Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-10
GENERAL

Performers now utilize the scent q
the cucumber.
Miss Carrie Damn of Cincinnati
was married the other day. Her name
remarks the Atlanta Constitution. ID
known wherever the English language
is spoken.
Honesty pays. It is not every good
thing that has such a sordid reason for
keep sharp people virtuous. Phitadel
phfG Record
Goat Island. the Sister Islands.
Prospect Park and all the territory adj
Jacent to Niagara Falls on both the
American and Canadian sides are now
free to the public.
The cost of the railroad which the
English are building from Suakim to
Berber. with equipments. will be S3h-
600 mile. and probably more. The
distance is $50 miles
A census of the occupations of
Washington citizens show that the
principal branches of industry there ara
| holding Office and keeping boarding
house. = Washington Post.
Small boy to druggist-"I want to
get some birthstone. How do you sell
itp" Druggist-..Five cents an ounce
Small boy-"O, want pound. How
much is that?" Druggist-"Fou
cents "-Detrou Free Press.
A man at Bath, N. Y. entered an
old tannery to scare up rats with hoe
handle. About two hundred attacked
him, and the doctors have given him
six weeks to rest in bed. The gang in.
ficted seventy-nine bites. Troy Times.
The highest villages in Vermont
are Lunenburg Danville and Randolph
The highest cultivated land is in those
towns. 1t is cultivated IN Lunenburg to
the height of about three thousand
feet The lowest land is about Lake
Champlain.
A San Francisco correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe Democrat writes
that. in his declining years. the late
Mark Hopkins built a huge Gothic
castle on the verv summit of Mob Hill.
One dav. walking past the house he
looked up at it and. turning to an at
tendant, growled out: who is the
fool that is putting good money into
that ugly house?" He had forgotten
his own place.
The total number of blast furnaces
built in England, Wales and Scotland
to June 80. 1885, was S99; total num-
Der of furnaces in blast June so, 1885,
428; decrease in the number of furnaces
built since March 81, 1885, g; decrease
in the number of furnaces in blast since
March 81, 1885, O; the furnaces blown
out since March 81, 1885, Is; furnaces
pulled down since March 81, 1885. 9;
furnaces being built at present time.
IS; furnaces being rebuilt at present
time, 4.
Julia Wardhowe-We must de.
cline to publish your beautiful poem on
the Ewige Weibliche in Goethe for two
reasons. The other one is. because in
the first stanza you make Goethe ryme
with ''both." in the second with
'.teeth." and still again in the third
with thirty" You are improving,
Julia. and make little time on every
lap, but you haven't quite got there
yet. However, you are young. and
your theme is immortal, and-in fact.
your poem is too short. You would
have kenoed. as it were, on the next
row.-Burdette. in Brooklyn Eagle.
Tactic acid is one of the chief
agents that give acidity to the gastric
juice of the stomach in health. This is
the acid of sour milk, and therefore,
one of the best summer diet drinks
that we can use is buttermilk. 1t sat-
isles the cravings for acids by giving
to the stomach a natural supply and at
the same time furnishing in its eheesy
matter a good supply of wholesome
| nutrition. A man will endure fatigue
in hot weather better on buttermllk
than on any diet drink he can USE
Philadelphia Press.
When behold fashionable
table set out in all its magnifce
l fancy l see gouts and dropsies.
fevers and lethargies. with other in
Vulnerable distempers lying in am
buscade among the dishes. Nature
delights in the most plain and simple
diet. Every animal but man keeps
to one dish. Herbs are the food of
this species, fish of that, and flesh of
third. Man falls upon everything
that comes in his way; not the small
est fruit or excrescence of the earth,
scarce berry or mushroom can es-
cape him.-AddiSon.
"A resident of Augusta, Ga, has an
oak tree in his yard that is not unlike
Others of the oak family in appearance,
but instead of growing regulation
acorns is filled with miniature forma-
tions of singular nature. The usual
cup. which covers half the acorn, and
by which it is attached to the limb, is
present, but instead of being as large
as thimble is about the size of pea,
and instead of containing single nut
or kernel contains tour small seeds.
Birds flock to the tree in great numbers
and feast upon these seeds.-Atdnt0
Constitution.
It c. Crawford tells queer little
story as illustrating Ferdinand Wards
rapacity. General Grant, he says.
was accustomed to go up to New
York to attend a board meeting
from Long Branch. and when he did
he received the usual directors fee
of a ten-dollar gold piece. This he
always gave to Mrs. Grant until she
had some seventy or eighty of them.
Ward heard of this and got hold Of
them. He had so coaxed the remote
savings of every individual member of
the family that when the failure came
there was not q single member of the
family who had 800 at his command
IN. =. Tribune.
Il had from the venerable Joseph
Gales. editor of the National Inteiii-
geascer, an interesting description of
the first Senate. Some of the Senators
had served in the war of the Revolu.
ton, and others had aided in framing
the constitution. which they regarded
as the magma charta of their young re-
public. Spectators were not admitted.
and there was no stenographerS to
publish reports of what TRANSFERRED. but
the debates produced useful fruit ON
account of the weight attached to the
opinions, of the Senator's The States
then sent their foremost men to the