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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
TENDER STEAK.
Valuable Recipes for Young Housekeepers
and Dlssatified Boarders.

Valuable Recipes for Young HouseEzeepers
and Dlssatified Boarders.
You want to know how to make steak
tender, do you, Eulalie? Well, we are
full of ripe, golden experience on
steak. If there's any one in all this
wide. weeping world who has full and
perfect knowledge of steak, we are that
person. We nearly choked to death on
steak once, Eulalie. But hearken to
the sweet, mellitiuous piping of our
gentle oboe. If you are keeping house
and want to make your steak tender,
buy big seven-barreled revolver. Go
around to the butcher 5 and present the
executive end of the gun at his head.
Then address him in some such honeyed
words as these:
You miserable, swinfing. bone
chopping scoundrel, if you send me
more such steak as that stuff YOU sent
me Yesterday morning, III blow you
into the middle of Jersey City"
That'll settle him, Eulalie. When he
sees that your soft. womanlv heart is
not to be triied with. he'll weaken, and
send around the porterhouse that you
pay for.
But if you are boarding, Eulalie, and
want to make the steak tender, YOU
must pursue very different plan. You
can not deal with the butcher, if you
are boarding, SO you must pay your at
tentions directly to the steak. When
the steak is placed on the table before
you, take it up gently on your fork and
go up to your room with it Place it
on the plate of your sewing-machine, in
the spot where You put your sewing.
Then sit down firmly in a chair, Eulalie.
and put your feet on the pedals of the
machine. When you have done this,
begin to operate the pedals. Operate
as if the house was on fire. Keep it up
for about two hours. See that YOU have
a good stout needle in the machine.
otherwise it might break off in the
steak.
After you have kept this up for the
time mentioned, you will find that you
can cut the clearinghouse steak quite
easily with steam circular-saw.-Puck
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
DISCERNING TEACHER.
How She Developed Boys Brain-A
Valuable Lesson to Instructors

How She Developed Boys Brain-A
Valuable Lesson to Instructors
A teacher had charge of school in a
country town, early In her career, and
among her scholars was a boy about
fourteen years old, who cared very little
about study, and showed no interest,
apparently, in anything connected with
the school. Day after day he failed in
his lessons, and detentions after school
hours and notes to his widowed mother
had no effect One day the teacher had
sent him to his seat, after vain effort
to get from him a correct answer to
questions In grammar, and feeling
somewhat nettled, she watched his con-
duet. Having taken his seat, he pushed
the book impatiently aside, and espying
a fly, caught it with a dexterous sweep
of the hand. and then betook himself to
a close inspection OF the insect. For
fifteen minutes or more the boy was
thus occupied, needless of surroundings,
and the expression of his face told the
teacher that it was more than idle
curiosity that possessed his mind. A
thought struck her, which she put into
practice at the first opportunity that
day.
BOYS" said she. what can you tell
me about fiies?" And calling some of
the brightest by name she asked them if
they could tell her something of a fly S
constitution and habits. They had very
little 10 say about the insect They
often caught one, but only for sport,
and did not think it worth while TO
study so common an insect, Finally
she asked the Ounce, who had silently,
but with kindling eyes, listened TO what
his schoolmates hesitatingly said. He
burst out with absorption of the head.
eyes. wings and feet of the little Great
ure, so full and enthusiastic that the
teacher was astonished and the whole
school struck with wonder. He told
how it walked and how it ate, and
many things which were entirely new
to his teacher. So that when he had
finished she said
Thank YOU, You have given Us
real lesson in natural history, and you
have learned it all yourself"
After the school closed that afternoon
she had a long talk with the boy, and
found that he was fond of going into the
woods and meadows and collecting in
sects and watching birds, but that his
luOugHl Ilt W d. " slSLLllS HIS llilICs
The teacher. however. wisely encour-
aged him in this pursuit, and asked him
to bring beetles and butterflies ana cater
pillars TO school. and tell what he knew
about them. The boy was delighted by
this unexpected turn of affairs, and in a
few days the listless Ounce was the
marked boy of that school Books on
natural history were procured for him,
and world of wonder opened to his ap-
preciative eyes. He read and studied
and examined: he soon understood the
necessity of knowing something of math-
ematics, geography and grammar for
the successful CARRYING on of his favor
ite study, and he made rapid progress in
his classes. In short, twenty years later
he was eminent as a naturalist. and
owed his success, as he never hesitated
TO acknowledge, to that discerning teach
er.-FGrDl and FireSide.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
WON THE BALL.
How Aged Turkish Liar Fairly Won
the Prevaricator's Prize.


Ages ago it pleased one of the Sultans
to issue proclamation throughout the
empire, promising to present golden
ball to whomever among his subjects
should prove himself the biggest liar,
giving it to be understood beforehand
that no merely improbable story
would stand the ghost of a chance of
winning, since he himself was to be the
Judge, and nothing short of a story that
was simply impossible would secure the
prize. The proclamation naturally
made quite a stir among the greater
prevaricators of the realm. and hundred
of stories came pouring in from COM
petitors everywhere. but they We're one
and all ad judged by the astute monarch
as containing incidents that might I'M
der extraordinary circumstances have
been true. The coveted golden ball still
remained unawarded. when one day
there appeared before the gate of the
Sultan's palace, requesting an audi
ence, an old man with travel-worn
appearance, and bearing on his
STOPPING shoulders an immense
earthenware jar. The Sultan received
the aged pilgrim kindly, and asked him
what he could do for him. 20 Sultan,
NAV you live forever,'' exclaimed the
old man, ..for your Imperial Hghness
is loved and celebrated throughout all
the empire for your many virtues. but
most of all for your love of justice"
..Inshallah,' replied the monarch re-
verently. May it please your Imper-
ial Majesty continued the old man,
calling the monarch's attention to the
jar. ..your Highness' most excellent
father-may his bones rest in peace
borrowed from my father this jar of
gold coins, the condition being that
your Majesty was to pay the same
amount back TO me- Absurd, impoS-
sibleI'' exclaimed the astonished Sui
tan, eyeing the huge vessel in question.
If the story be true" gravely contin-
ued the pilgrim. pay your father $
debt: if it is as you say impossible. l
have fairly won the golden ball And
the Sultan Immediately awarded him
the prize.-Sag Francisco 4rg0nasA.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Your wives is the allowance to one
man in Turkey.
King Humbert paid from his pri-
sate purse for the two hundred tbon.
sand-dollar monument to Victor Eman-
uel at Turin.
I'm france Saturday is pay day, Sun
Gay and Tuesday is suicide day.
The French are the least migratory
OF nations, the annual average Of emf
grants being under five thousand out of
population Of thirty-seven million.
Several French cities are about to
establish permanent free museums for
the exhibition of samples of foreign
manufactures and raw materials.
1t was German critic who re-
marked that in order to prove the alb
surd Irregularities of English pronun-
citation it will suffice to state that the
word Boz IS pronounced Dickens
Two members of Parliament have
fallen heirs to $4,000 apiece. beoueath-
ed 30 them by lady with whom neither
had an acquaintance, and who did not
even state the grounds of her apprecia-
ton.
Berlin has abolished the old custom
OF holding market in squares and pub
Tic places, and has recently opened
series of grand and colossal market halls
In various quarters of the city.
Seven great labor unions in En-
gland, having an income of over ST.
6Oo, 1000, spent in disputes in 1882 only
So,ooO. Their highest work is in pre-
venting strikes through conference and
arbitration.
The latest invention in hat lining
is map of the city of London printed
on silk. 30 that any stranger or CAV
young fellow may find his way home or
see at a glance if cabby is taking him the
nearest route to his destination.
AZ Mexican bull fight Just across
the Rio Grande from Brownsville one
Of the bulls broke through the enclosure
and began climbing up the benches
Women screamed and tainted, men
scrambled to get out of the way, and a
general fusillade began. every man near
enough popping away al the bull, who
saccumbed with thirty bullets in his
body.
An authenticated Schiller r'ng-a
gold ring containing lock of the poet s
hair. whose genuineness is attested to by
Schiller daughter-was sold in Berlin
recently. As was the case at the recent
sale of Goethe relics, the bidding was
disappointingly dull. and the ring had
to be sold for I'll los
Duke Karl, of Bavaria. famous
throughout Germany as an oculist and
phllanthropist, has recently been minis
tering to the poor of Meran, in the Aus
trian Tyrol. During his stay at that
place he operated upon hundreds of pa
tients. and with singular success He
steadfaStly refuses to receive pay for his
services. and as a rule confines his prac
tice to those who are unable to pay. He
took his departure from Meran the 9th
CT day, and was followed to the station
by crowds of people who showered
blessings upon HIM, and in many cases
knelt in the streets and offered up pray
ers in bis behalf
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
HOME AND FARM.

Corn Oysters: Six ears of boiled
corn, cut from the cob and seasoned
with salt and pc ,per, mix with 1t the
yelks of three eggs. well beaten. and
one and half tablespoonfuls of flour,
whisk the whites TO stiff froth and add
last, fry In hot butter, one spoonful at q
time. Philadelphia Gail.
Another thing. mothers, is saffron
tea for baby. It is the very best in fever,
bowel trouble or scarlet fever that there
can be- 1t was the dear old grandma :
cure, and I think they had better success
than most of us nowadays. Too many
drugs are used now.-Farna and Fire
side.
Fires resulting from burning oil
are inextinguishable with water, but
may readily be smothered BY throwing
flour upon the burning oil If clothing
is set on fire by splitting oil. or by the
bursting of lamp. a handful of flour
thrown on Immediately may be the
means of quenching the flames, and
thus saving life.-Noastreat Fitness.
"A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer recommends half a pint of
common table salt for bloat in cattle.
Put round stick in the cows mouth.
throw the salt as far down the throat as
you can. and she viii swallow it. This
farmer SAYS he has cured several cases
of elover-bloat in a short time in this
manner.
Cheese omelet, a supper or lunch
dish: Butter and cut in quarters suf-
icient number of slices of bread TO line
medium-sized pudding dish. Sprinkle
over small pieces of stale or dry cheese.
Another layer Of bread. then cheese. and
so on until the dish is full. Make a
custard of one pint of milk. two eggs
and little salt. Pour over the bread
and cheese. Bake one-half hour in q
quick oven.-Good Housekeeping.
-Hominy: Soak a cup of small
hominy for two hours in enough cold
water to cover it, drain; put over the
fire in farina kettle, with a quart OF
warm water slightly sailed, and cook
for half an hour after it reaches the boil.
If it has not soaked up all the water,
pour it off and supply the place with
cup of warm milk; bring it to a boil
and serve. Eat with sugar and cream.
Exchange.
If by letting a horse stand in the
stable one day without exercise you in
jure him, how much more are horses in
jured which are compelled to stand in
narrow stalls for a week at a time with
out any liberty whatever? Yet there are
plenty of farmers who, when they are
not using their horses, viii keep them
imprisoned for days or weeks at time,
and then wonder why they have trouble
in keeping them in good condition
Western RurGi.
An Ohio amateur gooseberry grower
succeeds in growing very fine fruit, both
in size and quality, on a cool. clay soil,
keeping the plants open in the center by
pruning. When they start into growth
in the spring, he Immediately disbuds,
to prevent them from becoming too
dense, and thus admits free circulation
Of air. He mulches heavily during the
summer. With this treatment he is lit
tie troubled with mildew.- CeUeta,ad
Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
NURSERY FOR BIRDS.
"A New Industry Which Has Been Recent
Established in New York.

A New Industry Which Has Been Recently
Established in New York.
A notice posted in the window of an
uptown bird-store recently attracted
the attention of a reporter: Birds
Boarded by the Week or Month"
He stepped in to investigate The
person in charge of the establishment
explained that regular branch of the
business consisted in caring for song
birds and other feathered pets belong
ing to families who had arranged to
pass the summer months out of town.
Hundreds of birds of all sizes. coIors
and species made the place wilderness
of discord as they screamed, chartered,
About fifty of the prisoners were
boarders, the others were offered for
sale.
Before July passes by" said the
attendant, I'VE shall have a hundred
birds boarding here, for then almost
everybody who can afford il will have
| made arrangements TO 90 the country,
if not to Europe. When they 90 away
they leave their dogs in charge of the
coachman. except the toy dogs, which
are taken along when possible. The
cat is left behind to shift for himself,
but the song-bird is either put out TO
| board or loaned to some friend who Will
be sure to care for it kindly
''Are birds expensive boarders?"
ave can make money BY boarding
canaries and finches at fifteen cents per
week if we have a good many CUSTOM
ers- We charge fifty cents for hooking
birds, which are choice in their food,
and the same sum for parrots. Say we
have sixty regular customers the season
round, and average the pay at thirty
cents each. we have eighteen dollars per
week coming in. and twelve dollars of
this is clear profit. But our customers,
who are usually wealthy ladies, often
insist on paving tenfold the amount Of
our bill. The owner of this mocking-
bird gave ME twenty dollars for caring
for it during the next two months
A carriage had just rolled up to the
door. and Young lady in costly garb
alighted. attended by man servant in
livery. She bore in her hand a gilded
cage. Il have brought you this bad
boy again. she said, lightly. land if
any thing goes wrong with him, write
me at once TO this address, When
birds are removed from the richly-fur-
nished boudoirs of Their fair owners to
a noisy store they become at first moody,
and in some instances even decline to
take food, but gradually they accept the
situation and appear to like the COM
pany.-N 7. Mail and Express.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
TURKISH BRUTALITY.
An Incident Illustrative of the Moslen
Hate of Christian Travellers.

An Incident Illustrative of the Moslem
Hate of Christian Travellers.
While waiting to be presented to Ali
Bashaw, Belzoni managed to see the sun
rise from the top of the Great Pyramid,
and TO visit those of Saccara and Dajior,
and to meet the great traveller Burck-
hardt, meeting to which we owe
good many of our best Egyptian an
tiques. Riding up to the citadel with
NJ. Baghos to see Mehemet Ali, he adj
mired 1.-The majestic appearance of the
Turkish soldiers but soon found that
looks are not every thing. for one of
these noble looking fellows. passing on
horseback, managed. out of pure spite,
to cut two inches of flesh out of his leg
with the sharp corner of his shovel-hke
stirrup. The wound was SO serious that
it kept him prisoner a whole month, and
when Ali Bashaw" noticed his limp
and learned the cause he simply said:
such accidents will happen when
troops are about The soldiers
just then hated the very look of
a Frank, for Ali was trying to teach
them the European drill. There was a
mutiny about this not long after. and
the attempt had to be given up, the
mutineers getting off scott free. though
Belzoni remarks that just then there
came on an unaccountable mortality
among the high officers Of the army.
By and by, after he had got into high
favor with Ali. our traveller was nearly
killed by Bimbashi. out of whose way
he could not get. loaded camel filling
up the street. The Bimbashi Iieuten-
anti gave HIM blow in the stomach.
which he repaid by cutting him over
the naked shoulders with his whip.
The fellow then took out his pistol.
| jumped off my ass; but the shot
singed the hair near my right ear and
killed one of his own soldiers who was
getting behind me. He took out a
second pistol, but his own men dis
armed him This was narrow
escape, for Just then the daughter of
Chevalier Booty, swedish Consul-Gen-
eral. was riding with party of ladies,
her mother among them, to get bath.
when a soldier shot her dead out of
pure wantonness. All the Year Round.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08
LEANING WALLPAPER.

How to Obliterste Paste and Other Stains
without Injurins the Colors-
Cut into eight portions loaf of bread
two DAYS old; must neither be newer
nor staler. With one of those pieces,
after having blown off all the dust from
the paper to be cleaned. by means of 3
good pair of bellows, begin at the top
of the room. holding the crust in the
hand. and wiping lightly downward
with the crumb, about half yard at
each stroke till the upper part OF the
paper is completely cleaned all round.
Then 60 round again, with the ike
sweeping stroke downward, always
commencing each successive stroke
little higher than the upper stroke had
extended. till the bottom be finished
This operation, if carefully performed.
will frequently make very old paper
look almost equal TO new. Great eau
tionmust be used not by any means to
rub the paper hard. nor to attempt
cleaning it the cross or horizontal way.
The dirty part of the bread, too, must be
continually cut away, and the pieces re-
newed as soon as may become necessary.
To take grease stains out of wall paper.
mix pipe-clay with water to the consls-
tency of cream, laying it on the spot,
and letting it remain till the following
day, when it may be easily removed
with a pen-knife or brush--Iotsoo
Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08

men take him in hand, look after his
meals and find him lodgings. A work
man is likewise permitted to change
rom one trade to another, where he is
made a member of another artell. The
Russian operative classes consist of
number of artells, whose only aim,
however. is to provide food for all
Among the cab drivers the arteI has
already assumed the form of co-opera-
tive societies; cabs and horses are pro-
Eided at the common expense, and bust
ness is carried on in the same way The
Russian cab proprietors have to thank
these artells for their exemplary organ
lzations- Besides this there are many
villages where only people of certain
trade. as, for instance, tailors and join
ers, live. Here the .sartelitschik' takes
the orders. distributes the work as well
as the profit and forwards the goods
n. I. Commercial Bulletin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-08

size, from twenty to fifty feet in cir
conference, and from seventy-fiye to
! one hundred feet in height 1t is an
| immense umbrella-shaped tree, with
! feather-like foliage. One tree will
bear five thousand margoes- The fruit
is heart or kidney-shaped, and grows to
the weight OF one or two pounds each.
at has a skin like plum and its flavor
is that of all our best fruit combined
the plum, peach and grape and some
thing of the apple. 1t is a delicious
fruit, and is universally used as a part
of food. The cacao tree, from which
cocoa and chocolate are made, grows
everywhere, and the fruit, which is
shaped like musk-melon, grows right
out Of the body of the tree. There is
no stem to it at all. The samsop grows
in the same way, and has a very deli
cious fruit. The cassara is substitute
for bread. The yam grows everywhere
1t grows solid and is very different from
that of this country. 1t is more ike a
root The root is fifteen TO twenty feet
long They break If up into pieces and
sell it in sections. The cocoanut palm
abounds everywhere. One tree drops a
nut every day in the wear. 1t drops
three hundred and sixty-five a year
The banana produces a bunch
month every month in the year
1t is perpetual in its growth. Ali they
have got to do TO cultivate it is to chop
the brush and stick in the plant, and it
needs no cultivation. It is the same
with all their fruits. The sugar cane
grows from twenty to twenty-five feet
high. l was told that by the officials,
and it produces eight thousand to ten
thousand pounds to the acre. 1t never
needs replacing, but grows just like
clover. Cotton grows in the same
way, reproducing itself. 1t becomes a
great tree and bears great amount of
very fine fiber. Corn produces five
crops year, Coffee grows abundantly,
and Nicaragua coffee is among the best
in the world. No finer coffee is pro-
vided anywhere. The country is pre-
eminently a country of lazy people.
One can live there as nearly without
work as anywhere else. The people
are very Independent in spirit and work
only when they feel Ike it. One
strange thing is that the English Ian
guage seems to be the coming language
of all America Spanish and English
are spoken. but the whole business of
the place is principally done in English.
Colonel Pat Doaaan, IN Chicago
Journal