Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-01
NUMBER 46


ing q Southern run.
|. Cape Colony exported 3c2, SOC, 900
worth of diamonds last year.
The New York Sun claims an aver
age dsily circulation Of IA, ,42S.
Portlaild Maine, 10 taking steps to
erect m1aunfent to Longfellow.
School lands in Texas are being sold
at the rate of $1,000 acres per day.
In the Swiss army ara 116,0oS regu-
lara and 92,17S Landwehr soldiers.
Ex-senator Spencer has cleared Q
million dollars In the Nevada mines.
Capt Costentenus, the tatooed Greek,
will reside permanently In New York.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, will prob
ably remain in England another year.
Recent observations makes the SUMS
distancafrnm the earth 90, 1OO, 600 miles.
The present pay of the Scotch farm
laboref at home ii $40 . year and
found. III.
About two-thirds to5f the farms in the
United States are.owned by their occu-
pants.
James Gordon Bennett has sent a
check for $50 200 to the widow of Lieut..
De Long.
The Chinese Government has just is-
sued an edition OF the Code Napoleon
in Chinese.
Henry Ward Beccher uses both the
old and the revised version of the New
Testament.
The $50, 900 reward for Charlie Ross
offered by Philadelphia in 1874 still re-
mains good.
Mrs. Henry Bassett wants to sell the
Government George Wasbingtou's
family Bible.
In Texas over q, 900 men and loO, 900
horses and mules are employed In rails
road building. .ssq.
Cleveland happened to have street
named Guiteau and 1t has been changed
to Abram street.
The people OF Easton, Pa, have near
ly enough money subscribed to build
and fit up silk mill.
Seven hundred and eighty thousand
corsets were imported into this country
from Bavaria last year.
During the last fiscal year Is, ,O74 tons
of mahogany Were exported from the
State of Tabasco, Mexico.
Cincinnati has coined new word,
"shill-mahoyne," which is defined as q
mixing up of election papers.
A New England divine says the
Yankee possesses the strongest lam
guage and the weakest thought.
Near Vardo, Norway, is the most
northerly fort fin the world. It was
once the terror of the Muscovites.
Seth Green says fish never sleep or
close their eyes, and that the natural
age of trout is about fifteen years.
Edward Richardson. of mississippi, is
the largest cotton raiser in the world,
the khedive OF Egypt being sec~nd.
Among the 275,0OO Indians reported
in the United States, there are 2l9
churches and $4,000 church members.
A London paper says American
tools, cheaper and better than those of
English make, are now sold in that
city.
a bunch of bananas, over three feet
long, showing $50 specimens of that
delicious fruit, has been raised in Kew
West.
Trees in East Tennessee are bend
ing with apples, peaches, and cherries.
and grapes promise an extraordinary
success.
The coffin containing the remains of
James Wick. Rochester's famous florist
was placed in the grave on a couch Of
flowers.
A man who stole about fifty cents,
worth of lumber, at Syracuse, N. Y.
has been sent to the work house for six
Sara Bernhardt's husband proposes
TO personally punish every one who
says uncomplimentary things about
his wife.
Leon county, Florida, tomatoes are
nearly as large az cocoanuts, some Of
them measuring fourteen inches In cir.
The builder who helped Lafayette to
ay the corner stone of the Bunker Hill
monument, ffty-seven years ago, still
works in Boston.
The people of Geneva, Switzerland.
pend more money for wine than bread.
The expenditure is 800 francs per head
II the whole population.
In the May day procession ut New
astle, England, appeared blind min
ng pony aged ~, which had never till
hen been above ground.
An elderly man peddling patent gar
ers about the country claims to be
rother of Jay Gould, and says that
Whisky brought him low.
The man with broad intellect appre-
iates the virtues Of others; the fool az.
nires the music of his own bells. and
njoys the sight of his gaudy cap.