Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-28
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Gafherd FloateFs.
Texas has.1s7, 900 square miles destitute Of
Inhabitants.
Women who ride tricycles in England are
beginning to wear trousers.
Electricity displaces oil in forty-two light
houses on the French coast.
Irish laborers on farms in England are be-
ing frequently mobbed by Engiishmen.
Illinois has 5000, 900 people and II 900 sa- !
loons-an average ofis72 to each saloon.
With only one mile of railroad in 1850, Tex
as now has 5000 miles, valued at $165, ,000, 900.
The drum that John Robbins beat at Bum
ker Hill has been given to the Bostonian So
ciety.
The State Of Illinois has . colored popula-
age in 1880.
OF "A cases on the docket Of the Hartford
county, Conn.,, Superior Court, for its late
term, 81 were for divorce.
The Burlington Haokeye thinks that "an
Independent Republican Is about the same
thing a Bob Ingersoll Presbyterian"
Brigham Young's application for a license
to marry his first wife, Mary Ann Angel, IL
on file in the Probate Judges Office in Char
don, Ohio.
Hod Bey, Turk Of former official promi-
nence, is greatly venerated in Constantine
pie on account Of his age, which is believed
to be 120 years.
A woman went home on q stretcher from
her pleasure trip to Atlantic City, because.
as cure for mosquito bites, she had bathed
her legs with undiluted carbolic acid.
The city OF Waterloo, Iowa, has settled
with Miss Jennie Deggering, for injuries
sustained by falling into an unprotected ex-
cavation in the night, by paying her 81 .s75.
Probably no American sentimental poem
has been more widely copied this year than
the one entitled t'dy Daughter LOUISE"
written by Homer Green for Oar Continent.
Designs have been sent In for statue Of
Abraham Lincoln, to be erected in Lincoln
Park, Chicago, $40, 900 having been given for
this purpose by Eli Bates, of Springfield, Ill.
The Berlin Post.wishes Germans to boy
colt Paris, because ''those who go there to
work.:aare insulted, and those who go to
amuse themselves are both swindled and In
suited"
A United States land patent was recently
filed in the Office Of the County Clerk Of Pc
oria county, H., dated October %, 1917,
issued during the administration Of Jsmes
Monroe.
A five-year-old boy in Noble county, OAso.
Levi Helms, by name. e feet six isehs1
in height, and thirty bur ihclIG j 1fU0n6tk1
chest, and weighs III pounds. He IL still
growing.
The Mexican Consul at San Francisco is
returning to their native country many native
Mexicans, who, like hundreds OF other ma
tionalities, cannot find means Of support In
that city.
Engravers are finding 1t difficult to procure
good lockwood. The box forests of Turkey
upon which the bulk Of the supply depends,
are being wastefully cut, and few new trees
are planted.
| Nearly all the farmers in the districts trav-
ersed by the recent Iowa cyclone have guard
ed against future loss of life, in case of such
disasters, by digging pits near their houses
for places OF retreat.
An English 'Public Analyst" says that all
cheeses should be washed before using, as y
custom prevails among manufacturers Of
brushing them over with solution of arsen-
ic to keep the flies away.
Apple dumplings and apoplexy were close
ly allied in the of the little girl at Scott
dale, Pa, who ate three large dumplings at
one sitting in race with her cousin. If she
RECEIVERS she will train for vassar College.
Pat Conden, Of Chicago, has the blood OF
six men on his hands, having killed his an
tagonist in that number Of fights. In some
of these cases he acted In self-defence, and
in others he escaped with little or no pun
tishement.
''The Green Ribbon Army" Is the latest
rival of the Salvation troops. The first meet
ing was held in London at the beginning Of
this month. 1t is q branch Of the temperance
"League Of the Cross" and is presided over
by Cardinal Manning.
Passengers on the Midland railroad, In En-
gland, fell into the habit of fiinging their
emptied bottles out of the car windows.
After-several persons had been hit the COM
pany put up placards requesting travellers
to be more considerate.
Justice as administered in the petty courts
OF England is rigorous, il the offender Is poor
and friendless. Two reputable laborers stole
handful each Of oats from q field to feed
their hungry donkey, and a magistrate sent
them to prison for two months. a.
Murphy disturbed a meeting Of the Saliva
ton Army at Oldham, England. Private
kershaw, muscular exhortor, accepted his
challenge to go out and fight. The encoun-
ter was protracted and desperate exhibition
OF pugilism, but the sinner was whipped.
/ Algiers, La, has woman who has no
music in her soul. Some young men tried
to make her the recipient of . serenade.
She seized revolver, fired two shots at her
admirers, and in consequence was arrested
for discharging firearms within the city's
limits.