Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-18
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James GUfd6a 3 hnctsss nav yacht,
The Namouna, built at Newberg, is the
most magniticent steam yacht ever con-
structed. The cost of building has been
$2OO,090. Her speed is fourteen knots
an hour on consumption OF about
ton OF coal per hour. She is lighted by
100 electric lights, and is fitted in the
Oriental style. She is now at quaran-
fine.ss N
"A goat disturbed worship in St.
Louis church by trottimg up the main
isle, mounting the platform steps. and
trying to eat the green fringe Of the pull
pit drapery. st. Louis always was a
pretty good goat pasture, but when the
animals are driven into the churches for
food the grass must be pretty well tram
pied down in the streets.-Chicdgo Inter
Ocean.
! London workmen were busy re-
GENTLY leveiing one of the last fragments
. of the Roman wall that now remains in
that city. The mortar was found to be
so hard and strong that the men with
difficulty broke is up. This wall was
built long before the Norm IN conquest,
and its splendid strength after a thous-
and years IN ~ we'll be cited for the ben
eft of the IN lster" builders OF the pres
ent time.
"A few days ago. while workingmen
were engaged in pulling down the walls
of the old city armory in Brooklyn,
there fell from = cavity an hermetically
sealed leaden box. 1t was found to have
come from the cornerstone of the APP
prentices' Library, built in 1925. In the
box was an account of the laying of the
cornerstone, as published in the Long
Island Star. General Lafayette had
charge of the ceremony.
"A writer in q German paper states
that it is custom in Offices in that coun-
try to have sliced potato on the desk
In commercial houses. He does not
state whether the. esculent should be
raw or not, but the probability is that it
Is boiled. The use of the potato is to
clean steel pens, and generally act as a
pen-wiper. 1t removes all ink crust, and
gives a peculiarly smooth flow to the
ink He also states that the Hamburg
clerks pass new pens two or three times
through a gas flame, and then the ink
will flow freely.
"A modern Jonah, whom prosperous
communities would do we'll to avoid, has
Just shaken the dust of Nevada from his
feet. Before starting thence for Oregon,
he made this concise but comprehensive
statement of the ill-luck which has
bounded him: s'I went to Maine and
the ice crop failed; went to Florida
and the frost killed all the gardens and
orchards; went to Mississippi and they
had Il flood; 1 went to California and
the people began to die with small pox.
Since / struck this State the Comstock
mines have never paid a dividend, and
If 60 to Oregon I am willing to bet
they will have drought
A girl named Jennie O'Brien, de-
scribed as pretty and innocent-looking,
aged eighteen, who has been chamber
maid in the Sturtevant House, New
York, was arrested the other day for
alleged completely in the robbery of
5000 from the room of Willie Edouin,
4the actor. The girl was taken to the
tstation-house, and manifested the great
est alarm at her arrest. She was thrust
into cell, and in the morning taken
before the court. While waiting for
arraignment she dropped dead. 1t was
thought she was an accomplish of a gang
of the most expert hotel thieves now in
New York City.-N. 7. San.
William. Walton has started from
Darlington, KY, upon tour of the
world which he has no idea of complet-
ing in eighty days, his object being very
different from that of Phineas Fogg. He
intends to unfurl in every capital the
stars and stripes and to secure the auto
graph of every ruler who is able to
write his own name. t'When l have
finished my trip" he says, ''I shall be
the only man who ever went around the
world without winking,' his eyelids
having been blown off by an explosion
in coal mine several years ago. Mr..
Walton acknowledges that he is s'an
eccentric coon," and it is notimpossible
shat he will accomplish his purpose, for
he is possessed of much money and
ineffabfe assurance Chicago Herald.