Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-16
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
Mrs. Grundy says that alleged dec
orative art is breaking out in new places
all along the fashionable line--M 7.
Mail.
According to a recent estimate there
are twice as many pet dogs owned in
New York City as there were one year
ago.-M T. San
"A genius in Troy has just invented
a stove that saves three-quarters of the
wood, while the ashes it makes pays for
the remainder.-Boston Budget.
The Boston Transcript tells of a
sp'nster in that town who says that she
wants to get married because the Bible
says there is none good. not won."
An unknown lunat1c was captured
recently by officers at Springfield, Ky.
His paroxysms of violence only come
on when he hears some one inquire his
name.-LouisuiUe Courier-Journai.
"A New York scientist declares that
the spirifer disjuncta and spirifer
| me- ostrialis exist side by side in the
same rocks. 1t is no wonder that we
have earthquakes and see the rocks split
asunder
| "A cave has been discovered at Rush
| ford, Mimi, which consists of three dis
! tinct rooms varying in w 9TH from four
to fifteen feet and making a total length
of ninety-two feet. 1t is perfectly dry
and apparently hewn from the solid
| rock.-Chscaqo Times.
| "A suburban paper announced before
! the election that James Tall and Madge
! Van Repselaer were candidates for al
dermen IS the Eleventh Assembly dis
| trict. Mr.. James Tallmadge Van Rens-
| selaer is looking for the editor, loaded
with ape-shot.-PUc&.
but how can Mr.. Brown be ninety
years old? You say he was born here,
| and also tell me that the place was set
| tied only fifty years ago" ''Ah, my
| dear sir, you do not recollect that the
| town is extremely healthy. A man
grows old remarkably fast in this glori-
Gus climate. boston Transcript.
Mrs. Bartle. of Moorehead. Mimi,
WIS so impressed by dream that
robber had entered the house that she
persuaded her husband to put all his
ready money in the bank. On his way
home from the bank he was stopped by
footpads who let him 90 after turning
his empty pockets inside out. Chicago
Mail
At a recent dinner party in Boston,
Mass. six thousand red roses orna-
mented the tables. There was not
sufficient room for the dishes. and the
display savored more of vulgarity than
art, but the host, says the Journal, was
probably satisfied with his efforts to
to surpass all others in floral ornamen-
tation.
The once highly-prized Cashmere
shawls have gone so completely out of
fashion that the manufacture of them
has stopped, and there is a probability
that their fabrication will become
lost art" The Province of Cashm re,
in India, has been thrown into distress
by this freak of fashion. and many of the
population have become paupers.
In case in which man was being
tried for murder, when the clerk re-
peated the formula, Prisoner. look
upon the Jurors: jurors, look upon the
prisoner" one of the Sworn twelve,
who was very stupid man. looked SOL
EMMY at the prisoner for while, and
then sad: Il think he's guilty. He
looks Ike murderer. ~ Y Led3er.
Slang is rapidly demoralizing our
people. 4 beautiful and cultured young
woman, the other evening. in referring
to the lustre of her rich dress. remarked
that it had helped her in making no end
of conquests. Il call il" she said.
1.-The mash-sheen. because it has made
so many mashes. This is HORRIBLE
Boston Transcript.
A resident of Danbury. Conn,
touched his finger. recently, to we'll
charged electric wire. lust for the fun
0f ,bo3 ], - 70 aI
down, and didn't recover for several
hours He was cons derably frightened.
and more so when told that if he had
grasped the Wire he would have been
killed. -HGrtTord Post.
From the official reports just pub
lished on the cost of public vaccination
in London it appears that the whole ex-
pense is not less than 100000 a year.
In 1885 the fees and attendant expenses
reached $50. 900. The cost of calf
lymph factory alone is over S15, 900 per
annum The inspectors and other Off
GERS fill out the $500, 900.
A white convict recently escaped
from a gang working on the Georgia
Mid and railroad. 4 bloodhound was
put on his trail and afterward found
manacled to a tree with the convict's
shackles. Two new dogs were started
after him. and when they caught him he
made friends with them. and ira led
them to negro woman for his dinner.
He has not been caught yet.-AAdnts
Constitution.
Mile. Jeanne Granier, the French
actress, was recently sued by her lam
dress for $40, n single years bill for
washing her clothing At first the
Judge thought the b Il too large, but
when it was explained that Mile.
Granier's silk stockings cost $50 a par,
and so had TO be handled with unusual
care, he gave a does on IN favor of the
laundress for the full amount.
The New Yor club men who con-
template organizing the Kissing club
have decided to adopt as a badge d
miniature Chestnut, with Il little bell in
the interior. controlled by spring on
the conical end This chestnut will be
a close imitation of the real article 1t
will be made of gold or silver and will
be worn as a watch-charm. ike the
famous peanut of the well-known club
bearing that name. 7. Tribune.
Leigh Hunt said os a house which he
often passed. and which had flowers on
its 'front.' There is something very
agreeable in the silent, good-natured IN
tercourse which these plants convey be-
tween the residents and passers-by,"
No doubt most persons form opinions
of he inmates of dwellings by the cor