Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-31
0rpu county geglster.
various Matters.


GurrgAu,s alleged ghost is lecturins III
Pennsylvania.
BEN HILL, of Georgi !, left his family ou'
little property.
CINCINNATI is to have a Shakespeare tes'i-
val next spring.
Mr.. L,NGrRY will not accompany tne
"Jersey Lily" to this country.
EMMA ABBOTT is reported to nave JUST
made 100000 in stock speculations.
IN midsummer the New York hotels nave
seldom been SO crowded as this year.
GEN. BEAUREGARD is writing ut Allegheny
snr;rrs IN the hook of his campaigns.
NIAGARA FALLS is waning as pleasure
resort. and tile hackmen are despohdeht'
H.RTFoRp belle declined pug dog, as
she wasn't rich enough to dress up TO II.
THERE IL an astonishing demand IN Ne"
yorl for mineral water drinks this season.
TaE"ysrdict March, p iii honor OF Guiteau'
the iury. ETC., ends up with "a dull, hea'y
thud.o
RREr H.RTE is writing drama founded
i,pop his story of "The Luck OF Roarine
Camp"
HERR B.RNAY, the Edwin Booth of Ger
MANY. begins a short engagement IN New
York next January.
CsrEwAYo is being lionized in London,
whose tickle people have forgotten Tug VIII.
con and Oscar Wilde.
HENRY WArTERsON's forthcoming book
on Southern humor, will, it Is said, ara"
groans from craven image.
GUIfEAU's bones are so porus that IL Is
doubtful if his skeleton will hold together.
A fraud through and through!
THE name of the troublesome Egyptian
commander is pronounced "Arrabl," with
the accent on the second syllable.
AN American company with live blood
hounds and realistic scenery are astonishing
London with "Uncle TOMS Cabin"
CHARLES B. LEWIS (M. Quad), of the De-
troit Free Press, has written afotIr-act COM
edy entitled sThe Lime Kiln Club, for John
L. Ashton.
"PIAZzAING" Is u word newly coined for
the purpose of describing the ''ipactive ac-
tivity" of people who sit OH piazzas at water
ing places.
Two Indiana men built skiff In a cellar,
where the air was comfortably cool, and then
worked three days in the brOiling sun dig
ging it out.
THE Rev. John n. Brisbee lent his horse
for a race at Madison, Tenn, and for that is
to be arraigned before a Presbyterian trib-
unal. His horse won.
A Roy of six and a girl of two, at Ballard
Vile, Neb., are mated for marriage by their
parents, who have signed an agreement that
the wedding shall occur in 1897.
DIR. SALIRATA, of Venice, is going to make
a portrait of Garfield in glass mosaic at his
famous workshop on the Island Of Hurano
and present it to the national capital.
AN employe of the Philadelphia almshouse
who had served as an undertaken there for
many years, has been dismissed for stealing
n servant girls body from grave and plac-
ing u Negroes corpse in the coffin.
FORTRESS MONROE, Va, is the largest sin
gle fertilization i'm the world, and Its water
battery is one of the finest pieces Of military
construction. 1t has already cost over s., 900, :
900. The guns are fired by electricity.
lLuTaIIlle DOONeFuNy 10 Hot
that there is too much laxity of discipline
among the Mormons, for "this is a state Of af-
fairs that is bound to exist in n society where
II man has different sized corset hanging on
each bed-post, and is proud Of It,"
ASANFRANCrsCo divine announced that he
would preach upon the subject, Hearts Are
Trllnps." The sensation-loving audience
who went to hear him learned nothing about
love or gambling, but had regular old
fashioned theological discourse poured into
their unwilling ears.
SOME boys at Tucson, Texas, undertook to
make statue, and their plan for getting a
mould was to cover playmate's face thickly
with mud. They tried it, giving the subject
no breathing holes, and he was suffocated SO
nearly to death that the doctors had great
difficulty in saving him.