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Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

o0AS SMITH, stand up, and learn
rs, w.. you are designated in various
Ta''S Oi the world: In Latin you are
s.1Iles Smithus; the Italians smooth
Svu oH with Giovanni Smith; the
U'', Faniards call you Juan Smithus; the
~ +loI,anders adopt you as Hans Schmidt;
rs french as Jean Smeet; the Russian
l I-se1es and bar,l5 as he calls Ivan
i -4I''oVski- In China you are known
g. C,5 oO7an Shimmit; in Iceland as Johne
.+1; st-''Asoh; in Tuscaroras you forget all
r rooI. focaholtas and Powhattan when
An Il 1. near them call Ton Qua Smittia.
Sa,..a ales they speak OF you as Jihon
rSaoi rs%l.aai il Mexico you are Jantli
os;a u among the Greek ruins the
sn5 satOe speaks Of You as Ion Srnikton.
II / " ! ! urIloE you are utterly disguised
II hi Mi. Now, what do you think
'~~Ai
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31
VOLUME X.

4 REPORT just published shows that
ne Austrian grain yield has decreased
j. follows: Wheat, 10, 900, 600 hectoll-
~ tors. barley. 1900, 900; rye, 1l,ooo'-
coo. oats, II. coo, OOO.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

IT has just been discovered that a
law passed twenty-three years ago au-
thorizes the transportation of mer-
cbandise in bond to and from points in
the United States through Mexican
territory, the same as through Cana
dian territory. Such a privilege has
been several times refused by the
Treasury Department, in curious ig-
nOrance of the statute.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

THE killing Of Judge Terry has re-
c,IIod the fact that at the time of his
trial for the murder Of Senator Brod-
crick the witnesses were rnavoida-
blv detained for few hours, and the
case went on, and was given to the
iurv without word of testimony, a
verdict of acquittal being promptly
rendered under the charge OF the
iu1trn
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

NOBODY now living remembers an
o+bo, war in which there has been so
rnanv victories and defeats for each
eide without either combatant being
I,noc,,ed out, aad such terrible
-I.,.al+or, with 50 few casualties, us
havc occurred in the present little un-
friandliness in Havti.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

A COMBINATION of Eastern capital
Its has been formed to purchase all
the coal property along the Mononga.
boIa river and control the river coal
I,siness. There seems scarcely a
5orbt that the deal will go through.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

Nj II LANES STEELE. administrator OF
il ,,,5,l v9.'lle of the late Ben Halliday, sold
caatI- I'9'.e auction, at Portland, Ore, re-
e..a. .'.s '.of 9'50,a $500, 900 claim due the
5or1', @'o -rom the Government for Indian
ovrsI Ia"5LonS committed on Halliday's
'U s'age run in 1856. 1857. 1858.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

LIE late Henry Shaw, of St. Louis,
"as q great patron of those who pur-
sued the study Of botany. He en-
uo|ed and founded the Shaw School OF
botany Of the Washington University,
i Louis and aided in the publication
4 various botanical works, notably
ne works Of the late DR.. George En-
s'inan' which he had collected at
great expense, and incorporated with
wa plates, ETC., supplied by Govern
iucnt and railroad surveys, and thus
supplied q valuable treatise on the
Aora Of The Occident
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

FOUR trampS arrested at Moberly,
Mo-, for vagrancy were put up for
sale at public auction. The sale had
been duly advertised according to law,
ana there was large crowd present.
Inc bidding was not very spirited.
Two OF the tramps went to farmers for
t"o dollars a head and another was
Pig n for seventy-fve cents. The
fourth tramp could find no purchaser,
ana ne was returned to Jail. The three
VINO We're sold must serve the purchas-
ers for two months.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

IT is asserted that prominent cit
izens Of Dakota are seeking to create
the impression that the Sioux lands will
be open to settlement as soon as the
President announces that the Indians
have agreed to the purchase. There
is no warrant for such a statement.
The law expressly provides that the
treaty must be ratified by Congress
before the lands can be occupied; and
intending settlers should not allow
themselves TO be misled in the matter.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31
A Tribute of Respect.
Mayor Noonan yesterday issued the
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,


MAYORS OFFICE, St. Lou.s, Aug. 25, 1899
WHEREAS, the death OF Henry Shaw, the
benefactor of the CITY OF st. Louis. whose pub
lie spirit and noble philanthropy have contrib
uted to the growth and ornamentation or the
city and to the enjoyment and well-5eng of all
classes Of citizens, occurred at his residence,
Tower Grove, the morning of Sunday,
August 25th, 1t is hereby ordered:
That the flags on the municipal buildings
shall be displayed at half-mast from the date
hereof until and including the date OF funeral.
That on the day of the funeral city officers
will hold themselves in readiness to attend
same and participate in other proceedings that
may be determined upon, OF which due notice
will be given.
The date of obseques will be hereafter an
nounced.
lSigned.l E. A. NOONAN. Mayor.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AN unknown man hanged himself at
Normal, ILL.,, on the 23d. He had applied
at the Soldiers Orphan Home at Normal
for work, but was unsuccessful. In an
hour he was found hanging by a rope
around his ne OK to tree. He was aged
about thirty -fve and neatly dressed in
suit of black and green mixed. There
was nothing about him to give his iden-
tity.
A PASSENGER train on the Parkersburg
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
collided with special carrying officials
Of the road, between Petroleum and Silver
Run, w. Va. on the 23d, killing one en-
gineer and both firemen, and seriously
injuring large number of others.
JOHN O'CoNNoR, aged eighteen, a por-
ter on the propeller Chicago, fell over
board at Buffalo, N Y, on the 23d, and
drowned. He was from Chicago, where
his step-father keeps cigar store, and is
said to be wealthy.
JAMES SMITH, farmer, living near CO.
lumbus, Ind, dreamed that he was TAX
ing bath in the river, and, making an
imaginary big leap in the water he
alighted on a bed post and was SO badly
injured that his death is expected to oc-
cur at any time.
On the morning of the 25tb, during q
fit of somnambulism, Jos. Kilcole. Of
Ottawa, Ont, walked out of second
story window, fell TO the ground and was
fatally injured. 4
AT Baltimore, M l., fire-pot in TAFT &
Weinbrenuer's packing house exploded
on the 24th. Henry Fleming, Henry
Pfeffer, Charles Wauldby, Mary Ham,
malta ana John Smith were severely hurt
and burned. Fleming who suffered ter
rible agony from his burns, ran to the
dock and jumped into the water, but was
rescued.
THE funeral of Charles Carolin, one of
the four woman murderers executed at
New York City on the 23d, took place, on
the 25th, from an undertaker's establish
ment in thai city. There were no serv-
ices, and only three of the dead mans
friends followed his body to the grave.
The interment was in Calvary Cemetery.
ON the 25th Gust Eckman and Fred
Sharer were drowned while bathing at
the foot of Seventy first street, New York
City.
In the case of the several victims of the
recent fire at No. 30j Seventh avenue,
New York City, the cnroner's jury rem
dered a verdict that the cause of the fire
was unknown. They exonerated Res
taurant- Keeper Snyder, who had been
under strong suspicion, and he was re-
leased from custody.
HALF the city of Dubno on the Irwa. in
Russia. population in the neighborhood
of 5000, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is enormous, and many people are
rendered homeless. @ffE 3
ON the 26th the immense elevator at.
Porto Costa, Cal, belonging to BicNear.
& Co., was almost destroyed by fire. and
before the flames could be extinguished
the steamer America and the sailing YES.
sells Kennilworth and Nonowau were de-
stroyed. ~
On the 9th the schooner Joseph Wilde
with ice from Bangor, Me-, bound for
Richmond, Va, was sunk in collision
with the steamship Nessuore. The crew
of the Wilde were rescued and landed at
Fortress Monroe.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-31

A Desperate, Lone-Handed Highwaym
Holds Up Stape-Coach ContainII
-Four Men in True Western StyIe-Re.
sistance to Ills Demands Results in the
Shooting and Fatally Wounding Of Two
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
Some Pleasant Experiments.

Suspend from the ceiling a thread
which has previously been soaked in
very salt water. and then dried. To
this fasten light ring, and announce
that you are about to burn the thread
without making the ring fall. The
thread will burn, it is true, but the
ashes it leaves are composed of crys-
tails of salt, and their cohesion is
strong enough to sustain the light
weight of the object attached to the
thread. Another form of the same
experiment is to make q little ham
mock of muslin to be suspended BY
four threads, and after having soaked
this in sailed water and dried it, as be-
fore directed, to place in it an empty
egg-shell. Set the hammock on fire;
the muslin will be consumed, and the
flame reach the threads which hold it,
without the egg falling from its frall
support. With great care you may
even succeed in performing the expert
ment with full egg in place OF az
empty shell, taking the precaution.
however. to have it previously hard
boiled, that you may escape an omle1
in case of Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
Crystalized Gypsum and Mica.

Gypsum is, chemically considered, a
hydrated sulphate of lime. 1t is a
well-known and very common mineral,
and in it's crystalized form some
times occurs in thin, nearly tranSpar-
ent plates, which resemble the finer
qualities of mica. But it is a mere
resemblance, the constitution of the
two minerals being in no particular
the same. Mica is essentially sill
cate of alumina, though in some va
rieties other mineral substances are
combined. 1t is crystalized in thin
plates, which may often be subdivided
until hundreds of thousands of them
are required to make an inch in thick
ness Even though very thin these
sheets of mica are both elastic and
tough. For its various uses, in the
doors of stoves, lanterns, etc, mica
needs no especial preparation. 1t is
used for window glass in South Amer
lean countries, also in Siberia, and has
also been applied to this purpose on
ships of war, as the conclusion of
heavy guns often causes the fracture
of glass windows. Mica has further
been used for spectacles, optical in
struments, and bronzing powder.
Mica is found in nearly all parts of the
world, but certain localities only pro-
duce large plates of it. In Siberia,
Norway and Sweden large plates are
found, often more than a yard i'll
width, and similar pieces are found in
Peru, Mexico, also in some parts of
New Hampshire and in Canada
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
THOUGHT HE WAS SMART.
Nobody Could Get Ahead of Him with
the One-Price business.

the One-Price Business.
''It is singular thing" remarked a
prominent dry-goods man, chow coun-
try merchants, coming here to buy, re-
fuse to believe that we are selling goods
at a fair price, and insist on trying to
cut us down ON every thing. l had an
experience the other day which is in
point. A merchant from down in In
diana came in and began to look over
things with one of my clerks. We try
to sell on the one-price principle. He
asked the price of some prints The
clerk told him the price. He offered
three cents yard less.
s''This is one-price house. said the
clerk. we can make no reduction
Nonsense said this smart man
from the country. You needn't try to
fool me with any such stuff as that.
I'll give you three cents less
'And the clerk could not persuade
him that he was telling him the truth,
finally coming to me in despair. l
went out and took the man in hand. l
offered him goods at from three to five
cents above the marked price, and
then would take whatever he offered
me. He finished his purchases,
slapped me on the back, remarking:
That's something like. None of
your one-price business for me-,
and went out. In the after
noon he came back. and | had two
bills made out for him. The first [
handed him was made up from his own
prices. It was for about 500. He
looked at it and said: Those are good
prices. Oh, you can't get ahead OF me
with your one-price business. Then [
handed him the second, which was
made up of the actual prices at which
we had been selling. It was over $1oc
less.
"'What's that?' said he.
"'That is the bill we want you to
pay. That is what the goods cost you
at our prices. l wanted to show you
how easily you could be fooled by
thinking you knew more about our
business than we do ourselves
He paid the bill meekly and
thanked me for his lesson" Toledo
Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
PULMONARY COPPERS.

Half of st. Louis Policemen Die of Lung
Diseases in Ten Years.
Some remarkable results have been
reached by DIR. George Holman, medic
al examiner of the police department.
i'm his Investigations, made under d.
rection of the Board of Police Commits
sioners, into the physical condition of
the members of the force. Below will
be found extracts from DIR. Homau' S
report, just published, dated April
last, and a supplemental report dated
November 8:
1.-The mortality record of the de-
partment for the last ten or more
years, taken in connection with a study
and analysis of results reached by the
former examination, together with the
ascertained tendency of police life to-
ward producing impairment of breath
ing capacity, especially in those new
in the service. satisfied me some time
ago that pulmonary mischief consti-
tutes principal weakening cause
operating among the members,
and that especial note should be
taken of any thing Indicating
beginning or actual deterioration in
this direction. Accordingly, in the
conduct of the examination great care
was exercised to ascertain the condi-
tion of the lungs, and the same degree
of care was observed in taking the
measurement of the chest.
at is painful and notable fact that
q heavy mortality rate from lung
diseases has prevailed in the depart
ment for many years, with necessarily
a proportionally heavy sickness rate
from the same cause.
From data furnished by Mr.. Tate.
lit appears that during the last eighteen
years there was mortality from all
causes excepting casualties) of sixty.
five, of which forty, or 81. % per cent,
were from various forms of pulmonary
disease, thirty-four being returned as
due to consumption alone.
1.-The average age of the decedents
from this disease for the period stated
was little over Al years (41.2o)
while their average years of service
was somewhat above ten 1O.94).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31

be, and as they undoubtedly would be
if healthy exercise was more univer-
sally prevalent among the sex. If any
reader doubts this statement he has
only to analyze the statistics of any
European nation that bear upon this
subject to be convinced. Happily, the
baneful results of an indoor life of in
action have been realized before it's
effects have become ineradicable, and
the growing superiority of the physical
development of the Anglo-Saxon over
her Latin sister is due chiefly to the
revival of athletic outdoor exercise
among the women of this family En-
glish girls may surely claim the lead
in the good work of athletic regenera-
ton. They are closely followed by
their fair sisters and rivals on this side
of the Atlantic, and both are head and
shoulders ahead of the daughters of
France, Germany and other continental
nations E. Clay, in Outing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
SUCCESS FEEDING.
A Matter of Utmost Importance to Eve
Dairy Farmer.

A Matter of Utmost Importance to Every
Dairy Farmer.
Farmers have a much greater sphere
of influence on the flavor of milk pro-
| duced than many may suppose, or they
are willing to admit. The reason why
certain number of consumers in all
large cities are willing to pay what, to
a farmer or an average consumer, may
seem extraordinary prices is because
they get buffers of high flavor which
are always uniform. The makers of
these buffers nearly all use clover and
meadow hay and corn-meal, in varying
proportions with other coarse fodder
| and meals. The makers who produce
the finest flavors prefer clover and
| meadow hay, cut on the green side just
before maturity, and carefully cured,
fed with corn meal, ensilage and roots.
Forage plants harvested just before
maturity contain their maximum of
nutrltlve matter, and therefore
the highest favors. When the
coloring matter of plants is allowed
to bleach out, as in hay or corn stalks,
the flavor, or the best part of it, goes
with it. This fact is one of the best
reasons for the practice of feeding en-
| silage, for by no other method of treat
| ing fodder corn can the color be so well
preserved. The Swedes and Danes use
small quantities of rape cake COM
bined with their grains and folders to
produce the uniform fiavors which their
buffers possess. The Englishman uses
a wider range of mixtures, including
fine clover and meadow hay, small
quantities of carrots, or mangels, mid
dlings, shorts, bran. pea and oatmeal,
corn and cotton and linseed meals in
various proportions. In the United
States the farmer has every thing at
his command for feed which he can
desire, with corn ensilage of the best
quality. Successful feeders compound
their rations from many sources rather
than few, as much for the pur-
pose of maintaining health and
vigor of digestion as for the
food of varied fiavors. At present
prices, there are no cheaper bases for
dairy rations than gluten and cotton
seed meals, mixed with enough bran
and shorts, or whatever else is cheap
est on the market. With hay at pres
ent prices and plenty of corn-stalks,
most men will be able to construct
cheap rations from the most abundant
materials. Due care must be exercised
at all times to avoid exclusiveness in
compromising rations.
1t is assumed that every farmer who
feeds for butter will use a COW having
tendency in that direction, and that
he will apply the test of market quail
ity as well as the daily aggregate of
butter fat in ascertaining what animals
in his herd come nearest to this de-
scription. Quality and success do not
depend on luck or chance. There is
treason why in all things. The rea-
son is Ineligible to all who desire to
learn A marisau A priey1t11riSt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
PlTH AND POINT.

Honest men are soon bound, but
you can never bind knave-
More men are guilty of treason
through weakness than any studied
design to betray.
Evil habits are webs which are
too light to be noticed until they are
too strong to be broken.
TO write good story for the pub
lie man must have a good upper
story of his own.-Practical Farmer.
1t takes great intellect to keep
up with all the follies and foibles of
fashion, but it takes a greater intellect
yet not to.
The one who will be found in a
trial capable of great acts of love is
ever the one who is always doing con-
siderate small ones.-F. w. Robert.
son.
Praise not thy work, but let thy
work praise thee; for deeds, not words,
make each mans memory stable. If
what thou do'st is good, its good all
men will see; musk by it's smell is
known, not by its label.
Happiness does not consist of earth.
ly possessions Or in distinguished pc.
sitions, for both are perishable, but in
the consciousness of having done an
act that gives consciousness to others.
In the depth of the sea the water
is still; the heaviest grief is borne in
silence; the deepest love flows through
the eye and touch; the most impressive
preacher at the funeral is the silent
one whose lins are cold.
One who is healthy does not wish
to dine at a dissecting- table. There is
evil enough in man, God knows! But
it is not the mission of every young
man and woman to detail and report it
all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as
possible, and fragrant with gentleness
and charity.-Dr. John Hall.
Some people speak as if hypocrites
were confined to religion; but they are
everywhere; people pretending to
wealth when they have not a sixpence,
assuming knowledge of which they are
ignorant, shamming culture they are
far removed from, adopting opinions
they do not hold.-Rev. Albert Good
rich.
"A man who had been married for
twenty years recently applied to a law
yer at Palatka, Fla, for divorce papers,
but could not give his wife's name in
full. He wrote to his father and
mother, with whom they had lived for
ten years, but they, too, were ignorant
of her name. He wrote to her neigh
bors, with like result. AS the conse-
quence he could not proceed in his suit
for a divorce.
Those OF less sensitive organiza-
tion have little patience and less pity
for what they can not understand; yet
this unfortunate class are not for that
reason to be shut out in the cold till
they ''come to-" A little sympathy
some cheerful topic of conversation
adroitly introduced - some pleasing
little personal attention at the right
moment-and! the mental clouds dis
perse, and all again is sunshine.-N.
Y. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31
ATHLETICS FOR WOMEN,
The Only Way in Which They Can Over
come the Evils of In-DOOr Life.

The Only Way in Which They Can Over
come the Evils of Indoor Life.
Among the infant nations of the
world woman was expected to share
the labors of the field with her lord
The exotic conditions of pernicious
civilization, as wealth accumulated
and luxury grew, imposed trammels
on woman and relegated her to the
enervating confinement of the house,
in order that she might preserve a
more delicate and pleasing form for
the qualification of man returning after
the days toll. Woman was, however,
originally intended to be a much more
competent companion and helpmate
than the selfshness of man will con-
cede. SO long as a community re-
manned pastoral and nomadic, so sure
ly did woman retain physical devel-
opment equal and perfect as that of her
mate. Thus, we find that Atlanta was
as fleet of foot as any of her male COM
panions, and not until she allowed her
cupidity to get the better of her judg
ment, while striving to secure the
golden apples dropped by Hippomenes
during the race, was she vanquish-
ed That woman was once as skill
full as man in the practice and
art of venery was symbolized by the
fact that men did not deem it I'M
worthy to worship a virgin huntress,
and called upon Diana to lend them
her knowledge and support in the
chase. That war even claimed their
services is evidenced by Herodotus
and other ancient historians; and al
though the proves of the doughty
Amazons, who, in order that they
might not be impeded in the use
of the bow, mutilated their right
breasts, may be in a great measure
mythical, still such testimony goes to
prove conclusively that woman, while
perhaps not endowed with the same
brute strength as man, can be his peer
in most games, pastimes. and recrea-
lions that call for dexterity and quick
ness of hand, foot, and eye. No one
can gainsay the fact that the long
continued seclusion of our fair sisters
from sports and exercises has UNI
doubtedly much deteriorated the phys
ical stamina of the female race, at
least in civilized countries. They are
not capable of undergoing the fatigue,
exertion and exposure nature intended
they should; they are victims OF many
ailments that have become hereditary
to their sex simply from inaction.
They are not q am talking now
of the upper and leisure classes
of civilized society more especially
in as thoroughly q healthy physical
condition to sustain the burdens OF
maternity, and it's consequent strain
upon the system, as they ought to be,
as it was intended by nature they should