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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
POWER OF EXPLOSIVES.
The Relative Force and Volume of Ex.
plosive Substances.

plosive Substances.
M. Berthelot the French chemist,
has givcn methods of estimating the
explosive force of different materials.
His method is to calculate from the
chemical composition of the explosive
the volume of the gases produced by
the explosion and the quantity of heat
developed in the reaction. He con-
ceives that the product of these two
numbers gives, within certain range,
a measure of its explosive force. In
this manner he has calculated the ex-
plosive force of a number of WELL
known explosive compounds and MKT
ures.
The following table is transcribed
from his figures. The first column of
figures indicates the heat developed
by the combustion of one kilogramme
(2.2 pounds) of the explosive sub
stance. The second column indicates
the volume of the gases disengaged in
the combustion of the above-named
weight of the explosive, expressed in
liters q liter-1.76 pints); and the
third column is the product of these
two quantities, which, as Berthelot
believes, affords an approximate estl-
mate of the explosive power of the
substance under examinations:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
LITTLE SUNSHINE.

The Difference Between Mamie and
Susie-which Would You Wish to BE
Like?
We're going skating, Susie Barnes
and J." said Mamie as she walked
slowly through the house. '.But
don't know as want to go.''
why Mamie! On such beautiful
day." said her aunt. Il thought you
liked to go skating"
Yes, so ] do" said Mamie, "but
mamma says I've got to wear my old
shoes and they're such clumsy old
things can't bear to-
The whine in her voice became q
growl before she had finished speak
ing and somehow the growl seemed to
have something to do with her fore
head; for if was wrinkled before, it
was fairly tied up into a knot now.
Have you ever noticed how, when
little girls or boys get into bad tenn
per, the bad temper seems to 60 all
over them? The dancing feet move
sullenly, the dimpled hands are not
ready for doing little loving deeds for
any body. The light goes out of the
pretty bright eyes and the lips go
down at the corners, and the dimples
% dear! they surely go up into the
forehead. for you have seen how it
will be marked and scanned. I never
did like dimples in the forehead, did
your
And the little ripple of laugh is
gone, and what a whine and whimper
and growl have taken its place! Yes.
you can easily see that the whole boy
or girl is wrapped upin that ugly tenn
per.
What pity! thought Aunt Carrie,
as Mamie sulked and fretted. First
it was because of the shoes, but she
could not keep on all the time about
one pair of shoes. so she soon found
something else to grumble at.
Il wonder why Susie doesn't come.
I think it's too bad of her to keep me
waiting like this. We ought to have
been off half an hour ago. The best
part of the day is going.
There's hole in one of my nit
tens. - was the next complaint.
We'll. as you are waiting, it will be
a good time to mend it," said Aunt
Carrie. Here is a needle and some
yarn.
81 never did like to mend" said
Mamie.
There are a great many things in
the world harder than mending," said
Aunt Carrie. '.But they have to be
done, and it is so much nicer to do
them pleasantly, don't you think SOP"
eff could have fixed things they
shouldn't have been hard" said
Mamie.
She did not, however. refuse to take
the needle and thread which Aunt
Carrie offered her. But am afraid
the darn in her mitten must have
looked like the knot in her forehead.
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FRIENDLY HELP.

Good Humor's Visit to Cross Frankie, and
the Little Gentlemen Whom lie Intro
duced.
Once upon time there was a little
boy whose name was Frank. He was
good boy generally. and had plenty
of toys. such as nine-pins, blocks.
drums, boy doll. lovely horse, and
he liked to play with all those things
| and scatter them over the floor. which
his mamma allowed him to do all day,
until evening Then mamma said:
Now, frankie, pick up your toys and
put them in the drawer" But frankie,
being tired and little cross, would
say, with pout:
Il don't want to put them away.
Mamma, pick them up"
Well, one evening frankie was sit
ting on the carpet with his toys all
around him, when there was brisk
''rat-a-tat" at the door, and in walked
little man who said:
Good evening, Frank. Why. what
is the matterp You look so cross. I
see you don't know me to-day. My
name is Good Humor."
frankie said: Il don't want to
pick up all these things every even
ing"
Then Good Humor laughe and said:
swell, will have to introduce you to
two friends of mine. expect them
here every minute"
While he was yet speaking there
came .Tat-a-tat, tat at the door,
and in walked two little gentlemen.
One of them went to Frank and said:
Good evening" Frank; my name is
Cheerfulness. Allow me to introduce
you to my friend. Work. We have
called this evening to help you put
away all your toys in their proper
places for tonight Come, show us
the drawer
Here it is" said Good Humor, with
laugh.
So Frank went with Cheerfulness TO
work. and they piled up the toys on
Works back. and they put them away
in the drawer very carefully. Then
Good Humor shouted:
.Hurrah, hurrah!' and Cheerful
ness shook hands with Frank, and
Work said:
Good evening. lam going to bed;"
and they all went away and left Frank
laughing.
Dear little boys and girls. whenever
you feel cross or sulky, and don't
wish to obey your parents. call on
Good Humor and Cheerfulness, and
they will help you with your work. -
Brooklyn Times.
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Kentucky's "Gamey" Bishop.

A few years ago the Episcopal
diocese of Kentucky appeared to be
torn up with dissensions about High
and Low church views. The Bishop
unfortunately allowed his sympathies
to be drawn out to one of these
parties as against the other. and
thereafter, becoming disheartened
and discouraged, resigned the bishop
rio.
The present Bishop, when called to
the diocese, was determined to ignore
these discussions, and if possible to
harmonic his people, and bring
them into the broad, liberal views OF
The church.
For some time neither of the parties
was able to dis cover whether his SYM
pathies were with one or the other
party, until, an occasion presenting
itself in social circle, a lady with
the curiosity of the sex) said: bishop.
what are your viewsP We can not find
out. Are you High-Church or Low
church,"
Instantly the Bishop replied: mad
am. 1 ana High, Low. Jack and the
Came"
1t is needless to add there are no dis
sensions now. The Game has been
won; Jack is forgotten. High and
Low, rich and poor, are in harmony
under his ministry. -Harper's Maga-
zine.
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PSYCHOLOGY OF VOLITION.

why Fellow Likes to Lie Abed on a
Cold, Cherries Morning.
We all know what it is 10 get out of
bed on freezing morning in room
without fire, and how the very vital
principle within us protests against
The ordeal. Probably most of us have
lain on certain mornings for an hour
at tim Q unable to brace ourselves to
The ordeal We think how late we
shall be. how the duties of the day
will suffer; we says II must get up,
his is ignomlnious," ETC.; but still the
warm couch feels too delicious. the
cold outside too cruel, and resolution
faints away and postpones itself again
and again just as it seems on the
verge of bursting the resistance
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READING FOR THE YOUNG.
PULLING.

ssOh, what beautiful things found
Hanging almost down to the ground
From the roof of the little shedi
They all grew after went to bed.
Sparkling and sparkling in the light
just like diamonds. clear and bright.
Il pulled them down In shining heap
wanted all for my own TO keep.
/ carried them into the house to play,
And hid them carefully all away
In bureau drawer; for, OF. course, knew
That mamma would want to see them, too
Thought I'd give her a nice surprise,
And how She smile and open her eyesi
but when she looked there, after awhile,
She opened her eyes, but she didn't smile.
All her ribbons and lace we're wet
And spoiled-Q don't understand it yeti,
There wasn't a ruffle she could put on,
And all my beautiful things were gone"
Sydney Ddure, In Youths Companion.
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corporation. As an Jos. ii. Oathardtte.
instance, it directs the Attorney General
to bring suit at once to recover
Incorporated funds of the road, in.
stead of leaving it within his discretion.
The extension of the Indebtedness is for
fifty years. 1t is understood that separate
bills for each of the Pacific roads will be
eventually reported to the House by the
committee, it having been determined
that the roads shall be dealt with indi
vidually instead of collectively. Mr..
Cultivate reported the Union Pacific
bill to the House this afternoon. The
arguments submitted in the report lin IA.
vor of the adoption of the bill are SINH
lar to those made in the last Congress.
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STRONG-MINDED MEN.
Some of the Advantages of Thinking Well
of Oneself.

Some of the Advantages of Thinking Well
of Oneself.
Self-love is cup without a bottom.
Praise tends to egotism and generates
q craving for personalities. Think of
the letters one receives each day by
post. One-tenth part of the praise
would bring bushes if one were not a
.ceIe brity." A successful author $
life is not all a blaze of glory or bed
of rose leaves. In the first place, he
is supposed, of course, to BE- Million
aire. Does he not sell his books? A
wagon-load of solicitations, multi
tudinous subscriptions and reverend
ing piles of manuscripts come daily
to his door. Sometimes it IS the poor
poet that wants to be shown the way
called surly. He is public property.
He must attend celebrations. make
speeches, and in fact live in a glass
case for the edification of a general
public, whose property he is.
Il have great confidence in young
men who believe in themselves. When
brave fellow steps up to that great
Tile WOIitt, stutl tdhcS ulIH ny tuc
beard boldly, he is often surprised to
find how easily it comes off in his
hand. 1t is only put on to Brighten
timid Adventures away. l have seen
young men come to great city with
out friend and without money; have
seen them fight the great battle of life,
beating down every obstacle that stood
in their way. There are horse tamers.
women tanners, before whom the fair
sex bow down in silent worship-and
there are also world tanners, men who
can make the world bow down to tn cir
will. 49, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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hOuSt COllt btCC OiA
the Cultivate bill,
providing for a re-
funding of the Pa
cific's Indebtedness
to the Government.
The bill is amended
by striking out all
roads except the
Union Pacific and its
bond-aided divisions.
The bill is also modi-
fed by restrictions
which make it more
in dealing with the
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COMPLICATIONS
Growing Out of the "Q' Strike in It
Effect on Other Roads.

Growing Out of the so" Strike in It
Effect Oh Other Roads.
CHICAGO, March 7.-Chief Sargent said
at noon: "For our own part we want
to confine this trouble to the Burlington,
and we are not anxious to tie up the other
roads, but the power rests in the hands of
the men of the various roads themselves,
and as they are of the opinion that they
can help US in their own way, there is
no telling what may happen" 1t is I'M
derstood this morning that none of
the roads upon which a demand
was made by the 80" to handle their
freight have responded favora bly,, while
the Wabash and the st. Paul have de
clined outright. The SO" of course has
its remedy in court of law, but the sit
uation is evidently giving it's officials no
little uneasiness. Official report received
at the 20" office to- day showed that 101
freight and AZ passenger trains were
running on the Iowa division yes terday
and nearly 200 on the Illinois division.
eve would rather have lawsuit than
a strike," said General Agent w. S. H ine-
lin of the Minnesota & Northwestern
road (now the Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas
City,, "but if any formal request has been
made it probably went to the general
manager at st. Paul"
81 don't know whether the Wabash re-
fuses to take our freight or not, 'hurriedly
said Paul Morton, of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy general offices. 81 don't
know what the policy of the road will be
unless it will be that we propose to stand
by our rights both as regards our en-
pIoyes and other railroads. We have
won the fight with our employees and we
are sure to win the other. The law COM
pels other roads to carry our freight
when we deliver the cars on their tracks"
The position of the other roads is de-
cidedly more uncomfortable than that of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. They
are between the devil and the
deep sea. The devil may fifty
stand for the strike of the engineers,
which will in all probability result if they
undertake to handle the freight of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the
deep sea is the chilling prospect of ex-
tensive lawsuits for damages begun by
the 20" and carried to a successful ter
mination, and big stacks of money to be
paid over Whether the other roads are
willing to incur the anger of their men
and take chances on the lawsuits, or
whether they choose the other horn of the
dilemma, the situation is extremely I'M
comfortable.
The Cultivate Pacific Railroad Refund
ing Bill Reported Favorably.
WASHINGTON, March IA unanimous
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THE presence Of the sportive

The presence Of the sportive goats,
says the Pine Bluff Commercial, at their
old haunts on the veranda of the COURT
house, after having writ of custer
applied to them. renders it proper to
say that the scene is decidedly rural,
and that the only thing lacking now to
make the city look like plantation is
to turn loose the hogs, who have been
so long sequestered and discrimin ated
against by an unfeeling City Council
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DYNAMITE AIR-GUN.
The Wonderful Accuracy of This Move
Instrument of War.

The Wonderful Accuracy of This Novel
Instrument of War.
While the possibilities of firing from
ordinary cannon projectiles contain
ing very small amounts of dynamite
have been revived in public interest
by the recent experiments at Sandy
Hook, board of naval officers, APP
pointed by Secretary Whitney to ex-
anime and report upon the pneumatic
gun to be used in the new cruiser, has
given very encouraging account of
that invention.
The first element they note in this
novel device is its accuracy. This is
the result of the perfection to which
the inventors have brought the con-
troll of compressed air at high press
ures. so that they are able to very
slightly increase or diminish the range
of shot, OF even to exactly duplicate
it.
Then, as to the amount of dynamite,
it is certain that the stipulated guam
tity of two hundred pounds can be
fired with perfect Esafety, and that the
possibilities in this respect seem TO be
only limited by the size of the gun
constructed.
Another very important matter is
the cheapness with which the gun can
be built as compared with ordinary
weapons of an equal caliber 1t can
also be constructed with great rapid
ity, whereas a powder gun may re-
quire years for completion.
AS to range, it is thought that two
miles can be counted upon, although
the board has witnessed experiments
at only about mile. Still it is wise
ly con cluded that before taking fur
Their steps with this new device, the
results of actual trials of the new
cruiser should be awaited. ~ 7. Sun
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They have morality of their
own over in Canada. The running
OF street cars is not permitted on
Sunday, but the bank-thieves from
the States are welcomed in the best
society. and there are no scruples
against getting hold of as much of
their stolen money as possible.
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A tortoise with the inscrintion

"A tortoise with the inscription.
n Deibert Ill.," was found in
Schuylkill County. Pennsylvania The
name proved to be that of a man who
owned and cleared the land in the
vicinity in the early colonial times.
On the shell of the tortoise were signs
OF great age, part of the lettering be.
ing almost obliterated
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The Outhwaite Pacific Railroad Refund
ing Bill Reported Favorably.
WASHINGTON, March IA unanimous
epo TT w as this morning agreed to by the
Hnnsa cnmmifta on Pacific railroads ON
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Sheffield Cutlery Made by Hand.

The Sheffield cutlery-one of the
glories of England-is not made by ma
chinery; it is chiefly made by hand.
There are at Sheffield few firms which
manufacture cutlery right through from
the making of steel to the finishing OF
tools, and employ wage workers, and yet
even these frms-I am tod by my friend,
E. Carpenter, who kindly gathered for
me information about the Sheffield trade
let out some part of the work to the
'small masters" But by far the greatest
number of the cutters work in their
homes, with their relatives, or IN small
workshops supplied with wheel. power,
which they rent for q few shillings o
week. Immense yards are covered with
buildings, which are sub-divided into
series of small workshops. Some of them
cover only few square yards, and there
I saw smiths hammering, all the day
lony, blades of knives on small anvil,
close by the blaze of their fires. Oc-
casionally the smith may have one help
or two. In the upper stories scores OF
small workshops are supplied with wheel
power, and in each of them three, four
or five workers and a master" fabricate,
with the occasional aid of lew plain
machines, every description OF tools
files, saws, blades of knives, razors and
so on. Grinding and glazing are done
in other small workshops, and even steel
is cast in small foundry, the working
staff of which consists only of five or six
men. When walking through these work
shops 1 easily imagined myself in q
liussian cutlery village, like Pavlovo or
Yorsma. The Sheffield cutlery has thus
maintained its olden organization, and
the fact is the more remarkable as the
earnings of the cutters are very low as a
rule; but even when reduced to few
shillings a week, the cutler prefers to
vegetate On his small earnings than to 90
as a wagcd laborer in "house." The
spirit Of the old trade organizations,
which were so much spoken OF tive-and-
twenty years ago, is thus still alive
Nin.ic. NH Cen ury.
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Japanese Home Life.

The home life of the Japanese is such
that fires can hardly be avoided. Instead
of using matches for Lighting their cigars,
they have little bowls of charcoal called
hbachis, aud these arc kept on the noor,
which is usually covered with straw mat
ting. The kitchen stove is merely q
stone box, and the partitions of the
houses are of thin paper or OF boards,
which will spring into flame at touch.
There is no such thing as gas in the or
dinary Japanese house, and the candle
and the coal-oil lamp are the iIluminat-
ing powers. The lanterns are the or
dinary paper lanterns, which you see at
American lawn fetes. or square boxes of
oiled paper stretched over q wooden
Frame in which lamp or candle burns.
The lamps and lanterns are placed on
the floor, and about them the children
play and the family sprawl. It's won
der indeed, that there are not more hires,
and when it is remembered that there IS
not O chimney on any Of the houses OF
Japan, and that the fuel of the country
is to o large extent charcoal. the danger
from fire is appreciated. The ordinary
Japanese smokes q pipe, and the fact
that h pipe must be retilled about two
times minute adds to the danger of
fire. The bowl OF Japanese pipe IS not
bigger than the bottom OF a thimble. 1t
hold, about two putfs of smoke, and 1t
is usually made of brass or metal
Courier Journal.
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Pedal AdaptabiIity.

The Eskimo dog has the snow-shoe
foot, the water dog the paddle foot,
while the greyhound, for example, has
foot formed on the model best adapted
to speed, that is to say, it is small, light
and hard. But this modification OF a
foot to suit land, water or snow is too
common an occurrence to cause the sur
prise it otherwise would, although there
happens now and then failure to adapt
which serves to emphasize the fact-as
in the case of the deer, which, instead
of being so modified that it can bear it.
self up US if on suowshoes, is obliged to
let skill step in where modification falls
to come. When the snow is soft It sinks
helplessIy in and founders about as
clumsily as any other animal less used to
the fcathcry material; but when there is
crust on the snow, rs there generally Is
in the northern regions, even though
that crust would sink under the same
weight of horse flesh, the deer knows
how to glide over it in safety. How
much of an art this is can be best ap.
preciated by watching how the Light
looted cat will come to grief on the
glistening surface of crusted snow. In
spite of its sharp claws it will slip TINS
way and that, and finally break through,
where five times the weight OF reindeer
or moose flesh would have SKINNED
along with ease, speed and safety
Scientific 17neri uR
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Where the Nations Wards Dwell.

The Indian reservations IN the Unlted
States are the Manak and Gulnallt, the
Columbia, the Colville and lakama, IN
Washington Territory; the siieltz,
Warm :pring, matilda and klamath, in
Oregon; the ,.ouud Valley, lloopa Val
lev, Yule River and Mission, in Califor-
mia; the Hualpai, Colorado, Yuma Nil,
Pima and 1Iaricopa, Papago, Whlte
Mountain, Mo .ui and AaValee, IN
Arizona The Jicarillo, iunl and Mes ,
calero, in New Mexico. The Cnitah and
In ON aghie tie, in Ctah. The
walker river, Duck Val and Pyramid
reservations, in Nevada. The shos-
honee in Wyoming. The Crur d'Alene,
Nez Pcrces, Fort Hill and Lemrl, in
Idaho. The Crow and FlAhcad, in
Montana. The Gros Nentre and Mandan,
Fort Totten, Turtle Mountain, S;sscton,
Yunkton and Sioux, in Dakota. The
Winncbago and Nicbrara in Nebraska.
The Chey ennes and Arrapahoes, Creek,
Cherokee, Choctaw and Ch;ckasaw
reservation in Indian Territory. The
Fed Lake, White Earth, Chippewa and
Fou du Lac in Minnesota, aud the La
Point, Menominee and Oneida Indian
reservations in Wisconsin.
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PARTING.

Cane let US shake hands and say goodbye!
There is no need to cry;
An the old wounds are healed; these are but
scars.
Lat the meridians rise like iron bars
Twixt the freed captive and his prison cell
Iaat he had almost learned to love too well.
Twill give his freedom zest:
Ito the east will go, ifyou go west!
Through various scenes, in storm and sunny
weather,
We've been together:
Irs now we are to part, and these thing:
seem
Tbe fragments of dream
Which comes at dawn, vivid and warm, and
still,
Setting the passionate pulses all athrll
Such dreams the senses safe;
ZsS Is awake before it is too late!
We lored, or thought we loved. IT'S all the
same
There's nobody to blame;
Sm wasted tears but briny water were,
Oar sight but empty air
An was idle as twice.told tale,
And words of ours or mine cannot avail,
Or restitution make.
ispas--it is-'twill still I've mistake.
Clara d. Mdciean.