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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
Heavy Losses by Fire.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24.-The losses and
assurances by last nights fire are es-
timated as follows: Marks Bros, loss
$3.50, 0G0 to 800. 900. They can not tell the
amount of insurance on account OF the
policies being locked in the safe which is
buried in the ruins. Shoneman Bros,
loss, S107, 900; Insurance, $50. Strouse,
Thanhauser & Co., millinery, loss $3.50,
600, upon which there is an insurance OF
about two-thirds. F. 6 L. Baxter, flowers
and feathers, loss, $I5, 1000; insurance not
vet known. w. C. Young, stained glass,
loss, $1,000; fully insured. Mrs. T. Rod
ergo. wax flowers, loss, $1,000; insurance
not given. The fancy leather goods store
and mandatory of Gallagher, Casey &
Co. No. III Arch street, was partly de-
stroyed, and the loss on stock will be
heavy, but the insurance is said to be
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Criminal Carelessness of n Butcher.

CHESTER, Pa, Jan. 24.-George L. Horn
ing, a butcher at Second and Parker
streets, filed a pan of scrapple with
Trough on Rats " on Saturday, and
placed 1T in the ice-box for the benefit of
the rats infesting his place. He forgot to
tell his men of 1t, and one OF them, New
ell Carr, took the scrapple along with him
on his regular rounds. Yesterday dozen
people who had eaten of the poisoned
meat were pros trated, and several of them
were at on. time thought to be beyond re-
covery. Among them were Chief of Po-
lice Newsome and family and Mrs. james
Ross and four children. The. victims
thanks to the prompt use of emetics, are
now all ON the road to recovery.
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people cite from "The Merchant of
Venice" 1.-The man that hath no music
in his SOUL" where the text has lin
himself"
1t is curious to note that certain
verses, very familiar to us in their
present shape, are plagiarisms-or al
lowabie borrowings. if you please
from older authors. The modification
of the original has sometimes been an
improve mont, sometimes not but in
either case the newer form has sup
planted the old. The modern author
gets that possession of the poetical
properly which is nine points of the
law. as Campbell has done with the
we'll known line, Like angels visits.
few and far between. This is tauto-
logical, for if the visits are far be-
tween, it is needless to say they are
few. John Norris. who in the latter
half of the seventeeth century. COM
pared the Joys most exquisite and
strong" which soon took their light
to "angers visits. short and brigh,"
may never have written any thing
CIoC vi Vic so III ScCIlS
rather cruel that he should lose the
credit of his happiest thought. Later,
Robert 81 air helped himself to Nor
ris' verse. altering "bright' to 'far
between 1t is probable. therefore,
that Campbell conveyed" from Blair
rather than from the original
writer. In like manner Pope
made himself free with Dry
denis verse. ':From grave to light,
from pleasant to severe" changing
light into ''gay" and pleasant"
into "lively;' and with Prior's Fine
by degrees and beautifully less" in
this instance altering the sense as we'll
as the words. But '.fine by defect and
delicately weak is an unmistakable
imitation of Prior. No doubt the same
thought may occur to more than one
man. and since human experience re-
peats itself reflections on life are like
ly to resemble each other. Gray
wrote: where ignorance is bliss It's
folly TO be wise" Prior, before him.
made the proposition universal one
when he asserted that "from ignorance
our comfort flows, the only wretched
are the WISE" and centuries before
Prior a nameless jew had set it down
in his book that ''he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth Sorrow
atlantic Montbty
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A MONSTER BRIDGE.
The Startling Proposition Made by a
Noted New York Engineer.

The Startling Proposition Made by q
Noted New York Engineer.
At a meeting of the American So
clety of Civil Engineers Prof Gustav
Lindenthal read an exhaustive paper
on 1.-The North River Bridge Prob
lem" 1t outlined q gigantic scheme
for constructing a suspension bridge
across the Hudson at a point between
Fourteenth and Twenty eighth streets,
for the purpose of bringing all of the
great railroad lines into this city. The
plan of the bridge consisted of two
wrought iron towers on sunken
stone piers, at equal distances
from either shore, with three
suspension spans. the middle one being
1850 feet long. The largest single
span ever designed up to the present
day is that belonging to a bridge now
being constructed in Scotland It's
length is LOO feet. The professor
argued that the great width Of the
river had made engineers rather favor
a tunnel than a bridge, owing to the
many difficulties involved in tho con.
struction of tho latter Still. a bridge
WIN clA tluthSp "AiCL2 "ooA<A lSC1hi-
modate all of the railroads desiring
10 enter this city, could be con.
strueted at q much smaller cost than
the number of tunnels that would
be required for the same pur.
pose. Besides, it would be much
safer. A bridge built according to
his plan. he said. would be capable OF
transferring so 600 passengers an hour
in one direction, and would thus meet
the demands for at least fifty years.
The cost Of construction for the bridge
alone, including anchorages and abut-
ments, would not exceed SIS. 600, 600
This estimate did not include the
outlay which would be involved in the
purchase of tho necessary amount Of
land at either approach. nor for the
tracks and stations OF the terminl =
N J. Observer
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to $50 per ounce, while the best
American ginseng only brings about
So SO per pound. Bears gall comes in
for the next high price. This is worth
at any time from S2o to $40 per pound,
depending upon quality.
l have asked several Chinamen who
have used the above prescription in
regard to the results of those doses
that they paid over s91 for. The
answer is Invariably that it is won
derful medicine and that they have
been made very strong by it. And
they ought to be able to derive some
substantial benefit at that price. ~
Y World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
Mat, - IN. portuguese Minister.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Viscount Das.
uougeras, the Portuguese Minister, died
at his residence yesterday morning OF
blood poisoning, in the sixty-fourth year
of his age. The deceased leaves wife
and four children-three sons and one
daughter. His wife and one SON are in
Paris, the daughter in Italy and two sons
are with the father in this country.
Viscount Dasnougeras was born in the
island of Madeira. He was appointed Min
lister to America in 1878. He was the
representative of Portugal in Mexico,
which position he combined with that Of
Minister to America, holding both posi-
tions at the time of his death.
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MISUNDERSTANDING,
DeGt Young Women Turn Out Six Gross
q Day In One Shop.

Daft Young Women Turn Out Six Gross
a Day In One Shop.
..How do we make kaleidoscopesp
Come this way and will show you"
The speaker. thin-faced German.
long engaged in manufacturing
Kaleidoscope, led the way inoo
small store. At work bench exsend-
ing the entire length of the shop many
girls were busy.
1.-THE first young woman" said the
manufactures, wraps the black paper
about the glass retlectors that produce
the optical illusion. These strips Of
glass, when thus arranged andfastened
together, form the body of the.
Kaleidoscope. The next girl simply
inserts the united refeetors into
the pasteboard cover and then
passes the octagonal pasteboard
tube to her neighbor. Mum.
Der three adjusts the brass ring which
secures the glass discs in the end Be-
tween the discs. or plates. are placed
the scraps of colored glass, the beads
and various trinkets which tumble
about as the kaleidoscope is reyolved.
and when reflected by the mirrors forra
themselves into ever-shiftine mathe-
NAUTICAL figures. The other vonnr
women are armed with hammers to
break the colored glass into fragments.
We obtain the colored glass from the
waste scraps purchased very eheaply
OF stained-glass manufactures. The
kaleidoscopes retail at seventy-fiye
cents each We can make six gross a
day of this kind. and about twenty
gross of the five-cent kind. The finest
factory is in Providence. R L CARPET
designers get many of their patterns
from tho Kaleidoscope. IN X Mail
ard Express
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SINGULAR CURRENCY.
Curious Money Used by the Natives Of
the Cannibal Islands,

-
the Cannibal Islands,
Mr.. Walter Coote has described
some curious, moneys of the New
Hebrides and the Solomon Islands.
On one of the islands he mott ced
a neatly-kept house. which he was
told was the money houses. Entering
it, he found a number of maps hang
ing from the roof. beneath which a
fire was constantly kept up, under the
effect of which they become covered
with black. glistening coating and
adorned with festoons of SCOT 1t
was a mans business to keep the
fire always burning, and so low as not
to scorch the maps. A weM covered
map is worth about as much as WELL
grown, vigorous boar. This is the
strangest of all kinds of money. for
it must never be taken from the money
house. even when, the title, of it is
transferred from one owner to an
other. The inhabitants of Santa Cruz
Island use for money. rope-ends. about
an inch. thick, and ornamented with
scarlet feathers, which are worn about
the waist The traveller could not OBJ
tain new coins Of this kind. but found
them current everywhere. The
specimens he bought were al
ready old, and the feathers
grown dfngy. The money of the Solo
mon islands consists of neatly worked
pieces, of shell of about the size of our
shirt-buttons. They are strung on
strings about four yards long. and are
distinguished under the names of red
and white money. Dog-teeth are of
higher value, and comparable to our
gold coins. They are usually worn ON
a string around the neck. Mr.. Coote
saw a neckl ace of this kind that was
valued at about one hundred dollars.
Marble rings are also worn for orna-
ments, and as valuable money. -Prai-
mic. FHT711e7
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-Dumley had accommodated a friend

-Dumley had accompanied a friend
home to dinner, and, as they seated
themselves at the table. the hostess
remarked: Il trust that you will
make allowances, Mr.. Dumlev. NV
servant left me very unexpectedly,
and was compelled to cook the din
ner myself" oh. certainly, nv
dear madam. certainly" responded
Dumiey. with great emphasis; 81 can
put up with any thing!"-M +
Ledger.
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a LEAP-YEAR ROMANCE.
Ernestine's Wooing, or Love Under the
Chestnut Tree.

1t was evening. and the lights iron
the silver candelabra came softly
through the rich Venetian glass which
hedged them in, and touched with its
tender warmth youth and maiden,
standing silent amid the rich appor-
tionments of the great drawing-room
of the girls palatial home.
CHAPTER II.
Henry. will you be miner"
1t was the girl who spoke. and ST.
lence, shattered into a thousand frag-
ments, fell crumbling to the floor
The young man blushed scarlet, and
quickly hid his face in his hands.
With loving. gentle strength she
took them one by one away and gazed
fondly into his trembling, sweet brown
eyes.
"Ah, love-" she whispered. .'look
at me. Look deep into my soul and
see the heart that beats its sweetest
cadences to the measures of your
name"
She took his sensitive white hands
in her own, and modestly as the daisy
looks upward to the morning sun he
turned MS eyes TO uerS.
There was strange thrill in his
heart, burning in his cheeks, an in
describable power lifting him upward.
upward, into soft, weet air. which
filed his very being, as the fragrance
of fir and balsam comes with life and
hope to the weak and wasted con-
sumptive.
CHAPTER III
with all my heart, Ernes tine"
Sweet as the music of ripping waters
or muffled silver bells; sweet and low
rs the organ harmonies whispering to
each other among the carvings and
the softened fires coes of. some grand
old cathedral choir. were the young
mans words. and they brought to
Ernestine such peace and rest as until
this day her heart had never known.
.'Oh, Henry" she said. and held
out her hands to him.
Again the bright young blood surged
to his cheeks. and with glad little
cry he threw himself into her arms
and like tired bird. he nestled his
head upon her shoulder and shut his
eyes to all the world to dream of
Heaven.
CHAPTER w.
There let us leave them.
We can afford to leave them be-
cause neither of them appear to be left
particularly the girl.
CHAPTER v.
Thus do we see what there is in Leap
Year to the hungering and thirsting
soul of the Young woman who knows
enough to embrace her opportunities.
And embraces them. - Washington
Critic
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IL advise you to join a football
team" said hotel proprietor to a
fussy patron. ''Whye" Because
you're such q big kicker. Hotel
Mall.
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CHINESE MEDICINE.
The Costly Remedy Prescribed by One
Gotham's Oriental Doctors.

The Costly Kennedy HreScf1Deu by one Ot
Gotham's Oriental Doctors.
The Cinnamon of New York are
great believers in medication. Their
doctors here are as important as Joss.
The Mongolian doctor who lives at 10
Mott street does big business. The
following is copy of prescription
which he recently gave to debilitated
and WORKOUT laundry
Live deer horn. two ounces; q
species of root, ono and q half ounces;
red cedar berry, one ounce; moi Mai
Due (Chincse rice wine), one pint;
fresh chicken, one pound: Corean
ginseng root, half ounce. The whole
to be placed in an earthen pot, to
which add one pint of water; stew for
an hour upon brisk fire, and drink
the broth while hot. This is gu aran-
teed to restore the patient to full health
in less than twenty-four hours
This dose only cost the poor laundry
man S91.27. The prices for this ex-
traordinary prescription of the season
were charged as follows:
Deer horn, at SIS per ounce. $50 90
A species of root, unnameable, at az per
ounce. 10 W
Red cedar berry, az 81 per ounce ......... Z 90
MOI Mai Due, at 81 II. ~
Fresh chicken, per pound. ......-..-...-.. 10
Corean ginseng first grade. at $50 per
ounce. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 W
Total. .......s..........-- .s3i -
Tho deer horn above mentioned as
used i'm this remarkable tonic was
imported from the wilds of Man churid.
north of the great walls of China The
horns were cut off the heads Ct the
reindeer with parts of the skulls. while
the animals were yet alive. These. OF
course, retain the live blood OF the
deer, and were brought here in trees
weighing from one to two pounds
each, and are bought by these drug
gists in the Chinese markets at from
$65 to $40 each. and are retailed here
at much higher rate to Chinamen
who want to be strong in body.
Strange as it may seem. and even
at these outrageous prices, there are
hundreds of Woodworking Chinese
laundrymen all over the country who
regularly take dose or two of this
remedy each year.
Next to the deer horn in value is
the Corean ginseng The Cinnamon
of New York, of course. do not keep
the best, but the grade that a few OF
the druggists do keep sells at from S27
The evening world., 1888-06-08

on this night than on others; but it certainly
seemed a scene of ~cnchantInent to Tom.
He fancied Leonie looked tired, and being
in 70 haste now. led her to n grotto among
the rocks. and while she rested filled her lap
with dainty shells the tide had drifted in.
Tom felt that his time had come. He leaned
over her and took one of the white hands in
his.
"Leonie, dearest! you know, you must
know. how we'll l love you. And l have
dared to hope that you loved me in return,
and that we may be very happy together.
Tell me, darling that / have not been mis-
taken-that YOU will be my dear wife. What
Is your answer ?"
mo"
Tom stared In undisguised establishment; =
"Oh, Leonie, You break my heart! And !
have let my foolish vanity deceive me so! l
have believed that you loved me 7"
Leonie rose from her seat and the bright
shells fell in q glittering shower about her;
II know 1t. and l meant you should think
so. Your little plan worked very wel-an but
The evening world., 1888-06-08

young man. and as he had not as yet made
any considerable conquests, his ideas were
gained through other channels than those of
experience. But. then, Tom was not the first
man who has formed his opinions first and
verified them afterwards. So he took heart
OF hope and agreed.
Before the summer is over, Dick, you will
acknowledge that l am right"
Tom pursued his course for some time, and
Dick looked on with admiring wonder at the
result.
If they strolled along tho beach. and Toms
long strides were hard 10 keep up with,
Leonie dad not fall back and Join the rest, but
marched yAliAntly Of with her escort, though
she reached homo with flushed cheek and
painting for breath. II Tom sometimes let
the hand drop from his arm, II rested none
the less contentedly there when he chose to
replace It; and while his eyes searched the
wide horizon for distant sails, or studied the
The evening world., 1888-06-08
ACTIVE SUBWAY LABORERS.

They Are Fully Organized and Propose TO
Got to Work without Delay.
The Subway Mems Association met in
Clarendon Hall last evening, President w.
A. A.. Carsey in the chair.
A vote of thanks was passed to the press of
New York, to Col. James j. Coogan and
others for their kindness In aiding the sub
way workers in their efforts to obtain en-
ployment by bringing about an early re-
sumption of the work.
The committee appointed to see the author
tiles for the purpose of pushing along the
subway work reported that all the leading
mel were absent from the city at st. Louis,
and the Committee had not been able to
accomplish anything of importance.
Mr.. A. H. Gallahue moved the appointment
of q new committee TO ask the Board OF Esti-
mate and Apportionment to appropriate the
funds necessary 10 carry on the subway
work. He urged that the electric light and
the telephone wires are dangerous and should
be put under ground as quickly as possible.
The officers of the association. including
the President; James p. Daily, Vice. Presi-
dent James Brady, Secretary. and David
Dunno, Sergeant -at-Arms, were made q COM
mittee to attend to the matter and report at
the next meeting.
The evening world., 1888-06-08

gorgeous sunset clouds, Leonie's brown orbs
rested o~ftenest on his face.
One moonlight evening a party was formed
to visit the old lighthouse. a mile or so dis
tant. Tom was promptly on hand, and hav-
ing offered his services to Miss Serle, and
that young lady graclously accepting, they
set out.
Toms assumed indifference seemed TO have
quite deserted him. Whether he glanced at
his companions fair, sweet face, or his eyes
rested on the ungloved hand lying on his
arm, or even if he caught a glimpse Of the
little bronze boots, 1t was all the same. Tom
was irretrievably in love, and he knew II.
What wonder II he then aud there repudi-
Atsd his theory, and Let the love and devotion
of his heart speak Just as plainly as other
men do under similar oircumstances2
/ do not kno that the lighthouse was more
picturesque than most lighthouses, or that
the murmur of the waves was moro musical
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the finale. What a pity that you canno hear

the finale. What a pity that you cannot hear
a graceful confession that you have long
be n lovedn"
Tom LAS too miserable in the consciousness
that he had been rejected to be much sur
prised.
For heavens sake, do not recall my mis-
cradle folly You have your trlumph. Enjoy
il, but be a little mercitui."
But Leonie went on, her voice trembling,
her G Seks glowing; ,
o., when | sat in my room that day and
heard your wretched plots, and that you had
selected me TO be the victim of them l re-
solved that any punishment 1t was in my
power to give you should have; that you de-
served it that -
The tears were coming 80 fast that Leonie
could get no further. -
know it," said Tom. p~enitentlya and
I have merited your displeasure. But oh,
Il Is pone the less hard to bear !"
His voice was SO tender that she felt all her
brave resolves melting away, and leaning her
head on a huge, gray boulder, she sobbed
aloud.
With a few quick steps Tom was beside
her, and in another moment had lifted the
bowed head in his hands.
The evening world., 1888-06-08
Let's hear it," said Dick.


Certainly. / hold that it is indifference,
not adulation, that attracts them. Give cold
words and naughty looks, AMI you will re-
ceive tender answers and sweet smiles; and,
at last, should you choose TO acknowledge q
deeper sentiment than friendship, ten
chances to one you will hear a graceful con-
fession that you nave long been loved"
Dick Trement slowly shook his head.
a. can't agree with you. my friend. How
ever" he added, as he saw Tom was about to
fortify his position with fresh arguments,
" unee you are 80 we'll convinced that your
plan 10 the correct one, suppose you put IL to
q practical test, and vary your summer amuSe-
ments q little. There IL pretty Leonie Serle,
let us zee how she will receive your : Glacial
Theory"
Now Tom had quite convinced himself, II
not his auditor. that he had found the royal
road to success. To DO sure, he was q very
The evening world., 1888-06-08

Ss So'
Furniture Workers Union No. z will adopt the
nine-hour rule, with the Saturday half-holluay.
j. P. Mcdonnell is the new General Organizer
for the American Federation Of Labor In New JeI-
sey.
The picnic of the United Labor party orRaniza-
ton of the Seventeenth District, will be held at
Manhattan Park on June 30.
The Empire Button Company, Of which 3. Blu
s %snt to sn e Ts 80 are em gaSStss.0s to.m %,n s'se + Tn eAS but.
ton-mskers Will spend the day at Cold Spring
Grove. going on the steamer Neptune from the
foot OF East Twenty-third street
Sunday, July %, has been fixed by the Mandel
Association as the time for its grand annual
picnic at the Ocean House, R%ocRaway Beach.
william Jansen is the pr,s'Gent; EDWARD A. Weiss,
tary; Samuel White, Treasurer, and Harry hersh,
Recording Secretary.
The seventh annual festival Of Our Union, a large
ington PARK on Wednesday, June Ia 1t will be an
unusually pleasant anair.
N. A. T., 249 Front street, Brooklyn, is in
formed that the New York Musical Mutual Protec-
tive Union ia not represented In the Cen
s'S' ,h labor BODY Gn''n fros say,RE S Sfsa eA Sniea
Whose wS; membe an wt,n mqeRfn from the S NJ N. p. e.,
and the Carl sahm Musical Club are represented
in the Central labor Union. The Carl sahm Clue
is also attached 10 District 40 OF the knights OF
LaOor.
The Hickory Labor Club, of plumbers, will hold
a special meeting on Tu' sday evening next. at
Clarendon Hall, to elect officers for the ensuing
six montnR The secretary gives notice That men,
bers who do not attend will be rned.
Members who are In arrears Of dues for six
months cannot compete In the athletic sports OF the
Plumbers Union at the coming picnic.
The United Labor Party organization Of the
Twenty-thrrd Assembly District has q debating
club which meets every saturday night at One
Hundred and Fifth street and Third avenue TO dis
morrow nipht viii be on ;.Tne Democratic
Platform and It's effect. on the laboring people"