Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-11
Floating News.

Floating News.
Bird's-cye maple is used for firewood in
| Michigan, and sold for $160 3 thousand in
Liverpool
Boston proposes to have q college which
is to educate doctors and ''pay ~ much at
| tention to their moral as to their medical
| training"
The homicides in Chicago during the year
1922 are counted up at fifty-four, and only
one of all the slayers was found deserving Of
the gallows.
The Nebraska man who drove his wife out
on cold night, causing her to freeze her feet
so badly that they had to be amputated, was
tarred and feathered by his neighbors.
The bridegroom and bride of Wisconsin
| wedding were both sued on the following
day for damages in consequence Of hav-
ing broken their promises to marry other
| wise.
A Nevada penitentiary convict says that he
was sent to prison for being dishonest, and Is
there kept at work cutting out pieces OF paste-
board to put between the soles of shoes In
place of honest leather.
Texas ought to be the best educated State
in the Union by and by if it makes good use
of its public school fund, which now consists
| of over A,000,0O0 in interest-bearing bonds
and money, and 30 900 900 acres of land, worth
$1.o0 an acre.
A woman at Kingston, New Mexico, gets
praise for erecting log cabin without help.
She cut the logs, hauled them, made the
shingles for the roof, and put the structure
together. She has husband, who takes caro-
Of the children.
Two boys have been convicted in California
of robbing Cinnamon, and San Francisco
journal sees in this u reaction frem the feel
ing against tho Chinese, who have hitherto
been unable to get protection from the law
against thieves and bullies.
An Ohio pastor had to announce to his con-
gregation that the marriage ceremony an
nounced for that morning was postponed, as
the prospective groom was in Jail for lar
ceny. Then preached sermon from the
text, "Thou shalt not steal"
The inscription "Ysnat" on jar In q
Philadelphia Indian doctors shop, puzzled
reporter until he discovered that 1t was
"Tansy'' spelled backward. With this clue
he read other names of mysterious medi-
| cines with clearer understanding than
before.
| The old mission church of st. Gabriel at
Los Angeles, CAL, built in iii, has lately
been damaged by an unskilful retouching of
its ancient pictures. The altar and orna-
ments, the chime of bells, and most of the
original structure remain about as they have
been for 100 years.
A horse an buggy were prize offered, in
Providence, for whoever made the best guess
as to their weight The figures ranged from
800 pounds to 1,175, the actual weight being
900k. AS there were 81 guesses of 800 or
9O1, some new method for awarding prizes is
to be agreed upon.
! Certain kinds of wood, Of great durability
when used alone, have, when joined togeth-
er, very destructive influence upon each
other. If cypress is Joined to walnut, or If
cedar is joined to cypress, decay is induced
in both woods, which ceases, however, rs soon
as they are separated.
The biggest fool with gun is probably Mr..
Staley, of Marshal, Kan. Having a loaded
rifle that he could not discharge, he conclud-
ed that II contained q ball but no powder; so
he placed the barrel in the fire to melt out
the ball, the muzzle being in range with his
daughters ear, which was soon blown off.
Frank Lombard, who was fora quarter Of
century singer on the political stump in
every campaign in Illinois, and was immense
ly popular, II not influential, died few
weeks ago, and his family are left in such
destitute circumstances that politicians, led
by John Wentworth, are raising fund for
them.
4 party Of young loafers entered n Meth
odi>t church at Waseca, Wis.,, and began a
nights carouse with whiskcy and cards. As
there was no police force that could be called
in, the pastor wrapped himself in sheet,
emerged from behind the pulpit, and spoke
In such ghostiy fashion that the intrudcrs
| fed in dismay.