Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-17
GENERAL.

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The sale of cigarettes is on the
decrease. The boys are taking to the
corn-cob pipe Of their daddies.-NeU
Hacen Register.
Mississippi passed law to tax su-
perfuous dogs 81 3 head. and now she
can't find 3 man who won't swear he
needs all the dogs he has.
An Old man IN Hampden, Me-, is
said to have trunk (size of trunk not
stately filled with silver dollars, which
he saved up years ago. most of them
being dated between 1903 and 1881.
in Derby, Conn.,, a few days since,
George Woodruff, age fifteen, bent over
to watch the molten of a grain-cradle
swung by his fathers hired man, when
the blade struck him in the throat, cut
ting the jugular vein. Death ensued
almost instantly.
The Magnolia 6Ark.) Banner says ::
'sThere is q well in DR.. Wallace's yard,
in Atlanta, so says Col. jeff, the waters
of which are perfectly calm and undis-
turbed during dry weather, but when
wet weather is imminent the water is in
great commotion, and sounds issue from
the same similar to those emitted from
. steam-engine when steam is up"
Poor puss seems to have few friends
Not content with hurting bootjacks and
footwear at the harmless, neccessay cat,
the mean fling is made that she some-
times communicates diphtheria and
scarlet fever to the family that feeds
her. If this atrocious libel becomes
to be generally believed, pussy, with all
nine OF her lives, won't have ghost of
chance of living.-Detroit Post.
Probably one of the best illuminated
thoroughfares in the world is the Bow
cry. New York, between Chatham
Square and Fourth street, at about or
9 O'Clock in the evening. Almost every
occupant of premises endeavors to at
tract attention to his wares by a liberal
display of electric light; and to one
travelling on the street cars the effect, as
8 whole, is one of startling brilliancy.
David Phillips, aged ten, residing
at Cleveland, o., was drowned the other
day in singular manner. He had gone
with picnic party to Colts summer re.
sort, on the shore of the lake. A little
stream running through the grounds to
the lake had been damned up tempo
rarily- The boy was wading in the bed
of the stream between the dam and the
lake, when some workmen broke the
DAM. The rush of water carried the boy
out into the lake and drowned him.
"A gentleman at Derby, near Buffa-
10, N. Y, has yearling heifer which
helps herself to water by moving the
pump-handle up and down with her
head and horns. While she will work
away until she satisfies herself, when
thirsty, she viii not pump for the re-
m-:nder of the herd. If an animal she
can not master comes up to drink she
demurely walks away and chews her
cud until the coast is clear. when she
will go back and pump until she gets
water enough for herself.
Mrs. Ramsbotham is the English
cousin and counterpart of our American
Mrs. Darlington. Mrs. RS latest is re-
ported in London Punch. "My brother
in-law," says she, 'came back from the
Derby SO sunburnt and red that he re-
minded me of julius Caesar after he had
crossed the Rubicund.' What an age
and memory the old lady must have!
Perhaps she might tell us something of
that little affair in the Senate between
Gen. Caesar and Police Commissioner
Brutus.-N. Y. Independent.
There are thousands OF black, tar
like springs running out of the ground
all the way from fifteen miles out in the
ocean off the Santa Babara coast to the
border of San Bernardino County, Cali
fornia. On Santa Paula Creek, at the
mouth of Scott canyon, parties about
fifteen years ago had a refinery, and,
after taking out the Illuminating oil,
they ran out the remainder into pit
and burned it, not dreaming that they
were destroying the finest Iubricating
oil known. San francisco Chronicle.
Guy Stafford, a lunatic. cunningly
escaped from the Buffalo IN. " State
Asylum for the Insane recently. By
means of somewhat worn spoon that
had been left in his cell he took out the
screws which held the iron grating over
the window, and then he let himself
down to the ground with ropes made
from the sheets of his cot. The man
occupied room on the second floor of
one of the rear buildings. He was only
partially dressed when the escape was
made. There was no difficulty in get
ting away from the asylum grounds
when he was once out of the building,
for there are no Enclosures.
The Sunday question has become
somewhat entangled at New Haven. A
Hebrew proprietor of cigar store
closes his store on Saturday, which is
his Sabbath, and claims that he has a
right to keep it open on Sunday. His
claim is conceded. Thereupon comes
another Hebrew, who keeps saloon,
and, on the great principle of religious
liberty, demands the right to ply his
trade on Sunday. But as the law pro-
hibitiag the opening of saloons on Sum
day is enforced in Connecticut, his de-
mand is denied, and he will be obliged
to contest the constitutionalty of the
law in the courts or sell liquors on
Saturday, or keep closed shop two days
in the week.-Neac Rarem Register.
james Orr short, stout, and |
STABILITY dressed man, was arraigned in
Philadelphia, the other day, on charge |
of neglecting his two children, boy OF |
eleven wears and a girl of nine.. Both |
children were begrimed with dirt and |
almost naked. The boy stated that his |
father was a carter and spent his earn
ings for liquor. The man was seldom |
home. and when there he makes his |