Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-08
GENERAL.

| ern shore, Mary land, is more prohta-
BILE than the oyster crop.-Baltimore
Sun.
| The Charleston News SAYS: "keep
temperate. keep clean, keep busy, keep
your temper, and you are sure to keep
COOL"
"A good baseball player in Rhode
Island gets bigger salary than the
Governor of the State.
Journal.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has do
| mated box of books to each of the
| forty lfe-saving stations on the Jersey
coast.-N. 7. Ndsl.
"A cheap slipper made of wool and
bound in imitation fur, with the sole
| in three thicknesses OF white felt, is a
new thing in England.
"A rough statue of man wearing a
tall hat and bearing the date 1910 was
found recently in the ruins of the old
tort at Pemaquid, Me.
-Figure-heads for ships and steam
boats are 90 nc out of use. Where in
1860 there were in Boston six carvers
of these heads. now there is only one.
boston J0urnat.
The head of the Roman Catholic
missions in China reports that 10000
native converts have been massacred
within ten years. Five white mission
aries have been lost.
The abbreviation '.Cir,' used in
chronology. means about; as, for iu-
stance. Cir. 1910, A. D.; about 1910, A.
ID. The word is from the Latin Cir
cum" meaning around.
The latest fashion for brooches
shows rows of tiny birds and chickens
studded with small diamonds; or fox
hounds running and tiny birds on the
wing. -PhitadeLphia Press.
A Lowell (Mass) individual tried
to exchange his baby for lone good
square drink" the other day. The bar
keeper ran the unnatural father out of
the place. -BOst0fe Transcript.
Russ an girls are learning trades
in order to earn their living. Book
binding, type-setting, bookkeeping
and shoemaking are the trades receiv-
ing the largest number of recruits.
"A dog in Providence, R. l.. has
been trained to bang on the piano and
make noise. which might pass for
singing by a slight stretch of the
imaginatio .-Proridence Journal.
This seasons fatalities to venture
some tourists in the Alps are fully as
numerous as usual. The body of one
climber has not been identified. though
his clothes indicated that he was rich.
Probably few people know that
poStage-stamps have been in use in this
country but thirty-eight years. Prior
to 1917 postage was collected in money,
and its prepayment was optional (.
MAIL
An Ohio man has invented prac-
teal thinking machine. 1t will auto
matically compute the cost of any
number of ounces, pounds or tons. at
any given price whatever CEerela1ad
Leader.
1t is not generally known that on
the middle stem underneath a cotton
leaf is Il small cell or cavity that con-
tains drop of blood which can be seen
by pressing between the thumb nails
81. Louis Post.
The fashionable game of the mighty
Huron race of Indians near Quebec is
croquet. The Young braves send the
balls through the hoops with as much
vigor as their ancestors used in WELD
ing the tomahawk.
An invoice of about 5000, 900 mar
bles was recently taken out of the Gus
tom House by an Indianapolis mer-
chant. There were sixty cases, each
containing 1000 gross of marbles. The
duty paid was $50.
The pharmacists of Paris have ar
rived at the conclusion that plants in
bedrooms are beneficial, especially to
consumptives. 1t is held. however.
that plants without flowers are prefera-
BILE to those in bloom
"A man in Franklin County. Ten
nessee. wears a beard that is six feet
nine inches in length. He keeps about
four-fifths of it wound about card
board. and carries it in his coat pocket
louisville Cour5er-Journat.
Statistics have shown that drunk.
ards are more apt to take cholera than
the temperate the unmarried more
than the married, and those living in
the CITY more than those in the coun-
try.-Dr. e. e. Sattler, in The Present.
1t is stated that the fruit growers
Of Riverside, Cal, have voted to de-
troy the whole apple crop for one year
IN order to eradicate totally the codling
moth. a subscription being made to
compensate the more unfortunate by
the sacrifice. Chicago Journal.
We do not even allow ourselves
time for simple body rest. We be-
grudge Saturday half-holiday. In
the whole year we have four days for
National holidays. 1t is work, work,
work. and what is worse this passion
for work has for its object simply the
getting of gain. -Indtanapoits NeUs.
"A negro boy, while walking along
the street took of his hat and struck
at wasp that had alighted on a tall
shrub, hanging over fence. The bow
put on his hat, turned to man and
said: II thought l got dat ar ole
wass.' Didn't you get him?'' no
sab. but - he snatched off his hat,
clapped his hand on the topof his heal,
squatted, howled and said: BLAINE fl
iidn' git dat ole wass. "-Louiscile
Iourier-JournaI.
General Simon Cameron's favorite
ridin horse. Colonel is dead. He
was thirty years old. and was one of a
pair of horses which General Cameron
purchased in New York in 1860 at
81. 900 for the pair. A Russian gentle
nan visited Donegal Farms some years
ago, and when he spied this horse he
remarked: do YOU know that that
breed of horses is allowed in Russia to
be owned by noblemen only?''-Phila.
lelphia Record.
Somebody wants to know why all
the biographies contain the statement
that .the earth is a sphere slightly flat
tened at the poles" He says that no.
oody knows from actual observation