Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-05
GENERAL.

Fifteen cigarette factories have peeu
started lately in the City of Mexico.
Joseph Olden, of Princeton, N. j..
has 3 pound-pear tree that is 210 wears
old and yet bearing fruit.--M 2. Sun.
The hard-shell almond. which was
introduced into North Carolina, few
years ago. is thriving and becoming
abundant.
A Voodoo woman in North Caro-
lima actually frightened four negroes to
death by putting the "evil eve'' on
them.-LonisUitts Courier Journal.
The American apple is good enough
for the Queen of England's table, and
the American potato winks his eyes in
the palaces of France.-Detroit Posi-.
Geological Investigations show that
in prehistoric times the bed of the Po-
tomac River was sixteen feet lower
than at present. - Washington Post.
"A dashy girl at one of the Saratoga
hotels wore 3 white silk ball dress in
the folds of which were hand-paiuted
scenes ''from our country seat in Cali
ornia Troy Times.
The prom;ne t sheep raisers in Ten
nesSee have resolved To abandon the
business, owing to the want of a dog
law. asserting that 100000 sheep an
not be maintained against 500, 600 dogs.
st. Louis Post.
Says recent writer: ''Let children
make a noise sometimes" This is very
wise advice, inasmuch as it is sure to
be followed. Let children make a
noise? Did anybody ever see children
who didn't make noise?
Eight thousand men are engaged
on the thirty-one-mile tunnel stretching
from Croton Lake to the reservoir n
Central Park, New York. and which,
when finished, will be the longest tunnel
in the world 1t will have cost by that
time anywhere between $50, OOO, 90 and
$50, 600. 0o0.-M y Times.
"A cat In town spends most of his
time basking in the sun in the parlor
of a house or the Pacific corporation.
When any of the family look in and
say Scrip, you are not in the sum-" he
wakes up and lazily changes his posi-
ton into the sun. and goes to sleep
again.-Lasorence (Mass.) american.
"A citizen of Liberty Hall. Ca. has
curiosity in the shape of manuscript
poem written $50 years ago by the
great-great-grandfat of one of his
neighbors, Mr.. j. G. Colwell. The
poem was written with a quill-pen. with
the best of black ink, on a fair quality
of paper. and the writing is perfectly
legible. The verses are bitter attack
upon the Methodist Church, which was
then in its infancy.
An editor who will call brother
editor an ass and then not send him a
copy of the paper, ought to have his
credentials taken from him. But that
the way the Hampstead Ledger treated
US. We never would have known it,
but the Galveston Ne,os copies all the
compliments we get, d we saw it in
Brother Stuart's column. When Sour
lock called us an ass he sent us copy
of the paper.-GatesUille (Ie1.) Id
CdIsce.
1t is possible to keep the cobra
harmless under music for considera BILE
time. 1t is related by a naturalist who
closely studied the habits of animals in
India that he one day spent an hour
painting cobra. which was kept dane
ing the whole time upon table. He
frequently handled it, aud examined its
spots ami the spectacles on the head.
He was surprised afterward to find that
the fangs had been left in.-Chicago
Times.
Cant you tell me, sir, where /
might find a situationP'' asked a young
man of Chicago citizen. 81 am 3
stranger here" What atP' was the
reply. ''oh. anything at all; I am not
afraid to work. Got any recon-
mendations?'' ..Well, no; but am in
dustrions, am honest, 1 go to church
regularly. don't drink. | don't chew.
don't smoke, don't lie. " "Ah, see.
Just apply around the corner at the
dime museum. - Chicago LtUtng
Church.
-Benscn's watch, the size OF six.
pence, creates quite sensation at the
London Inventions. There is an
other, the size of shilling. which
shows the time, the year, the month.
the day of the month and week. and
the phase of the moon. 1t arranges it
self to suit the exigences of leap year,
and performs all these various func-
lions by being wound as an ordinary,
but less complicated, chronometer. 1t
repeats, when required, the hours, the
quarters and minutes on a deep-toned
gong. 1t is priced at $500.
Accounts from the larger summer
resorts have agreed that the most sue
cessful dandyism was that of three
brothers nearly enough alike to be trip
lets. By wearing similar clothes and
manners they made a treble impression.
for the OBSERVER could see no distin-
gushing differences, and so the COM
bined dude makes three hits to one by
any competitor. They put on no shred
of American garb. From the tops OF
their hats to the tips of their socks
everything was imported from London.
They had a genuine Austrian baron as
their guest all summer, taking him
from place to place and paying all his
expenses. - Chicago Herald.