Iron County register., 1885-06-04
GEN ERAI.

GENERAL.
Mine thousand houses are erected
annually in London.
The United States comprise one.
fifteenth part of the habitable globe.
The free lunches in New York sa-
looms are said to cost 81, 800, 900 an
aually.
Italy has 4,SO0,0O0 lemon-trees,
which produce !. .260. 00O, 900 lemons an
7ually.
"A colored lad, with both arms off
at the shoulder, was tried for larceny in
Columbus, Ga, week or so ago and
acquitted.
California is obliged to import tea
times the amount of beef raised in that
State in order to supply her demand
Chicago Journal
Electricity is now employed IN ex-
tracing teeth, recently invented ma
chine pulling, in an actual test, seven
teeth IN five seconds. Chicago Times.
A recent invention is a pocket for
coats which can be readily detached
and used as cap. 1t is expected to
prove very convenient for travelling
men.-N. Y. San.
"A piece of wire rope nearly seven
miles long was recently made by Roeb-
ling's Sons at Trenton, N. j., for the
st. Louis Railway Company. 1t is the
longest piece ever made.-N. Y. Times.
knoxville. Tenn, is said to be the
only city in the United States of $4,000
iphabitants, and having railroads.
steamboats,. telegraphs and telephones.
that publishes no paper on Monday
N. 7. Tribune.
-..Messrs. Editors: If young man
has been kind, sociable, gentle, and
expressed his affections to a young lady.
and has not gained hers, what shall he
then resort to?' Try bran mash
Detroit Free Press.
An English writer points out the,
probability that smoky atmosphere is
not wholly unmitigated evil, since its
carbon and sulphur must absorb many
germs of disease, and tend to prevent
the spread of epidemics.
A down-East veteran named john
son undertook to collect some pension
arrears lately. and was amazed to find
that his widow" had got ahead of
him on two occasions, as far back as
1868 and 1S67.-N. Y. Sun.
The specks of beads which float be-
fore the eyes are due to slight defects
in their tissues and fluids. They are
generally present TO some extent in all
eyes, and are not necessarily a symp-
tom of disease. Chicago Times.
"A new process for making pressed
glassware has been perfected, which is
destined. it is said, to supercede the
old presses for all purposes. From ten
to twenty pieces can be turned out by
it per minute. Philadelphia Press.
A jury in Burlington County. N.
j.. in a recent suit for the killing of q
pet rabbit, according to the Toms
River Democrat, assessed the damages
at $500, for trespass, to which the cost
were added, making a total of 81. 400.
Sea Island cotton, once so famous
because in great demand for adulterat-
ing silk, is now drug in the market,
the reason being that way is now
known for utilizing ordinary cotton
that costs less in making goods to be
sold as .all silk. IN. Y. Times.
Here is problem that has puzzled
some of the best arithmeticians: IF a
man puts 800 in bank the day he is
twenty-one years of age, what sum
| must he add to it yearly to have $780,
900 the day he is fifty years of age, re-
| ceiving six per cent. compound interest
on his money?''-C Chicago Times.
when the Car rides to battle the
earth trembles." is an old Russian say
lug. The modern Russians, however.
remark casually that when the Gar
lights his cigar the roof of the palace
is blown off, and that when he starts to
open the family photograph album all
st. Petersburg trembles.-N. Y. Mail.
When, few million years hence,
the world shall turn over aga n and put
the ocean beds above water. what
treasures will there not be brought to
sight from beneath the ocean waves!
In the nine years 1875-1o83 British
shipping alone suffered loss of 1891
vessels, with all that there was In them.
-.Boston Globe.
Among the Western cities Chicago
expended the most in buildings last
year, the sum aggregating 500, 689, 600.
Minneapolis comes next with. $7,621,-
Sc, 764, ,791; Kansas City. Sc. $50, 600;
Omaha. 81, 1os. 400; Detroit, SO, GIG, 227.
and Milwaukee, S3,O63, ,531. None
other reached $4,000. O00.-C Chicago
Journal.
"A writer in an English journal says
that any one may be cured of stammer-
ing by simply making an audible note
in expiration before each word. Stam-
merers can sing as easily as other per-
sons. Jacky Broster, of Chester, who
made large fortune by curing stam-
merng, simply made his pupils say
cher" before each word beginning with
a consonant.
The wreath of flowers offered by
Queen Victoria to the obsequies of
President Garfield is now the property
of the Western Reserve Historical So
ciety, Cleveland. and was recently
placed in frame made from English
oak imported from England for the
purpose The frame is beautifully
carved, showing the lion and unicorn.
the eagle and shield, the wild rose and
American laurel.-C Cleveland Leader
"A Danbury paper tells an astonish-
ing story of dog owned by Thomas
Mitchell, who lives on the line of the
Shepaug Railroad. The dog had q
habit Of chasing trains, and one day
recently was caught by the wheels and
lost a piece of his tail. Two hours
later he picked it up. carried it some
distance and buried it as carefully as
he would bone. The suspicious
feature of the story is that the Shepaug
railroad train ever ran fast enough to
catch dog.-Hartford Times.
Professor S. I. Maynard points
out that from the botanical point Of
view the strawberryis is analogous to the
corn-cob; the pulp-edible part-of the
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