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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
An Anecd0te OF Gambetta's Mother.

AS the "Bazar Genois'' was in the
market-place its business lay in a great
degree with rustics. Leon got sick of
dealing with haggling rustics, and
prayed to be removed from behind the
counter to the desk. AS he was quick
accountant, and wrote in neat, legibe
and flowing hand, this was granted. He
did his best to give his mind to the bus
mess, but failed, and his health sank
| under the tedium of uncongenial pur-
suits. No device to which the watchful
and tender mother resorted could get
the better of his splenetic state. He had
fixed ambition which, as it appeared
to him Il chimerical one, made him
restless, Disconnected and miserable; it
was to study law and become a teacher
| to a Legal Faculty in a provincial city.
| One day his mother called him to her.
She said she had been unhappy in wit
| Messing his growing depression, and she
handed him bag of money which she
had saved unknown to anybody
enough to defray the cost of his journey
to Paris and enable him to study law
there for some time. A trunk full of
clothing had been prepared, and was at
the office of the stage-coach, where a
place was booked for him to the near
est railway. Madame Gambetta in
structed him to slip quietly away, in
order to avoid painful scene with his
father, who was determined that his
son should succeed him in the business.
This communication was so unex-
pected and delightful that for the rest of
the day Leon was in a state of bewilder-
ment. He rose betimes next morning,
and stole off as instructed. Before
Madame Gambetta had instructed her
son to follow his vocation, she had
taken steps to keep him out of misery
when the hoard placed in his hands,
should be exhausted. In 1856, the year
IN which Gambetta left Cahors, M.
Emile Menier went there ON a business
tour. He had just opened the chocolate
factory at Noisiel, and traded in medi-
Gated biscuits and sweet-stuffs. Calling
at the ssBazar Genois," he was received
by Madame Gambetta. In answer to
his proposal to sell his goods on COM
mission she, with tears in her eyes, met
it with another. It was in the nature of
the one enunciated by the unjust stew
ard. 81 have son of great PROMISE
she said, "whom I want to send to
Paris against his fathers will, to
study law. He is a good lad and no
fool. But my husband, who wants
him to continue his business here, will,
l know. try to starve him into submls-
sion. What am about to propose is
that if buy your chocolate at the rate
you offer it, and buy it outright instead
of taking it to sell on commission, you
will say nothing if enter it at higher
price, and you will pay the difference to
my son?" M. Menier, from whose lips
I had this anecdote, agreed, and for
some years carried out the arrangement.
file Century.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
A Troublesome Parcel.

Messenger Hesse, of the Adams Ex-
press Company, recently brought over
his division of the route from Washing
ton an express package. which it would
/ have been superiiuous to mark "handle
with care The package weighed
about one hundred and thirty pornds
avoirdupois. and it was consigned to 4
preacher of this city, living in Green
street, with &C. .. d. OF thirtv-tive
dollars. The package had come all the
way from Dalton, Ca, and was nothing
more nor less than a young lady Of
eighteen tender years. whose parents
had sent her to New York by express in
order to preclude all possibility of los
ing her on the way, Or to be able to
collect damages if she should be mislaid.
Messenger 4 esse was in somewhat OF a
quandary how to pack his precious bur
den when he received a receipt Tor her
at Washington. He thought the only
safe plan would be to put her in the
corner OF q car and pile u lot OF trunks
on ,op of her, or to get crockery crate
and cage her in that, bat he finally de-
cided to ship her through in passenger
car, and get the brak eman to watch her.
One of the necessities OF this UNIQUE
fire. ght package was an occasional meal.
and the brakeman was anxious to bring
the young lady's provender on these oc-
casions. Messenger Hesse, however.
sternly babe him 10 stick to his stove
and his brake-wheel and not to try to
usurp other peoples duties. The ex-
pense of the fair express PACKAGES
meals was put on a tag and aided to the
G. O. d. After great deal of mental
suffering. lest his charge should fall out
of window or be spir. away at in
termed ate stations. Messenger Hesse
finally got her safely to Jersey City.
There she was loaded into an express
wagon and brought over the ortiandt
street ferry to New York and taken to
the oljce of the Adams Express ON
pany, at No. 50 Broadway, where an
other agent signed a paper acknowledge
ing her safe receipt. and Messenger
Hesse hreathed sigh OF relief and went
forth and took drink to drown his sor-
row at parting. The press package
was again put into an Adams express
wagon and driven to it's consignee in
Greene street. who paid all charges and
received it with open arms. Messenger
Hesse is anxious to have this branch OF
the express traffic developed Y
Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

seen the Importance of the Office and
the obvious influence which its incum.
bent must WELD. His induction to Office
is not designated a conservation, but an
enforcement which attaches almost
regal dignity to it.
DR.. Benson, Bishop of Truro, in Corn
wall, has been appointed to succeed the
late DR.. TAFT. 1t has been announced
in the papers that DR.. Harold Brown,
of Winchester, and DIR. Church, canon
of st. Paul, were offered the position,
and both declined it; but such state
ments require authorization, and have
no certain basis. The Bishop of Win
chester may have declined it, for he is
sold and we'll stricken in years." but it
is not at all probable that DIR. Church
would have done so, for his name was
at once mentioned when Private TAFT
died, and was kept before the public as
the most likely and eligible appointment
that could be made; and hence, if the
choice of the Premier had been made
in harmony Herewith, it would have
been eagerly accepted. DIR. Benson is
moderate High that is, he
is not in sympathy with the Ritualists,
nor will he grant them the same conces-
sions that his Broad-church predecessor
yielded to them. He signalized his ad-
vent to the diocese of Truro by pro-
claiming the Wesleyan ministry illegiti-
mate, and has just signalized his de-
parture from Cornwall by referring in
courteous and gracious terms of recog-
milton to the valuable labors of the Wes-
leyans in his late diocese.
He is a man of strong and earnest
convictions; able at organization, able
and firm as an administrator, untiring
as a worker, and he imbues those with
whom he has to do with much of his
own spirit. He has liberal views as to
church work, for he licensed many lay
helpers in Cornwall to preach in uncon.
secrated buildings, and to do other and
various kinds of religious work. He
will be great improvement upon his
predecessor, and in many respects quite
a contrast to him Tue Nonconformists
need not expect much from Anglican
dignitaries of any school. Dean Stanley,
with all his catholieity and iberality,
held intercourse with them in one
sided and patronizing manner. When
he invited ministers to preach in the
Abbey he gave them the layman's desk,
which Max Muller occupied, and not the
pulpit. DR.. John Stoughton was so
treated. Now, [ would much prefer the
attitude of High-churchmen to such rec
ognition as that. DR.. Benson will be
loyal to his position; but as it is proba-
BILE he has a true and comprehensive
discernment of the situation, its respon-
sibilities and its needs, it is reasonable
to conclude that he win subordinate his
churchly sympathies and preferences to
the spiritual and religious claims of the
primacy, and that he will see that it
will be the highest wisdom, as we'll as
a principal duty, to recognize the fact
that there are other churches in England
than his own, and that combined they
constitute larger and stronger factor
IN the religious life and political infu-
ence of the nation.-Lonadoas Cor. Vest
ern Christian AdUocate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
Prospects for Hogs.

Farmers may rely on good prices for
fat hogs for at least eighteen months
more. The present amount of slaugh.
tered hogs show a large shortage, which
is having its effects on prices. Nor will
this be made up by the spring supplies.
There has been a short crop of corn in
nearly all of the hog producing portions
of the Northwest for two successive
years.. Nearly half of all the farmers
have bought or will have to buy corn,
which necessarily operates largely to
reduce the hog crop. But there is an
other serious back-set to the number OF
hogs. The present winter has been re-
markably hard on hogs, and especially
on pigs. 1t has been almost impossible
to save pigs which were three months
and under at the commencement of
winter. They either perish with cold,
or pile up in hot beds at night where
they sweat, and go ont in the wind
thirty degrees below zero and catch
cold, from which they never recover.
MANY die soon, and the balance linger
with consumptive cough, which, so
far as the owner is concerned, better be
dead. Our private information is that
the past winter has been very fatal to
pigs And the current incoming crop
has been SO thorough bly, swept away that
there is scarcely a vestige left. Conse-
quently, as the cold and deep
SHOWS have covered nearly all OF
the hog regions, those who have hogs,
or those who are able now to begin the
breeding of pigs, will have strong as
surance that it will pay. If the time
from this until the clover pastures sup
ply food can be profitably bridged over,
there is ths best prospect for a good
price. The present deficiency can not
possibly be made up, even with the pest
crops in the future, until about the close
of-1ss4 SI<S Is ..s 49,,
Hog raising is one of the quickest
ways of raising large money on the
farm, and when it is at the present price
an occasional loss of hogs by cholera
will not reduce it below a paying bust
ness. At present rates one-fourth of the
hogs may die, and yet the business pays
larger than anything else.-Io'da Sfate
Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
The Archbisiopric of Canterbury.

The King of Kent, Ethelbert by name
established the See of Canterbury 1,2St
years ago, and Augustine, whom Greg
DRY the Great sent over to England as
q missionary to convert the Anglo
Saxons, was its first incumbent, but not
until during the time of his third sue
cessor, 'Theodorus, was the holder O.
the office invested with metropolitan
authority and powers. Many great and
noble men have filled the Office, and
some very mean and narrow ones have
been clothed with its authority. The
royal succession itself has not been more
full of interest or more vitality asso.
ciated with the prosperity and prog
ress, or otherwise, of the centuries than
the influence and polity and deeds OF
the primates of England. The names OF
Lanfranc, Anselm, Thomas Beckett,
John Morton are great names; so is
Simon Islip, who is represented a giant
in size also, if tradition is correct, for
this prelate is said to have been six feet
three in height. Cranmer stands sixty
eighth on the list, and down to his time
nearly all the primates were bred monks,
except an occasional lawyer. The re-
formation came in with Cranmer, and
his sixty-seven predecessors were under
the Pope. Twenty-four have ruled
since, and they have governed under the
throne. 1900: f. i.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is both
diocesan and metropolitan. In his
metropolitan character and capacity he
is guardian of every vacant see within
his proyince-presents to all benefices
which fall vacant while such see re-
mains without bishop, and by special
commissionary exercises a bishops or
binary jurisdiction therein. He has
likewise appellate jurisdiction over all
bishops'of his province. As diocesan he
exercises, through the Consistory Court
of Canterbury, the ordinary jurisdiction
of bishop over that diocese.
Anent degrees he has, as primate,
university powers invested in him. He
can confer the degrees of doctor of
divinity and laws, as also of b. A. and
M. A. These are known IS Lambeth
degrees, and are valued according to
the views entertained of the primate
and the position occupied by the e-ti-
mator. In social position he overranks
all other subjects not of the blood royal.
He crowns the Kings and Queens of
England. and is the spiritual adviser of
the royal family. He is ex-officio presi-
dent of the convocation of the prelates
and clergy of his province; and by royal
writ summons it to meet whenever Par
lament assemblies, and dissolves it when
Parliament prorogues. He is entitled
to no less than eight chaplains, and is
ex-officio an ecclesiastical commissioner,
having also the right to nominate one OF
these commissioners. He has two pal
aces and El5,OOO year. Thus will be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
Home Carpentry.
fte1'lu7s.

The woman who INDUCES in carpen-
ter work seldom does much harm. She
contents herself with trying to drive
nails into the wall, and with expert
ments with mucilage. She drives her
nails with great caution, and when she
has loosened an inch or two of plaster
she becomes alarmed, and resolves to
let her husband assume the RESPONSE
bility of inficting further injury on the
wall. She has profound faith in the
value of mucilage as substitute for
glue, and hopefully attempts to mend
china and furniture with it; but mucil-
age is as harmless as it is inefficient, and
it Is only on the rare occasions when it
is used to mend the wheels of the clock
that it does any permanent injury to
anything. 1t is doubtless the timidity
of woman which restraints her mending
instincts. She breads the saw and the
chise1 as treacherous tools that inevita-
bly, inf1ict wounds on the user, and she
dislikes hot glue owing to its proneness
to burn unwary fingers. Moreover, she
can never grasp the difference between
nail and a screw, and regards the lat
ter as an absurd variety of nail which
can not be driven with a hammer unless
the wieider of the hammer has the mus
cles of man. Thus, for one reason or
another, carpenter work as practiced
by woman is harmless and inexpensive,
and she knows nothing of the rcmorse
to which the man who owns an anataur
tool chest and is not wholly hardened is
a prey.
Nothing more surely devastating than
a man with fondness for amateur car
pentry is ever found in a respectable
household. The reckless inebriate who
throws all the furniture out of the win
dow does perhaps an equal amount of
injury, but he can not be said to be a
feature of respectable households.
There is an old proverb that is often re-
peated on the LIST of May to the effect
that three movings are equal to one fire
in point of destructiveness. 1t might be
expanded by the addition of the great
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
Our Young Folks.
THE SPHINX.

She doesn't live in Eyvpt-
Not in these later years;
She sits in a cane-seat rocker.
And this is what she hears:
Mamma, where's my pencil?''
Mamma, where's my hatY'
Mamma, what does this m camp
Mamma, what is thatY''
Who was General Taylor?'
Where's this horrid town.
slave got to do it?''
Say, is rest noun?'
"Can have cornet?
Don't W sh had.''
Ma, if got rich some day,
Wouldn't you be gialY''
This b1ok says the dew-drops
Climb the morning sky;
Oh. what makes them do so2
Tell the reason why
Hear the gentle answers,
Making matters plain:
Should she speak in riddles,
They will ask again.
Something ais this slipper
Must do it over?
Fix it, mother dear
I'VE must write an essay
On Il piece of chalk:
Mother. what would you say?'
Ma, why don't you talkY'
Children, come to auntie!
Let mamma alone.
81 sometimes think the patient sphinx
Will really turn to stOne.)
Anna 5. Re d, in st. Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
An amusing incident O

An amusing incident occurred re-
Gently in the County Court. Brandt.
the lawyer, was examining German
witness who could not speak English,
and was very deaf besides. His ques-
tons were put through an interpreter,
and, much to the amusement of the
court and spectators, the lawyer seemed
to think that because the witness was
deaf that the questions had to be bel
lowed to the interpreter, and he roared
himself hoarse, and he couldn't see for
the life of him what every one was
laughing at.-Chicago Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

Although Connecticut may be the
home OF MANY of the impusitions prac-
ticed upon the American public, it is
also the seat of much temperance and
religious teaching. Recent statistics
snow that the State contains only 1,lS9
saioon-keepers, while the number of
ciergymen is nearly as, great, DOC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

An old-time Psychologist declared
that nine men of every ten were more OF
less insane. There is some evidence OF
the fact when the eating of a certain
number of quails in certain number Of.
days by some man with Japanned
stomach becomes matter OF National
intarest.-N. y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
Rev Joshua Hudscp who ~cs;Jo

Rev. Joshua Hudson, who resided
near Gainsboro'. Frederick County. Va.
went to the hog-pen Tor the purpose of
feeding his hogs. Staying longer than
usual, search was made or m, and to
the great horror of the family he was
found in the pen dead, with the side of
bis face and throat terribly lacerated
by the hogs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

-tifty-three employees, conductors
ana drivers. OF the Peoples Street Rail-
way company of Philadelphia have
peen discharged for stealing fares. The
Doloest OF them, it is said, were dishon-
estlv keeping from two dollars to five
dollars day. --tAiladelphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

There is no bravery in CARRYING a
pistol, no chivalry in shoot ng man.
no gaaantry involved in street brawl.
vur young men ought to understand
tnese things. atlanta Constitution.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
ABOUT ALLIGATORS.
Their Uses and the Number Captured and
Sold Annually

Six Thousand baby alligators are sold
in Florida every year, and the amount of
ivory, number of skins, and quality of
oil obtained from the older members of
the Saurian family are sufficient to entitle
them to high place among the products
of the State.
The hunters sell young "'gators" at
$25 per hundred, and the dealer from 10
cents tC one dollar each. Live alligators
two years old represent to the captor 30
cents each. and to the dealer from two
to five dollars, as the season of travel is
at its height or far advanced. \ 10 foot
alligator is worth so and one fourteen
feet long s25 to the hunter, while the
dealer charges twice or three times that
price. The eggs are worth to the hunter
so cents per doz. and TO the dealer %
cents piece.
The dead alligator is quite as valuable
as the live one. for specimen nine feet
long and reasonably fat will net both
branches of the trade as follows:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
AN EDITORS PLEASANT LIFE.

There are but very few people who are
aware of the pleasant life a newspaper
man leads. His pathway is strewn with
the brightest of flowers, and upon a
downy couch he reposes. His daily life
is one continued round of unalloyed hap
piness. This is why so many young men
aspire to become editors.
There is no end to the fun there is in
the business, as will be learned from
reading the following from an eastern
editor, whose style of writing was calcu
lated to arouse people to deeds of gore.
Being himself not much on his muscle
he found it necessary to keep a fighting
editor, and he had a speaking tube con-
nected with the peeler's room, to call
him when danger required.
One day gentleman, whom the editor
had referred to as : ''cross-eyed drome-
dairy came in to demand correction,
and as the fighting editor was out he did
not respond to the signal of distress; and
while the editor and his visitor were on
the floor under the desk, the former
agreed to correct his mistake, and the
irate man left. Pretty soon a gentleman
from the rural districts came in to give
the editor big squash and get notice,
and about that time the fighting editor
returned, and boy in his room told him
b,t t,,a h,SS pt cd halp
The man of war was quick to respond
and, dashing into his chiefs room, and
seeing the latter in somewhat disor-
dered condition. the result of his previous
visitor, he thought the countryman was
the cause of it. and clinched hin, and
after staving up some furniture, ran the
victim across the street to where an
empty hears was standing in front of an
undertaking establishment. Into the We
hicle he ,iammed the farmer and shut the
door. The commotion he had created
scared the horses attached to the hearse,
and they started on dead run. People
soon noticed the runaway and ran after
it, aud were shocked at beholding the
hearse collide with post and become a
complete wreck, and their horror at see
ing human body precipitate1 to the
sidewalk was only equalled by their
amazement at seeing it spring nimbly to
its feet and take off across the country,
yelling Murder They thought it an
attempt to bury a man alive, and part of
them went and got the undertaken to
lynch him, while the rest pursued the
farmer, who was found hiding in a
swamp. And after he was brought in it
took over three hours to get matters ex-
planned, and then the farmer went before
a justice of the peace and made affidavit
that he hoped to be struck by lightning
if he ever entered newspaper Office
again.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
The Logic of Treating"

1t is said that while party of friends
were making the rounds, few days age
of establishments where creature COM
forts are kept in bottles and sold by the
glass, one man whose turn it was to
treat led the crowd into furnishing
store and asked them what they would
have. One ordered shirt collar, an
OF her took cuffs, third asked for scarf
pin, which, it is to be presumed, he took
straight; " but it is nevertheless related
of all the party that they felt rather
sheepish. 1t is hard to understand why,
unless they held to the old fiction that
good feeling which moves man to spend
money on his friends can be expressed
only by the purchase If liquor Those
who consume strong drinks at bars or
give them to other men know very we'll
that this fiction is exploded thousands of
times every day. Although Il man can
sometimes indicate hospitable feeling by
inviting his friends to his house or his
hotel and giving them wine he cannot
CRAFTY the same sentiment by ranging
the same friends before a bar paying for
whatever liquors they may simultane-
ously pour down. 1t is far more manly
and considerite, if custom requires spas
modic OUTLAWS of money on ones friends,
to treat to shirt collars and scarf pins,
for they are just as cheap, they last
longer and, unlike drinks, they do not
usually compel the receiver to secretly
curse the giver.