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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A ruined city, hitherto entirely I'M
known, has been discovered in the prov
ince of Adana, Asia Minor
According to the latest official sta
tistics the number of workin gwomen in
England and Wales is 7,7O6,545.
In spite of four famines in India in
the last twenty-six years. which killed
off millions of the population, the num-
Der of inhabitants steadily increased as
whole.
"A directory of Parisians who were
likely TO give aims has been seized in
Paris. 1t was compiled and published
by an old and well-posted beggar for
the benefit of younger members of the
profession.
Smuggling across the Russo-Prus-
sian frontier is now tried on a new
plan. Part of the stuffing is taken out
of the seats and backs of the German
railway carriages, and contraband arti-
Giles are neatly concealed in their stead.
The cream-colored horses which
draw the carriage of the Queen of En-
gland belong to her. not as Queen, but
as Princess of the house of Hanover.
The home of the breed has been for a
very long period at Herrenhausen. 1t
has been kept pure so long that rarely is
any thing but cream-colored foal pro-
duced.
A number of native gentlemen in
Scinde have formed an association with
the object of reforming marriage usages
In the East. The members bind them
selves in a penalty of fifty rupees not to
allow their sons to marry before the age
of eighteen years. and not to exact
heavy dowries from the parents of their
daughters-in-law.- Globe.
The late King Ferdinand of Portu-
gal, as London Truth learns. made it
the business of his life to collect from
every country in Europe books, pam
phlets and prints OF all sorts and de-
scriptions which had been forbidden by
the Government or the police, and he
has left a prodigious and perfectly mar
velous collection of the forbidden litera-
ture of Europe during the last thirty
years
A project has been started in Berlin
to establish there an anthropological ex-
hibition, which will do with regard to
the races of men what geological gar
dens do with regard to animals. In the
exhibition, or garden, It's intended that
representatives of various races shall
permanently reside; while of such races
as can not stand the cold of the climate,
representatives will be brought to Ger
many to live there during the summer.
An chronological museum is to be estab-
hshed in connection with the exhibition.
which is said to have the support of sew
eral capitalists.
One of the leading London metal
lists dreamed distinctivelv that Raffaello,
the winning horse, would win the Man
chester November Handicap. He told
his dream to his friends, and was laughed
at. For the second time he dreamed the
same, and again he was ridiculed as
superstitious old fossil of the fifteenth
century. But for the third time the
dream came. This was too much, and,
disdaining all chaff, he took 200 to
ego on the horse. half of which he hand
ed over to his better half for luck, win
or lose, and backed him again for an
other thousand. His favorite song is
now, Let me dream again." as he is
about f12,OOO richer than at the open
ing of the season.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
A NEW NOSE.

How Mr.. Sheehan Was Provided With .
Brand New Proboscis.
John Sheehan had new nose put on
him Sunday. Sheehan has been rather
well-known about town on account OF
the Disagreement of his face by the loss
of his nose, which was eaten off by
smallpox twelve years ago. He really
had no nose at all, nothing but fat
liberated place on his face. The bones
We're there, but the septum and carti-
lage were gone. There were two OPEN
ings in his face for nostrils. When Mr..
Sheehan had cold in the head, which
frequently occurred. his face presented
any thing but an attractive appearance.
Sheehan, after struggling twelve
years against the disadvantages Incl
dent to his condition, voluntarily sub
mitted himself, at the Providence Hos
pital, to the operation of building up
a new nose. What is known as the In
dian operation was performed by DIR.
Hamilton, Surgeon-General of the Ma
rine Hospital Service, who was as
sisted by Drs. Hartigan and Hick-
ling. The operation consisted OF
taking flap from the forehead, twist
ing it around and forming nose of it.
A triangular section, with one point of
the triangle between the eyes, was cut
in the forehead. The skin and flesh
were cut down to the bone, the flap be-
ing left attached to the flesh between
the eyes. The flap was twisted around
until it hung over the proposed site Of
the new nose. The skin about the old
nose was then cut, and the flaw was
IL all
together the nose. when completed,
called at the hospital, Mr.. Sheehan's
face was swathed in bandages. His
hands were secured in muller, SO that
he could not, in his sleep, scratch his
new nose off before nature had secured
it in its place. The new nose will be
of the Grecian type, and the surgeons
think Mr.. Sheehan will be able to blow
it and use it for all the purposes that
noses are used for.
This is the first operation of the kind
performed in this city, one of the physi-
clans said to a Star reporter, for prob
ably twenty-five years. 1t is, however,
one of the earliest operations known to
surgery. In the middle ages, when noses
were more frequently knocked off than
now, the surgeon was often called upon
to repair the damaged face of some un-
fortunate knight, and so such operations
were common. The old Italian method
was to make graft from the skin and
flesh of a mans arm to his nose. The
flap was left hanging partly to the arm,
SO as to keep up circulation in the, en-
grated flesh while nature was making
the union The mans arm was there
fore bound to his head so he could not
move it. The French method was to
make two flaps from the cheek, one on
each side. The operation in Sheehan's
case is called the Indian operation, be-
cause the man who submits to it is par.
tally scalped. - Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
kRUPP HAMMERS.
They Descend With Gentle Pressure OF
With an Earthquake.

They Descend With a Gentle Pressure or
With an Earthquake.
There is curious personality in ham
mers, and workmen like to give them
names. There are 50 steam-hammers in
the Krupp works, of from 400 pounds
weight to so tons. The largest is Fritz, -
whose so tons fall on an anvil and anvil
block weighing together 1850 tons,
these resting on a foundation 100 feet
deep. The next in size is named MAX -
1t would require poet like him who
sang the Song of the Bell rightly to
describe the action of Fritz" and / do
not wonder that the Emperor, on his
visit here, presented the worker of this
hammer with a watch. / observed
'.Fritz'' for some time at work upon the
steel stem of an Austrian iron-clad. the
Ferdinand Max. The metal was from
one casting. without seam or weld. 45
feet long and of % tons weight. Four
men with long clamps managed this red
hot mass, swung over the anvil by a
crane. They turned it readily this way
and that. the foreman at each pause ut
tering a signal which Fritz" under
stood, answering with a soft tap, or a
gentle pressure, or with an earthquake
] was curious to see the anvil-block
which supplemented the ability of the
earth to sustain such shocks through a
length OF time. and was presently shown
one which, after twenty-one years of
humping. had cracked straight through
from top to bottom-possibly beneath
some gentle stroke which was the last
feather to break its huge back. Krupp
does not make plates for iron-clads, but
only such parts as might be needed for
ordinary ships.
Having lit our cigars on the Austrian
iron-clad, we proceed to observe the
operations of Max and other ham,
mers. One of these | saw giving three
hundred tremendous strokes minute.
s'Max" was engaged in Welding ''hard'
iron Though this is more ductile than
the other) To nice distinctions between
iron and iron Max is Indifferent; his
pieces built on his anvil. and with
crushing blows of his mighty fist he
makes hundred plates one. However,
though they seem one and act together,
in the end 1t will be proved that they are
not one: no conceivable force can weld
into one different organizations of atoms.
To be thoroughly united they must be
filtered and refined in the crucible. The
central part of railway wheels is made
by welding, but the trees are made with
out welding. The nave of the wheel is
of wrought iron, which is placed beneath
hammer of suitable shape, and at the
third blow the wheel is shaped. The tire
is cut from long round mass of steel
6 or from one casting-when it is
called cheese it is fiattened,
punched in the center with an eight-inch
die. strung on a horse-anvil, and there
beaten until it becomes tire, and ready
for the fluting process which adapts it to
the rail.-lH0ncure d. Contcay, IN Har-
per's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
TERRIBLE TORTURES.
Treatment of Defenseless Prisoners BY tn
Apaches.

Treatment of Defenseless Prisoners BY the
Apaches.
When the Apaches capture a white
man. woman or child. they first strip
them of their apparel, tie their hands,
and, if in hurry, lead them with a
rope at a rapid rate of speed over rough
trails for long distances. Camping,
they lash their prisoner tight to cac-
tus for the night On the march they
will taunt you in your own language,
asking YOU if you prefer a carriage TO
ride in. During the night, while you
would be dashed naked to prickly cac-
tus, the boy Apaches would shoot their
arrows at you, and approach and st ick
them into you; and then approach again
and pull them out of your flesh. Some
of these young fiends, holder than the
rest, would approach and cut off your
ears.
When the time for your torture us
death arrived, they would cause rat
tlesnake to bite you in the face. Then
they would place quantity of burning
Goals beneath your feet, and with PIN
GERS tear off your fnger-nails. This
would be followed by skinning your
arms anu iepS, tHtn tt1niiS oh sooA
scalp and slappin g it in your face
During all this time the squaws would
act like demons, committing nameless
mutilations.
IF such a method as the above sho uld
not be adopted, they would extend you
on the ground and drive pole or Whit
fie-tree through from end to end; or
they would hang you up by the feet to
the limb of tree and build a fire under
your head.
The entire variety OF their torture is
only known to themselves, and the tor
lures performed by the squaws are OF
such description as to prevent their
being published in any newspaper.
Another method of torture after mutt
lation is to bury the victim alive in the
solid earth up to his neck, and beat the
head off with clubs, or leave him thus
helpless to die.
These are only a few of the many tor
turous deaths inflicted by the Apaches,
and many persons who are exposed in
their vicinity carry derringer pistols with
which to blow out their own brains in
case they are surprised and have time to
do so before they are in the grasp Of the
tends. - Tombstone lArizossd) Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
PITH AND POINT.

1t is now ascertained that the tower
of Babel was only a weak imitation OF
the modern Chicago Journal.
thine makes all things even,n said
an old maid who had lived odd till she
was forty-five and then married -Chs-
cdgo Herald
A Nashville girl has eloped with an
editor. Some women are powerful anx-
ious to organize a private poor-house.
Now is the time to subscribe. Peck
Sun.
Learned men tell us that in Latin
the word editor means ''to eat In
United States it means to scratch around
like blazes to get something to cat
Ddnscille Breeze.
The men who are running q paper
in States prison viii be saved the bother
of applications for places as editorial
writers by green college graduates
Milwaukee Journal
Country bride Cooking over bill OF
fare)-John, whats Patty de fee grass?"
Groom-'Sh! Don't talk SO loud, or peo-
pie III think we're ignorant 1t must be
French for celery.-N. r Sun.
An Ohio young man has been sound
asleep for three consecutive weeks His
father emphatically declares that not
another copy of a London comic weekly
shall come into the house. -Droke's
Travellers Magazine.
Mrs. Lighthead-Of course, DIR.
Scripture. we were very sorry to have to
give up our pew in your church, but il
cost us so much for the children danc-
ing lessons that we had to give up some
fbin piffShl,r1h Post
An Eastern firm very generously
sends us an order for advertising to be
paid for in seeds. We thank you, gen.
tlemen, we are about as seedy now as
we can be and get around town. If you
have any patent adjustable pants patches,
warranted to match all patterns, you
can send them right along with your
electroplate. -St. Paul Herald.
look here, now! Don't you know
there's an order requiring every car
riage to have lantern at night?" said
the policeman to the Hibernian hack
driver ..An' sure. sir" was the reply,
.'what made have / for a lantern at all,
at all? Can We not see for yurself. sir,
that nv horse is bloind.'- PHILADELPHIA
Cal.
Fond Boston mother Ito daughter)
Jennie, did you kiss young Gaskina
again to-niCht?' Daughter-t.Yes,
mamma, he's just lost an uncle in San
Francisco. and / was 50 sorry for him. !"
Fond Boston mother-sWell, Jennie,
let this be the last. Tn afraid if you
keep on encouraging him with your
sympathy he won't have relative left
in the wide, wide world. It'd Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

out the water, which would soon resume
possession of the country, if not thus
constantly expelled. In this little king
dom live nearly six millions of people.
or about twice as many as Illinois sup
ports on its broad and fertile acres.
The average population to the square
mile is four hundred and seventy-fye,
the densest population in Europe, if not
on the globe.
Unfortunately for the peace and pro-
gress of Belgium, its people belong to
two different races who hate each other,
as my Belgian informant declared, as
heartily as do the English and irish in
Great Britain. The people of the north
ern provinces or counties are mostly
Flemings, and akin TO the Dutch of Hol-
land. They are Teutonic in origin and
genius. Those of the southern counties
are Walloon and French in race and
character. The Flemings, who largely
outnumber the Walloons. speak the
Flemish language. The Walloons speak
a mongrel French. But French is the
language of the court and largely of
commerce. Most of the newspapers,
even those of Antwerp, the stronghold
of Flemish influence, are published in
French. The Flemish is the language
OF the schools and of the pulpits and
popular assemblies. and the Flemings
are making a stout fight against French
ideas and influence. Iwas taken by my
friend, who is Fleming, to visit sever
al families of his friends. and every
where the talk turned on the political
situation, and was loud against
the French. whom they charged
with conspiring in their lodges
against the Catholic and Conservative
party, and with debating to the press
their utterances-policy. Alas, for the
brave Flemings! their revolt in favor of
the old nationality and its memories. 1
fear, has come too late! On every
street-corner of their city, under the
old Flemish names of the streets are
painted the French TRANSACTIONS of those
names. and in the broad new Antwerp
which surrounds the old city, French
architecture has displaced the sharp
gables of the Flemish style; French
fashions prevail, while Brussels, the
capital of their country, delights to
be called second Paris. And it must
be confessed that the party of progress
is against them. They lamented to me
that the young men were being led
away from them. But the young men
are the men who are most awake TO the
new spirit that has come with COM
merce, and which is fast making Ant
werp one of the great cosmopolitan
cities which modern commerce creates.
Already it counts $4,000 Germans. 25,-
600 Hollanders, and large sprinkling
of English, Danes, Jews, French and
Americans in it's swelling population.
At our great hotel table one end
spoke English, and the other talked
French.-Antacerp Cor. Chicago Stand
ard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

from the lips of a hard, bad man n
true. But if one sin, must all be
guilty? Your life is now sanctified by
the pure love of pure woman. Cast
ii not lightly from you. Live, and be
blessed by the angel. Love. Live, and be
cursed by the devil, doubt. The choice
is before you. You have received your
warningr'
The voice ceased. and William, start
ing to his feet. rubbed his eyes in
amaZement. and looked about him. 1t
was dream, then-surely dream,
for no spirit-faces were in the twisted
limbs and branches of the tree. The
hedge-row beyond was beautiful. but
no reckoning shadows were there.
The stars shone in the frosty heavens,
and the moon threw soft tender light
upon the snow fields smiling in her
face. The night was very lovely; all
nature was in repose. He looked to-
ward LIura's house, and there
For moment his heart stood still,
and then his body throbbed with mad
dening pulses. Stealing out from the
house, he saw a female, her form
throwing a long Shadow on the Snow.
He could not mistake the step. the
graceful turn of her neck as she looked
warilv around. Another form meeting
hers-the Shadow of man upon the
Snowl As the two met, William
pressed forward in mad excitement.
He saw the tenderest kisses pass be-
tween them; he saw them clinging to
each other in fond endearment, he saw
her, his Laura! lying in another man, 5
arms and he sunk to the ground with
bitter cry. A blight had fallen on his
life
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
PRETTY NAMES.
A Strain on the Physical Welfare Of tn
Rabun Children.

A Strain on the Physical Welfare OF the
Rabun Children.
The following is list of names of the
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Rabun, of
Augusta, Ga.
First-Mary Ann Elizabeth Rabun.
Second-CorneliaA Ann Miranda Jane
Rabun.
Third-Effie Ann Savannah Rabun.
Fourth-James William Theophilus
Patrick Rabun.
Fifth-Sarah Ann Melissa Vanduzen
Iantha Rabun.
Sixth-Drusilla Ann Francis Rowena
Rabun.
Seventh--Lanie Lucinda Liza Willie
Ann Alice Rabun.
Eighth-Margaret Amazon Archibald
Roxie Ann Rabun.
Ninth-Mozelle Jerusha Ann Co
Syvira Rabun.
Tenth-Anjenette Sophronia Martha
Ann Arastus Rabun.
Eleventh-Eldora Matilda Louisa
Anime Pitcher Rabun.
Twelfth-Pilcher Wicker Brinson
Franklin Lee jackson Beauregard
Swain Rabun.
Thirteenth-Ella Ann Sancil Virginia
Theodocia Willanta Lugenia Gibson Ba-
bun.
Fourteenth-Lovie Ann Stella Belle
Callie Donna Dessie Linda Lucretia Bor-.
gia Neal Rabun. = Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
THE BEIGfANS.

Interesting Description of the Present
Status of Belgium's Social Question.
This little monarchy is about one-fifth
as large as the State of Illinois, and no
small part of it has been rescued from
the sea by raising huge embankments
and dykes along the shores of sea and
river, and then pumping out the water.
As we sailed up the river, we could see
fro-a the upper deck of the steamer
scarcely anything but the roofs of the
houses and the steeples of the village
churches rising above thedykes, with here
and there an old-fashioned four-winged
windmill. mostly at work in pumping
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

A New Jersey jury at Camden re-
Gently decided in favor of the complain
ant in suit for damages brought by a
passenger against the Atlantic Railroad
Company for injuries received while
riding on pass.-N. 7. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
Shadows on the Snow.
By b. L. FARJEON.
PART I.-CoSTINuED.

AUTHoR OF BLADE o. glass;" aGornrr
eGAiS' JOSHUA MARVEL" ETC, Era
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-03-27
She Knew It,

As the morning train going west
drew mp at Brighton the other day an
old lady with the legendary satchel was
helped aboard the coach by the brake
man. Instead Of entering it she passed
into the smoking car and took Q seat.
Pretty soon the brakeman put his head
into the door and called out:
Madam. this is the smoking-car.
Yes" she replied, as she investi-
gated her satchel.
The rear coach is for ladies'"
Yes -..
Is she made no move towards chang.
ing. cars the official stepped up to her
and said:
Madam, the next coach is for Ii,
dies"
~ know It," she replied.
This is the smoking-car.
Don't / know it!" she snapped, ''and
didn't I come in hare to take . smoke!
Do you suppose I haven't trsvsled
enough to know what car to get into
when Iwant to raise the wind on nv
stomach with . few whi6i ct the ripS!''
She leaned over and took Q lighted
cigar from the man ahead, touched Cd
hee pipe and after blowing out 3 IN
whils Of blue smoke she quietly Oh.
served:q -dH're
~fhat's Why I never travel on Ne 10.
commodatiou train. 1t never has 10 %.
capt place to smoke in."-DstTo1 FSsl
1Tooc. - = [-. a 81
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-03-27
A Curious eek.

A daily paper gives the following account
of singular shipwreck from the lips Of Cap
tain White, of the brig Ada L. White, which
was abandoned and lost on her recent voy
age from Rio Janairo to New York. Captain
White said it was fine summer weather, with
the mercury standing at 80 degrees in the
shade, when they left Rio, December 10,
with 1l,24s bags of coffee on board. The
voyage continued without incident until the
brig was off Jamaica. when gale came
bowling from tho northwest, and lasted for
three days. But II was several days later.
when 100 miles out at sea, of Hatteras, that
the gleat storm which wrecked them was
encountered. The waves ran high: the wind
blew almost a hurricane, and dashed the
ocean into foam; wave after wave broke
over the ship, and finally enough water got
below to wet the cargo. Then the coffee
began to swell, the bags burst, and more wat
er got iD. The coffee which was forced out
of the open sacks, fOated into the pumps.
and soon disabled them. 1t was now i'm
possible to reduce the water In the hold.
ed n and The sea sS was terrible to behold. In
the midst of these scenes Of peril, new and
terrible danger appeared. Because Of the
disabled pumps, which were choked with
coffee, the eleven thousand bags of coffee
became completely saturated, and the whole
mass rose like yeast. With Q shock that
shook the vessel to her center, the decks
burst open with crash Of thunder. The
matches were wrenchGi on as II they were
but paper, and great seams opened In the
vessel, which admitted the sea in torrents.
All hope was now lost Nothing was to be
done but leave the ship as speedily As posi-
bic, for she was already settling In the white
waters.