Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-19

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VI III bAe xIdfsFOEtA SnuTCus
inscribed with these words: ITO
s.iIott of God. In memory of Char
psdnte. By an American citizen. y
!. he other day petition was pre-
scented by certain distressed weavers OF
Madras, India, to the Governor of that
province addressed ITO Almighty God,
care of his Excellency the Governor OF
Madras t5'' s.
When Archer, the first jockey OF
England, recently went to Thrisk, in
Yorkshire, to ride, the town crier
marched through the streets announc-
ing that 'sFred Archer, the wonder oil
the world. would certainly ride at the
races"
Just before a HindoO woman dies a
cow is brought in, SO that she may hold
its tai as her soul leaves the body.
They believe in the transmigration OF
souls, and those women prefer to dwell
in the bodies of cows to any other ami.
mails. asts..-i
The ability of ants to tunnel under
a river is almost Incredible, but a Brazil.
liam naturalist once found colony
which had effected the feat. Smoke
was forced from one end of the tunnel
to the other, and marked ants were
seen to 90 in on one side and come out
on the other. st-5,s .s=ri.a
At Monte Carlo it is the custom to
fill the pockets of suicides with bank
notes SO that it may be seen that they
did not kill themselves on account OF
losses. They tried this trick, on q pre-
sumably dead Irishman short time
ago, but he was not dead at all. and
skipped of with the money in the most
lively style. ".=...s
I. The body of the late Empress is the
111th laid in the imperial crypt at vi
enna. The first was that of Empress
Anna, the wife of the Emperor Matthias,
who died in 1858. Eleven Emperors
and fifteen Expresses already repose in
this venerable spot, together with nu-
merous members of the imperial family
and other princely personages.
anf "A new outdoor game for ladies and
gentlemen called enchantment is be-
coming fashionable in England. 1t is
played with small, light hoops. thrown
with wands, something after the man
ner of grace hoops, though the wand is
of a novel construction, involving Pc
culiar method of casting the hoop. A
moderately large piece of ground is
suitable. siias,
1T is q curious statistical fact that
l73 marriages were advertised in the
Times in seven days, and out of this
number eighty brides were fatherless.
This, presume, means that BRIDE
grooms are looking more and more to
the main chance, and only marry girls
who have cash in hand. Prospects,
nowadays, are not considered enough.
Mothers-in-law have long been at dis
count, but it would seem that young
men have now come to the conclusion
that ready cash is a better asset than a
father Truth.
3 The Czarowitz, who has reached
his majority amid great rejoicing and
state ceremony at st. Petersburg, is
twenty-six years old-the time of the
legal coming of age in Russia. His
mothers betrothal was somewhat pc
culiar. Dagmar, the Sc ond daughter
of the King of Denmark, was engaged
to the brother of the present Gar. Be-
fore his death he expressed q wish that
his younger brother, who would inherit
the crown, should also accept Dagmar
as his prospective Queen. After a
proper season of mourning she agreed
to the arrangement, and in due time
became the Empress mo- her of the fu-
ture Nicholas Ii. of Russia. ...-