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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
INTRODUCTION OF GAS.
The Circumstances Which First Led tt
Its Practical Application.

Its Practical Application.
The mode of adapting gas to light
ing our streets and houses was dis
covered by Frenchman. an engineer,
named Lebon, who gave the following
particulars of the circumstances which
first led 10 its application:
1t was about 1868 that Becher, a
skillful chemist, discovered that coal.
when calcined in close vessels, yielded
q kind of oil, resembling tar, and
capable of serving for the same uses.
Experiments made in 1853, in Alsace,
for the extraction of this oil, proved
that the calcined coal left in the retort
was of excellent quality for melting
In 1868 NJ. de Limbourg, having en-
ployed the same processes at the forges
of Theuse, in the principality of Liege.
substituted for earthen retorts, which
till then had been made use of, retorts
of cast iron, which are more durable,
and in which an opening may be
made. provided with a door, for put
ting in and taking out the coal.
These experiments were repeated
with success in England and France.
In the prosecution of them, it was
found that, besides the solid and liquid
products, there was disengaged an in
iammable gas. composed of carbon
and hydrogen, and which was there
fore denominated carburetted hydro
gen.
In 1899, Lebon conceived an idea of
adapting this carburetted hydrogen
gas to a useful purpose. and realized
it the same year at Paris, by exhibit
ing the interior of his house and
garden illuminated with it, issuing
from a large reservoir, where it under
went slight compressure. and was
conducted to the lamps by small tubes
furnished with cocks. that could be
opened at pleasure to light the gas, or
closed to extinguish it. Lebon set up
one of these apparatuses. which he
called thermo-lamps, at the Theater de
Loervois, where every body had an OPP
pcrtunity of seeing it for several
months. 1t was the very same appa-
ratus afterwards employed in England
and the United States, but on much
larger scale. The only difference was
that Lebon obtained his gas by the
calcination of wood. and the English
and the Americans from coal.-N. I.
LEDGER
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
PULLMAN EMPLOYEES.
How SleepihE-Car Conductors and Por
ters Make Both Ends Meet.

no" Sieeping-Car Conductors and Por-
ters Make Both Ends Meet.
"Do sleeping-car conductors and
porters really make so much money!"
L asked, in my native manner, of a
sleeping-car conductor the other day.
why, no, not any more than other
people. I'll tell you now. we don't get
much of salary, and are expected to
make extras on the train in order to
break even. OF course it's against the
rules of the company, but we have to
contrive some way to get around them.
If man has a good porter who will
share with him you can get along nice
ly. Now. suppose, for instance, I'm
going through from New York to Chi
cago, and at night a man comes in the
car here in Toledo and wants a berth.
L give him one.
Now, l make out his berth check,
and give it to him. Then / fill out my
own ticket. That is, he thinks do.
but don't make a mark on it, merely
pretend to fill it out, see? Well, the
porter comes along. and destroys that
m ans berth check, and who ever knows
the difference?"
''Well, that's a great scheme" said I.
"But that amt all. The rules are
that sheet and pillow case are to be
used but once. The agents at the end
OF the road keep strict account of the
number of passengers and number of
sheets used, but we are just little too
fly there, too.
This sheet and pillow case l have
just given out the porter takes the
next morning, smoOthes out nicely,
dampens just little bit, folds careful
ly in the same creases, places at the
bottom of the heavy pile Of bed-clothes,
and when he gets down to them again
they look like they had just come out
of the laundry.
But spoilers are so common that
we have to be very careful. l remem-
Der, years ago, when 1 was running
between here and st. Louis on the Wa
bash, my porter, who was an old col
Ored man, came to me one night after
the car had quoted down, and whis-
pered:
.Da's spottah on dis cah!'
"'How do you know, L asked.
"'''Ca'se his boots 5 ma'ked!'
You see the porters have a system
of marks which they put On a mans
boots. If they ascertain that GER
tain man is spotter, they make
mark on his boots that the other por-
tiers understand, and then when Mr..
Spotter gets on another car he is an
nounced by secret signal.
Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
A Solid Silver Wagon Road.

"You may talk about nickel-plated
railroads. said Vice-President l.. L.
Stanley, of 9O4 Walnut street, ''but
what do you think of a solid silver
wagon road? The Horseshoe mine in
Colorado has one, although when it
was built they didn't know it would
pan out that way. They had to have a
road from the mine, a distance OF
three miles, over which heavy loads
were to be drawn. They took the
rock that had been taken from the
shafts they were sinking, and which
lay around in the way, and
macademized the road all the
way through. The wagons pass
ing over the road ground the rock
down. One day they had a heavy rain
storm, and when things got dry again
after this rain the wind blew the dust
off the road. and all through the road
bed, every which way, they could see
big streal1s of silver. Well, may be,
they didn't collar to the rest of that
loose rock that lay about those shafts!
They sent away lot of it to be assay
ed, and when the report came back
thew found that their road bed was
worth 5000 ton. 1t was little ex-
pensive to drive over, but they had to
have the road, and l suppose they've
got it yet, if their mines have held out. "
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
CHRONICLE OF EVENTS.
A CHICAGO man was lately fined five d

A CHICAGO man was lately fined five dol
lars for snoring in church.
A CHICAGO baby born recently smilingly
exhibited at birth nice upper row of six
front teeth and four perfect ones on the
lower gum.
THE costiiest stable in the world has been
built In Syracuse, N. Y, for d. Edgar
Grouse, the millionaire horseman. When
it is completed it will represent an outlay OF
at least 100000.
A WONDERFUL ice cave. according to the
Bakima Herald. was discovered recently
near Trout Lake. KIickitat County, W. T.
1t is of great size, but can not be explored
on account of the intense cold.
A FRAGMENT of a meteor which recently
fell in Chicago was analysed, and found to
contain % per cent. of iron, 81 of nickel. 2
OF manganese and small quantities of alumni
mum, cobalt, tin, copper, arsenic, etc.
Hone YEN CHANG, the only Chinese law
yer in the Empire State, pleaded and won
his nrst case in Brooklyn court one day
lately. He was dressed in Caucasian cloth
ing of fashionable cut, and spoke English
fuently.
A CHURCH in Southern Illinois is about to
have fair in which one of the features will
be the pigs in clover with real pigs. A
large fac-simile of the toy will be built in
p
who pens the porkers.
PEOPLE of Walla Walla, WI were much
interested the other day in very pictur-
esque party of English gypsies that passed
through that town. One young woman was
riding genuine Shetland pony, which she
said cost her $3.50 in Scotland.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
who took such an active hand in the break
ing up of the Jesse James gang of despera-
does, lately represented Jesse James. Jr., in a
successful suit for damages against brew
ing company, one of whose employees, by the
careless handling of a barrel, broke the
child's leg.
A PORTLAND, Ore, man refused a
Chinaman ten cents, due for washing. The
Monaghan closed the door and gave his de-
inquent customer severe drubblng, a Ia
Kilrain. When the police arrived all the
satisfaction they gave the white man was
to advise him to pay his wash bills here
after. He will probably do so.
THE youngest couple ever married in
West Virginia were made man and wife
the other night at Keyser, Mineral County.
Their names are Chloe Poland, aged thir
teen, and Joe Snow, aged fourteen. They
had been lovers for four years, and after
frequent entreaties received parental con-
sent to marry. The bride was attired in
short dress.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
A Comnon-Sense letter.
ErchGnIe.

To THE EDITOR: | see that newspaper
articles are again making their appearance
calling attention to matters pertaining to
health as well as to the means whereby dis
ease may be removed and good health pre-
served. am thereby reminded that L have
received from time to time, pamphlet publ
cations issued by the well-l1nown firm of II.
II. Warmers & Co., which dwell upon the his
tory and growth of kidney diseases; show
ing how such is TIE, cause of consumption,
heart, brain and nervous disorders, which
can only be successfully treated by remov-
ing the primary disease from the kidneys.
At the same time care is taken to remind
the reader that Warmers Safe Cure is the
only means whereby the physician or the in
dividual can successfully prevent and cure
this class of disease.
Whilst have personal cause to feel CRATE
full to Warmers Safe Cure, for the benefit
which derived from it when suffering from
kidney troubles last spring, can not see,
since that remedy is already so well known
in every household, why the parties inter-
ested in its manufacture should con tinue to
expend money in calling attention to what
the public already knows SO well. l am
aware, Mr.. Editor, that the members of the
medical profession are seldom disposed to
give due credit to proprietary medicines,
but public confidence is likely to be even
more shaken in those learned gentlemen
since the startling disclosures in the Robin
son poisoning cases were made in Somer-
vile, Mass.
Here it was discovered, through the eff
forts of an insurance company, that eight
cases of death from arsenical poisoning had
occurred-seven of them in one family, and
within five years and the other that of a
relative-wherein the true cause of death
had not been even suspected by prominent
physicians who were in attendance, butwho
treated the cases for other causes, and
finally, when death occurred, issued certif-
Gates for such causes as pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, etc.
After such an evidence Of the utter in
competency of those physicians who were
regarded as experts in their profession, l
can not conceive why it will be longer nee
essary for further advertising to be done in
behalf of Warmers Safe Cure, since l deem
the Somerville disclosure to be the best pos
sible endorsement of the good sense mani
tested by those who take matters of health
in their own hands and use a remedy which
experience has shown to be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of trust
ing themselves in experimental hands.
EXPERIENCE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

Shallenberger's Antidote for Malaria is
the cheapest remedy in the world in proper
ton to the work it does, because it is GER
tain to cure even the worst cases if taken
properly. One bottle of thirty pills will
cure any ordinary case, and one dose will
stop the chills, but number of doses and a
little time are required to drive all Malaria
from the system. Sold by Druggists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
Horrid Torture.

This is often felt in every joint and mus
Gle OF the body by turns, by people who, ex-
perienclng the earliest twinges of rheuma-
usnl, neglect to arrest the malady, as they
may easily do. with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, professionally authenticated
remedy for the agonizing complaint Rec
ollect that rheumatism unchecked often
lasts a lifetime, or abruptly terminates il
when the malady attacks the heart The
Bitters also remedies chills and fever. dvs-
pepsia and liver complaint.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

ALL disorders caused by bilious state of
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

A MEMORIAL fund was lately collected by
the friends of the late Phillip H. WEIGH, the
humorist, to be devoted to the education Of
his children. Edward Clark, of the New
York Post, is acting as TIRE asurer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

A white oak tree recently felled
near Baraboo, Wis, measured nearly
seventeen feet in girth and more than
one hundred feet in height.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

BLooD-BLIsTERs should be plunged into
spirits of camphor, and kept there five
minutes: this prevents the blister and
eases pain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

A MISSISSIPPI company have received an
order for 100000 wooden butter dishes
from ST. Louis house.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
THE MARKETS.

A CHICAGO man was lately fined five dol
lars for snoring in church.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

IT is no longer necessary to take blue pills
to rouse the liver to action. Carter's Little
Liver Pills are much better Don't forget this.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

A MONTREAL man has patented device
by which he CLAIMS he can make a years
supply of ice for seventy-fve cents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

THE Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Ioothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

10 rds surprised
after using Ely's
Cream Balm tlUC
months to find The
right 1lostril, whic1
aods closed for 20
gears, 1Uds open1dnd
free as the other. !
feel rery Handful
r. III. Cressenghdm,
275 18th tire ct
Brooklyn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

AT Troy, N. Y, 10000 persons work on
collars and cuffs, and their wages are
81, 100000 annually.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

Death in high social places has
changed the most elaborate OF plans.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25
JOSEPH n. HUNTER, $Es:ss ':. :s# ssa.
rNAAR THUS PAFzR ssas5 cms ZOO vrRA

Cautions s:s:: e$
dealer fers you Shoe w. L
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-25

BRYANT & STRATT0M Rana sches sh1 e
Louis, Mo. Has 500 Students Yearly. Graduates are
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-03

ranged ourselves for our long watch.
A soft cap instead of the big sun helmet,
the bottle of cold tea, and the flask put
handy, half dozen cartridges laid out,
the rifle loaded and cooked. "The rest
is silence" Till 10:30 we sat like two
stone Buddhas. Then five wild pigs
came trotting down to the wafer to
drink, which was an intensely welcome
break in the monotony. At IL 80 Nit
made signs to me to go to sleep for q
while and he would watch. At 1890
he woke me, and Immediately fell back
in his turn fast asleep. The rest, and
the consciousness that [ had no longer
the sharp eyes of my companion to rely
upon, made me doubly attentive, and [
watched every twig.
Suddenly, in perfect silence and with
out the slightest warning, big black
object flashed by inc far side of the
little pool. It was like the swoop past
of an owl in the starlight, like the
shadow of passing bird, utterly noise
less and instantaneous. Every nerve
in my body was athrill, every muscle
stiff with excitement. Slowly I put
out my left hand and grasped my
sleeping companion hard by the leg.
If he made the slightest noise we were
lost. Like a trained hunter he awoke
and lifted himself into sitting posi-.
tion without sound. Rife to shout
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started "See what you done with
your fooling," said Snakeroot. Don't
We try it again" They got along very
well for mile, when all at once up in
the air went the cows head, and off the
wagon popped Snakeroot like frog
from log.
what in -" he gasped as the
rope slid through his hands. He had
no chance for further comments. Max
ing lunge he caught the COW by the
tail and down the road the pair went
the COW on canter and he on keen
run. She made straight for barn
yard fence, cleared it like deer, drag
ging the unfortunate Snakeroot after
her.
Another struggle ensued with the
thoroughly aroused COW, and finally she
was gotten upon the highway by the
united efforts of three men. And SO It
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-03

a view of showing how gentle they
were.
After examining several animals and
discussing their points, Mr.. Snakeroot
picked out a mild-eyed. understood
Jersey, and said:
"I'Il give you fifty dollars for THAT
animal"
"I dunno, replied j.; "1'll see what
ma says"
So back they went to the house, and
after considerable discussion Snakeroot
became the owner of genuine Jer-
,sey."
They tied rope around tine COWS
horns, hitched up their horse and
started; James driving the horse, and
the old man, sitting on the hind end OF
the wagon, leading the COW. They
had gone but a short distance when
Snakeroot yelled out, whoa Whoa ~
Young Snakeroot stopped the horse,
turned around on the seat, and said :
'"What's the matter. pap"
"Don't ask me what's the matter,
you blockhead!" cried the old man II
Thought you knew how to drive horse
without pulling the arms" but be-
fore he could finish the COW came lung
ing into the hind end of the wagon.
"Gimme the whip, he yelled. "Git
out, you," making savage cut at a
yellow dog that was prancing around
Che Cow.
By this time the Jersey concluded
she had remained quiet long enough
and commenced to back, dragging
SnakepOot, frantically digging his heels
into the earth in a vain effort to stop
her.
'"Get out zen the wagon, yOu," he
called to his son; "leggo the horse n
come m twist Ter tail"
After fifteen minutes work they got
the cow up to the wagon and again
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-03

in one of her New York letters to the
Chicago Inter Ocean. The exercise OF
charity which may be regarded now
almost as a fashionable diversion is a
matter of report, like other fashionable
diversions. But it would be very I'M
true to intimate that it is only fash
ionable diversion. The sense of re-
sponsibility toward the less fortunate
has never more deeply and widely
penetrated generation.
There is scarcely woman OF fashion
in this city who is not enrolled and IN
active service. In fact, it is not so
much charity as charitable methods
that are matter of concern, zeal hav-
ing tendency to oyerrun discretion,
and it's coming rival opportunity is al
ready in the field.
But there are women Of individuality
who carry into their well-doing certain
uni1ueness which is as piquant and
interesting as it is suggestive and
profitable. Generally this has come
about by doing the thing that fell I'M
der their eyes, and that needed to be
done.
An instance of this was the work
done by Mrs. w. S. Hoyt at Pelham.
It will not detract from the interest in
it to add that Mrs. Hoyt was once bet
ter known to the country as Janet
Chase, the daughter of the Chief JUS
tice, and sister of Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague.
In the neighboring village of West
chester there was number OF boys
whom the trades unions, limiting the
number of apprentices, excluded from
learning anything except that which
| they acquired on the cracker boxes
and salt barrels about the village gro
eeries. For these boys Mrs. Hoyt, in
teresting her neighbors, set up car
penter shop and forge. She then
4 formed them in classes, under the su-
| pervision of masters of the plane and
4 hammer The girls dropped in and
4 took to modelling and wood carving.
/ Silk-worms were introduced, and pres
emily there sprung up a knot of vii
| lage industries where there had been
idleness and shiftlessness. Among
these Mrs. Hoyt infused her own artis-
tic enthusiasm. The carpentry work
especially fourished finely. The best
old models we're procured, and Mrs.
Hoyt's own house and the country
club house are filled with admirable
pieces of hand work executed by these
boys, and in manner THAT would re-
new the respondent hopes and cour-
age of Mr.. Ruskin, If he could know
how nearly it approaches his own ideas
of handicraft. No modern 1nakeshift
of glue was tolerated. The parts are
joined as they we're centuries ago. the
carving was wrought in the solid
blocks in the oldfashioned way. There
were no jig-saws in Westchester.
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much interested in telegraphy, and /
had circular letter of introduction
from Sir James Anderson, the man
aging director of the Eastern Exten-
sion Telegraph Company, l determin-
ed to pay these exiled electricians a
visit And then [ learned that twelve
years ago an operator had shot tiger
that had come on the veranda and
looked in at the window while he was
at work, and that three months ago
enother had been killed In a more or
thodox way. So when the next
steamer of the Messageries Maritimes
picked up her pilot at a. M, off Cape
st. James, I tumbled with my things
into his boat and rowed ashore as the
ships sidelights disappeared in the
distance and the lighthouse began to
grow pale in the sunrise.
Next morning an Annamite hunter
who had been sent out by Mr.. Lang
don, the Superintendent of the sta
ton, to look for tracks, returned and
reported that he had built "mirador,
and we were to make our first attempt
that evening. At $3.50 that afternoon
we started, Mitt Chat was his name or
nickname walking and running ahead,
and following him on pony. We
were on small rising ground, dotted
with bushes, in the middle of rough
tangle of forest and brushwood. I
looked for the "mirador," and, not
finding it, yelled an inquiry into
Mitt's ear GOr he was tone deaf. He
pointed to tree fifty yards away, and
I saw how L Arvelously he had con-
cealed it. He had chosen two slim
trees growing four feet apart; behind
these he had planted two bamboos at
the other corners of tine square, and
then he had led two or three thickly
leaved creepers from the ground, and
wound them in and around and over a
little platform and roof, till he had
made perfect nest of live foliage. The
floor was about twenty feet from the
ground, and it looked perilously
fragile to hold two men. But it was a
masterpiece of hunting-craft. In re-
Spouse to a peculiar cry from Mitt, two
natives appeared with alittle black pig
slung on a pole, yelling Justify. The
"miradOr" Cor "mechan," as l believe it
is called in India) overlooked slight
depression in which an oblong pond
had been constructed for the buffaloes
to wallow in, as the ugly brutes can
not work unless they are allowed to
soak themselves two or three times a
day. By the side of this Master Piggy
was securely fastened, neck and heels,
to his infinite disgust. Then the two
natives took themselves off with their
pole, Mitt gave me "leg up" into the
~mirador," which shook and swayed as
we climbed gingerly in, and We ar