Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-10
Various Matters.

the possibility of utilizing the internal heat
of the earth.
A ST. Louis Jury decided that drowned
voluntary insanity.'
THE Rev. Frederick Stovener accuses the
Rev. James Beard of stealing sermons from
old books. Both are indianapolis pastors.
EVERY immigrant at indianapolis is COM
PEELED to show his or her arm to a medical
official, and if it does not bear a vaccination
mark, the operation is at once performed.
THE Cincinnati Times Star: "Some of the
citizens of IrontOn, Mo-, attended church
last Sunday morning, but others, more world
ly minded, turned out and lynched negro"
A SALOON at Iron River, Mich, was demol-
ished with giant powder, not by total abstin-
ance enemies, but by drinkers who were
displeased by the bad quality Of the liquors
sold.
THERE are more than 900 cats connected
with the United States postal service, their
especial duties being to distribute rats and
vanquish mice that are prone to make mail
bags their habitat.
SwARMS of crickets are now raiding upon
Sprague River Valley, Oregon. They destroy
grain and vegetables where found, and un-
tremendously enter houses, jump the din
ner table, or crawl on the beds.
A GOOD farm In Indiana has been allowed
to run to weeds for five years, because of a
belief that it is under the curse of n former
owner, whose ghost walks the fields at night,
and would make it unpleasant for ten
ant.
| A RECENTLY arrived immigrant, filled with
a commendable spirit of reform, has just
announced his willingness to become can
didate for the Presidency, agreeing to con-
duct the affairs Of that Office for $26 per
year from each State.
Two hundred refugees were saved during
the bombardment of Alexandria in the Cath
olic chapel by the ingenuity of the Arab
doorkeeper, who told the soldiers that the
place was empty, and there was nothing to
steal or he would have taken 1t himself.
A MARRIAGE at Cobb, Wisconsin, was be-
tween widow, aged seventy two, and her
| adopted son, aged twenty three. Her first
| husband had on his death-bed advised the
match, as a means of preventing the raising
of certain legal questions regarding his es-
tate.
THERE is an American colony in Berlin
including two hundred native-born mem
| bers. About fifty of these are students al
the university, at the Veterinary School and
at the conservatories. There are also many
| Communications who belong rightly to
the colony.
THE Rev. Sylvanus Hayward, who preach
es in Globe, Mass, delares bluntly that the
increase in divorce in that State Is not due to
greater laXity In the laws, but to an enor-
nous increase of wickedness among the peo-
pie, and he holds that the remedy must be
found i'm an improvement In their morals.
PROF. PAUL BERT, of France, has made
experiments to determine the limit of safety
in using choroform. He found not only tn
chloroform, but in all an2sthetics except
protoxide of nitrogen, that the death dose is
exactly double that required to produce in
sensibility when applied to dogs, sparrows
and mice.
PROF. BADEN POWELL, an eminent sclen-
tist, shows that the dangers of ballooning are
exaggerated. In England there have been
only six deaths in some 5000 ascents, and
four of these deaths were due to passengers
jumping out or being thrown out of the car
and coming into collision with some object
in u violent wind.