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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

of their staff of life And in buying the
bran he gets mainly the siliceous husk OF
the grain with but little of the nitro
gen and phosphoric acid which the text
books have told us gave such high
feeding and manurial value to this stock
food. 1t may interest him to know that
the best part of the wheat goes, in fact,
in the cheapest brands of flour, to the
cotton mills for stiffening the threads of
the warps to facilitate the process of
weaving.
In regard to the oil meals, too, he is
lust as far misled, and the name is really
no longer any indication of an oily char
acter. The new process of extracting
vegetable oils is by treating the finely
ground meal with naphtha or benzine,
which dissolves out every particle Of oil,
and leaves the meal still an exceedingly
valuable food, but so wholly different
from what the purchaser believes it to
be that it is used with very great risk of
damage and injury to the animals. For,
being wholly free from oily matter, it is
almost all heterogeneous substance, and
hence an exceedingly unbalanced food,
and one that must be fed only in COM
bination with other kinds, which are
necessarily of an entirely different char
acter from those which were formerly
used in combination with the o1d-fash-
toned meals. The following figures
give the chemical composition of the
old process feeding stuffs referred to,
and upon which all the estimates of their
feeding and money values have been
based:
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P,TH AND POINT.

1T is curious fact that rich relatives
are apt to be distant ones.-Burli,,gto,
(W.) Free Press.
When you see woman meekly
obey her husband you can be sure of one
or two things-she is either afraid of
him or is working him for a new bonnet.
An employer who had been annoyed
by the tardy habits of one of his work
men greeted him one morning with the
saluation: "Good evening, sir; where
have you been at work to-dayP'-N. ?.
Herald.
IL like smart women we'll enough"
said Henderson, ''but wouldn't care to
marry a woman who knew more than I
did, ''And So" suggested Fogs, ''you
have been forced to remain single. y
Boston Transcript.
-Bagley-'I can not buy this cook
book. It is not practical enough"
Agent-''Not practicalP" mo, sir. I
observe that it gives no less than sixteen
different ways to cook beefsteak" "A
very good feature" II don't agree
with you. 1 would much prefer one
way to get beefsteak. "-Philadetphia
Call
New Yorker Ito Boston young wom-
an)-''Shall we take a bobtail car. Miss
Penelope?' Miss Penelope-s'What is
a 'bobtair car, Mr.. Smith," New York
er-'One drawn with single horse and
without conductor. Don't you have
them in Boston?" Miss Penelope-"O,
yes; but we call them Darwinian cars"
N. Y. Times.
Ut is curious custom the Japanese
have, my DEAR" remarked husband,
"of taking their shoes off when entering
a house" ''The custom is curious" re-
piled the lady, Gin the fact that it is
practiced at all hours instead of at night
only and her husband said, "Yes?"
with rising infection, which was about
all that he could say.-Te1as Siftsngs.
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COSTLY VANITY.
Silly Men and Women Who Sacrifice Their
Health to the Moloch of Fashion.

Silly Men and Women Who Sacrifice Their
Health to the Moloch of Fashion.
The story of Amelia Sheehan, the
handsome young hospital nurse who
became insane through the use of a
hair-bleaching liquid, is typical.
Though it has long been notorious that
there is scarcely any hair-dye or
bleaching preparation that can be used
without danger, a change of fashion is
always sufficient to induce thousands
of young women to employ such per-
ilous cosmetics. And though most
people have personal knowledge in
their own circle of some disaster
analogous to this, the cases which end
fatally appear to carry no lesson what
ever for the survivors. In this instance
the unfortunate girl is said to have had
beautiful and abundant hair. The
statement that her appearance was i'm
proved by bleaching her hair is not at
all probable. Nature knows far better
how to adjust the tones of hair and
skin than young women do, though
the assertion may seem hard to them.
1t is indeed true that men are not less
vain than women. Only few days
ago the death of an elderly man was
recorded, whose friends were surprised
to find that during his last illness his
hair and beard had become white. 1t
was further discovered that they had
been SO naturally for years, but that
the man, unwilling to surrender the
appearance of youth, had employed II
hair-dye which finally poisoned him.
This was clearly more aggravated
case than that of poor Miss Sheehan,
and while the tragic termination of her
experiments gives conspicuousness to
her folly, it would be mistake to con-
clude that there is anything unusual in
such reckless ministering to vanity.
The streets of every town in every civ
ilized country to-day swarm with the
victims of their own self-conceit. Grip
pied feet, distorted waists, whole
swarm of clinging evils directly caused
by the most barbarous defiance of nat
ural laws, testify to the force and ex-
tent of the influence which in so MANY
cases makes life not worth livin o, merely
to crafty a vanity at once puerile and
absorbing. The sacrifices to this ignoble
sentiment, moreover, are so prodigious
that perhaps no other human foible
possesses an equally overmastering in
fiuence. For to put in peril deliberate
ly ones health or life, ones reason and
even ones vitality, is to do for a funda-
mentally discreditable tendency as
much as can be done for the noblest
and most heroic cause. And while
many an act IF beroism IS ':he result of
spontaneous impulse, the number is
countless of those who with their eyes
open sacrifice the best life can offer for
the sake of a short period of illusory
triumph over rivals in personal adorn-
ment. 1t will not do to inquire too
deeply into this mystery, however, or
the reality of the progress made in
civilization may come to be called In
question. 7. Tribune.
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OIL MEALS.
The Change in the Nutritive Qualities of
Old and New Process Feed.

The Change in the Nutritfve Qualities of
Old and New Process Feed.
Changes in all human affairs, from
the greatest to the smallest, occur SO
rapidly that it is necessary to revise all
our knowledge very frequently. AS an
old geography is entirely misleading and
useless because of the continual altera-
lions of the boundaries of countries by
reason of political changes which result
from wars and conauests and defeats, so
our scientific and practical manuals and
handbooks, which have been gotten up
with so much labor and care, have to be
cast aside or revised because of new dis
coveries and new processes bywhich old
ideas and beliefs are swept away or the
character of the articles we use in our
daily business and domestic life is totally
changed 1t is, indeed, 'a world of
change" in which we are living, and
none realize it so forcibly as the farmer
who is so greatly affected just now by
these changes The use of So
called artificial feeding stuffs in the
business of dairying, or in fattening
cattle, for the market, has become so
general that much careful investigation
has been made into their composition
and character, and our handbooks of
agricultural chemistry and the vari-
Gus manuals of feeding have given a
good deal of attention to them and very
careful explanation of their proper
methods and values. But we are all
upset by the new processes of manufact-
uring flour from wheat and oil from
linseed and cottonseed, and we find the
old standard analyses of bran and mid
dlings and linseed and cottonseed oil
meals are no longer anything near COR
rect, but. on the contrary, very wide of
the mark, in regard to their present
composition and feeding value. Bran
is secured" in the new process until
every particle of everything but the out
er shell of the wheat is removed, and
the middlings are purified until all
the starch is taken out of them and
nothing remains but the powdered inner
coat, which formerly made up large
part of the bran. The flour, too, is
changed. There are the extra and the
Xxx and the xxx, and Nos. l, 2 and 8
of the coarser grades, the former con-
tanning the finer, whittier and
more starchy part of the grain,
while the latter contain the bet
ter part of the gluten or heterogeneous
part of it, with large part of the phos
pilates. This change affects the farmer
both in the domestic use of -four and in
the farm use of the bran and middlings.
In buying the best quality of new process
-four he gets almost pure starch, and
the favorite white bread of the house
wife is really deficient of the most nu-
tritious portion of the wheat-the gluten
and phosphates-which gave the darker
color to the old-fashioned country Gus
tom-mill flour, the sweetness of which is
remembered only by the older people,
who know enough to regret that fashion
has deprived them of the stoutest part
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21
UNDERGRADUATES"
A Chinese Play and Game-Song Vel
Similar to Some American Games.

Chinese Play and Game-Song Very
Similar to Some American Games.
'.Loy Vow, bright. red-cheeked
little Chinese girl, blinded" her eyes,
and the rest of the players fell into line
with their hands. held open in cup
shape behind them, while Wong Hay
circled around the line lightly touching
the open hands as she passed, and
grooming in peculiar Chinese sing
song tone the following little game
song, much as American children sing:
TREAD. tread the green grass" or
''Green gravel, green gravel, how green
the grass grows
Come maidens all, and stand in line.
Put back your fiOwer-like hands to mine
The pledge now it flies. flies away
To the Eastern land-the land of day.
his the lantern feast! Ninth moon COM
Now, maidens lift your rower-like
To 10y Vow, whom they now called
"Hide-Y our-Eyes", Wong Hay now
sang
"Come. thunder-shower. with all your
And open this four-hngered flower"
Meantime, as she sang, she had drop
ped into one of the hands the little
pledge-a thimble or some little keep
sake selected for the occasion, much as
American children use a button in
similar game At the words: ''Maidens,
lift your golden-tlower hands," as it is
literally translated, all the hands were
raised high above their heads, but
closely shut, so that none could tell
who held the little pledge.
At the words addressed to Glide
Your-Eyes", 10y Vow came out from
the shed, and, using long stick as if it
were wand, pointed to the one whom
she suspected of having the little
pledge.
She was not successful, however, for
the hands opened and nothing was
found there. So she had to try it all
over; while Wong Hay walked about
again, and sang the little oriental mel
ody.
The second time, she looked very
closely into the faces of her Chinese
playfellows, and she saw so funny
look on Qui Fah's that she immediate
ly pointed her out. Qui Fah's hands
were opened amid much laughter and
merriment, and there was the sought
for keepsake! Then they changed
places, and Qui Fab became ''Hide-
Your-Eyes" Ella Sterling C,4sanai,as,
in st. Nicholas.
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which Ralph had never heard, and ne
said so. His visits and comments left
Bert stfn less pleased with the odd gift
he had received. At last ne decided 10
talk it over with Aunt Marion: ;,
..You see, / am ever so much obliged
to you, auntie, but don't know just
what to do with the thing" he ex-
planned. What is the good OF wear
ing itP" .o,.o So .nv
good in it" answered Aunt Marion,
serenely.
.Wefl, don't think it is very-orna-
mental, you know" ventured Bert
hesitatingly.
"Oh dear, no!-not the least bit or
namental,'' assented his aunt.
ssAnd, besides, it's inconvenient.
Probably; but l think you would
grow accustomed to that after awhile,
and not notice it much"
.'But what is the use of getting ac-
customed to it-a chain like thatP
demanded Bert. growing more and
more bewildered. "What would you
want to wear it forp"
81? Oh, wouldn't want to wear it
for anything" declared Aunt Marion,
DIS p1dC1uly DIS DciOlO. ~ ID uiio' IVY,
inconvenient and utterly useless. l
wouldn't wear it, but your taste might
be different"
s'You must have a high opinion OF
my supply of common sense, Aunt
Marion!' Bert flushed, Indignantly.
'Do you think l am silly enough to
like what nobody else would wantp"
II have been studying your tastes
lately, and you seem to like some
things that are just what you describe
my gift to be-" pursued Aunt Marion,
drawing a cigar from her work table
and laying it in Bcrt's hand. Here is
this, for instance, that rolled from your
pocket the other day. Is the habit of
smoking useful to body or soul, Bertp
Is it ornamentalp Isn't it considerable
trouble to acquired and will it not be
expensive and often announcement to
yourself and disagreeable to others af-
ter it is acquirede Is it anything, after
all, but chain, my boyp"
Bert said nothing; he only threw the
cigar into the fire and walked away.
But he answered rather CURLY day or
two later-though no one but Ralph
understood him--when companion
invited him 20 smoke: ''No, thank you.
l have one more dog-collar than have
any use for hanging in my room now"
Kate w. Hamilton, IN s. S. Kisitor.
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These are the old process feeds, and
the analyses are those given eight years
ago by Prof. Atwater, of the Connect
cut Agricultural Experiment Station.
We have no analyses of the new process
feeds, but knowing what the effect of the
process of manufacture is it is not diff
cult to reapportion the component parts
and find the new value. In the bran the
fiber is largely increased, as well as the
ash, the albuminoids are decreased, and
so are the carbohydrates; the loss is
mostly in digestible and nutritious mat
tiers, and the increase in those which are
indigestible. The money value is con-
siderably lessened. and, in our Judgment,
the new process bran is worth no more
than good average meadow hay.
The Oil meals lose all the OIL and as
oils are reckoned rs two and one
half times as valuable as other car
bohydrates it is easily seen that the
loss in this respect is very large, and
has an exceedingly important result in
changing the character of the feed.
The oil meals then become essen
TALLY nitrogenone substances, instead
of carbonaceous, and quite as much
so as meat scrap; indeed, they come
nearer to flesh in their feeding quality
than to any other vegetable matter.
This does not decrease their actual
money value, but rather adds to it,
but it renders them wholly differ
ent food from what they have been
considered, and the manner and pur-
pose of feeding them must necessarily
be changed. Instead of feeding them
with bran they should now be fed
with cornmeal or rice meal, which
are rich in carbonaceous elements;
and the proportions must be changed,
for to make well balanced food, hay
ing five parts of carbohydrates to one
of albuminoids, at least four parts of
cornmeal or five parts of middllngs
should be mixed with one part of the
oil meals. They will then be useful
foods, but the fattening quality will be
in the corn and not so much in the oil
meals.-He5say tSteaOart, IN ". Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21
ANAG RAMS.
How Leisure Hours Can BE Spent Enloy
ably and Probably.

How Leisure Hours Can BE Spent Enjoy
ably and Probably.
An anagram is such transposition
OF the letters of a word, without the
repetition of a letter, as will form an
other word or sentence. For example:
the letters of the word unite may be
transposed into the word s.,stie, which
gives it an entirely opposite meaning.
The practice of forming anagrams is
quite an ingenious and interesting en-
ployment.
Anagrams that preservethe significa-
nee OF the original word, or the near
est approach to it, are the best. For
instance, as the reader may know, the
word tetegraphs, when transposed into
an anagra1a, forms the sentence greet
helps. which serves as very good
definition Of the original word The
reader may remember, also, that the
word astronomers may be transposed
into nloon-starers. We give below some
original anagrams, which may stimu-
late the reader to search out some for
himself:
1, Baltimore: tine-lab r.. OF course
it required both time and labor to build
oucii y Guy. q, IaSvOf: u Sport. A
strange thing. is it not, to change u
preacher into a gamesterp 3, Thomas
Carlyle: Al! most clearly. We all
know that his writings are somewhat
obscure. A, Washington: was nothing.
This is not true, for he was one of the
greatest OF men. s, Telephoner: tome
helper. Here we have correct defini-
ton. 6. Newton: We,si on. That is, ha
went beyond his age. z, America. r
am care. 8. North, thorn. South:
saoat--Rodert z. Bentley, in Youths
COMPANION.
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CARE OF ORCHARDS.

The Protection Afforded to Trees By the
Rough Outside Bark.
The propriety of pruning fruit trees
there is much disagreement, but if the
work is well done it matters but little
when it is done, and perhaps the best
time is whenever ones knife is sharp"
The practice of scraping old trees so
thoroughly as to remove all the shaggy,
dead bark is pronounced worse than
useless labor, except when it is evident
that the bark conceals insects or their
eggs. In that case the denuded parts
should be protected with a coat of pitch
and tallow. This rough bark is pro-
vided by nature as protection against
the adverse influences of climate; and
for maintaining in even balance that de-
gree OF warmth favorable to the healthy
exercise of the functions of growth and
productivcness. Wood, particularly in
the direction across the grain, is nom
conductor of heat in an eminent degree.
This practice of scraping off the rough
bark promotes no good end. Even the
long strips of dead bark hanging
from the trunks and limbs OF
large hickory trees are OF
more service than injury, and it
is doubted if even moss or lichens are
hurtful to trees, as they live exclusively
on food drawn from the atmosphere,
and in bleak and exposed situations they
may supplement the bark in affording
protection. When covered with moss to
excess it may be presumed the trees are
in an unsatisfactory condition, either
from impoverishment of the soil, want
of drainage or exposure to the rigOrs of
a severe and variable climate. Sitting
the bark up and down with a knife, with
the idea that the tree is bark-bound, is abb
surd. Digging about the roots and
washing the trunks of the trees with lye,
soap-suds or chamber-slops is all that is
wanted.
Fruit orchards should receive gen.
erous top-dressing at least once in every
two years. Moderate applications of
lime and generous ones of wood ashes
are always profitable, and phosphates
are useful if buried beneath the surface;
also Peruvian guano, if slightly covered,
late in the fall, so as to become
thoroughly divided by winter rains
Coarse organic manure should not be
used in contact with the roots of young
trees, but chip-dust, fish, flesh and the
bones of dead animals, horn piths and
hoofs, hair and old plaster, and all like
articles are good for growing trees.
Pear trees that have not borne fruit for
twenty years have been brought into full
bearing by yarding two shoats beneath
the trees in August and September, in
an Enclosure rod square, having their
beds close to the body of the trees. In
this yard holes were made with crow
bar, into which kernels of corn were
dropped. and the whole yard was rooted
over and over to the depth of eight to
twelve inches, and many of the roots were
torn up. The next season every branch
was filed with plump, luscious fruit,
and for many Years the trees continued
to yield bountiful crops.-Ben. Psrley
Poore, IN, american CuIttrator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

When Chicago woman wants to
get seat in street-car she wraps up
her poodle and carries it in her arms,
as though it were baby. But the trick
is now becoming known and doesn't al
ways work The other day lady got
into full car with what looked like an
infant in her arms. A very rapid-look-
ing young man inspected her for mo-
ment and then said: Madam, if that is
a kid you can have my seat. but if it is
a pup. you can't "Well, it's a pup"
snapped the lady, ''but not as big one
as you are" The rapid-looking young
man at once got off and went to the
wheat pin Y Tribune.
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READING FOR THE YOUNG.
WISHES.

One day a lonesome hickory-nut,
At the top of a waving tree.
Remarked: I'D like to live i'll a shell,
Like a clam, beneath the sea-"
And just at that time a clam observed.
Way down in the tossing sea:
I'd love to dwell in a hickOry-nut
At the top of lofty tree"
and wished,
Till they turned green. yellow and blue:
And that, in truth, is just about what
Mere wishing is likely to do.
-Hd,per's Young Pe0ple..
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HUMAN LIFE.
The Average Length Of Life At Various
Ages.

The following is one of the well-au-
thenticated tables in use among London
assurance companies, showing the aver
age length of life at various ages. In
the first column we have the present
ages of persons of average health, and
in the second column we are enabled to
look, as it were, behind the scenes of an
assurance Office, and gather from their
table the number of years they will give
us to live This table has been the re-
suit of careful calculation, and seldom
proves misleading. Of course sudden
and premature deaths, as well as lives
unusually extended, occasionally occur,
but this is table of the average expect
ancy of life of an ordinary man or
woman:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

Fashionable doctors no longer take
blood from their patients veins. They
bleed their pockets.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

The En- npress of Austria is said to be
the most beautiful great-grandmother
in Eurou e.
The Osceola times., 1886-11-06
CRUSHING A DUDE.
How Uncle Phil Armour salted Two
Legged Hog.


Millionaire Phil Armour has pleas
ant custom of buying a suit of clothes
once a year for each OF his Office en-
ployes. This year all but one Of the
boys visited certain tailor on the South
side and were measured for suits rang
Ing in price from $50 to S3j. The ex.
oeption was dude, who scorned the
selections made by his colleagues. He
wanted something gorgeous and tight
fitting. After paving over the fashion
plates Of the tailor he finally selected
apiece of goods which would cost Sl2j
TO build into garments. When the
tailor, few weeks later, sent his item
lied bill into the big pork packer the
latter made inquiries for the purpose OF
finding out whether this young man
with such aesthetic taste was really so
unfortunate as TO have to work.
'Is he at work in amy of our depart
ments9n Mr.. Armour asked, turning to
one of his lIeutonan,s,
Eyes; he works in the - room,
was the reply
''Eh, en-; has he drawn ms money lol
this month";
mo. sir; not yet.
"Wcll, then, 90 get his salary and
give il to me, and tell him | want to see
him at once
When the dude tripped up to the mil
lionaire the latter cleared his throat and
said
Young man, like TO have my clerk,
consider themselves on an equality with
one another In looking over the
tailor's bill find that you rate yourself
$50 higher than the figures your col
leagues place upon themselves. As !
see no tangible proof of your great
worth to this establishment, it gives me
much satisfaction to present to you your
months salary together with my esti.
mate of your yalue-your dismissal
from my service. Remember, m an
expert on hogs and know how to salt
them, u Chicago Hcrdid