Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
Various Matters.

May.
The winter in Alaska is reported to
be unusually severe.
The ratable value of London is Just
twice that of Ireland
The Governor of Virginia has vetoed
the anti-duelling bill.
Chinese sets of China comprise ten
instead of twelve cups.
The families of eleven United States
Senators are in mourning.
The Mikado has ordered twenty-five
splendid carriages in London.
Mississippi is the only State in the
Union without national bank.
France has averaged new Cabinet
once in eight months since 1870.
President Arthur has rented cottage
at Long Branch for the summer.
Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger. is in his sixty-first year.
The Garfield Monument Fund Of
New York city amounts to Sl,976.
John Habberton's forthcoming work
is entitled, MRS. Mayburn's Twins"
The demand for Florida oranges this
year has exceeded any previous year.
Miss Emma Thursby is being feted in
Paris as 1.-The American Jenny Lind"
"Olver Optic" wv. l.. Adams) has
just published his seventy-fifth book.
The poet Whittier's book mark is the
tail of gray squirrel killed by his cat.
General w. 8. Hancock was among
the visitors to the New Orleans Mardi
Gras.
One out of every two thousand per-
sons of Pennsylvania population is
blind.
The value of railroad property in
Georgia increased during last year
81, $50, 900.
The Pennsylvania hospital for in
jured miners, ut Ashland, is about
completed.
Lieut. Schwatka, of Arctic fame. will
soon wei Miss Ada Br. ,ckett, of Rock
Island. I'll.
The baby elephant is called Bridge
port i'm honor of its native city, Bridge
port, Conn.
st. Paul, Mimi, is to have a $50, GOO
unsectarian Christian seminary for
young ladies.
The French Minister of Fine Arts
has named a cOmmi ssion to value the
crown jewels.
The Alienist and NeurolOgist says
that only one-half of the worlds insane
are in asyiums.
Bret Harte's son is fitting himself for
the stage, and will join John McCul-
lough's company.
Jefferson Davis daughter, Varina, is
great belle in the South; she is pale,
slender, and reserved.
According to Punch the Irish Land
Act will probably known to the future
as the 44th. and 45th of Evictoria.
Boston paid $3s, 900 for the wine,
food, and carriages used by her
Common Council in junketings last
year.
Chicago is about $4,000 behind in
the number of hogs slaughtered this
season, as compared with that of last
year.
At Jerusalem the Church of the
Nativity is believed to stand upon the
site of the manger in which Christ was
born.
Tiffany has made to order for New
York belle, pair of pure gold gar
ter buckles, set with four carat dia-
monds.
The Wholesale boot and shoe dealers
of Chicago have subscribed 81, 100, for
the relief of the sufferers by the Haver-
hill fire.
Tiberias is the only city now stand
ing on the shores of the sea of G;ililee,
while ten cities are buried upon its
borders.
The North american Reuiew for
March contains paper fr,m Senator
Edmunds Oh THE conduct of the Gui-
teau trial
A mule at Collinsville, Ala, fell into
a ", II thirty-six feet deep, and when
pulled out walked away as if nothing
had happened.
In proportion to population, Italy
has, strange to say, more shoemakers
than any other country in Europe.
Sweden has fewest.
to retire from business with the Har-
pers, having made enough money to
SUPPORT himself in comfort.
Gen. Tgnatieff has informed a Jewish
rabbi that the Russian Government
would neither encourage nor oppose
the emigration of the Jews.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt Is prob
ably the richest unmarried woman in !
the United States. She is 36, and has
a round 81 ,OOO, 900 every year.
Eighty thousand acres of land be-
tween Jaffa and Jerusalem have been |
secured on which to fo"m a colony Of
Jewish refugees from Europe.
The city of Boston boasts that the cost
of it's public schools during the past ten !
months has been $25. 600 less than for the !
period last year.
Ex- Minister to Mexico Taylor, a nr- I
tive of Terre Haute, Ind, is known as