Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
NUMBER 35.
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Various Matters.

Shakespeare's birthday is to be cele-
brated at Stratford this spring by the
performance of memorial plays.
In consequence ofa suicide occurring
in church in Lincolnshire, England,
a solemn publication service took
place.
The Green Mountain range will form
the line dividing the State of Vermont
into the two new Congressional dis
tricts.
The late Gov. Blue Jeans Williams,
of Indiana. is to have granite monu-
ment % feet inches high, to cost
$1,000.
The German Association Of Spelling
Reformers has published the first of
series of.classical native authors in the
new orthography.. gf
A soldier at Fort Coeur d 'Alene, idaho,
caught 4, ,e26 trout with hook and line
during the year 1881. The largest one
weighed ten pounds.
German officers say Italy is not Of
much account as a military ally 80
long as its army remains as it is now,a a
uery imperfect machine.
The only remaining members of Dam
iel Webster's family now alive are the
children of his daughter Julia, Samuel
Appleton and Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte.
A Kansas man and woman have been
married to each other once year for
four years, divorce having separated
them after every union except the last
one.
Chas. A. Reed, of Newt ton, Mass, de-
vised $40, 900 each to his own town amt
Salem, to be used in picnics tn children,
scientific lectures, and relief to wild
ows. "a
Italians emigrate from Italy to the
United States with the fixed idea Of
making fortune by picking up gold in
the streets. Arrived, they sweep streets
for it.
Mr.. John Langdon Slbley, the Libra
rian emeritus of Harvard, who is now
in his seventy-fifth year, is at work on
the third volume of his Harvard Grad
ates.o
Sergeant Lawrence Hay, of the 5th
| Artillery, became insane on the trip
| from Florida to- New York, because Of
herecent death by yellow tever of some
comrades.
A fac sin,ile of the sta tute of st. Peter
| at Rome has Just been executed in Par
is by Froc Robert. It is intended as a
gift from the Pope to the French church
at Boston. aF
| Half the artistic celebrities in Paris
are engaged upon works destined in
some shape or other to embeiish Mr..
VIM. H. Vanderbijt's new mansion at
| New York.
The religious people of Clarinda, Ia,
had week of prayer for exemption
| from smallpox. The scourge passed
by the town, and now day of thanks
giving is appointed.
Okill Stuart, Canadian engineer, has
devised plan of approach to the North
| Pole by means of chain of sled huts
from Chesterfield inlet, which is |, ,565
miles from the Pole.
On the house 7Craven street, Strand,
London, a circular ia blet has been fixed,
| with these words: "Lived here, Benju-
min FGankiin, Printer, Philosopher, and
Statesman. Born 1905. Died 1896"
Merrill, of Gwinnett, Ga, imagined
| that he was responsible for the bad
| weather that prevailed in that region.
He therefore hanged himself, he ex-
planned, for the good of his neighbors.
The Protestant Christian Cinnamon
have been relieved from taxation for re-
ligious festivals in China. They num-
ber about Is 900. The Roman Catholics
secured such exemption many year
ago.
Mrs. Fish, school teacher in the
town of Serbia, Oswego county, n. Y.
was hit in the back of the neck with q
owball a short time sgo. Brain fe-
Yer resulted, and she died in day or
two.
A young man had no more than slip
ped an engagement ring on Milwau-
kee girls when it was missing. Her
brother had adroitly removed it, and
next day it was recovered in pawn
shop.
Two car loads of scrap iron, loaded
at Peoria, ILL.,, were found to consist
entirely of things stolen from the rail-
road company over whose line the au-
dacious thieves proposed to ship it to a
market.
A Toronto man was arrested for whip-
ping his grown-up daughter. His plea
was that, being pious man, he desired
the girl to keep Lent, and only struck
her dozen times with cane for pun
ishment.
A sofa which once belonged to WASH
ington, and which, for many years has
been the property of the Union League
of Philadelphia, has been presented to
the city and will be placed in Indepen-
dence Hall.
The Princess Zenaide Y Yousoupoff. now
engaged to Prince Soumarokow. is rep
uted the richest heiress in in Russia. be-
ing worth twelve million roubles. Her
father refused his consent to her mar
riage with the Prince Of Bulgaria.
A horse which was being shipped
from Boston to Chicopee, Massachu-
setts, slipped his halter, managed to
open the car door, and jumped off
the train. The buyer few DAYS later
learned that the animal returned to
Boston.
The Light Running Domestic IL sckn..wI