Iron County register., 1882-09-21
grou Cpautp gegister.
Various Matters.

Various Matters.
Lucy HOOPKR, the correspondent, weigh
two hundred pounds.
ENGLAND derived last year g, ,1GOl 900 from
the duty on carriages.
ACoUNrY JUDGE permitted himself to b
swindled by bunko men at Minneapolis
ALEX. H. STEPHENS says he now weigh
five pounds more tksn he ever did before
MASTER Warner, of Atlantic, Iowa, Is no
yet four years old, but he weighs nearly 4o'
pounds.
sHAKEspfsaRE is the name of a Phiiadel-
phia lawyer whose specially Is theatrlca
litigation
TEXAS farmers propose to sell 5O,OOO,OOt
bushels of corn this year, whereas last year
they bought
A BosroN dry goods firm which sent some
OF its clerks to Europe this year is said TO
employ 5000 people.
FROM two acres of vines William Tutbill,
of Huntington, l.. l., hss picked 15o,ooo GU
cumbers this season.
wAGNER's s'P:,rsifal'' is to be produced
with great magnificcnce at the Munich Court
Theatre on Thursday, Oct. r.
THE highest range OF mountains IS the
Himalayas, the n,ean elevation being esti-
mated fruin 1900 to $1,000 feet.
IT is said that piece of limbr,rger cheese
taken TO bed will ward OFF mosquitoes from
q sleeper. Most men would prefer nfosqui-
toes.
NINE ErELKA GERSTER is to sing at the
Paris Opera next seasoas. She is now I'm TIA
E, resting after the fatigue of her American
tour.
A MANHATTAN BEACH hotel waiter ate
mess of liver and bacon belonging to the ho-
tel, and was i'm consequence set to jail for %
days.
PISGREE threatened to shoot his wife at
Saco, Me-, if she didn't confess falIlt which
he had accused her, and then shot her be-
cause she did.
THE greatest cornet player is Levy. He
measures fifty-siX inches around the chest,
and is said to have the largest lungs of any
musician in the world.
WITHIN a ratiious of eight miles Of San
ford, Fla, there are 1892 orange groves con-
tanning 16o,235 trees. The State produces
over 90, 100000 oranges.
A MONTANA vigilance committee postpon-
ed a lynching matinee for two hours in order
to allow the victim to shake in rattle in
which he had a chance.
THE dangerous feat of sliding down the
Mount Washington railroad OH board has
been performed by Miss E. F. Coleman, who
made the three miles in 13 minutes.
THE Rev. Andrew J. Rope, ef Taylorville,
Ill.,, is under arrest on a charge of for forg-
ing note for 500, with which money he
paid the expenses of his wedding tour.
THE height of fastidiousssess has been
reached by Jersey City woman who named
her Spitz dog Eypectorate. She feeds him
from a cuspidor for consistepcy's sake.
THE Pennsylvania railroads ney, locorse-
tive Jumbo has seven-feet driving wheels,
and has drawn a train from Jersey City, a
distance of ninety miles, in eighty minutes.
THE latest idea of Snowman is to discov-
er the Philadelphia girl whose profile was
copied for the Goddess of Liberty on the sill
yer dollar, and put her i'm training for in ac-
trcss.
A HAwKBILL turtle, weighing some 500
pounds, was captured by Ransford Poland,
of Ocean Beach, N. j., in his fish nets. He
was seven feet in length and of a grayish
color.
EN-PoSTMASTER- -GENERALJAMES said to
4 New York reporter: 81 wonld rather re-
main President of the Lincoln Bank than be
Governor of New York. am content where
am.n
A WISCONSIN farmer was seen stopping
up the chinks in his dilapidated log house.
A big snake bad crawled i'm and gone to bed !
with him on the previous night, and he had
tisTiked it. |
TIFE loftiest active volcano is Popocatepetl |
(smoking mountain), 35 miles southwest of
Pueblo, Mexico It is Il ,7s4 feet above the |
sea level, has crater three miles in circum- |
ference and 600 feat nigh.
A TURKEY gobler i'm Maryland some time |
since took it into his heard to set. He was |
given ID eggs, and, after three weeks faithful
setting, hsatched L chickens, which now form
healthy and thriving brood
ACCORDING to- return which has just
been published, there are no fewer than 2S /
"ho VNh upMti u Va -bsvVU dCIts' |
I'm the province OF Silcsia. There are eight |
who own upward of 10J, 900 acres.
PROSPEROUS Michigan baby carriage
factory had its origin in the birth of 13 babies
I'm the town I'm l3 days. A carpenter got the
job of making carriages for the whole num-
Der, and from that start the business grew.
\. NORTH CAROLINA clergyman has been
living for the past III years Oh a salary of
$:8 per week, but now announces that he
must have raise of 81 or 10 shillings or
be compelled to accept call to- do cooper
work.
THAT rheumatisns is ordy phrase of indi-
gestion, and may be erred by fasting four or
eight days, Is the Opinonto which Dr. Wood,
,fnSSnr Of (,haiiIiStrr in tho nrn,slinal do