Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-13
INTERESTING FACTS.

"BRoNzE JoHS is new Florida term
for the Yellow Jack,
A PASADENA {Cal) milkman served one OF
his customers with . fine two-inch trout the
other morning,
THE market price of ostriches in Califor-
mia per pair IS 1000. 1t takes small fort
une to start an ostrich farm.
THE inventor of the s milk-shake' . is said
to have made over $4,000 on his patent;
over 1900 machines are used in Philadel-
phia.
AN Epson County, Ca, love-made hermit
caused himself to be buried under a bowlder
one hundred by two hundred feet in dimen-
Sions.
A KANSAS salt maker has constructed a
Lots Wife" of his product anc sent it as
an advertisement to the Cincinnati ex-
position.
AN octogenarian at Wrightsville, Pa, is
amusing himself in his old age writing the
Lords Prayer on card-boards the size of q
gold dollar
An iron steamship drawing fourteen feet
of water has made the passage between
London and Chicago, via the st. Lawrence,
the ship canals and the lakes.
THE oldest pupil now attending school in
the United States is past the age of sixty.
He is Crazy Head, o former chief of the
Crow Nation, and is enrolled as pupil at
the Carlisle Indian School
THE cabin in which John W. Mackay
lived while laborer in the mines has been
taken to San Francisco. It is built of shakes,
has one door and two windows, and is ten
by fourteen feet in dimensions.
SOMEBODY delving in the history of New
buryport, Mass, has found that lumber was
once sent across the Atlantic Ocean in the.
form of raft similar to that which recent
~ arrived in this point from Joggins.
A CoLoRED man living on the Harrison.
place, near Charlottesville, Va, recently
dug up large number of old silver pieces
in his cotton patch. Many of the coins were
of Spanish mintage, dating back to the be-
ginning Of the last century.
ONE of the curiosities found in Maine is a
pine tree near Hallowen that smokes A
column of vapor as large around as mans
arm arises from the very top of the tree and
extends several feet into the air. The phe-
nomenon is of periodical occurrence and no
one is able to explain it.
DURING this year Carl Schurz will be fifty
nine; Blaine, fifty-eight; Prof Haeckle,
ffty-four; Mark Twain, fifty-three; T. B.
Aldrich, fifty-two; Grover Cleveland, fifty
one; Bret Harte, forty-nine; Thomas Mast,
forty-eight; the Prince Of Wales, forty
seven, and Adelina Patti, forty-five.
THE survivors of the terrible Chatsworth
disaster, which resulted in the death Of over
eighty passengers on the Toledo, Peoria &
Western railway, have formed an organiza-
ton. with DR.. o. B. VIII president The
members propose to meet once a. year on
the anniversary of the accident if practical
ble and also to help any of the number who
need pecuniary aid.
AN :'oil WITCH" who can ''locate" oil wells
as the ordinary conjurer does those of
water, is reported from somewhere in Penn
sylvania, and it is said that near dozen
gushers are due to her magic powers. She
is a beautiful Swede, rich and well edu-
Gated, yet now and then turns pretty PEN
ny by the gift she can not explain any more
than her beholders.
ACCORDING to reports in the Philadelphia
papers the Adams Express Company is
about to introduce novel scheme into its
business in the various cities in the coun-
try All the horses belonging to the COM
pany are to be classified according to color,
something that may be done very readily
because of the great number of horses
owned by the company. All the white and
gray horses are to be kept in Philadelphia,
the roam horses are to be kept in New York,
and animals of other colors will be sent to
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