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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
The Reward of Faithfulness.

a. fine illustration of the value OF
keeping ones word, which boys would
do well to profit by, is given in the case
of Mr. Wilder, the first President. of
the, American Tract Society. He be-
came very wealthy man, but was, in
early life, head clerk for a large firm in
Charleston, Mass. He promised a
customer, one day, to deliver bale of
goods at certain hour. He had to go
%, Boston to make the purchase, and
Engaged a porter to take the goods
over at once in wheelbarrow. The
nan was overcome by the heat, and
stopped on the bridge to rest. Mr..
Wider. finding him there, promptly
truldled off with the wheelbarrow HIM
sell, than break his word to- the
customer. A wealthy merchant, who
happened to observe the act, went to
Mr.. Wilder's employer, and said: Tell
that ytung man that when he wishes to
go into business for himself, my name is
at his service for thirty thousand dol.
Lars. -Coagregatiomalist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| Every member of the present
British Cabinet is peer or a son Of q
peer.
horses for elegant equipages in Rio de
Janeiro.
There are 2O3, 200 dogs in the king
dom of Bavaria, the tax on which
amounts to S250.000.
The Court of St. James is so called
after the old Palace of ST. James, where
nearly all official ceremonies took place
for over hundred years.
| There are no old maids in Turkey.
The system of taking wives on faith,
without seeing them is responsible for
this happy state of Turkish society.
The house where the reformer,
Luther, lived after his marriage is care
| fully preserved at Wittenberg, Germany,
| in an almost unaltered condition. 1t
! contains many interesting relics.
-"Hwntws" is the name applied to
the inhabitants of the South of Wales
bv the men of the north. The north
! men have a strong dislike for q
.Hwntw," and can hardly understand
his dialect.
Hearing that gigantic gin palace
was to be erected in Westminster, Dean
Bradley raised the necessary funds for
the purchase of the site, and an adj
mirable Home and Institute for Boys
was opened as a result of his laudable
effort.
The largest fortunes accumulated
in Ireland.have been made in the liquor
business. No Irish fortune approaches,
in point of personally, that of the late
Mr.. Wyse, Of Cork (f3.00O,0OO dis
tiller. save that of the late Sir B. L.
Guinness-e1. 200. 900.
The Swedish journal, Norrbottens
Kari en-, states that the water is falling
rapidly in the Gulf Of Bothnia. A stone
in the archipelago by the coast, which
visible above water, is now at mean tide
three feet above it.
The Hon. G. II. Strut, M. P, who
occupies several farms in Mld-Essex.
England, has offered to give his labor
ers facilities for commencing peasant
farming. He has told them that he will
sublet to them as much land as they
like to take at the same rent that he
pays, and will lend them a horse when
wanted, and give the men employment
Wueu tucll idUoI ID uOt ICHuil Cu oH tilSlI
own land.
"A Swedish engineer, Herr N. Lotti-
GER owner of the Elm butts Engineering
Works, has invented an instrument
whereby it is indicated at railway sta
lions whether the points on the line are
in working order or not. The instru-
ment is worked by electricity, the warn
ing of Heterogeneous being given by
means of bells; otherwise the invention
is, of course, a secret. The railway au-
thorities are satisfied with il, and per-
mission has been given to fit the ap-
paratus for experiments on several of
the State lines.
OF the various European countries,
Germany is stated to be the best fur
nished with railways. having, accord
ing to the report of the French Minis
try of Public Works, more than twenty
two thousand miles; next to Germany
comes the Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, which possesses about nine
teen thousand miles, but adds to its
lines much more slowly than any of its
rival nations on the Continent; France
is third on the list IN regard to the total
extent of road, having some eighteen
thousand five hundred miles; Russia
next. with about sixteen thousand
miles, while Austro-Hungary has thir-
teen thousand.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
The Pilgrim Fathass.

The following is a list of the male
passengers nr forefathers- land.
ed at Plymouth just 225 years ago.
The names have not been published for
many years, and will be- new 10 this
generation: Mr., Isaac Allerton. John
Alden. John Allexton, William Brad
ford. William Brewster, John Billing
ton. Peter Brown, Richard Britterp.re.
Mr.: John Carver. Francis Cook, James
Chiffon, John Crackston, Richard
Clarke. Edward Doty, Francis Eaton.
Thomas English. Mr.. Samuel Fuller.
Edward Fuller. Moses Gletcher. John
Goodman. Richard Gardiner. John
HowlaEd, Stephen Hopkins, Edward
Lester. Christopher Martin, William
Mullins. Edmund Margeson, Derony
Priest. Thomas Rogers, John Rigdale.
Captain Miles Standish, George Soale.
Edward lilly, John Tilly. Thomas
Tinker. John Turner. Edward Winslow.
William White, Richard Warren.
Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow and
fifteen servants. Boston Re ord
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12

Governor Swineford Corrects False Re,
ports Concerning Our Northwestern Po-.
session.
WASHINGTON, D. c., November g.
Governor Swineford of Alaska, In his an.
nual report to the Secretary of the In
terror, mentions the establishment Of
several schools now in successful opera
tion there, and urges increased appro
priations to extend the school system o
the territory. The Governor criticises
harshly those agents OF the Government
who heretofore have missrepresenteC
Alaska as a country where the weather
is so inclement as to preclude the Guilt
walton of crops or keeping of domestic
animals. Nowhere, he says, in his home
travels, from Lake Superior to the
Gulf of Mexico, has he seen more luxuri
ant vegetation than in southwestern
Alaska The harder vegetables all grow
to maturity, and to enormous size, ant
cattle are sleek and in the best possible
condition. The deposit of gold in the
mines on Douglas Island are represented
as phenomenal, and the mine promises
to figure more largely in the mining his
tory of the world than any other on rec
ord. Defects in the territorial laws, are
discussed, and local representation is
recommended.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
BEsSlE's PIGEONS.
How the Carter Family Was Saved from
the Indians.

How the Carter Family Was Saved from
the Indians.
When jacob Carter moved with his
family from Indiana to the far West,
they stopped for several weeks at a
frontier fort before going on to their final
destination As one of the officers of
the garrison was Mrs. Carter's cousin,
they were well received and pleasantly
entertained.
One source of amusement while they
remained at the fort was found in Bes-
sic Carter's pet pigeons. genuine
homeFs," as Bess called them. The
pair of old birds had been given to the
child by friend of the family, and she
had named them Postum and Tippet.
She had raised two young ones, Chip
and Spark, and all we're great pets with
her. When she was at an Indiana
school she had used Postum and Tippet
for sending messages home, and on
that account they had been priced by
her parents nearly as much as by her
! self.
| The Cafters moved to their new home
| In the spring, and it happened that be-
fore they had settled down in the new
house some Sioux who had been re-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
HOWLlNG GLAD.
How San Franciscan Won the Eternal
Friendship of an Acquaintance.

How San Franciscan Won the Eterna
Friendship of an Acquaintance.
Love is good deal like the car cable
1t is endless, and goes on all the time
but it doesn't matter a cent what car i
is drawing. You've always got to pay
fare, too, but whatever you put into thu
box is gone. There was man in Oak
LAID who had a sweetheart. suppose
there are several men in Oakland who
have sweethearts, several who have the
same sweetheart, several who have sew
eral sweethearts. But this man haG
one sweetheart whom he adored, as only
a man who finds it hard to get sweet
heart, and does not feel sure of hel
Their, can adore. He wanted some
thing precious to keep for her sake. Sc
he got permission of the Central Pacific
Railroad and came over to San Fran
cisco one afternoon. A friend of his
was going on to Dresden and happy
thought struck the fond lover.
Il want you to do something delicatJ
for me-" he said to his friend.
.'Whaf is it?"
He took out of his pocket a photo
graph and JOCK OF halr.
''Look at this. Isn't it lovely?"
Well, she was about forty-five, broad.
faced, with chunky nose and the faint.
est sensation of a cross-eye. The lock
of hair was red. am describing 8
woman who could not by any possibility
exist in Oakland. do not want to of.
fend that ity may want to live there
some day.
"Y-e.e-s. She's good looking"
'When you go to Dresden want you
to have painting of her made on por-
celain. daisy. 1 don't care what il
costs"
s'All right, old man, I'll do it. -
take care of it, won't you?-the
lock of hair, mean"
Certainly. Do you want to insure
itp''
The friend went to Europe and came
back. In Dresden he had made inqui-
ries, and found what was required would
cost fifty dollars. He made up his mind
that ANYBODY who wanted that girl
painted and was willing to pay fifty dol
lars for it was an idiot. So he came
back without the porcelain. He had
been back some time, when he met the
Oakland man on the street. Strangely
enough the Oakland man avoided him,
but he was cOrnered.
s.Hullo! Got back? How did you en-
joy YOURSELF" :.
Not wo d about the commission. At
last the Frisco man spoke up.
by the way, priced those porcelain
paintings in Dresden, and thought you
would not care to pay fifty dollars for
one, so l."
The Oakland man gave a jump OF
iov. He seized on the Frisco man s
hand and shook it nearly off.
.I'm so bowling glad you didn't-so
bowling glad. I've got another girl
now, and there would have been the
deuce to pay. Come and have cigar. !"
San francisco Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
PARAGUAYAN CUSTOMS.
A Plant That Blends Life and Death in
Efbers.

/
| A Plant That Blends Life and Death in Its
Fibers.
In Paraguay the chief food of the
people is mandioca, mate and fruit.
During the war with Brazil, Argentine
and Uruguay when all the cattle were
slaughtered and few fields produced a
harvest for several years, the people
lived almost exclusively upon fruit, with
which nature has so well provided the
country. The orange of Paraguay,
like the pineapple of Ecuador, is said
to be the best in the world. but none
are exported beyond an occasional few
that go to Buenos Ayres. The mandi-
oca is a root like the yam, from which
is produced the tapioca of commerce.
Life and death are blended in the
mandioca plant. but every part of it, if
properly treated, is useful, and it Is as
essential to the domestic economy of
Brazil and Paraguay as rice is to
China or potatoes to Ireland. 1t is
served ut every meal, from the dinner
pail of the laborer to the banquet of the
President. as bread is with u.s. There
are four species of the mandioca, but
they differ only as one kind of an apple
differs from another, all serving the
same general purpose. The plant
grows about four feet in height, some
what resembling the tomato, although
it has not so much foliage. The stalks
and leaves are excellent fodder for
cattle, and are often dried and used for
their medicinal properties by the old
The root can be baked or boiled, like
a yam or sweet potato, but when
eaten raw is a deadly poison. Thirty
five drops of the juice were once adj
ministered to a negro who was under
sentence of death, as an experiment.
and he died in six minutes in horrible
commissions. The poison is mys-
teriously removed or neutralized by the
application of heat, and the root when
cooked is almost pure starch and the
staff of life of the people.
The popular way of using it is IN
the form of flour. The roots are boiled
and then ground in rude mills, produc-
ing powder about the color of buck
wheat flour. This is enten raw,
sprinkled upon meat or fruit. and en-
ters into the composition of various
sorts of stews and ragouts peculiar tc
the people.
Tapioco is q refined mandioca pro.
duced by modern process. the flour
being reduced to paste by boiling. and
then allowed to crvstalize. A drink
called ''chi"a'' is also made of it by
soaking the flour in water and letting
it ferment. 1t has a taste like sour milk,
and one glass of it will last a life time,
except for the native. who will drink it
by the quart without injury, although
it is a rapid intoxicant. The chica OF
Peru is made of sugar-cane, the chicha
of Chill of the first juice of the grape,
and that of Paraguay of the mandioca.
-Asuncioas Paraguay Cor. Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
THE REVENUE MARINE.

The Work For the Past Year Satisfactorily
Performed at the Lowest Figure Eve.
I Attained-The Service Largely SeIf-Sup'
porting.
WASHINGTON, D. c., November g.
The report of the Revenue Marine
shows that the work of this service
for the past year compares favorabiy
with that of any former year. In enforc.
ing the provisions of law and the pro-
lection of the revenue, "a, 4Sl merchant
vessels were boarded aud examined.
This item of work varies from year
to year, being proportional generally to
the activity of ocean and lake commerce.
OF this number LAPS vessels were found
violating the law in some particular and
were either seized or reported to the
proper authorities. The vessels so re-
ported or seized incurred liability to
fines, penalties or forfeitures, amount
ing to total sum of S604. 575, about
two. thirds the cost of maintaining the
service. The relief work of she cutters
has been particularly important. The
number of vessels assisted was 2,74l,
exceeding that of any former year. Sixty
persons were picked up out OF the water,
and saved from drowning.
The revenue marine steamer Corwin,
whose record of valuable and important
service in the waters of Alaska and the
Northwestern Arctic Ocean extends over
period of several years, made during
the past season one of the most useful
and interesting cruises, covering about
10, 900 miles in the Northwestern waters.
While coasting amongst the Aleu-
tlan Islands for the protection
of seal fisheries and the sea
otter hunting grounds, her commander
Captain Healey, visited the active volcano
on the Island of Bogoslof, which he
found making but feeble demonstration,
and while assisting the whaling fleet in
the Arctic he took on board quantity
of coal from newly opened vein on the
northern coast, which he found to be OF
quality superior to that hitherto tested.
He also completed. by means of boat
expeditions, the survey of the Arctic
rivers borne on the map as kokowak and
Noatoak, ascertaining the sources and
directions of both streams.
The report shows that the revenue cut
ters have co-operated most ben fcially
with the State and National quarantine
system on our Atlantic and Lake coasts
in preventing the introduction of chol
era, yellow fever and smallpox. 1t is
claimed that the patrol which these
vessels maintain on the coasts against
infected vessels is most important
feature of the preventive agencies
which have thus far operated so sue.
cessfully in averting the threatened
scourre of pestilence in this country.
The cost of conducting the service for
the fiscal year is SSI9, S97, the lowest
ever attained.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
AN AUTUMN GIRL.

From romp upon Che Autumn hills
Home sped our Mabel maiden.
With shining eyes and tumbled hair,
And arms with treasure laden.
I'm living with the leaves" she cried.
See how the wind has tossed me!
thought I'd come and let you know,
forfear you'd think you'd lost me.
The lovely leaves! They hang all night
so chilly in their places,
That when the sun comes out, you see,
They let him burn their faces.
Thats how they turn so bright and red;
And ever since knew it
I've staid and staid out there with them
10 see If could do it.
1t would be such lovely thing!
AND, Mamma, / was certain
you q Ikea little 4lJumn girl
10 hang up on the curtain.
so I've been standing in the sun
Until felt him burning;
Anc only look now at my cheeks!
do betiereIn t,u3itng,'
-Cdfrie w. Bronson. in ". Y. Independent.
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Boycotted by the Knights of Labor.

HoUsroN, TEXAS, November Sin &C.
cordance with instructions from the
Grandmaster Workman w. Ii. Golden,
OF Galveston, all members of the Knights
of Labor are boycottiug all freight &c
and from Galveston, and in consequence
an immense amount of cotton coastwise
is accommodating in the yards and com.
presses. The direct navigation com
pany is the only outlet. The Knights o.
Labor are very strong in this city, ant
they will no doubt be able to seriously
impede the progress of all traffic, at Ieas
for the present
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
AN INFANT LOCOMOTIVE.

Less Than TWO Feet Long and Going
Nine Miles an Hour.
John C. Gould, machinist and must
clan. of 50 Whiting street, has construct
ed full fedged locomotive which is
twenty inches long from the cab en-
trance to the catcher tip, or thirty-three
inches long with the tender. Gold
mounted steel bands circle the brass
boiler, from which steam pressure of
one hundred pounds can be developed.
A miniature steam-guage within the cab
registered as high as sixty pounds of
steam. BY other signs the constructor
can easily tell when his pet is laboring
under a greater pressure. 1t took about
one year to build the locomotive, and,
estimating the value of the small tools
he had to make to model the intricate
machinery and the value of the material
of which the locomotive is made, the
cost of the whole thing was about four
hundred dollars.
An ordinary five-cent doll would look
like giant in the cab, and Glove would
seem like a big piece of timber if placed
alongside of the small steel across that
which keeps together the various sec
tons of machinery. The height of the
cab is only five inches and half from
the floor, and it is seven inches long on
top. 1t is four inches wide. a baby s
thimble would loom up in imagination
to the proportions of a kerosene barrel
if it was put side by side with the poll
ished oll-cups. These are three
sixteenths of an inch wide each and
about quarter of an inch deep. A
gallon of oil would not be exhausted by
them in n century and q half. The en-
CINE has an inch and a quarter stroke,
and is propelled by driving-wheels that
are three and half inches in diameter
and ten and half inches in circumfer-
ence.
Other dimensions of this little wonder
furnished by the builder were: Connect
ing-rods, four and half inches from
center to center; boiler, eleven inches
long; heating-room in fire box. four
inches; cylinder-box, one and three
quarter inches long; smoke-stac6. three
and one quarter inches high; side cab
window, one and half inches high and
an inch wide; front cab windows, five
eighths of an inch wide; length of poker
and shovel. eight inches; length OF sand
slide from sand-box, four inches; coal
room in tender, two and a half inches
wide and seven inches long.
The smoke-stack, sand-box and dome
are gold-mounted TO give thorough
description of this fine piece of mechan-
ism would require great deal OF space
in a newspaper to do the subject justice.
Suffice it to say that no engine on the
Consolidated Road has any more APP,
pointments than this. but. of course.
they are all on very reduced scale.
The engine can attain speed of nine
miles an hour.-NetU HaUen Conn.
Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
.sTbe World Is Mime"

NEW YORK, November 5.-At the
World office it is authoritatively stated
that the sensational dispatches widely
published questioning the ownership of
that paper are entirely without founda-
tion. In fact, Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer is
not only the editor, but the sole proprte-
tor of the paper. He never signed the
affidavit referred to in the dispatches,
and, indeed, never saw it. The World
Is technically published, as it has been
for years, by the Press Publishing Com.
pany, but every share of the stock of this
corporation is owned by Mr.. Pulitzer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
PlrA AND POINT.

The man who keeps his moth shut
never has to eat any crow. f1st0det.
phia Times.
The merchant who hangs out in
front OF his store the sign: sDon't 90
somewhere else to be swindled; walk In
here,' is honest, to say the least. -LoO-
ell Times.
1T is remarkable what difference
there is in the sensation when you get a
letter enclosing ten-dollar bill and
VIII you get one enclosing bill Tor
ten dollars.
An exchange has an article headed
'.Boys and Contagion." What the
small boy can catch isn't worth catch
ing, only he doesn't always catch what
he deserves So. Albaqs (W.) Aesseas.
ger.
In ling what mothers should do.
an exchange says: "Allow the children,
as they grow older, to have opinions OF
their own" Wonder what kind of chill
dren this writer has had to do WITH
Boston Transcript.
"A Tennessee negro who did OF
general debility was turned over to the
doctors, and a post-mortem revealed a
score of shirt buttons in his stomach.
We are not surprised. A mans shirt
buttons are almost never where they
ought to be.-Puck.
wonder where Splashpen gets the
big words he uses so plentifully in his
writings" 'sOut of the dictionary. of
COURSE" THAT accounts for it! He
used three words in ten lines, the other
day. of which I did not know the
meaning. l went to the dictionary, but
they weren't there. Probably, as you
suggest, Splashpen had taken them
Boston Post
look here, l wish you would ex-
plain how this got into one of your ci-
gars?" said man, rushing into to-
bacco store and holding up a little
strip of calico. The manufacturer
eyed it with disgust, and exclaimed:
Its those new girls again. They
don't seem to know the difference be-
tween Mother Hubbard and a Con-
nectlcut wrapper!" Chicago Tribune.
His lost love.
l by thy charms 1 crave a place
Midst rivals thy winsome grace
And Bling ventures will dare.
4 love of thee, yet meier despair,
II no chance thy love to win,
Abroad I'll some other scheme,
For me no more this earth is
Nor sin till thy SmleS-fOrgiven
Let peace be-9 betwixt us dwell:
I'll thee no more-farewell!
Mrs. Jones (newly married) How
did you like that pie we had for dinner
to-day? Mr.. Jones (who recollects
his childhood)-It was rather good,
but not such a pie as my mother used
to bake. Why don't you call over and
get her recipe? Did you bake it? Mrs.
Jones-No. Mr. Jones-Ah! Who
did then? Mrs. Jones (triumphantly)
Your mother baked it and sent ii
over. She thought you would like it.
IN. Y. Sun.
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The Naval Advisory Board.

WASHINGTON, d. c., November g.
Captain VIM. P. Mccain has been ap'
pointed President of the Naval Adj
visory Board, to succeed Admiral
Simpson. Commander A. S. Crown
lnshield, WHO was recently Sc
selected from the Lighthouse Board,
has been ordered as a member of the
Advisory Board to succeed Lieutenant
Commander f. Nj. Barbour The board
has organized, and yesterday began the
work of arranging to complete the steel
cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta.
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JACKSON, MICH, November 6.-Wes-
ley Burchard, cashier OF the Farmers
Bank at Grass Lake, is missing, being a
defaulter to the amount of $4,000. He
was in the habit of taking 5000 to $500
at q time until the amount reached
1000, when he would make a promis-
sorry note and sign Pratt s& Burchard,
and then falsify in the statement. When
confronted by the directors on Tuesday
he acknowledged having done wrong,
but promised co make the amount good.
He was not arrested and disappeared
that night. 1t is thought the funds were
sunk in wild speculations in Texas.
Burchard is over fifty years old.