Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-30
NUMBER 81.


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Texas will make 249 States rs large
as Rhode Island.
Orange trees at Pasadena, Cal, are
already blossoming.
There are 2,O24,OO9 acres devoted to
wheat in California this year.
appearances ~ 8amtervilis. Fssrida.
The charity population Of Rich n1ond,
Va, amounts to $1,000 white and COL
Every year 100000 elephants are
slaughtered to supply the world with
ivory.
The loss Of sugar by the Point Coupee
crevasse is estimated at 900 hogs
heads.
Capt. McMurdo, Of Alhemarle coun-
ty, Va, recently sold Hewelly setter
for $500.
A troupe of genuine Chinese actors il
to be the next stage novelty in this
country.
The run of shad In the streams of
North Carolina is larger than it has
been for years. .
A colony of sixty families from Iowa
and Illinois have settled in Manatee
county, Florida.
The cotton seed oil refinery at Mont
gomery, Ala, has capacity OF 500
gallons per day.
This year Easter comes on April 9th,
as it did in 1871, but will not again fall
that date till 1914.
Samuel Pearson, the new moralist of
England, has written a book called
Weekday Living"
Rumor has betrothed Col. Rock wells
daughter Lulu to Harry Garfield, u son
Of the late President.
Foreign society journals chronicle
Gen. Grants doings in the column de-
voted to the nobility.
There are II ,662 Protestant churches
in the United States-one for every 473
Protestant population. ess
Successful trial has been nlade III
Philadelphia Of compressed air inoter
for city passenger cars.
Money ls the only thermometer Of
real success, and expresses brutally and
precisely public opinion.
;, Monsigner Capel, the .disfinsulAa,ed
Catholic theologian of England, is COM
ing to the Unite.i States.
Oscar Wilde costumes are being
adopted for ocrasioners by the servants
of New York's uppertendom.
i Weston, the pedestrian, is lecturing
in England on the Advantages of tenn
perance in athletic exercises"
i State Treasurer John A. Page, Of
Vermont, after sixteen years' service,
positively declines reelection.
A three-year-old infant is being ex-
hibited in Charleston, s. c., which
turns the scales at l65 pounds.
i There are now thirteen States in the
Union whose population ia smaller than
the number of immigrants In the year
1881.
One of the three half dollars minted
by the Confederacy in 1851 was sold at
auction in New York the other day for
$50.
It is expected that two and one-half
years will be consumed in the construc-
ton of the new West Hotel ut Minne-
apo'is.
A citizen of Haywood county, North
Carolina, recently sold one hundred
walnut trees to u Northern company
| for 81, 900.
Sullivan, the champion prize fighter,
thinks a man may be gentleman,
and yet occasionally indulge in little
exercise"
Commodore N. w. Kittson, of st.
Paul, Mimi, has purchased of jacob
Zell the Tennsssee trotting stallion
Black wood for SO, 500.
! The daily output from the Powell
iron and nail works, of Chattanooga ia
500 kegs Of nails and $50 kegs of spikes
and splices alternately.
| It is estimated that the residents of
Missionary Ridge, near Chattano ,ga.
Tenn, will realize 100000 this year
from the different fruit crops.
Judge Blatchford, the new Associate
Justice. was secretary for Seward when
the latter was Governor New York,
and afterward his law partner.
A locomotive running on the road
between Alexandrovo, Russia, and
Warsaw was found to contain a secret
compartment for smuggling goods.
Miss Kellogg joins Max S:akosch's
opera company for two months only,
and now announces her final retirement
fsom the stage to take place May %.
In his experiments with the strength
of insects, Plateau, the French ,natur- 9.
alisf. has ascertained that, in proportion
TO its size. June-bug Is as powerful az
y locomotive.
Bishop Whipple, of the Espiscopal
Church In Minnesota, proposes to IL
cense two women as lay readers in his
diocese. He says he cannot fi,d men
for the work. a#s
There are ninety halls in Michigan
owned by the oranges. One of them is
valued at So 900, another AT 1000, sew
eraI at 81 so each. thirty-eightni 81 90"
and over, the remainder ranging from
$o9O to $500 each.
One thousand dollars to loan on good Sc
curit, b. ZwARr.