Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-09
NUMBER 81.
Various Matters.


Chicago lumber dealers have ad-
prices.
New York's latest theatrical success
is ''The Passing Regiment"
In swell Parlsian society it is not the
fashion now to dance much.
The decrease of the public debt for
February was about $9, 600 ,00O.
Fifteen students of dentistry gradu-
ated at Indianapolis on the 1st.
Louisville has popul alton of las 900,
estimated on its new City Directory.
Boston has 1886 gas lamps, and
1857 of them were broken last year.
Cyrus w. Field is about to erect 15-
story business building in New York.
Prince Leopold's marriage will be
celebrated between April 26th and
May Sd.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has begun to
write history of the campaigns Of
Lees army.
Mgr. Capel, the Catesby of Disraeli's
"Lothair," is coming to this country to
lecture on art.
Shoulder braces are coming into
vogue for women as the fashionable
stoop goes out.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackey has been pre-
sented by her husband with the largest
pearl in Europe.
There has been no ice on Lake Supe-
rior this winter sufficient to interfere
with navigation.
Theactrsss Lolita repudiates the name
of Charlotte; her baptismal cognomen
is Lotta M. Crabtree.
About 65 per cent. of full season, or
800, ,0O0,O 900 feet, of lumber has been cut
in the camps on the Chippewa.
Jacob Thompson. formerly Secretary
of the Interior in President Buchanan's
Cabinet, is now living in Rome.
Mrs. Clara Nj. Bsbee, a student at
the Harvard Divinity School, has been
installed pastor of Boston church.
A San Francisco burglar has been ex-
posed by button which was tornfrOm
his vest as he escaped from window.
Lighting of railroad trains generally
in Germany by means of electricity is
considered to be merely a question of
time.
Miss Dickens, the daughter of the
novelist, has spent the past year in
compiling Charles Dickens Birthday
Book.
The wild horses pasturing in the
pampas of the Argentine Republic are
estimated to number two and half
millions.
There is extraordinary activity just
now in the shipbuilding yards of the
Tyne. The weekly pay roll of ono firm
was within SIS Of $4,000.
The Greek Testament in the ancient
tongue is now, by order of the Greek
Government, read in its 200 schools,
which have SO, 900 pupils.
M. Bischoffsheim, the Partisan bank
er, has undertaken the expense Of an
expedition to Upper Egypt to observe
the eclipse of May 18th next.
The English detective usually eau
tions his prisoner to be careful what he
says; the French detective does all that
he can to extract confession.
Somebody has given $25 in gold to
the faculty of Marquette College, Mil
waukee, to be made into a medal for
the foremost student in manly piety."
D. J. Murphy, San Francisco law
yer, was fatally shot in the court room
last week ty policeman whom he had
called, in an argument, a convict and
thief.
M. Eladie Mijatovitch, nee Lowton,
the wife of the Servian Minister of FL
nance, whose home is at Belgrade, is an
American lady well known as writ or
of magazine articles.
Algernon Charles Swinburne is in a
state of such robust health as promises
much good work. He often walk twen-
ty miles in day; and he is in the most
jubilant of gay spirits.
In Havana, Cuba, last year,-that
country where a man can't open his
mouth without getting into jail,-oue
man in every twenty was arrested and
tried on some charge or other.
OF the dangerous classes of France it
is said that they are unable to keep
their own secrets and cannot commit a
crime without being afterward some
what ostentatious in manners.
The Rev. A. H. Knight, pastor of the
colored Methodist Church at Mitchell.
Ind, has been suspended. His wife
found poison in her tea, and her hus-
band is accused of putting it there.
An Irish male hospital nurse when
asked what in his ward he deemed
the most dangerous, pointed with II
grin TO the case of surgical instruments
en- the table, and said "That, sur"
shreVdness and Ability.