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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-06
The Old London Guilds.

Mr.. Hallam describes the old guilds
as s.fraternities by voluntary compact
| to relieve each other in poverty and to
protect each other from injury" and
adds: 1.-TWO essential characteristics
belonged to them, the common banquet
and the common purse. They had also,
in many instances, religious, some
times secret, ceremonial to knit more
firmly the bond of fidelity. They read
| ily became connected with the exercise
of trades, with the training of appren-
tees, with the traditional rules of art. y"
From what has just been stated as to
the origin of the several companies it is
pretty clear that this description by Mr..
Hallam of the guilds is applicable to
the companies. London was, no doubt,
in these early days a great manufactur-
ing town, in or near which cloth-work-
ing, the smelling of iron, the making
of arrows and bows, the working of
silk and leather, the manufacture of the
precious metals, and other industries
were practiced with much success, and
the several trades appear to have had
in such early days their recognized
quarters in the city, and, owing to
their localization, they formed them
selves into guilds or companies for mu-
tual protection, and as such no doubt
they undertook to regulate the trades
whose names they bore; they appoint
ed overseers to inspect the wares pro-
duced and sold and umpires to adiudi-
cate in cases of disputes between mas
tiers and workmen. But it should al
ways be kept in mind that from very
early times the several companies con-
sisted largely of non-craftsmen; from
time immemorial the privileges of mem
bership have been hereditary, one mode
of admission having always been by
patrimony, which causes the right
to the freedom to descend to all
the lineal descendants, and from
time immemorial a system of appren-
ticeship has entered into the constitu-
ton of the companies, under which
the members, irrespective of whether
they were or were not members of the
trades the names of which were borne
by the companies, were privileged to
receive apprentices. Thus it came to
pass that as early as 1445 of the Skin
ners' Company there was only one
skinner by trade a member, and that in
1860 of the five persons named as mas
ter and wardens of the Clothworkers'
Company, only one was a clothworker,
and that in still earlier times the gov
erning body contained scarcely any
clothworkers.-Nin Century.
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ID POINT.

"A lovers geography recognizes on
IL two divisions in the world-the place
where his sweetheart is and the place
where she isn't.
The Oil City Derrick asks: hat
is pelerineP'' As butterine is bogus
butter we suppose pelerine is bogus
peler, but even after this explanation
we suppose somebody. will be stupid
enough to want to know what . peler
is.--Boston Post. ..e.=.. 49,
do you think You will remain in
Canada longP'' II hardly know.
shall for the present at least. It de
ponds on circumstances sWhat cir
cumstances, pray?'' s'Upon whether
they abolish the extradition treaty OF
not. ~. 7. Graphic.
"A woman has been arrested in New
York for cruelty whipping her Oldest
son. She told the magistrate that she
didn't know it was violation OF the
law for a woman to ''bang her heir. "
Then he doubled the amount of her
bail. Nor1IstoUn Herald.
1t was at the Opera-house. The
performance was about to begin, when
one of the two strangers looked all
around and said: "Bil1, where is the
dress circlep'' Bill glanced up toward
the third gallery, and replied: 81 reck1
on it is up yonder; see afellow taking
off his coat. lba,ay Journal,
The cholera microbe is said to be
shaped Just like a comma. We are go
ing to throw out every comma in the
neWs-room.s Just suppose a microbe
got in by mistake and the compositors
If mn, on6 or opaf
reader the lera!-Er0,astTlze DR.
gas.
-Coachman.-We have no objection
to your marrying the fair young heiress|
of your choice-not the slightest. This
is a free country, and native worth ID
better than plutocratic rank. But when
soul in verse, we elevate the brogan o
determined remonstrance.- Puck.
The hunter and his gun:
IT'S now the hunter takes his gun
eUa5 The fields he rambles over, sx#tss4.
From early dawn till set of sun,
In search OF snipe and plover.
All A gloomy, disappointed wight,
A bandaged hand caressing,
Returns he sadly home at night,
sE With several fingers missing.
-SonerUille Journal.
-e'Win you have some soup O
fshP'' asked the waiter OF q, stranger
mo, sir; bring me some meat, per
taters and coffy.'' After he had fin |
;ished his meat, pertaters and cofy, hd
leaned back in his chair and said |
;;.'Now you kin bring in your fish and
soup if you want to, but you shouldn'
go triflin' with Kansas City man wher|
he's hungry Troy Times.
"A farmer who had engaged tho
services of son of the Emerald Isle
sent him out one morning to harrow
piece of ground. He had not worked
long before nearly all of the teeth came
out of the harrow. Presently tho
farmer went out in the field to taxi
notes of the mans progress, and asked
him how he liked narrowing. ''Oh,
he replied, sit goes a bit smoother nov
since the pegs are out!''-N y Ledger
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5who |
Among with spears and bows

an eScOft.--1Sn ndGlVd
- Among t6ith spears and bows
a. Gently takenWs. After journey
of printer,s.s we came e the
swA more thanshe hairy people lived.
But Nsf ever thl work to catch them.
They artte. Osrfully alert, their scent
is remarAlaveyeen, and they are very
shy and henaof We saw many OF their
huts built "dp in the branches
of trees before we saw q per-
SON. At last we surprised
and surrounded family, a man, wife,
and child, at their meal. We made a
dash for them and captured them.
The parents made little resistance, but
the child fought, scratched and bit like
monkey. None of them were clothed
in anything but hair. We took them to
kjang-Kjang, and there the king re-
fused to allow the woman to 60 out of
the country. He had a superstition
that it would bring him bad luck. She
is kept in his court and treated with
high consideration. She appeared to
have little affection for the child, and
made no opposition to its being taken
from her. We started from Bangkok
with the father and child. At a stop
ping place called Chieng- May the whole
party was attacked with cholera. The
hairy man captured and three of the
escort died. The rest recovered, though
Mr.. Book came very near dying. We
landed in Europe with heehild October
4th, 1882. The child is the child now
known as Krao. We know by her
teeth that she is eight years old. She
talks English and German, can read
and write, and has developed the true
feminine love of fine clothes.
.s'She is modest, affectionate, playful,
and easily managed. Every part of her;
body is covered with hair except her
palms and soles. The hair on her fore
arm grows upward, that on her back
grows inward toward the spine and will
form a sort of name, as her father and
mother had, when she grows older;
Her forehead is covered with thick
black hair about three-eighths of an
inch long. The hair of her forehead is
entirely distinct from the hair on her
head. Her hands and feet, though en-
tirely human in shape, have the pre-
hensile qualities of monkeys hand.
She has thirteen dorsal vertebr@ and
thirteen pairs of ribs, like the chimpan-
zee, while we have twelve. And she
has pouches in her mouth in which she
carries nuts and other food like the
apes"
At this point the visitor made the re-
mark which stands at the beginning of
this article. Prof. Shelly disappeared
for moment and returned with the
child. The pouches in the mouth were
there, and in each one of them was
flbert almost as big as hickory nut,
and all that the Professor had said
about her was proved true. She talked
intelligently and wrote her own name
and the VISITORS name on the back of a
photograph of herself, which she pre-
sented to her caller. She has been ex-
amined by Prof. Virchow, of Berlin
University; Prof. Kirchhoff and Prof.
Welcker, of Halle University; Prof.
Haeckel, of jena; Prof. Lucae, of
charlottesville -Main; Prof. Hale,
Washington, D. c., and much has been
written about her in the medical and
scientific journals.-Pailadelphia Times.
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Properties Of Quicksilver.

One of the most curious properties of
quicksilver is its capability of dissolving
or of forming analgams with other
metals. A sheet of gold foil, dropped
into quicksilver, disappears almost as
quickly as a snow flake when it drops
into water. It has the power of sepa-
rating or of readily dissolving those re-
fractory metals which are not acted
upon by our most powerful acids. The
gold and silver mines pour it into their
machines holding the gold bearing
can detect a trace of the precious SUBJ
stance, so fine are the particles, yet the
liquid metal will hunt them out, and
incorporate it into its mass; By
subsequent distillation it yields. it
state of virgin purity. Several years
ago, while lecturing before a class of
ladies on chemistry, we had occasion
to purify some quicksilver by forcing it
through channels leather. The scrap
remained on the table after the lecture,
and an old lady, thinking it would be
very nice to wrap her gold spectacles
in, accordingly appropriated it to that
purpose. The next morning she came
to us in great alarm, stating that the
gold had mysteriously disappeared,
and nothing was left in the parcel but
the glasses. Sure enough, the metal
remaining in the pores Of the leather
had amalgamated with the gold, and
entirely destroyed the spectacles. It
was mystery which we never could
explain to her satisfaction. - Iressde.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

=
Married women in Portugal retSin
their maiden names.
I'm France whole cherry orchards
are protected from birds by fish-nets.
"A single Japanese hairpin will cost
as much as six or seven boxes of the
American manufacture.
The peasant farmers of France
have about $500, 600, 600 on deposit in
the Government Savings Bank, upon
which they are paid four per cent inter-
est.
"A correspondent writing from the
valley OF the Amazon says that stalks
of fan grass are found in that region
which measure thirty-five feet from the
ground.
The Societe Franklin is an associa-
ton of France for promoting the es-
Enlistment of popular libraries, deriv-
ing its name, of course, from our own
Benjamin Franklin.
"A manuscript of Charles V. in an
unique leather case, delighted the
bibliophiles of Paris, and was consid-
cred bargain at $4,000. It turns out
to be fraud, but the workmanship is
so clever that at an auction sale it
brought $500 as a curiosity.
According to the Indian Forester
famines in India are caused by goats.
They eat the young saplings; forests
thus disappear, rainfall ceases, and the
crops fail. Why the people do not re-
taliate by eating the goats is not ex-
The municipality of Bondy, in
France, got up a fishing match the
other day. Ninety men and women
took part in it, each of whom paid an
entrance fee. After angling three hours
time was called, and the man who had
caught the most fish received the grand
prize. 49,.
The financial condition of the Ital-
ian Government has very much i'm
proved of late years; deficits in the an
nuaI budget are smaller than formerly,
the one for 1885 being set down at only
81, 100000. The peninsula no longer
keeps financial company with Turkey,
Spain and Egypt. 2,
"A sign of the progressiveness of the
times is the fact that recently some
German journeymen artisans class of
workmen who, from time immemorial,
have trudged on foot the highways and
byways of the Fatherland, as well as
of the neighboring countries, were seen
riding on bicycles, their slim bundles
strapped behind them. - -.
When the late Bishop of London
revisited the University Chapel at Cam
bridge, after long absence, he found
the same verger there whom he re-
in his college days, and said
to him: ''Yoa have much to be CRATE
full for, 81 have, indeed, my Lord
replied the old man, .'for I have heard
every sermon that has been preached
in the chapel for fifty years, and, bless
the Lord. [ am Christian still - 49,.
The astronomers at the Greenwich
Observatory have been making calcula-
tions as to the pace of the star Arcturus
in his progress toward the earth. They
find, as the result of twenty-one OBJ
that this beautiful, scintil-
lating star is coming for US at the rate
of fifty miles and seventy-eight one
per second. This amounts
to about 5000 miles minute, $50, 900
miles an hour, or 100000 miles day.
If Arcturus makes straight shot we
will probably be knocked into smither-
Gems, but not for $4,000 years yet
London Truth. +.''
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HARD TO UNDERSTAND.

| Few Conundrums Propounded by 3
gsslh Disconsolats Boston Humorist.
There are many things in this world
of ours which are hard to understand.
For Instance: li4'as @itati u3a aGsla ags
Why should we follow the directions
OF a physician in regard to preserving
our health, when we know full well
that it is for his interest to undermine
our sanitary condition. If the doctors
should succeed In making every body
healthy, pray what would they do fore
living themselvesp I'll sgss.e hfar
Why should lawyers be permitted to
SO make our laws that nobody but law
yers can, understand them?. And why
should we. have, SO many laws or SO
many lawyers to each law? ~ F..@ s''s
Why should the schoolmaster take so
much pains to instill his own knowledge
into the minds of others for few paltry
dollarsP If knowledge be power. he
ought certainly to be. able to, acquire
greater wealth by keeping what he
knows to himself and .fattening on, the
ignorance of the masses
Why should people employ minister
to tell them what they ought to do and
what they should abstain from doing.
whena they know all about it, ever 50
much better than he can tell them?l
Why should we wear uncomfortable
clothing2f We take no pleasure in. it
ourselves and it gives no pleasure to
others. 1t is true your friends NAV
covet your clothing, but they hate you
for possessing it. s@ - Ia9s'
Why should we find fault with orr
children, when, were it not for their
shortcomings, we could hardly recog-
nize them as our own offspringPsa III
Why should we go into raptures over
picture of thing which we would not
care to look upon in its reality-unless.
indeed, it is the same with pictures as
with morality, the sham being more es-
teemed than the real article? Fht13
Why should we undertake to deceive
others in regard to matter abo,t
which we are unable to deceive our
selvesp ss.s{.d a7a sa4 m - !
Why should we waste our breaths
telling everybody we meet that it. is a
fine day, or a, rainy day, or some. other
kind OF day. when everybody knows
it as well as we do?
Why should we esteem a mar. fecaiise
OF his wealth when we know well
enough he will never divide with rs9 if
he, can avoid it, but that onthe contrary
he will compel us to divide with him
when the opportunity presents itselfa-
Boston Transcript. fs94{ fa&ssseas
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A machine has been invented

"A machine has been invented to
obviate the necessity of beating car
pets. 1t is polygonal drum, formed
of wooden bars, and fixed on a shaft
revolving horizontally. 1t is twelve
feet in diameter, six feet in length, and
is inclosed in chamber and driven by
an Otto gas engine of twelve-horse
power, which also drives fan for
drawing the dust from the chamber.
The carpets are placed in the drum,
which is fitted with internal rollers and
these turn the carpet over as the drum
revolves. At twenty-tw revolutions a
minute, from 200 to 800 square yards
of carpet are cleansed in an hour
Troy Times.
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There are great differences in tn

There are great differences in the
average growth of some of the more
common trees. In twelve years white
maple increased one foot in diameter
and thirty feet in height, ash-leaf ma
pie or box alder, one foot and twenty
feet; white willow, one foot and half
and fifty feet; yellow willow, one foot
and half and thirty-fve feet; blue and
white ash, ten inches in diameter and
twenty-five feet in height; Lombardy
poplar, ten inches and forty feet; black
walnut and butternut, ten inches and
twenty feet. as =
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-06

"A detective gives the surprising in.
formation that there is no better place
to look for criminals than Ill a Iibrary.
In order to keep posted with criminal
news the thieves carefully scan the files
OF daily newspapers of the large cities.
Once an important arrest of q iewelry
thief was made in this way: A man who
spent several days in, reading an ac-
count Of q jewelry robbery Appeared so
interested that he was arrested and
found guilty. - CHICAGO Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-06
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
THE ISLE OF CONTENT.

There's land In q latitude near TO us all rs
Whore each dweller may follow his bent;
II Is under no mOnarch's tyrannical thrall,
It lie known as the Isle OF Content
It's q wonderful spot: II ron ask, It win bring
To you quickly Whate'e r you desire;
What II will not pr0duce{it's d angular
thing
That IL just what ron mover require.
BY the balmiest zephyrs Of Happiness famed,
1t Is neither too cold nor too hot,
And the lasses and lads never care in this land
Whether school is in session or not.
In Content, tho but poor, yet you feel ne'er-
theleeS,
I. You are equal in wealth to King, X
While q tear In the trousers or darn In the
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PATTY'S COMPANY.

me little Girl Who Saved Her Best
Manners for Company.
Patty Ellerson had very sweet, po
lite manners; everybody said so,
II there was = guest staying "A. ths
house, Patty slipped out before break
fast and cut q rose to lay on her plate;
If a gentleman calledsto see her father
on 4 hot day, Patty went off, without
being told, and brought glass OF cool
water: when her own little visitors
came, she did everything to make them
have good time. without seeming to
think about herself at all.
All this WAS very sweet.ina Ratty2 and
kndeed. she was such. an attractive little
bird. that hate to tell you any draw
Vet there was a drawback, and as
Patty found it out herself and tried to-
cure it, may be she wouldn't mind my
telling it.sen sst. nsttlA, I
And it was this: Patty saved her best
manners for company She was not
mnkind to her little brothers and sistess,
|bnt I am obliged to say she did not
concern herself muchs about their COM
sauu tplCASulCsy stretf sal 4skt
One summer, Mrs. Palmer, with q
|little daughter near Patty's age, came
Ito board IN the village, and Patty and
Rose Palmer became great friends.
Mrs. Palmer WASH very comfortable
where she was staying. and one day she
walked over to Mrs. EllersOn's, to see
if that lady would take her to board.
She left Rose in the yard to play with
The children, while she and Mrs. Eller-
on'satlon the little vine-shaded porch,
When the, arrangement had been
made. and it was settled that Mrs.
Palmer and Rose were to move over the
next week, the children were called up,
that the little friends might enjoy the
prospect of being together. sio
But, to everybody's surprise, impul-
sive little Rose cried out: = ~ mamma
don't want to live here ]" sF.is.swes SD.
Her mother was distressed that she
should have made what seemed such
rude speech, but Mrs" EIlerson was very
wise about little. girls, iSand putting a
GENTLE arm about Rose--who, i at the
sight of her mothers displeasure, had
begun to cry-she asked her kindly,
what was the reason she did not want
After moments hesitation, Rose
said simply that Patty was always nice
and kind and pleasant when she came
over to see her, but she noticed
that she was sometimes cross with
Ella, her little sister. ''And / am
'fraid," continued Rose, "that i'll come
to live with her, she will treat me like
she does Ellar' ~
! And now it was poor Patty's time to
cry, and the little girls would have had
sad day if mamma hadn't proposed a
dolls tea-party, and given them some
bread and preserves. That brought
back the sunshine.
Rose and her mother did come to live
at the Ellerson's, but not one cross
word did dear Patty speak to the Little
visitor all lsummer. s,ns ,Ass fs8 e
{ More than that, she tried hard not to
be anything but polite to her own little
home people; and think she succeed
ed, for one day when 1t was Elias time
to help mother wash the breakfast
things she said, joyously: y fs3 4a
Z Mamma, we do have such good
times, now; Patty treats me Just like
company all the time. Elizabeth p.
Allan, in s.. s.. Times. al, s.,8 .e eA.
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assS4ss which he can
get aheau--a new farm, husband
ing his own strength and that of his
land at the same time. The labor which
is entailed through the growing of grain
for sale, is at all times hurrying and
exhaustive, while growing and multi
plying collection of live stock is, to
quite a degree, self tending; and the
major part of the care-taking coming
IN the winter months, the labor of the
year is more adyantageously distrib-
uted than by any other system of hus-
bandry whatever. Then, too, the be-
glnner without capital often finds it to
11s advantage to put in a few days OF
labor, now and then, for others, when
this pays the best; and if he has no
harvest of his own, the har-
vest season gives him his best opportu-
nifty.
The money that the young man
would invest in buying a reaper and
tanning mill (say $175, if invested in
in-ealf heifers, would pay for from five
to seven, according to age and quality,
The number will very nearly double
within. the first year, and the cost for
keep will be hardly felt in the direction
of caslnoutlay. If the, wife be good
butter Aaker-and if she is not she
IN some one who is-she
:: ] J
mAt to meet con-
of 3he poorest
HairF. insure that
s.tnrSugh. All
llik, gradually adding
nd ago aI1lI Calves @s'l rears si
WA not having been
milk from the udder,
9heiA dam from other
be. tGfp ned out to grass
sef AH0Aerd has gone
for the day. We invite
an who contemplates
Fa0pew place, and who
AXE up his mind to save
and tear upon body and
figure up the probable in
Oh - al. the end of, say five years,
'fropa a START of five or six heifers of
lbreedlEgsge. This is on the presump-
lticm ht.he is abreast of the times in
the matter of readily seeing the advan-
tSasof Breeding the best; that is, the
best obtainable with the moderate
means at his command. But he should
bearin mind, always, that any reason
able sacrifice is warranted to insure the
placing of a bull good individually, and
well bred, at the head of even a small
and ordinary collection of females. for
the reason that if his all is centered in
a few, it is the more important that
these few be of the best it is possible
for him to procure.-Natiomol Lice
Stock Journal
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that NOT one noon hour did he visit
Scott Pond through the many sudery
days IT the term. xxsssa IL
Boys. 0nsw hickE sides Isl yours sexaszA-
nlep,s You know there are only two
the right and the wrong. CeTssfsGn e
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The latest invention is an electric
fan which is warranted 'sto lower the
temperature of room from ninety@
five to sixty degrees in a few minutes.I