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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
HOME AND FARM.

Never use water from a stone res
ervoir for cooking purposes.
change.
Cook oatmeal in double boiler. Oh
in covered pail set in a kettle of water.
Be sure to salt 1.-THE Caterer.
Be sure and sprinkle little pulver.
lied charcoal about the poultry quar-
tiers. The fact thatit soon disappears il:
Times.
Salt will curdle milk; therefore. in
preparing milk toast, sauces, scrambled
eggs, or any thing of which milk is the
foundation, do not add the salt till the
pan has left the fire. Western Rural.
1t is an error to ALWAYS choose the
largest fowls for sitters. Those of me-
dunn size are generally better for this
purpose, provided they are not deficient
in feathers. Cincinnati Times.
TO can tomatoes: Scald to remove
the skins: boil in their own juice twen-
ty minutes. Heat your jars by pouring
hot water into them. then empty and
wipe dry. Put the tomatoes in
scalding hot and seal at once. These
tomatoes keep perfect .-TOledo Blade.
Professor Cook, OF the Michigan
Agricultural College, says most of the
failures to destroy potato bugs by paris
green comes from waiting until eggs
have been laid on the vines before APP
plying it. Make the first application
just as the plants come up.
"A nice and cheap pickle: Chop fine
one large head of cabbage, three large
green and three large red bell peppers.
Add two ounces of yellow mustard seed,
one ounce of celery seed and three
tablespoonful of salt. Boil three pints
of vinegar, and pour on the mixture
hot. Stir well and put in a large jar.
Fit to eat in a few days.-The House
hold.
To cook caulifiower take off the out
er leaves and separate the cauliiower
into little branches. Put into sauce
pan with a little salt and cover with
cold water Boil until soft. then drain
off the water, put in gill of milk thick
ened with little flour, piece of butter
as large as walnut, and sprinkling
of pepper. Boil up again and serve hot.
Household.
A swine-breeder says that in wean-
ing pigs there is something more to be
considered than simply taking them
away from Their mother. They should
be weaned gradually, SO as not to get
any stunt or setback. To take pigs
away before they have been taught to
eat gives them check for at least two
weeks. Feeding them in a separate place
to which they have access will accustom
them to eating.-Prairie Farnaer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
A FEMALE SCHEME.
Showing What a woman Can Do When
She Sets Out to Try,

She Sets Out to Try,
..Let me tell you little story of what
a woman can do when she wants to
said a South Slider. Com
ing in on the cable cars have frequently
noticed at certain place down town a
crowd of well-dressed women standing
on the sidewalk. as if waiting for some
thing or somebody. My curiosity has
been so often aroused in this way that a
few DAYS ago l promised my wife a new
bonnet if She would find out what the
women were waiting for. She accepted
the proposition, came down town with
me, L Do inted the place out to her. and
at night she was ready to report The
proved to be very simple.
There is asf intelligence office for female
help in the neighborhood, and these
women were there looking for servants.
By aecosting the girls who might be on
their way to or from the intelligence
office, and making bargain with them
right there on the pavement, they could
save the fee charged help-seekers in the
office. NV wife didn't find out what
the woman who keeps the intelligence
office thinks of the women who thus
cheat her out of some of her business,
but I'll bet it would be interesting If re-
ported in full. "-Chicaqo Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

the amount of the dover. a
girl who will bring twenty thousand
collars into the new household generally
mas a trousseau worth two thousand
dollars, 1t is customary for the bride
groom TO offer presents in proportion
to his wealth-jewels, laces and car
flaSes are expected of the man who can
AFFORD them. If his mother has no Girls
she presents her future daughter with a
portion OF the diamonds and laces which
she would have reserved for ner own
daughters. Laces and Jewels are thus
handed down and kept from generation
to generation. Relatives on both sides
are expected to offer something more
precious than a long arrav of nickel
plated cake-baskets, cruet-stands and
napkln-rings. As YOU see. to maintain
these expensive traditions it is impossi-
Die for the French to have large families,
Tor 1T is national and family pride for
parents to give as large dover as their
fortunes will allow, with the proviso,
however, of keeping the larger portion
Tor themselves, for it does not enter into
the customs to lessen the Importance of
their own establishments for the
marriage settlement of their chill
dren. This custom of dover exists in all
classes of people who have any thing to
give. Small tradespeople will set up
shop for their children; peasants and
farmers will give SO many herd of cat
tie or portion of their land Others,
whose incomes can not be divided, draw
up papers to pay certain amount of it
yearly to their children, and lawsuits,
which force parents to the terms stipu-
lated in marriage contracts, are often
the subject of court discussions
The ceremony of signing the contract
opens the wedding festivities. 1t usually
takes place the day before the civil and
religious marriages, at the house of the
bride. The contract is signed in the
presence of the family lawyers, by the
bride, bridegroom, parents and wit
nesses, just before guests arrive. who
have been invited to a reception, mus
zeal soiree, or ball. The bride for this
entertainment wears her last girlish
partydress, light pink or blue gauze,
simply made Ia Verge, adorned with
no jewels but those she has been allowed
to wear in her girlhood-coral, small
pearls and turquoise Brooklyn
Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP

Tho French have taken thu Amer;.
can verb Ito interview into their Ian
guage. A''n-
.Tattooing in Japan is practised to
such an extent that law probibitino
the practice has just boen passed.
"A French bonnet is named the
giraffe capote, and is trimmed with two
velvet ears OF unequal length and size,
The Tower of London has been re-.
opened to visitors, after having been
closed for more than year on account
OF the dynamite explosion.
The Sultan of Turkey is said r,
pay two German apothecaries s.. 600 a
year each, with board and rooms in the
palace, and the services of several at
PENDANTS. az
.-Slxty-nine of her British Majesty
Dig ships are said to be s.shams. am
tlques and curios, whose proper place is
IN naval museum or colossal marine
Sric-a-brac shop"
An extraordinary fact in conner
ton with the Russian conscrints draftod
INTO the ranks in 1885 is shown nv some
statistics inst published The total num-
Der of conscripts accepted was S47. 5S7,
OF whom no fewer than $50 were
Jews
"A great number of important an a
interesting documents have lately becn
discovered in stable lot at Belvoir
Castle by an inspector who was sent
down to look over the Duke of Rut.
land family papers by the Historical
Manuscript Commissioners. Many of
these old documents are of great his
torical value. and among them is diary
Kept by the Earl of Rutland when he
was In attendance on Charles I.
The ways of the Japanese postoffioe
are peculiar. In most countries. if the
postage on a letter is Inadequate. the
deficiency is recovered from the adj
dressee, and if he objects to be mulcted,
the letter is retained and there is an end
OF the matter. 1t is not so in Japan.
The other day an unfortunate Japanese
declined to pay the extra postage,
Whereupon he was dragged before a
magistrate and fined five dollars for
evading the taxes.
The silver tree of South Africa
(Leucadendron argenteun1), "whose
leaves shine like FURNISHED metal" has
been supposed to occur nowhere in the
world except on the slopes of Table
Mountain. near Cape Town: but a cor
respondent of the Gardeners Chronicle
says he once saw a specimen of this
marvellous plant in garden in the Sdf
trict of Madura, in Southern India. az
a Seeding twenty inches high is now
furnishing in an English conservatory.
The silver tree would seem to be quite
as we'll worthy the attention of col
1ectors as many of the orchids for which
high prices are paid.
According to French paper the
Count de Lesseps was foretold by an
ancient Egyptian oracle. 1t says:
''Herodotus relates that when Neco,
King of Egypt, undertook the work of
uniting the waters of the Mediterranean
and Red Seas, by means of canal,
620,OO0 men persisted in the work He
then caused the work to be stopped and
consulted an oracle, receiving the re-
ply, a barbarian will finish thy work.
The gentleman who alighted upon that
bit of history copied upon sheet of pa
per the paragraph from Herodotus and
carried it to de Lesseps, who, having
read it, took his pen and appended,
The barbarian prophesied by the oracle
F. de Lesseps.'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
A BAD DOLLAR.
How 1t Led to the Discharge of Pecu-
lating Ethiopian.

How II Led to the Discharge of q Pecu-
latins Ethiopian.
Cattleton, the grocer, knew that some
one was robbing his money drawer.
Naturally his suspicious fell upon old
Steve, the negro porter Steve protested
his innocence Cattleton was deter
mined to search him, so, one night
about the time Steve was ready to 90
home, the grocer approached him and
said:
.Steve. must search YOU
"Whut fur, boss?n
''You know what for. Come, take
off your clothes and shake Them
Steve objected. Nothing was discov.
cred. The next day the grocer saw
Steve lowering over the cash drawer
That evening the grocer said: 1.Steve,
you are thief.
who said so, sah?''
Il do"
"Who tole yer so?''
Never mind. | know it. You have
been robbing me for some time and
WALL arch me. sah.''
keep ON your clothes"
.S'arch me eff yer want to, sah.T
"Never mind. Say, what's the mat
ter with your voice."
'.Nothin'"
Eyes. there is something. Open you1
mouth
"Kain' open it much, boss. Sorter
got de lock jaw
Il think that | can assist your The
grocer beat Steve's head over the eoun-
ter and placed his thumb under the
negrO's jaw. Silver ratified on the coun-
ter .'Spit out some more
''kain' $40 it, boss, fur dat's all'
'Spit again, l tell you'
Five nickels fell from Steve's mouth.
Come again.
"'Clar' ter goodness, boss, 1 KANT
spit no mo-
$50 ahead. l tell you"
A twenty piece fell out.
Once more said the grocer. Come
again. Wy he added, as a fifty-cent
piece rolled on the counter, .'you We cot
a mouth like ground-squirrel"
NOW, boss dat's all. Hope 1 mer
die dead if it ain t.
TRY just one more time"
''Sw ar dar ain no use, boss"
Come again, or L Ii break your Jaw"
Out ratified dollar. There" said
the grocer, releasing his hold on Steve,
''you may go, ROW.
Ain gwine ter discharge me, is
yer?'
'.Of course l am Go on away"
"Whut, discharge ME jes fur dat little
caper?"
Go on, or I'll have You arrested"
..Didn' know yer wuz so ongrateful.
sab Been wuckin' like er slabe fur yer
an dis iS all de thanks ,eyit IF vor,N
jes keep me l swan won't neber tech
yer money no mo-
No. don't want you
'.Wall, gin me er riekermend ter some
white man."
II won't do that, either. Get out of
here"
'.All right. sab. An all dis" he NUT
tered as he moved away. -'wuz all on
ercount O dat ole trade dollar whuf
i int much ercount. nohow. Hadn'
crowded DIET in my mouf my voice
wouldn' ter gin me erway. '-ArkansaU
IrurcIer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
Spare the Rod. and Spoil the Sire.

A negro boy is teaching a night school
at the old hotel place, and has for his
motto: ''Spare the rod; spoil the child"
He numbers among his pupils his aged
father, who seeks for knowledge, but the
parental head sometimes stalls on the SIM
plest proposition. The other day the
dutiful son thought it necessary to grease
his teachings with hickory oii' in order
that his ancestor might take them in, and
when he had showered down about twenty
licks with all his might, making it rather
too warm for the old man, he exclaimed:
''W'at you mean, boy; dom yer know I'ss
Xer daddy:"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
PITH AND POINT,

1t is difficult to say which is the
stick when you see a dude and his cane
going down the avenue Washington
Critic.
Human efforts to achieve certain
aims are very much like cat trying to
catch its tail. Just as we think we are
about to succeed, away goes the tail
n. I. Telegram.
-'.Who is that lady Dooficker is
walking with?'' His wife, Think
SOP II know it. Don't you see he is
smoking?'' -Chtcago NeUs
Isabella Bell, of Macon, has been
declared insane by a jury. The mental
strain of wondering why her parents
named her as they did was too great for
her to bear.
Benevolent old lady who had just
given a penny to small rustic-Now,
my dear, what do You say9 Small rus
tic, with native politeness-Give Us an
other. Collapse of old lady.
"A gentle madden
OF smiling face and winning air,
\ frown she never wore.
And though she sometimes bangs her hair,
She never bangs a door.
Boston Courier.
w e We often seen the pccldcIc vi
an auctioneer attempting to sell fifteen
thousand dollars worth of goods to an
audience whose aggregate and tangible
assets wouldn' t foot up five dollars.
Boston Budget.
doctor" said man to Abernethy,
''mv daughter had a fit and continued
half an hour without sense or knowl-
edge oh replied the doctor,
'.never mind that; many people con-
tinue so all their lives. "-7OledO Blade.
Barber (to regular customer)-Come
in, Mr. Schmit: you vas next. Mr.
Smith-Next? Six ahead of me only.
Barber Tin a whisper) -Dose shentle-
mans vas all strangers. We shave stran-
gers in dhree minutes Ven you sit
down your turn comes pooty quvick al
retty.-N. Y Times.
LADY, am so glad to make your
personal acquaintance. l have often
read your name. Poet (fla,tered-AhD
Do you know my lyrical poems or my
novels? Lady - Neither. Poet - My
tragedies? Lady-No; but you hap
pened to live in the same house as q
friend of mine and whenever visit her
l see your name on the doorplate.-
Exchange.
-Gray-And you claim that Black is
a total abstainer. Green-Certainly he
is. Gray-Come. now, doesn't he keep
a drop in the house on the sly? Green
No. SIR. not a drop. He couldn't do it
without my knowledge. Gray-Why
not? Green-Because my hired man is
counting his hired girl, and neither of
our families can keep the. smallest secret
from the Other.-BOSt01 Courier.
A young Scot was preparing him.
self the other day for some athletic
contests. After using the dumb-bells
he took to the bars set up in his garden,
and swung himself about here and
there. A passer-by said, after looking
at the athletes practices for time,
''Poor sowl; he's in fits A laddie next
him, also an interested witness, COM
mented with tremendous disdain, "Get
cot man. that's gymnastics LAY,
it's that is it? And hoo long has he
had 'em that way9"-Chicago Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
Going In For Economy.
Exchanged

In his annnsing book, emusic in Fog.
land" NJ. Reno tells the following: ''The
butler of great lady of fashion was over
heard by her one day discussing thd vicis-
STUDIES of life with fellow servant. My
dear fellow he calculated, Il am afraid
that our people are going in for economy.
Only fancy, at the party yesterday even
ing see with my own eyes my lady and
Miss Hisabel playin' one piano at the
same timev1
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

Repetition is sometimes the only way to
impress a truth upon the mind Accord
ingIy take office that DIR. Pierce's pheasant
Purgative Pellets" (the original Little Liv-
er Pills) continue to be wonderfully effect
constipation, indigestion. rush of blood to
the head. cold extremities. and all ailments
arising from obstruction of the bodily func-
tions. Their action is thorough yet gentle,
and the ingredients being entirely vegeta-
BILE, they can be taken with impunity into
the most delicate stomach. AL druggists.
SOMETHING you will never find out-An
fnn.-I T. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

Many splendid fortunes lie in the English
Court of Chancery, which belong to Amer
can citizens. The court has held possession
in some cases, for more than one hundred
and fifty years. Cox & Co., London, En-
gland, have with great care and diligence
compiled a book containing the names of
fifty thousand heirs and their descendants
who have been advertised for to claim
these fortunes. The book gives Christian
and surnames, and instructions how to pro-
coed for the recovery of money and estates.
Sent free to all parts of the world upon
receipt of one dollar. Remittance may be
made by registered letter or money order
Address cox & CO., fl Southampton
Buildings, London, England. Cox & Co.
refer by permission to the Kellogg News
paper Company, New York.
ORTHoGRAPHY for Americans-Dyspep
with three letters: P-i-e.-Ifd- Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
The Widows Inconsolabie Grief.
stMy dear Mrs. Brown. I'm so glad I

'tMy dear Mrs. Brown, I'm so g lad to
see you. / am well nigh broken
hearted. My poor husband died not
five minutes ago
..And you are out SO soon?"
Yes. Poor man? l loved him so,
Mrs. Brown. l don't think L shall ever
recover from the shock. am just on
my way to the insurance agents to see
about his life insurance. Won't you
come with me? Then we will 60 round
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

"A bill recently became law, pro-
viding that trout could not be sold in
New York during the month of April.
By curious error of the engrossing
clerk the law actually authorizes the
sale of trout duSing that month in all
counties of the State save that in the
Adirondack region. The omission of a
period entirely changed the intent of the
faw.-BufuL0 Express
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

CAN not be washed off. The color produc-
ed by Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
AS an antidote for malarial disorders,
fails.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

PRIcKLY ASH BITTERs warm up and in
vigorate the stomach, improves and
siren CITIZENS the digestive organs, opens the
pores, promotes perspiration, and equalizes
the circulation. AS q corrector of disor-
dered sy stem there is nothing to equal it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

WHEN every thing else fails, DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

THE worm must be contagious or the
early bird would not catch it-Merchdnt
TrdUeler.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

The key of butchers voice is naturally
beef fat.-Newnan independent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

A LAST farewell-A shoemaker giving
up his business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

HIGH WORDS: ''Tip-top," peak" sum
NIT" etc-Chieago Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
The Weaker Sex

GOES without saying-A deaf and dumb
Courier.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold verywhere. 25c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

AN ode to a goat may be called nanny
versary poem.-Loaceu Citizen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson'sE Eye Water. Druggists sellit PC.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

are immensely strengthened by the use of
DR.. R. " Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription, ;"
which cures all female arrangements, and
gives tone to the system. Sold by druggists
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

PIKE sTOOTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, &c
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
That Tired Feeling

Is 80 general ut this season that every one knows
what is meant by the expression A change of sea-
climate, of life, has such depressing effect
upon the body that feels all tired out, almost CON-
ple:cy Frustrated the appetite is lost and there is
ambition 10 do anything. The whole tendency Of the
system is downward. In this condition Hoods Sarsa
partIla is just the medicine needed 1t puriles the
blood, sharpeus the appetite. ovcrcomes the tired
feeling, and invgorates every function of the body
Try 1t.
"Inever took any medicine that did much
good IN short time Hoods Sarsapariila. was
very much down, had no strength, energy, and
felt very tired all the time. / commenced taking
Hoods Sarsaparta, and before had used one bottle
felt like different person. That extreme tired feel
ing has gone my appetite returned. and It toned me
up generally. My brother and sister have also re-
ceived great benefit from it." CLARA W. PHELPS,
Shirley, Mass.
Hoods Sarsapariila
Sold by all druggists 81; six for IS. Prepared only
by c. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries. Lowell Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

THROUGH by daylight''-The house.
breaker-Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
"Over and Over Again"

ORTHoGRAPHY for Americans-Dyspepsi
with three letters: P-i-e.-7fd-Bits.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-04

bsiehtsst 1t sisht. Later on w 49,
shown crater Of the moon, then Ss! ~
ana other wonders In the heavens: IL
Astronomer here dsvotss himself spe.
c;sllv to The study and observation Of
usbalm, and whsn the moon 70 o. nef
brishtest, 10 console himself nom oeing
shut off from his fsvorits occupation,
vbich demands an absence Of moonlight.
he invites . chosen few to visit him ana
look through HE telescopes. He lives
. solitary life, as . rule, ss far as inter-
course with other people goes. He says
be has the heavens, and that Is enough.
We were present at . concert given oy
the philharmonic Society in their rooms
in . building on the site Of the old
Stinche prison. The best piece was .
ouartette Of violins, one Of which was
played by . celebrated Italian named
sbclchi. It was . treat to hear
him, for be drew forth wonder
full and enhancing sounds. we
also went to the opera one night,
but were unlucky, for the prima donna
was i'll and had to be replaced BY an
other lady, and in consequence the per-
Torrance lacked spirit and finish. The
longer the stay made in Florence the
more fascinating it is, and as the short
winter passes away the bad days are
fewer and the superb ones increase
DAYS of cloudless blue sky, and q
bright pure sunshine that brings outi
credible colors and tints from every
stone and brick and drop Of water, and
a marvellous graduation of shadows,
show some Of the happy influences that
have helped the Florentines to build up
their city. MILDRED RUSSELL.