Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
GENERAL.

One of the New York papers has
facilities for printing twenty-six copies
per second.
The United States uses more soap
to each inhabitant than any country in
the world.
"A club, whose object is to suppress
.he use of tobacco, started recently 10
Aplachicola, Fla
| Augusta, Fla, has a brick-yard
which was established in the year 1920,
and has turned out over $50, 600, 600
bricks.
The editor of a Vermont journal
offers his paper free for six months to
every newly married couple in his
neighborhood.
The queen of the turf, Maud S.,
lives chiefly on warm mash, but occa-
sionally eats candy and gingerbEead.-
N. Y. Herald
| "A monthly allowance of $3.50 for
the support of cat was recent item
on the payroll of the Lexington (Ky.)
Fire Department.
| An effort is being made to cul.
tivate the nettle, with the object of OBJ
tanning from it a material suitable for
| N'etC"So 11OfttU.
| Tobacco was first smoked, then
| snuffed, and lastly chewed. Pipes
came first, then cigars, in 1915, and
finally observation-disclosures Herald.
"A Raleigh On. c. sportsman re-
| Gently went out with 1l5 cartr. dyes
| and returned with Ill robins and one
rabbit, having missed only three shots.
At the end of 1884 there were 1885,.
600 miles of railway in the world,
which would make line from the
earth to the moon, with $4,000 miles to
| spare.
Toast and marmalade and cup of
tea is the fashionable breakfast for
young society men in New York, who
| never retire before three a. mn. Y.
Graphic.
In Idaho four mountain bears got
into the corral of Miss Tollert and
killed sixty-four fine Angora goats
before the plucky girl drove them off
with no weapon but an axe.
An old clock. made in 1875 by
Bowly. of London, is now owned by
Mr.. Morse. of West Bridgewater, who
has refused 81 900 for it. 1t runs eight
days and has a calendar dial-Bostom
Post.
1t is fact, perhaps not generally
known even to the citizens of this
east of the Mississippi. Everybody
knows that it is the best. -Auqusta
(Ga.) Chronicle.
The dude collar, the tall, stiff
choker, resembling a wristband, which
has been so much caricatured. has had
its day. Though not entirely extinct,
0r,ly A<Yy he 10, Il, \
the necks of few superannuated sports
and second-class mashers.-N Y. Her.
AID.
DIR. ]. Smith Dodge, in pointing
out the road of success to the students
graduating from the College of Dentist
ry, warns them against the too free.
use of the muscle which wags the law;
also against loading their breaths with
Health Monthly
The pronunciation of "tuberose''
has been a sub iect of discussion in an
the word is a trisyllable has been at last
unanimously reached. The flower is
lily, and the name is from the French
"tuberose," called from the tuber-like
bulb of the plant. Shelley pronounces
the word in three syllables. Chicago
Tribune.
A gentleman with ticket from St.
Paul to Watertown arrived at Syracuse
recently, and was met by two ladies,
who asserted that they were his wife
and daughter. At first he did not know
them, but at last realized who they
were. He had been absent twenty
seven years in Winnipeg, and did not
expect to meet his relatives in Syracuse.
-WatertO,On (N. ~ Times.
"A natural ice-cave, according to the
Alta California, exists thirty miles east
of Fall River Valley, Cal, in the Mount
Shasta region. There are huge col
umns of ice, chambers of ice, and ice
hanging from the ceiling Ike blades of
polished steel, forming picture of
grandeur. The residents of the valley
haul their summers supply of ice from
the cave.
The telegram read: 1.-THE Mahara-
iah ofNepau1 has rendered 10, 900 picked
Goorkhas for service in Afghanistan.
The printer made it read: The Maha-
rajah of Nepaul has rendered $1,000
picked Gherkins for service in Afghan
istan." 1t might have been worse No
doubt picked gherkins would be quite
as acceptable as ''picked Goorkhas" in
Afghanistan, though we don't know
what picked Goorkha is.-Norristoacn
Herald.
-"Hawkeye BILL noted fox
hunter of Litchfield County, Conn.,,
hunted foxes all winter and didn't get
a single one. His wearied, disguised,
and famished hound came into New
Preston the other day, and at one guip
gulped down eighty-three cents worth
of beefsteak which a worthy citizen had
laid down for a moment. The citizen
wants eighty-three cents, and '.Hawk-
eye Bilr' is preparing to 60 through
bankruptcy. The hound is the only
one of the lot with peace on his mind
Hartford Post.
During the stormy season accurate
predictions for the Pacific coast are not
so easy to make as those on the Allan
tic coast, because here the storms come
in from the ocean and strike the coast
with little warning. while the storms
of the Atlantic coast generally move oft
the land, and their movements can be
studied before they strike the ocean.
This disadvantage can be partly over
come by having an independent bureau
here, devoted to the special study of To-
cal mete orology.-San Francisco Alta.
A tailor in the Bowery, New York,
undertook to sew a few buttons on q
waited. recently, and journeyman did |
the work. Shortly afterward he dis |
covered that 81, 200 had been taken |