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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
FACTS ABOUT WATER.
How 1t hIingies with Bodies Apparent
the Most Solid.

TOW 1t NingIes with Bodies Apparently
the Most Solid.
The extent to which water mingles
with bodies apparently the most solid
is very wonderful. The glittering
opal, which beauty wears as an orna-
ment. is only flint and water Of every
twelve hundred tons of earth which a
landholder has in his estate, four hun
dred are water. The snow-capped
SUBMITS of Snowden and Ben Nevis
have many million tons of water in a
solidifed form. In every plaster-of-
Paris statue which an Italian carries
through our streets for sale, there is
one pound of water to every four
pounds of chalk.
The air we breathe contains five
grains of water to each cubic foot of
it's bulk. The potatoes and the turnips
which are boiled for our dinner have,
in their raw state. the one seventy
Eve per cent. the other ninety per cent.
of water. A man is, chemically speak
ing. about forty-five pounds of carbon
and nitrogen, diffused through five and
a half pailfuls of water.
In plants we find water thus ming
ling no less wonderfully. A sun
flower evaporates one and a quarter
pints of water a day, and q cabbage
about the same quantity. A wheat
plant exhales, in hundred and seven
ty-two days, about one hundred thou
sand grains of water. An acre of
growing wheat, on this calculation,
draws and passes out about ten tons of
water per day. The sap of plants is
the medium through which this mass
of fluid is conveyed 1t forms a deli
cate pump, up which the watery
particles run with the rapidity of a
swift stream. By the action of the
sap, various properties may be COM
municated to the growing plant.
Timber in France is, for instance, dyed
by various colors being mixed with
water which is poured over the root of
the tree. Dahlias are also colored by
a similar process.-N. T. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
THE MESSAGE.
President Cleveland's Final Reg
ular Message to Congress.
"A Review of the Condition OF Affairs ~
they Exist with Suggested REM
odies-The People the Gov.
erument's First Care.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-After the prelim
mary proceedings in Congress to-day the
Presidents annual message was received
and read, in substance as follows:
To TIE CpNGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
As you assemble for the discharge of the du-
ties you have assumed as the representatives
of a free and generous people, your meeting is
marked by an interesting AID impressive incl
dent. With the expiration of the present ses-
sion of the Congress the first century of our
constitutional existence Nation will be
completed. Our survival for one hundred years
is not sufficient to assure US that we no longer
have dangers to fear in the maintenance, with
all its promised blessings, of q government
founded upon the freedom of the people. The
time rather admonshes us to soberly inquire
Whether in the past we have always closely
kept in the course of safety and whether we
have before us way plain and clear which
leads to happiness and perpetuity. When the ex-
pertinent OF our Government was undertaken
the chart adopted for our guidance was the
Constitution Departure from the lines there
laid down is failure. 1t is only by
strict adherence TO the direction they indicate
and by restraint within the lmi at ons they
fix that We can furnish proof to the world OF
the Amer can peoples fitness for self-govern-
ment. The equal and exact justice of which
we boast as the underlying principle of our in
situations should not be confined to the rela-
tons OF our citizens to each other. The Govern
ment itself is under bond to the American peo-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
THE MORPHINE HABIT.

How to Stop the Growth of This Terrible
Feminine Vice.
A physician of this city states in an
interview that the opium habit is grow
ing to alarming proportions in this city
not the use of the raw article, but its
consumption in more agreeable forms,
such as morphine pills, injections, etc.
He AYERS that it is no uncommon thing
for family physicians to find many pa
tients slaves to the habit, and their
arms and sometimes entire bodies COW
cred with scars made by the injections.
When their physicians discover the
result and forbid the future use of the
drug he says they not infrequently
change doctors and lie in order to OBJ
tain medical permission to continue
their course. 1t is not unusual,
according to him, for them to
go to strange physician and
represent themselves as from
the country and in sore need of relief
by means of opium in some form.
Under these circumstances, the relator
says, he always insists on seeing their
arms. In nine Of such cases out of ten
he finds evidences of hypodermic in
jections, and refuses THEW requests.
He claims that the habit is taking such
hold upon the people that it can only
be checked by the combined efforts Of
physicians and legislators, and that
unless it is firmly taken in hand it will
work as much ruin as does liquor.
r. lnat 4
dicted to this debasing habit than men,
for several reasons. To start with,
men have other stimulants, such as
liquor and tobacco, and again women
can obtain morphine more secretly than
they can liquor, and consume it without
showing so much of its effects. There
is no need here to, dilate upon the hor-
ror which this wretched practice brings
upon it's victims. Nothing which sci
ence or ingenuity has discovered to the
world reacts SO. terribly upon those
who abuse this creature brought into
the world for the alienation of mans
ills. If one 1.-THE Of what the physician
lost by his fellows in cooperating to-
prevent the prescription of the drug
save in cases of the utmost neces-
sity. When the Legislature meets
there should be memorial presented
to that body asking for legislation of
the strictest sort, which shall punish
with severity any druggist who sells
opium in any of Its, forms without a
prescription from physician OF repu-
table standing, or any doctor who shall
prescribe the drug save to encompass
the saving of life Or the alleviation of
the direst Chicago Mail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
WALTER SCOTS WIFE.
A Good Woman Not Altogether Devoid OF
Spirit and Self-C0ntrol.

A Good Woman Not Altogether Devoid Oh
Spirit and Self-Control.
One Sunday young Walter Scott Of
fered his umbrella to young Lady OF
much beauty, who was coming out OF
church during shower. The UNI
brella was graciously accepted, and
Scott fell in love with the narrower,
who turned out to be Margaret, dangh-
ter of Sir John Belches. His. atten-
tons to the lady continued for about
six years, when she married banker,
who proved to be one of SCOTS most
generous friends when his time OF
troubles came. The story of this, his
first and only deep passion, is recorded
in the diary that Scott kept in 1927.
from which it would seem that there
may have been some mlsunderstand-
ing between the young people.
Probably it was pride which led him
to engage himself, within a year, to
Mademoiselle Charpentier, or Miss
Carpenter, as she was usually called,
the daughter of French Royalist, who
had died early in the revolution. She
made, ON the whole u very good wife,
only one to be protected by Scott from
every care, and not one to share his
deeper anxieties, or to participate in
his dreams. Yet Mrs. Scott was not
devoid of spirit and self-control. For
instance, when Jeffrey, having re-
viewed ..Marmion' in the Edinburgh Re-
yie,D in that depreciating and omnisci-
emit tone which was then considered the
evidence of critical acumen, dined with
Scott on the very day on which the re-
view had appeared, Lady, then Mrs.
Scott, behaved to him through thewholo
evening with the greatest politeness.
but fred this parting shot in her broken
English as he took his leave: We'll.
goodnight, Mr. Jeffrey-dey tell me
you have abused Scott in de ReUieac.
and hope Mr.. Constable has paid YOU
very well for writing it."
Though Lady SCOTS character was
not very deep one, she had kind
and true heart. Ten days before her
death, Scott entered in his diary:
Still welcoming me with a smile, and
asserting she is better. In her last
illness she would always reproach her
husband and children for their melan-
choly faces, even when that melancholy
was, as she well knew, due to the APP
preaching shadow of her own DEATH -
Casselps Family Magazise.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
THE GiGGLING GiRI..
why She Is Looked Upon ImbeciIe' by
the Average Mortal.


why She Is Looked Upon as ImbeciIe' by
the Average Mortal.
From boys in their boobyhood. and
girls in their gigglehood, may the fates,
protect us. A laugh is laugh the
world over. 1t is a spasmodic. soul
sneeze, and as contagious as measles.
Whether it is the laugh of joyous youth
or cackling age it delights or amuses.
But giggle is worse than the parabled
thorns under pot. 1t is the echo OF
emptiness. AS a rule men do not gig
gle. They would be worse, than a. St.
Bartholomew massacre If they did.
It is the American girl who giggles,
the ubiquitous American girl who
defes all known laws, goes where. she
will, does what she pleases and is a law
unto herself. OF course she is irresist-
IDLE and loving, and some day makes
grand, good woman. She would not
be the American girl otherwise. But
she giggles and protests, protests and
giggles. If she were the trained prod
uct of a young ladies' seminary, we
should say her giggles were a hysteria
of the Imagination. But she is not a
trained product of any school. She
was petted and spoiled child; she is
a petted and spoiled young woman.
She giggles from habit No one has
ever undertaken to suppress her. SO she
goes on giggling. Here is a fair sam
pie of the conversation Of q group OF
the American girls:
.'Oh, girls, you just ought TO have
been at Mrs. Stevens party. George
Smith and Harry Jones were there,
and-oh, te-he-hes"
"Oh, te-he-te-he-he-he oh. he-he-he. -
II wore my pink silk and spilled
coffee on the front breadth-te-he.
TIE he-he-te-he-he-ho careless
te-he-he-he-he."
@sNellie Brown couldn't go because
she is wearing black for her.
..Oh te-he-he-how sad 'pon Nellie
-he-really-te-he."
did yon hear Kate White was en-
gagged to John SimpkinsP You know
girls it is leap year-te-he-he!'s
s.Yes-te-he-te-he- he-so funny oh
--te-he-he-he-he-h
What do you chew. Susfee Tutti
frutti or spruceY like Rubber gum
best-te-he. !"
$50 do /; te-he-he-he--te-he.
Perhaps this is the language that was
invented to conceal thought. Girls,
don't giggle. Throw back your heads,
expand your pretty throats and laugh
till the welkin rings. 1t will do you
good and make oil who hear you
happy.
Laugh. and the world will laugh
with you"
Giggle, and It won't give you credit
Tor the sense you have. - Detroit Frss
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13

eggs in it. This section represented
1-131, 072 of the total number. and
three sections were laboriously count
ed under the microscope. One Of the
sections contained sixty eggs,
making total 8.9I7, 1896 eggs. The
second held seventy-seven eggs. or TO-
O92,5 in the whole. The third sec-
ton consisted Of seventy one, from
which it would appear that there were
9,3O6, liz eggs in the eel. Taking the
last as the medium number. Mr.. Math-
er figures, in round numbers, that that
six-pound eel contained 5000. 600 eggs.
There have been many theories
about the reproduction of the eel,
some of them being wildly absurd,
such as their being Matched by fresh
water musse1s, or that the lamprey
was the female and the so-called silver
eel. the male, etc. The fact is that
the lamprey, miscalled camper eel,
is form of life lower than that of the
true fishes to which the eel belongs,
and it is vertebrate with cartila-
genous skeleton instead of bony one,
has its skull imperfectly developed,
and has no lower jaw. Specifically
it appears like an eel, but is not nearly
related to it. MIR. Mather has done a
service with his microscope in COM
putting the eggs in a fish about whose
breeding habits the majority of fisher
men are in doubt.-N 7. San.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13

In pursuance of a constitutional provision
requiring the President from time to time
to give to the Congress Information of the
state of the Union, have the satisfaction to
announce that the close OF the year finds the
tranquility and at peace with all the nations.
Since my last annual message our foreign rela-
lions have been strengthened and improved by
by new and renewed treaties of amity, COM
merce, and reciprocal extraditon OF GRIM
inals Those international questions which still
await settlement are all reasonably within the
domain OF amicable negotiation, and there is no
existing subject Of dispute between the United
ceptible of satisfactory adjustment by frank
Diplomatic treatment The questions between
Great Britain and the United States relating to
the rights of American fishermen under treaty
and International comfy in the territorial
waters of Canada and Newfoundland, regret
20 saw, are not yet satisfactorily adjusted.
These matters were fully treated in my mes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
LOVE AND RuTABAGAS.

Parted at the Threshold; or, The Pras-
pectiye Mother-In-Law At Work.
How can / bear to leave thee?'r
whispered Reginald. as he stood in the
semi-darkness of the hallway, while
Mabel's nut-brown curls nestled close
| against his chest protector.
Twas a critical moment The night
stick of the policeman fell with dull
| and sickening thud on the sidewalk
half block away, and the love plant
of a sad-eyed cat on the back fence
| broke the dreamy quiet of the night.
But these sounds fell upon unheeding
ears. These two ardent souls were
| aware that the parting hour was at
hand. Soon, oh, cruel fate, Mabel
knew that the front door must ope and
close, and for brief space the echo of
footsteps would linger on the air and
then-oh, misery! he would be gone
and nothing remain but the memory of
his loving words and the scent of his
cigarette-laden breath. And SO she
clasped him close with her frail
hands and twined the end of
his long, newly-waxed mustache
around the index finger of her right
hand. Then, with the heroism of des-
peration, she tore herself from his
manly and well-developed arms, and,
while her egg-like chin quivered and
the glorious light of her hazel eyes
was drowned in tears, she stammered:
s'Why must you leave me, darling?
It's only 1880. Mamma has gone to
bed, and listen, love, papa's breathing
can be distinctly heard!"
Reg listened with his hand over his
heart to stay it's wild beating, and
peculiar sound like the grating of
horseradish or the filing of a saw fell
upon his ardent ear. Twas true. His
prospective father-in-law had invaded
the delectable land of Nod at least
mile, and the hope of another half
hour on a tete-a-tete awakened a burn
ing ardor in his love-stricken heart.
but then, oh baleful fate! he remem-
bered that Farmer Jones was to deliver
forty barrels of rutabaga turnips at
the grocery at five o'clock in the
morning, and that he would have to
be there to stow them safe away in the
cellar of the grocery.
While this hideous rutabaga specter
confronted him Reg was feeling in his
vest pocket to see if he had lucifer
match with which to ignite the half
burned cigar which he had left snugly
stored away in corner of the brown
stone steps when he came in. While love
and delight called him one way, and
duty and rutabagas the other, there
was rustic of trailing garments at
the head of the stairway, and a. femi-
nine voice, in strident whisper, said:
''Mabel!'
Eyes, ma"
s'Has Mrs. Westinghouse little boy
gone home yet?"
The front door opened and closed
with bang. In his rage and mortifi-
cation Reg forgot his cigar. As he
disappeared around the corner he
Kissed between his clenched teeth:
by thunder, the old lady has got
me dead to rights!''
The rutabagas were safely housed
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
PiTH AND POINT.

1
1t is easy for the poor man TO sdla
how every dollar Of the rich mans
money should be expended sfsi'sgs.
If you do not censuro till you have
heard both sides, you will have much
! less to regret, and your opinion will
be worth more.
Poetry is music in words, and
music is poetry in sound; both excel
emit sauce, but they have lived and died
poor that made them their meat -
Fuller.
The hospitality of some people
has no roof to it. Ten people viii give
you dinner for one who will offer You
a bed and breakfast George Mac
Donald.
Events are often like chestnut
burrs- If you give them little frost,
the burrs will open and show the IN
side to be great deal better than the
outside--Beech
"A man who requires two columns
of newspaper in which to decline
prospective nomination to Office will
evidently not refuse to listen to argu-
ment. - Indianapolis Journal.
Such is the infatuation of self-love,
that, though in the general doctrine OF
the vanity Of the world all men agree,
yet almost every one flatters himself
that his own case is to be an exception
from the common rule.-Bidir.
A flippant. frivolous man may rid
10 9TH than
scorn them; but he who has any re-
spect for himself seems to have re-
nounced the right of thinking meanly
of others. Goethe.
Great names frequently look very
much out of place. John Milton was
arrested in New York the other day
for stealing cigars; a Pittsburgh man
named Schiller is up for vagrancy
about once week. while Michael An
gelo sells peanuts in Detroit.
The only great combination We
can confidently approve is the Matri-
monial Trust, an arrangement by
which the good wife trusts to the hus-
band the work of earning money, and
he trusts to her good Judgment in ex-
pending it Western PlosDman-
Many men can easily become
prophets as to the curses that will fall
upon the heads of others for their sins,
while they seem almost totally blind
as to what will be the end of their own
sins. Somehow they do not reason in
regard to themselves as they do in re-
spect to others. Here deceived heart
hath turned them aside.-N@ y. Iastle-
pendent.
An editor, who does not mind a
joke at his own expense. says he went
into drug store recently and asked
for some morphine. The assistant OBJ
jected to giving it without prescrip-
tion. why" asked, the editor, 'do
look like a man who would kill him.
self?" II don't know" said the as
sistant; .'if looked like you should
be tempted. IN Y. Mercury.
Small talk is the small change Of
life; there is no getting on without it..
There are times when little nonsense
is very palatable, and gravity and Sc
dateness ought to be kicked down
stairs. A philosopher cuts u poor
figure in the ballroom, unless he
leaves his wisdom at home. We have
met with men who were too, lofty for
small talk. They were above such,
trifing; in other words, they were
above making themselves agrceable,
above pleasing, and above being
pleased. The world is. made, up of
trifes; and he who can tride elegantly
and gracefully is valuable acquisition
to mankind. lie is a Corinthian col
umn in the fabric of society.-M Y.
Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
A youth of La Grange. Ca. asset

A youth of La Grange, Ga, assem-
bled his friends in the parlor of a no.
tel few nights ago to witness his mar
riage to young lady who was to run
away from her parents for the pur-
pose. But at the appointed time it
was discovered that the girl had
proved disloyal and skipped off with
another fellow. The chop-fallen lover
went home and put a mustard plastes
on the back of his head.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13

the general laws on this subject
THE NAVY.
The reconstruction of the navy is being
push forward rapidly. The Charleston, Bal
timore Yorktown. Vesuvius and Petrol are in
the water AMI rapidly approaching COMPLETION
The Philadelphia. San Francisco, Newark,
pedo boat are under contract. Eleven vessels
in at will be incorporated in the American
navy within the next twelve months.
Notwithstanding the large expenditures for
new construction and the additional labor they
involve, the total ordinary or current expendi-
ture of the department for the three years,
ending June 81, 1885, are less by more than
the three years, ending June 80. 1884.
THE POSTAL sERy CE.
The number OF post-ofhces on July /, 1885,
was 1896 an increase of 6.1I in three years
and OF 2.2i9 for the last fiscal year. The latter
mentioned increase is classified as follows:
New England States, 5; Middle States, Isl;
Southern States and Indian Territory al,
coast. 100: the ten States and Territories of
the West and Northwest, 435: District of
Columbia, 2: total. asle Fhe railway mail
and free delivery service and money-order
service have developed; SO has the foreign SER
vice.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Though prior to March. 1885, there had been
but SIX convictions IN the Territories of Utah
and Idaho, under the laws of 1862 and 1882, pun
ishing polygamy and unlawful cohabitation as
SIX hundred convictions under these laws and
the statutes of 1897 and the opinion is expressed
that under such q firm ana Vfg1lant execution
of these laws and the advance of ideas opposed
to the forbidden practices, poiygamy within the
United States is virtually at an end.
PUBLIC LANDS.
81 can not too strenuousfy insist on the I'M
portance Of proper measures to insure right
disposition of our public lands" the President
says mot only as matter Of present justice,
but in forecast OF the consequences TO future
generations. The broad, rich acres OF
our agricultural plains have been long
preserved by nature to become her I'M
trammeled gift to q people civilized ana
tree, upon which should rest, In well-distribut-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
A Young man in Hartford thong

"A young man in Hartford thought
he would astonish his sweetheart with
a display of erudition, and so he wrote
her loving proposal in Volapuk. And
the next day he was arrested and
hauled up before the United States
Commissioner, charged with sending
threatening, profane and blasphemous
letters through the mail.-Broo6Syn
EU01e
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13

A cucumber six feet long was re-
Gently grown in Nebraska
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-07
oFFIcERs ELECTED.
Tho Chlclknsaw and Memphis Lodges
x. OFF, Hold Important Meetings.

Tho Chicknsaw and Memphis Lodgss.
x. OFF. Hold Important Meetings.
At q meeting Of Memphis Lodge No. O,
Knights Of Pylhias, held Wednesday
night the following officers were elected
10 serve Tor tlio ensuing term: George T.
Webster, G. G.; j. H. Johnston, V. c.;
J. II. stackhouso, prclaic; l. G. Cullen.
der, NJ. Of Exchcquer Henry Brown, NJ.
OF Finance; T.. L. Moore, X. u. and 81;
II. Dreyius. NJ. Of Arms; Fred q. Web
stcr, Representative. John V. Savage,
Alternate: J. II. Wright, trustee.
Chickasaw Lodge No. ~, Knights 81
pythias, held a meeting the same night
and elected the following officers w. II.
DRYDEN, g. q Robert Elliott, V. G.; 4. ID.
wilson, NJ. h.; john Elliott, NJ. T.; $.
whilcomb, X. r. s.; Charles iIin, T.; y.
NJ Miller. NJ. a. George o. ilaycr, o. e.;
James Jollisani, /. g.; $. 4. Pool, w. 4.
Miller and Robert Elliott, Trustees; :. A
Pool, Grand Lodge Representatives q. w
| Tomlin, Alternate.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-07

The enrolment and attendance OF pu-
pills in the public schools OF this city is
steadily increasing, and corrcspondingly
the cost OF maintaining them becomes
greater each year. The necessity for
maintaining the present rate OF taxation
for our schools isupparent, notwithstand-
ing the increase OF assessment in the value
of property.
In view OF tho situation, We request that
in preparing the budget OF taxation for the
city for the ensuing two years, you will
recommend TO the legislature OF the State
a levy ior the city schools the same as last
year, that is TO say 10 cents Tor general
purposes and 10 cents for buildings.
All Of which is respectfully submitted.
rB0AgD on EDUCATION.
by Il, ID. JoRpAN. President.