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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
Watch the Young Chickens.

There is always large loss of young
poultry by various accidents and by
disease. A young chick is small
thing, but so is an ear of corn, and the
corn crop is made up of single ears.
1t is the little things which count.
Poor Richards adage. ''Take care of
the cents, the dollars will take care of
themselves" is worthy of constant re-
membrance. Farmers incomes are
made up of small things, and even a
chicken is worth caring for. Poultry
can be made the most profitable of
farm products, for it may be reared for
one-fourth of the market value, giving
profit of 800 per cent. upon
its cost. If only 800 yearly is
thus made it is the interest at 5 per
cent. upon $4,000, which is very re-
spectacle and comfortable sum to have
invested. Few farmers, however, give
any attention to their poultry, while
they will spend time and work upon a
strawberry bed which brings them in
no more than this, and will boast of
the profit of the little patch. More
over, to cherish the poultry and make
it pay and to enlist the girls in the en-
terprise will do them much good, and,
perhaps, give them a welcome and
happy start in an Independent life. One
may learn a great deal just now by
noting how the numerous accidents oc-
cur and taking measures by proper
provision for avoiding these in the
future.-N Y. Times.
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TRANSFERRING ABROAD.

THERE are in England 347 female black.
smiths who actually swing heavy ham
mers, and Abs women employed in mai
making
The Pope is reported to have repeatedly
urged the British Government through En-.
glish Bishops to mitigate the rigor Of its
measures in Ireland.
TIE terms lady and ladies have come to
be looked upon as prudish. Even the so.
ciety people in England are discarding them
and in their stead say woman and women.
Cars are found to be the best extermin-
ators of rabbits in New Zealand. They do
great havoc among the young ones, and in
some. sections scarcely rabbit was to be
seen.
ADMIRAL HoRSBY says that England
would require at least 1856 cruisers to pro-
tect her merchant vessels from the enc
my's cruisers, and that she has but forty
two.
THE announcement is made that the Brit
ish Empire is about to annex large sec
ton of Central Africa containing popula-
ton of 100000 and great trade possibili-
ties.
THERE are twenty-five crematories in Eu-
rope, of which ten have been built within
the past year. There have been six hun
dred incinerations in Germany and eight
hundred in Italy. There are seven crema-
tories in the United States and six in proc
ess of construction.
CHILL and the Argentine Republic have
concluded treaty for the building OF in
ternational railways across the Andes.
Practicable passes have been discovered and
surveyed, and two lines of railways are be-
ing constructed, making connections be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
How Bandanas Are Made.

The material of which the bandanG
Ga Spanish word) is made is either silk
or cotton, and is dyed in different col
ors-more commonly red, but some
times also yellow and blue, with round
or diamond-shaped spots all over it.
The process of the manufacture of the
bandana is this: The material is first
dyed the desired color, and pile of
the handkerchiefs is then put into a
press between two copper plates, one
of which is fastened to the top and the
other to the bottom of the press.
These plates are pierced with holes,
Just like the spots to be made on the
handkerchiefs. A great pressure Is
then put oR the pile. and bleaching
LIQUID, called chlorine, is made to flow
over the top of the plate. The liquid
poes down with the holes, passes
through the cloth and comes out of
the holes in the bottom plate, taking
out all the color, and making white
spots Just the size and shape of the
holes in the plates The pressure is so
GREAT that the liquid can reach the
cloth only where the holes are. This
is how the bandanas are made. Chicago
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19

al, ayowedly as compliment to Cen
eral Winfield Scott for his services as
Major-General in the Mexican war. II
was enacted at the same time that the
new office, once having been filled and
become vacant, should thereafter
cease. This, accordingly, happened at
General Scott's death.
In 1864 nearly the same thing was
done for General Grant, who was at
once made Lieutenant General by
President Lincoln. Two years later
the rank of General was revived, and
Grant was appointed to it. The second
rank, that of Lieutenant General, was
awarded to General Sherman. When
Grant was made President he promo
ted Sherman to the rank of General,
and Sheridan, then a Major-General,
to be Lieutenant-G
In 1876 the Congress again fixed
things up, providing that when these
two offices should become vacant they
should cease. This barred Sheridan
from promotion to General when
Sherman was retired two years
ago on account of his age, and had it
not been for the quick action of Con-
gress it is not likely that there would
have been another General of the
army unless in the future the Nation
might have desired to honor some
hero as yet unknown.-N Y. Graphic.
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GOURDS AND POTTERY.
The Probable Origin of a Most Importa
Industry.

The Probable Origin of a Most Important
Art Industry.
Every man, no doubt, used his gourd
as gourd alone. But as time went
on he began at last, apparently, to en-
ploy it as a model for pottery also. In
all probability his earliest lessons in
the fictile art were. purely accidental.
1t is common trick with savages to
put water to warm on the campfire in
calabash or gourd with wet clay
smeared over the bottom to keep it
from burning. Wherever the clay
thus employed was fine enough to
form a mold and bake hard in shape,
it would cling to the gourd, and be
used time and again in the same way
without renewal, till at last it came to
be regarded almost as component
part of the compound vessel. Traces
of this stage in the evolution of pot
terry still exist in various outlying
corners of the world. Savages have
been noted who smear their dishes
with clay; and bowls may be found in
various museums which still contain
more or less intact the relics of the
natural object on which they were
modelled. In one case the thing i'm
bedded in the clay bowl is a human
skull, presumably an enemy's.
In most cases, however, the inner
gourd or calabash, in proportion as it
was we'll coated up to the very top with
good protective layer of clay, would
tend to get burned out by the heat of
the fire in the course of time, until at
last the idea would arise that the
natural form was nothing more than a
mere mold or model, and that the
earthenware dish which grew up
around it was the substantive vessel.
AS soon as this stage of pot-making
was arrived at, the process of firing
would become deliberate, instead of
accidental, and the vessel would only
be considered complete as soon as it
had been subjected to great heat
which would effectually burn out the
gourd or calabash imbedded in the
center.-Grant Alien, in Popular Science
MONthLu
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
BuRDEn OF ANCESTRY.
How Precedents Sit Upon the Head of tn
Acro

How Precedents Sit Upon the Head of the
Present Age.
Sometimes think it would have been
better for all hands If we had never
had any ancestors nor any precedents
prior to the year 1889. Of what con-
sequence were the old Dutch ancestors
of New York compared toDeWitt Gin
ton, who laid out the Erie canal and
pressed its execution upon COM
paratively poor commonwealth? OF
what consequence were the so-called
Pilgrim Fathers of New York COM
pared to the men who started the Gro
ton aqueduct, without which this
island could never have grown to the
population it hasp How much more
we owe to the first founders of our
great public cemeteries than to the
founders of the little churchyards,
which would otherwise have been, as
in London, over-packed at the present
day with superabundant deadp Some
times l think we will owe quite as
much to that generation or leader who
will wipe the cemeteries out, and turn
their monuments and headstones into
some useful architecture for the living.
To put the old mold of discharged
man under $4,000 monument, is as
near idolatry as the Greeks and Romans
ever got, and / have never heard OF
but two cases where useful man
slipped into a rich mans tomb by way
of charity, the first being in the case
of Joseph of Arimathea, and the next
that of Robert Fulton, who was sided
into the Livingston tomb, but he was a
connection of that emigrant family.
If you notice our youngest American
States, they get along much smoother
than our oldest States. See how Kan
sas is growing, without any forefathers,
and see how South Carolina is groan-
ing under its old planter oligarchy?
See how readily Minnesota reaches
out her antenna to the Sault Ste.
Marie, to Duluth, to Manitoba, to
Dakota and to everywhere, having, it
is said, five railroads to Chicago,
whereas the building of the Boston g.
Albany railroad and the consolidating
of the Pennsylvania and New York
SeLtfstl lilies were uOIle DIS Ii mounting
of that kind had ever been done before
Or could be done again. Why is it
that Boston and New York are connect
ed by a single corporation, while Buff
falo and New York are connected by
half a dozen corporations? Precedents
sit upon the head of the living age.
The gravestone is not put upon the
dead only, but upon the living
"Gdth.n IN Boston Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
EXERCISE FOR fCOWS.
The Only Reliable Way of Strengthening
the Digestive Organs.

The Only Reliable Way of Strengthening
the Digestive Organs.
The question for proper exercise for
cows is one not always considered in
reference to the chief point to be gained
the hygienic results. Every animal
requires exercise, and much of it, to
hold the digestion intact. But they
want exercise in proportion to what is
required of them. Racing men know
this perfectly. They have had to make
this a special study. The horse under
training must have fast and sometimes
exhaustive exercise. He becomes
network of bone and muscle and sinews
that may be likened to the strongest
combination of wood, steel and brass
known.
The young animal takes much exer-
Else naturally. The thoroughbred colt
more than any other of the domestic
animals, swine the least. Why? 1t has
been bred into them, is what is
termed hereditary. The thorough
bred horse is the superior in
speed and endurance to any wild
breed of horses, and even the far
famed Arab, well-bred, carefully
trained and excelently-fed horse, is
beaten by the thoroughbred at either
short or long distances. Why againP
The power of heredity asserts itself
under larger number of channels
than in the Arabian horse, but princi-
pally in those arising from the best
possible and most varied food, in con-
nection with the best sanitary condi-
tions coupled with the necessary ex-
ercise to keep every part OF the animal
frame in perfect vigor.
To return to the dairy cow. She
must be creature of considerable ex-
ercise, for without fair exercise the
digestive organs can not prepare, nor
can the food be properly and fully
assimilated. Hence the dairy COW
must be large feeder and heredity
must be here strongly in the
direction of the vicera and
glands that produce superiority
in this direction. She must eat much
and digest much. If heredity is strong
in this direction, it will probably be
strong in the milk function, else her.
edity will not have been in that direc-
ton; the probability is strong that ex-
ercise enough was not given when
young. But milk will be sure to fol-
low If one conform to the directions
herein outlined for the dairy cow
special and not a general purpose COW.
The cow must have much exercise in
summer; this she naturally gets in
grazing. In winter, also, some daily
exercise is necessary. when giving
milk, even If it must be under a
blanket. When not in milk, the ex-
ercise must be sufficient to enable the
digestive organs to assume their nor
NAL strength, perhaps weakened by
protracted milking and minimum of
exercise. Farm. Field and jStockman.
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SANITARY SCIENCE.
Ignorance of Its Principles the Cause OF
Countless Deaths.


Countless Deaths.
In his census reports, DR.. Billings
estimates that in the United States, one
thousand deaths occur every year from
strictly preventable diseases alone.
This is unquestionably very moderate
estimate, and, if there are reckoned
also twelve cases of serious illness for
every death, we see what great
amount of suffering results from igno-
rance of sanitary principles.
But how is this ignorance manifest
ed? Are not our architects competent
to deal with the problem of household
sanitation 1t will be said, perhaps,
that it is the province of the architect
to direct the entire work of house
building, and to arrange every detail
of the fittings. But it should be con-
sidered that the science of sanitation
is broad and comprehensive. Years of
study and experience in sanitary work
are necessary for proper understand
ing of the subject. 1t is, perhaps, I'M
fortunate that there is so little in the
severe and unpleasant details of this
work to commend it to those
whose tastes have led them to
the study of more attractive
principles of artistic construc-
ton and the science of aesthetics.
An architect should have the soul of
an artist, but there are few men whose
nature is so broad as to combine truly
artistic tastes with q love for the de-
tails of difficult mechanical work in
volving the necessity for undertaking
comprehensive and scientific research.
1t is the province of the engineer to
engage in an occupation CT this kind.
His natural inclinations ind his rigid
training in scientific pursuits fit him
especially for the direction of matters
relating to drainage and sewage dis
posal. Wflliana e. Hoyt, S. B. tn Pop
ular Science Moatllv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
GORGEOUS UMBRELLAS.
Chinese Sun-Shades Made to Represent
Ten Thousand Persons.


Ten Thousand Persons.
The Chinese, who love to inscribe
maxims and high-fown sentiments on
| every available surface, sometimes
| condemn even their umbrellas to dis
| play sentences from the dry wisdom of
Confucius. The more graceful fancy
| of the Japanese, on the other hand,
| induces them to decorate their light
sunshades with an endless variety of
| designs in gay color, illustrative of
mythology or legendary lore. I'm
fortunately, however, from an artistic
point of view, their passion for adopt
ing foreign fashions is at work,
and there are now large number of
shops in Toxic and other great cities
which manufacture silk umbrellas
with steel frames, not to be distin-
guished from foreign work save by the
curious name of the maker and the
lower price asked.
Happily the charming little para
soils, which find so great favor among
ourselves, and which form so pretty a
feature in every group of japanese
NOLlcIl, LII tllc HtuuS vi even
the smallest children, are apparently
in no danger of being speedily super
seeded for any imported novelty.
OF the place of the umbrella in the
popular estimation of the Chinese /
can not adduce more striking in
stance than the recognized testimonial
to every popular official on leaving a
large community over which he has
ruled benefcently and without oppres-
sion. 1t is a large umbrella of red
silk or satin, richly embroidered in
gold. 1t is about four feet in diameter
and is raised on a pole nine feet high
and surmounted with gilt knob. Its
name, wangming-san, or, umbrella of
myraid names, implies that it is an
offering from at least ten thousand per-
sons, who were all of one mind in
giving it. Sometimes the principal
names are painted amid clouds on the
deep satin curtains. So this ponderous
decoration is a most literal ''legion of
honor" and the proud recipient is
thenceforth distinguished as the owner
of ten-thousand-man UMBRELLA
Enoitsh Illustrated MdQ1zine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
Something New in Coffee.

When Dusenberry entered the
grocery store bright new placard
caught his eye. 1t read Something
New in Coffee" He owed the grocer
one, and he saw his opportunity.
Something New in Coffee, eh?" he
said. ..Well, that's a pleasing bit of
news"
!. ..You can bet on that, Mr.. Dusen-
berry, replied the grocer. Its hav-
ing quite run. 1t has the strength of
Rio and the flavor Old Government
Java VIII you try it'"
"You may send me over pound of
it," Dusenberry said. his little eyes
twinkling. 1.-The fact is I've been
looking for something new in coffee
for some time. So has my wife. She's
tired finding peas, chicory and such
stuff in it. Detroit Free Press.
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II EealIs An <Dt11ers.

Il can not truthfully be denied that the
Burlington Route, G.. B. q 9. r. r., Is DO
ing en- extensive business, both passenger
and freight. OF the first named branch Of
its service tho Chicago Herald recently said,
in speaking Of the occasion Of the Nation al
Republican Convention: g The Burlington
Road probably brought in more people than.
any other Altogether it is estimS.ed that
from June 16 to 10, the period OF tbs excur--
sion rates, over 1900 strangers came to
Chicago over the Burlington This was
exclusive Of suburban passengers and
mostly in addition to its heavy regular pass
enger traffic. In receipts of live stock: the
Union Stock Yards Reports show the Bur
lington to be far in the lead The average
number of cars brought in by it during the
first six months Of the years 1886, 1857 and
1883 is 26, 140; and the number for the tirst
half of the year 1885, notwithstanding the
temporary depression caused by the recent
great strike on its lines, was "a, 4sa or but.
little below the average The latter figure
also represents about "a per cent Of the
total number Of cars, 109, 413, brought to the
Yards for the last half year, being moro
than six per cent. in excess Of the receipts
by any other road.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
HOME AND FARM.

"A few drops OF ammonia, it is said,
viii loosen glass shoppers in jars and
bottles.
Sweet potatoes require nearly twice
the time that Irish potatoes do either
to bake or boil.
ten minutes and eaten with a little salt
is delicious, very digestible and very
nutritious. american Magazine.
The most perfect pearl in the
world is La Pellegrina in the museum
of Zozima, Moscow. 1t is spherical
Indian pearl of twenty-eight karats.
A wife ought to know just what
her husbands position is financially,
and there should be fair understand
ing of what the household can afford to
spend for the housekeeping expenses,
for clothing, etc.
For grazing alone blue grass is one
of the very best grasses that can be
grown on the farm. Once well estab-
lished it will withstand heavy tramp
ing and close cupping with less dam
age than almost any other grass
Western Ploaoman.
Cherry Puddings: Mix together
two cupfuls of -four, two teaspoonfuls
of baking-powder, and water for soft
dough. Butter the cups and drop in a
little dough, some stoned cherries, and
then dough to half fill the cups. Steam
one-half hour. Eat with sweetened
cream.-Good Housekeeping.
DO not allow the young trees to
bear fruit the first and second years.
The production of fruit will be at the
expense of growth. The peach will
often bear the second year after plant
ing. If kept back in that respect it
will be in better condition for fruiting
the next season.
Herring Salad: Soak for six hours
three Holland herring; cut in small
pieces; cook and peel eight potatoes,
and chop with two small cooked beets,
two onions, one sour apple and four
hard-boiled eggs. Mix with sauce of
sweet-oil, vinegar, pepper and mustard
to taste. Add tablespoonful of sour
cream; let stand over night.
The smell of paints, which is fire.
quently so unpleasant in both new
house and one that has been lately
done up, is said to be easily removed
by means of an armful of thoroughly
damped hay, which should be laid
loosely about the rooms and passages,
and left for twenty-four hours, after
which it may be take away, and if nee
essary, replaced by another lot.
The former prevailing idea that
the acme of hospitality was reached
through the culinary department, and
that to make men happy you must feed
them abundantly is happily changing;
the cordial and unaffected greeting of
the host and hostess, their sincere de-
sire to contribute to the happiness of
their friends, making amends for any
shortcomings in the decorations of the
house Or the brevity of the MENU
Selected.
"A careful examination of the corn
fields at various times has convinced
Superintendent Graham, of the Kansas
Agricultural College, that the burning
of corn-stalks and weeds to kill the
chinch-bugs is waste of time. The
bugs do not hide in the fodder, the
corn-stubs or the weeds, but do hide
very close to the roots of the grass.
Burning the grass does not destroy
many of them, because the grass is
damp near the surface of the ground,
and the fire does not reach them. The
question of the proper disposal of our
surplus chinch-bugs seems yet to re-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19
GENERAL OF THE ARMY.

History of the Three Acts Bestowing This
Title on Famous Warriors.
As a rank, of course, it means only
that the General is the highest officer
in the army, barring the ex-officio po-
sition held by the President, and there
fore it is in reality no higher than has
of the army, whether this title has
been General, Northumberland or
Major-General. At least the power
enjoyed by the individual has been no
greater. As title, however, it means
the highest compliment ever paid to a
soldier by our Government, and has
been created by act of Congress three
times-once in 1899, as a compliment
to Washington; again in 1866, as an
additional honor for Grant, and recent
ly for the behoof of Phil Sheridan.
The history of these three different
acts is interesting. AT the end of the
eighteenth century there was pros
pect of war between the United States
and France, and in 1898 Congress en-
powered the President to raise PRO
visional army of 10000 men," and by
the same act authorized him, with the
sanction of the Senate, to commission
a Lieutenant-General, who should be
commander of the army. This was On
May %, 1898 On July 2 OF the same
wear President Adams nominated Cen
eral George Washington for the posi-
ton, and the Senate unanimously con-
frmed him next day. Washington be-
ing notified of his nomination wrote a
provisional acceptance, STIMULATING
that he should not be expected to as
sumo the duties of the Office until the
army was raised and ready for him to
take command On March 8, 1899, war
still threatened, and while preparations
were still in progress Congress, with
its customary circumlocution, struck
out the first half of the title, leaving it
..Generalx instead of ..Lieutenant-Gen-I
eraL"
Washington died before the war
cloud lifted. but never assumed the
position or title, the highest commits
sion he ever held being that of Major
General Commanding. After his death, |
war being averted, no commission was
issued of the highest rank, and the |
legislation was considered to be re-
pealed by desuetude or indirection, |
and Major-General Commanding re-
manned the highest military position
attainable. To this rank Alexander
Hamilton succeeded.
In 1856 the Congress again created
the title and rank Of observation-disclosures /