
Nc,cs That in no city in Europe can a
dinner he had for less than B.,
)r 40 cents.
The city of Boston contains Al .92e
IweilIng houses valued at $i,Ol3,OlO.
There are, besides. 7S hotels and 147
aInl'y hotels in the city.
1t is proposed to erect in the central
,aIl of the new Cotton Exchange, i'm
New Orleans, Il statue Of Eli whitney.
inventor of the cotton-gin.
Hello is the name of Denver,s new
weekly illustrated paper. Itc,ncen-
rates the best work of the numerous
unny writers os the West.
A straw berry raiser In Chattanooga
aysfthe prospects for the coming c,1n
re excellent. He expects to raise So
oo pounds on i,ine-acre patchs
The population of Pitcairn Island now
numbers nlnety-six persons. The lat
st tidings from that strang communj-
report its health aud contentment
. perfect.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in
an:soifle new house in the Back Bay
ectioho Of RostOn. From bay-wiDdow
g has an extensive picturesaue view
I parts of seven towns.
Departed spirits taxi possession Of the
eiepone wires Of Chicago at night. ac-
prdlng to the stories Of certain persons.
mo say they have b. en- greatly dis.
arbed by weird demonstrations.
Inc L'ghtRunning Domestic is tcknewl