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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
Our Young Folks.
MY MUSICBOX.

You never heard my music-box?
You don't know what you're losing!
IT'S very sweet, but now and then,
own, somewhat confusing!
Twill run, and run. and never tire,
Without bit of winding.
No organ-man to set it OF,
No monkey and no grinding!
NY music-box DER all the house
Keeps up SO gay humming
That ii you're veXed, or cross. or sad,
The smiles will soon be cOmingl
A little laugh, Il little song!
Not always set to meter
But all the notes, in all the world,
Could never make them Sweeter!
My music-box is a chatterbox!
And keeps our home SO merry.
That when, perchance, it rests awhila,
It's everybody's query:
= Where is the sun? Behind a cloud?-
The sunbeams all are sleeping.
What makes The minutes seem SO long?
Just creeping-softly creeping!'
But an! what's that? A laugh, shout!
The music-box is playing!
And now the sunbeamS wake again,
Their little queen obeying!
And SO, you see, there's music gay
With laughter, words aud singing!
And ali! the hills are happy, too,
Just hear the echoes ringing!
Mrs. Il. ". Turner, in Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
Government Clerks.

The Government and its employees
bear a relation to our city somewhat
similar to that of college and its stu
dents to the little New England village
where it is located. There are enough
otficeholders who are residents of Wash
ington to make a good-sized city of
themselves. In the various departments
the work goes on the same from one
years end to another, and one would
scarcely realize how great the number
of employees in the various departments
is. In the Treasury Department there
are over $500 employees, divided as
follows: Divisions of the Secretary's
office, 557; Bureau of the Mint, II; Su-
pervising Surgeon-General's office, II;
Office of Inspector General of Steam
boats, 5; Bureau of Statistics, 81; Life
Saving Service, II; Office of Light
house Board, So; Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, 1,008; Supervising Archi-
tect's office, 80; First. Comptroller's
office, So; Second Comptroller, 60;
Comptroller of Currency, 80; Office of
Commissioner of Customs, 50; First
Auditor, Sc; Second Auditors, ISL;
Third Auditors, 1877; Fourth Auditors,
46; Fifth Auditors, %; Sixth Auditors,
277; United States Treasurer's Office,
PSI; Registers, 1872; Office of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, 222;
United States Coast Survey, 100.
In the State Department there are but
96 clerks.
In the War Department there are
1,6OO clerks, as follows: Secretary's
Office, 80; Adjutant Generals Office,
44S; Inspector Generals Office, 5;
Quartermaster Generals Department,
10; Paymaster Generals Department,
So; Engineer Department, 215; Ord
nance Department, IS; Signal Office,
1913; Bureau of Military Justice, 8;
Col. Casey's Bureau for Building the
State, War and Navy Departments, 40;
Office of the Publication of Official Re-
cords of the Rebellion, 43.
The Interior Department clerks num-
Der 1866, as follows: Secretary's
Office, 1913; Patent Office, 448; Land
Office, 261; Pension Office, GO; Indian
Office, 66; Geological Surveys, so; Ed
ucation Bureau. "a; Railroad Bureau,
8. The Census Office, which is really
a branch of the Interior Department.,
numbered last year $50, and these
should be added to the number in the
Interior Department, making 2,346.
In the Post Office Department (prop-
cry the employees number 1873; in the
Department of Justice, SO; in the De-
partment of Agriculture, 103; Govern
ment Printing Office, 1,S43; SO that
really the number employed in the Gov
eminent Departments on duty in Wash
ington is about 10000. This is exclu-
sive of the Capital, City Post Office,
and District Government offices.
This body of Government employees
forms not only large, but a very intel
ligent and agreeable element of the pop
ulation of Washington. A large pro-
portion of them are people of thought,
education, and refinement, and their
presence would be an acquisition to any
community y Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
4 somnambnlist Bitten by Moccasin.

A man named Richard Meeler, living
near Richey's mill, not far from Homer.
Ga, states that during the night he had
q dream in which he thought there was
terrible storm rising, and that, for his
safety, it would be necessary for him to
90 down to the mill, some fifty yards
away, and hide himself under the floor.
There were great many rocks, stumps,
and shafts of machinery under the
mil, and while stumbling around under
meath and near the water-wheel he
was bitten by a moccasin snake in sew
eral places on the foot. He then went
into int-room, in the Clubhouse near
BY. and lied two handkerchiefs which he
had in his pockets round the limb, one
above the other, and started home. He
thinks that he was awakened from his
dream about the time he got back to the
| house. He then told the family he had
| been bitten by snake, but not to bt
alarmed. A doctor came to his assist
ance, and he is now in fair way to re-
cover. His family say that he is in the
habit of walkingtin his sleep frequently
--.AHantr Go7istftutton' 4
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
The History OF a COat.Tail.

Without being an Oscar Wilde gone
mad, I am often moved with sense of
pity at our destiny as men by observing
those of my fellow-creatures who are IN
the habit of attiring themselves in those
garments called black swallow-tailed
coats.
1t is a sign of the times-the move
ment is especially significant, inasmuch
as it relates to the lower extremities-
that Oscar Wide has commenced an
innovation in our masculine attire by
adopting knee breeches and silk stock
ings. But for my own part should
wish to commence the reform-with
Miss Kate Fields permission-by chang
ing the black coat with swallow-tails.
But before going into the question [
will content myself with short history
of the dress-coat, and hope that this
will also serve as a sort of record of its
obituary.
Have you ever asked yourself the
question: Why is it that every important
occasion of your life is marked by your
wearing q dress-coat?
If you go to wedding you must wear
dress-coat. If you 90 to funeral
YOU must wear dress-coat. Are you
minister, you must constantly wear a
dress-coat on your back. Are you a
footman, the dress-coat is Indispensable.
Searching for the origin of this Gus
tom is pursuit which amuses a man
when it does not sadden him, and I will
now submit the result of my inquiries to
the public.
The dress-coat, which has the preten-
sion to be the garment par excellence,
had its origin in the seventeenth GEN.
fury. AS you see, it is two centuries
old, so that in my opinion we have
acquired the right to consign it to
oblivion. Metaphorically speaking,
from this coat is descended that gar
ment which we call the French coat.
There is only one point of difference
between the French coat of past age
and the dress coat of modern times, and
that is, that while the former had a
standing collar, the latter has one
which is turned down. do not know
who improved the old "machine," but
during the reign of Louis XIV. it had
already become prominent at the court
of that monarch. The young swells
who formed the cream of society
abandoned the use of the square-cut
coat, which was always richly embroid-
cred, and replaced it with sort of
dress-coat with standing collar and
having tight sleeves embroidered in
gold. The skirts were very plain on the
outside, but very nicely trimmed on the
under side, and in order that the sight
of this precious trimming should not be
entirely lost, it became the fashion to
turn up the skirts with gold buttons and
to fasten them back by passing the
buttons through button-holes made for
that purpose.
During many long years this style
was maintained in the army for military
uniforms. The materials of which this
attire was made varied according to the
taste and wealth of the wearer They
were OF cloth, of satin. or of velvet, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
The Towers OF Silence

OF all the distinguishes for the de-
parted none seem so strange Gene
1eries, crematOries and catacombs have
seen used more or less by all nations !;
8K5 the Towers OF Silence are found only
among that ancient people, the Parsees.
avisited them in the early, morning, in
s>oulpany with ait intelligent and ID
Dcuseiy orthodox Parsee. We passed
along the busy streets Of Bombay to the
xsere quiet western limits, where weii-
Ess;,t and r.chiy-furnished Bungalows
nestle among groves OF palms and flow
. esy shrubs soon hili.4bar Hill was
reacaed, which is high ridge running
zarth and south between the city and
the sea. Here the elite of the city have
Ghe;r homes. and. strange to say. about
midway of this range OF hills stand the
sewers. We slowly climbed the long
flight of rough stone steps TO the sum-
snit of the hill, aud found there very
high stone wall inclosing several acres
OF land. Passing through q small arched
.xa&eway we were within the Enclosure,
.ss1d saw TO our right n prayer temple.
aad little removed from that a fire
sem pie, in which a priest always stands
watching and feeding the sacred fire,
which never goes out. Ascending few
steps to platform. beside the wall, L
ssStaiued magnificent view of the city
xzld whole island. Turning from this
exc took broad path running due west,
aud es we moved on the field was very
earran and desolate. The scant grass
wxs eli whereby the sum-, and dark
reddish rocks were everywhere seen
sorotruding above the soil. A few palm
Erees. many of them stunted, stood aboet
like dwarf sentinels, many of them with
branches broken by the weight OF the
xs.;ures. Soon the towers appeared,
Eve in number. two of them on the right
ssf the path and three on the left. They
vary greatly in circumference. Two OF
tfseai are quite small having been oullt
m the past when the Parsees were fewer
En sunber. These are now closed, be-
Eng {iiled with human bones. The last
sagses are much larger.
These towers are simply circular stone
walls, about thirty feet high, and white,
xss,ed on the outside. An inclined
SHANE leads from the ground up to q
small iron door on the east side, about
ssfteen feet from the base. Through
sais door the professional bearers OF the
.sSxad carry the corpse, and it is seen no
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
A Washington Story.

From what you have heard of our
esthetic society know you will be will
ing to believe almost anything of it. Yet
an incident of the week is so extraordi-
nary that it is doubtful whether the out
side, and of course vulgar world can
comprehend Or appreciate One of our
society women lost member oraher
family by death, the other dav, bug
dog. An extensive preparation for a
funeral occurred, and the obsequies fol-
lowed in due course after the fashion
laid down by custom for civilized hui
mainly. l do not know whether the
services of a preacher were called into
requlsition or not, but as all the other
funeral conditions were fulfilled it is
very probable. The coffin ia which the
remains of Mr.. or Miss (as the case
may beg Pug were exposed for the last
gaze of the grief stricken members of
the family was of the regulation pat
tern with silver handles. The hearse
was white, emblematic of the purity
OF character of the deceased,
and was managed by first-class under
taker. who wore the proper emblems of
respect usually considered necessary in
ceremonies of this kind. There was
respectable train OF carriages to make
up Inc iuheral coFteSe, winch proceed
ed to the cemetery in solemn order, and
there the body of Mr.. or Miss Gas the
case may beg Pug was inferred in the
family lot with appropriate ceremonies.
Thus far everything went smoothly
enough, and had not some sensitive
people who had relatives and friends
buried in this cemetery raised q row
about it, the outside and vulgar world
would have been none the wiser. As it
was, the sexton was called to swift ac-
count for having granted burial GER
tificate. - Washington Cor Paaladelphia
Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The great seal of Great Britain and
ireland is affixed to yellow wax for En-
gIsh documents, red for Scotch, and
green for Irish.
-Murderers in France are frequently
compelled, in addition to death or the
gallys, to pay heavy compensation in
money, when they have it, to their VIC
TINS family.
"A student of philosophy in Berlin
has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment for having stolen as many
as twenty hats and overcoats from var
ious restaurants and cafes.
The prices given for horses in En-
land in the last century were fully as
high as now. In 1898 three hunters
brought in the aggregate So, 250; three
more, $4,000, and $4,000 was refused
by Whitehead, the brewer, for an
other.
If Turk meets any of his wives in
walk through the bazaars it is not
etiquette for him to notice them, al
though they may be throwing away his
money right and left. He can only
stroke his beard and say ''inshallah!'
(please God), Or sAllan kerim!" (God
is mercifuD.
An English lady who sued for dam
ages because of fall when boarding a
steamboat has just lost her case. The
jury decided that her high-heeled boots
had wontonly and willfully contributed
to cause the injury of which she
complained.
When Queen Margherita of Italy
visited the Roman Academy this sum-
mer the artists presented to her were
all in evening dress, and wore their dec
orations. Mr.. Randolph Rogers, the
American sculptor, was the only excep-
ton. He had neither ribbon nor medal,
but wore a couple of marguerites in his
buttonhole, with which silent homage
her Majesty was much pleased.
! Two members of the ancient gypsy
tribes of the Coopers and Taylors were
married with Protestant rites at ST.
Mary's Church, East Moulsey, in Eng
riage ceremony baby belonging to the
Cooper family was baptized. The
church was crowded with gypsies, who
were in the neighborhood in great num-
bers to attend the Hampton races. AL
fusely decorated with wild flowers.
Accounts from SVfla represent the
condition of the country as worse than
ever. In the interior there is no securi-
ty whatever either for life or property.
The neighborhood of Adm is infested
by three different bands of brigands,
who, without let or hindrance from the
authorities, plumber houses, rob travel
ers. and take well-to-do people captive
and hold them to ransom. One village
has been completely ravaged and its in
habitants despoiied of all they possessed.
In consequence of these disorders, COM
merce languishes and agriculture suf-
fers.
The Paris Figaro gives the follow
ing recipe for making a free tour of the
world: Adopt the Jewish religion and
go to Russia. Thence you viii be eject
ed and forwarded by way of Lemberg
to America by the emigrant agent. In
America assume the garb and appear
ance of Chinaman and you will be dis
patched to China. There give yourself
out as Russian and you will be re-
turned to that country, from which you
may again be expelled as Jew and re-
turned to Austria-Q. E. D.
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How a Tiger Strikes Down Its Prey,

1t is a disputed point how a tiger
strikes down its prey. and, although |
have lived in and roamed jungles for
the greater part of my life, and have
had two ponies killed, l never saw an
animal struck dowH, though l have
come upon the quivering carcass not
yet cold. Opinions differ. Williamson
says: 'sThe tigers fore-paw is the
invariable engine of destruction. Most
people imagine that if q tiger were de-
prived of its claws and teeth he would
be rendered harmless, but this is a
great error. The weight OF the limb is
the real cause of mischief, for the claws
are rarely extended when a tiger seizes.
The operation is similar to that of a
hammer: the tiger raises his paw, and
brings it down with such force as not
only to stun common-sized bullock or
u buffalo, but even crushing the bones
of the skull. l have seen many men
and deer that have been killed by tigers,
in most of which no mark of a claw
could be seen: and when scratches did
appear thew were obviously the effect of
chance, from the claw sliding down.
ward, and not from design" johnson
is OF contrary opinion, for he says:
ssDuring q residence of nine years in
Chittra have never seen a man or an
animal killed by a tiger that had not
the mark of claws. yet | admit that
the force with which a tiger generally
strikes is sufficient of itself, without the
aid of his claws, to kill men or large
animals, and believe that it occasion
ally takes place in the manner l have
described, but never from its weight,
like the fall of hammer OF my two
ponies, the first was seized in the stable
by the throat and the windpipe severed,
and also saw bullock thus treated at
Papicondah, on the Godavery. My
second pony was killed by a grip of the
upper part of the neck, by which the
iugularS was severed, aud though the
tiger was driven off, the pony bled to
death l. london Field.
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almost invariably of brilliant colors.

almost invariably of brilliant colors.
Little by little people began to under
stand that this mode of turning back
the skirts to the outside was not at all
practical, and, beside, was highly anti
aesthetic. A tailor of genius conceived
the idea that they should be made
smaller, and it was then that the French
coat began to assume the ridiculous
shape of our present dress-coats, with
the only difference that the skirts were
ornamented with silk or silver or gold.
In France and in England large sums of
money were spent in following this fash
ion, and in Spain it was the same, but
Germany and Italy were less inclined
toward these extrayagancies.
At the time of the first French revolu-
ton the realm of fashion ceased to exist.
and the custom of embroidering gentle
mems coats came to an end. Those
were not the days when man could
| display his wealth or live in style of
| ostentation, and with the disappearance
of embroideries there disappeared also
the bright colors in which gentlemen
used to dress, and more somber colors
! took their place. Under the directory
the s'Incroyables'' endeavored to set the
fashion by wearing the skirts of their
coats very long and flowing In the
sFille de Nine. Angot" the spectator is
able to see how they were made, with
the addition of black collar-fatal to
those who were adherents of monarchical
rule.
On the rise of the government of Ma
poleon, however, the coat underwent
various transformations both in shape
and in colors; and probably in order to
display deeper feeling Of tranquility
on the part of the public, the colors
worn were more lively in appearance.
Clear blue predominated-as we can
still see, even in our own day, by ex-
aiming the wardrobes of our ances-
tors, and it extended from the lappels
to the gold button. Little by little the
shape of the coat went out of fashion;
then, following the caprice of the day,
ionable world.
The period in which the tail coat was
held in least esteem was during the first
twenty-five years of the present CEN
fury. That was the epoch when women
wore coach-wheel hats-an article of
female wearing apparel which has again
made its appearance in our own day
and men sported enormous collars,
PropaplV iof the purpose OF projecting
their heads against catching the colds
which were likely to arise from legs
being covered with nothing but silk
stockings.
am unable to think of that epoch
without wanting to laugh at it, and
without a desire to thank God that He
preserved me from coming into the
world at that period of universal colds.
The ridicule of seventy-fve years al
ready consoles me for the ridiculous fig
ures which we cut in our coats of fun
eral black and the sections of stove
pipe with which we cover our heads!
The dress-coat and hat of our times will
be a subject of great merriment in the
next century, in which 1 hope shall
have the satisfaction of living.
Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27

-PhiIadelphia kills her superfuous
dogs, not by drowning them in a cages
but by Introducing carbonic-oxide gas
into an apartment which, after the dogs
have been driven into it, is made air
tight. One hundred can be dispatched
in this manner at once, and their ,ath
is puick aud painless
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27

-Twenty-three convicts of the State
Prison at Frankfort, KY. professed CON
version under the revivalism of Barnes.
and We're taken to the river for ban
tism. The Warden, though protesting
that he did not doubt the sincerity o2
their repentance, escorted them with a
strong guard armed with rifles Cour-
icr-JOurYsnI
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William I. frye, an aged black
smith, OF Portsmouth, n H., has beaten
the anvil and blown the bellows, as an
prentice, journeyman and proprietor in
one shop fifty two years. 49,
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1t is said that a prophet is not with.
out honor save in his own country Az
yet the United States is not Vennors.
own country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-12
@ljeeEins gesistss
TUESDAY,. sEPTEAnER n. 1851.
THE wore OF THE STATE.

The people of West Virginia win on
October 10th, elect four members Of the
next Congress. The several political
parties of the State have made all their
nominations with the one exception Of
3 Democratic candidate in the Second
District The canvass has been opened
10 all parts Of the State, and Is charac-
tsrized with great vigOr in some coun-
ties. The campaign has been q quiet
one In the First District, but few public
meetings having been held. The work
in this district 50 far has been Of
the ''still hunt" kind, and in fact,
we believe, that little organization has
been effected on either side. The DEM
Gratis have safe majority, and Wheel
ing viii be honored with the next men,
Der of Congress. All are familiar with
the long and bitter contest in the Sec
ond district, but not until the meeting
ofthe Piedmont convention on the 10Th,
can we name Judge HoGE's successor
uCAf SOhkANcS- - NNA~
district Hon. JOHN f. KENNA will
practically have no opposition on cleo
ton day, and his majority will number
among the thousands. The Greenbaek
party in the lower portion Of the State
developed great strength under the
leadership of HENRY S. WALKER,
but with his political downfall in 1880
its downfall began, and to-day is con-
sidered q very small factor in the politics
of that section. In the Fourth district
Captain Eustace Gibson is making a
bold and energetic campaign, and he
will be sent to Congress with MAORI
ty ranging from two to three thousand.
In answer to many correspondents, and
for the purpose of showing to the public
why there can be no doubt Of the cleo
ton Of solid Democratic delegation
from this State in tae next Congress,
We publish below the Presidential vote
of1SSO, which shows the strength of the
parties as near as can be aseertained.