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Iron County register., 1889-08-01
SLATE HEAD-STONES.
They Are Superior to the Granite and
Sandstone Article.

They Are Superior to the Granite and
Sandstone Article.
Whoever visits the cemeteries of the
land-and there are few of us who are
not brought thither from time to time
upon the saddest of errands-can not
but be struck by the unfortunate re-
suits which have attended the efforts
of sorrowing friends to do honor to the
dead. Most cemeteries are to the eye
mere collections of unhappy specimens
of the stone-cutter's art, or rather of
his want of art. They are uncouth
where they should be graceful, op-
pressive where they should be sooth-
ing, aggressive and conspicuous where
they should be simple and inconspicu-
Gus; they in one way or another vio-
late all the principles of symmetry and
of artistic propriety, and only too often
they are vulgar monstrosities of stone.
which serve to advertise the stone-cut-
ter and to disfgure the graves of the
dead. Indeed, it has come to the place
where it is far more appropriate to
speak of the cemetery as the monu-
ment-maker's advertisement than in
the old sweet and homely phrase as
Goods acre"
When one considers that all these
stones are put here to mark an affec-
ton which death could not conquer;
that they stand for SO much love and
sorrow, it makes the heart ache to
feel the incongruity between the hard,
vulgar monuments and the thing they
are meant to signify. There was never
a stone which could be more fifty
spoken of as unsympathetic than the
marble which has served as the COM
mon material for grave tablets. 1t Is
cold in color and in texture; it is quick
~ discolored, so that it is unsightly
and offensive to the eye, the effect of
time being less pleasing than in the
case of almost any other stone that
could be chosen. Granite is coarse
and of unpleasant texture if unpol-
ished, while the high looking-glass
surface that results from polishing it
is the most vulgar in effect that the
ingenuity of the stone cutter has thus
far been able to compass. Bronze is
very expensive, and it does not we'll
stand the climate, while it offers to the
thief a temptation which there are too
many instances of his having yielded
to. Sandstone is pleasant to the eye,
but it so quickly loses the words which
affection has committed to its keeping
that it is hardly to be counted among
the materials available for this pur-
pose
In view of these facts there seems
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
Two Hundred and Eighty Years or Inn

prOv0ment.
In 1909, after traversing the Hudson
River from its mouth to Albany, and care
fully noting the grandeur and beauty on
either side of this magnificent highway OF
nature. Hendrick Hudson wrote these
words:
"It is beautiful a land as one can tread upon"
Two hundred and eighty years have mar
velously increased the beauty of the great
river called by his name, and could he re-
turn to the scenes OF his MANHOOD, ne
would fnu many more lovely sights
than those upon which his eyes rested
century. The natural beauties of the
Hudson are much the same. and no
description can exaggerate them; out the
magnificent steamers that ply between New
York and Albany, the innumerable sailing
craft that dot the surface of the mighty
river, the never-ending clusters of canal
boats that are being towed up and down,
the beautiful villas that one encounters at
every turn, the magnificent monuments,
perpetuating heroic deeds, tnat we find here
and there along the banks of this noblest
river of the continent add an endless va
riety to the scenery, and resistless charm
to the eye of the traveller.
The New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad runs along the bank of the Hudson
river the entire distance between New York
and Albany, and is the great Trunk Line
world with the famous health and pleasure
resorts of Central, Northern and Western
New York, including in its list the Catskin
Mountains, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon
and Richfield Springs, Lake Ontario, the
Berkshire Hills, Niagara Falls, the Thou
sand Islands, Lake Champiain, the River st.
Lawrence, and hundreds of others.
The New York Central is a part of the
great national highway across the conti-
nent and for the beauty of its scenery, the
lumber and Importance of the cities through
which it passes, its almost total lack of
grades and curves, this great four-track
railway is unsurpassed in Europe or Amer
lea.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

IT requires $50 bushels of potatoes to
make q ton of potato starch.
CITRIc acid is derived from lemons, it re-
quiring from $50 to 800 to produce pound
of solid crystals.
ONE pound of coal or coke burned evap-
crates nine pounds of water, while pound
of wood does but half this.
ssWIzARD" Edlson's latest invention is an
ore separator, which is expected to revolu-
tionize iron mining methods.
DR.. W. d. JOHNSON, of San Francisco, in
lecture on the lower ferns of animal life,
said that ''the oyster is capable of being ed
ucated in a limited way.''
In experiments continued for four years,
NJ F. Larroque has found that, after eight
or nine months, copper wires under the ac-
ton of electric currents show signs of de-
terioration.
THE Chemical News describes new dis
infectant called Thlocamf, the basis of
which is q curious liquid which results
when sulphur-dioxide is brought in contact
with camphor.
Potash, chemically considered, is the OK
lde of the metal potassium, but the name
is generally given to the crude and impure
substance obtained by evaporating the liz
ivlum of the ashes of wood in iron pots,
whence the name of potash is derived.
Pearl ash is a refined Or tolerably pure pot
ash.
The news comes from the University of
Padua that Prof. Gravenigo has succeeded
In grating the cornea of a barndoor fowl
on the eye of human subject. The oper-
alton is spoken of as most successful, the
transplanted cornea being transparent,
glossy and convex. If it be as is said there
is new hope for many blind people.
AN average of five feet of water is esti-
mated to fall annually over the whole earth,
and assuming that condensation takes
place at an average height of 5000 feet,
scientists conclude that the force of evap-
oration to supply such rainfall must equal
the lifting of 1872 0OO, 600 pounds of water
5000 feet In every minute, or about three
hundred billion horse power constantly ex-
erted. OF this prodigious amount of ener-
gy thus created a very small proportion is
transferred to the waters that run back
through rivers to the sea, and still smaller
fraction is utilized by man; the remainder
is dissirated in space.
YEAST has been largely used in medicine
for many years, especially in Europe, where
the highest opinion is entertained of it's
valuable qualities. 1t is used not only in
scurvy, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles
and cholera infantum, but in cases of ty
phus it is actually specific. Its entire
harmlessness permits it's use in large
quantities, and to break up severe cases of
typhus from 100 to 200 grams are admins
tered. In severe cases of diDhtheria six
to eight grains of unfermented fluid yeast
are given to children every hour, and the
mouth and face are mopped at the same in
teryals with a mixture of one part yeast and
five or six parts water,
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
GIRLS BIRTHDAYS.

An Ancient Astrological Prediction Of
Interest to Lovers.
An old astrological prediction gives the
character of girl according to the month
she is born in, as follows:
If girl is born in January, she will be a
prudent housewife, given to melancholy,
but good-tempered, and fond of fine
clothes.
In February, an affectionate wife and
tender mother, and devoted to dress.
If in March, frivolous chatterbox, some
what given to quarreling, and connois-
seur in gowns and bonnets.
If in April, inconstant, not very intelli-
gent, but likely to be good-looking and
studious of fashion plates.
II in May, handsome, aEiable, and given
to style in Dress
II in June, impetuous, will marry early,
be frivolous and like dressy clothes
II in July, possibly handsome, but with a
sulky temper and penchant for gay attire.
II in August, amiable and practical
likely to marry rich and to dress striking
ly.
FIN September. discreet affable, much
liked, and a fashionable dresser.
If in October, pretty and coquettish, and
devoted to attractive garniture.
If in November, liberal. kind, of mild
disposition, and an admirer of stylish
dress.
If in December, well proportioned, fond
of novelty, and extravagant and student
of dress effect-W II. Siviter, in Harper'e
Magazine
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
ALL ABOUT LEAVES.
An Interesting and Profitable Article for
Lovers of Nature.

An interesting ana prOntaDte Article Tor
Lovers of Nature.
Even the most cursory observer of
vegetable life must have been often
struck with the various forms of
leaves. Why they should be SO vari-
ously formed does not, however, often
suggest itself, though there is reason
for the special shape and texture of al
most every leaf in existence. Plants,
such as grasses, daffodils and others
which usually grow in clusters, have
generally narrow leaves growing up
right, so as not to overshadow one
another. Other plants, of isolated
habits, have an arrangement of foliage
which secures to themselves the space
of ground necessary for their develop
ment. The daisy, dandelion or shep-
herds purse-which may mostly be
seen in pastures are examples
of this. A circle of broad leaves
pressed against the ground, form
ing what is known as rosette growth,
effectually bars the approach of anv
other plant and keeps clear from all
other roots the space of ground neces-
W itS O"u HuLE1ulcIlU. T1OdUlug
leaves, and leaves of marsh plants,
are usually of simple outline, for, hav-
ing few competitors, they are not
liable to get in one another's light.
Submerged plants have mostly leaves
of narrow segments-the reason for
which is not very we'll understood,
though it is assumed by naturalists
that it is for the purpose of exposing
as large a surface as possible, in order
to extract the minute proportion of
carbOnic acid dissolved in vast bulk
of water.
Leaves On the boughs of trees are
often much divided, so as to fold easi-
ly, to prevent their being rent and torn
by high winds. while the glossy sur
face of evergreens is intended to throw
off rain and dew, which might freeze
on them. and so cause injury to the
tissues within. But the hairs on the
face of leaves are perhaps the most in
teresting study of all. With the aid
of microscope, the beautiful and sys-
tematic arrangement of these can be
easily discerned, and their uses UNDER
stood. On many plants there are
glandular hal rs, to catch OR deter small
creeping insects; on others there are
hairs set so as to act as effectively
against young animals as a spike pali-
sade against obtrusive boys; on others,
hairs which arrest the drops of moist
ure and force them down the leaf-stalk,
to moisten the earth about the roots;
while others are protected by series of
poisoned stings. The ordinary nettle
is an example of this, and the beauty
and ingenuity of its mechanism is truly
wonderful. Each nettle hair is armed
with a brittle and pointed siliceous cap,
which breaks off in the wound; and the
poison is then able to flow out through
a tubular hair, from reservoir at it's
base. There is scarcely form of leaf
but is specially modified by nature for
some particular purpose, and the dis
covery of this purpose is source of
very pleasant and profitable study
to young naturalists. s.-Horticultural
Times
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
THE RATTLESNAKE'S BITE.
No Sure Cure for the Venom Known t
the Medical Fraternity.

No Sure Cure for the Venom Known to
the Medical Fraternity.
Speaking of people bitten by rattle
snakes, Mr.. J. H. Estill. of the Savan-
nah News, says: ''Out of thousand
people bitten by rattlesnakes do not
think dozen recover. There is no
known cure. in spite of the fact that
many people have said that they were
cured by whisky. You may depend ON
it when a man says he was cured of
rattlesnake bite. though necessarily
not a liar. he is at least laboring under
a misapprehension of the..facts There
is a small snake similar to a rattle
snake in appearance. whose poison Is
not so venomous. and negroes bitten
by it place line upon the spot or less
drink enough whisky to coun-
teract the poison. Whisky it
taken in a large quantity.
goes directly into the blood
and counteracts the poison OF the
snake. But the regular Georgia rat
tier, from five to seven feet in length,
is a deadly customer to meet. 1t does
not give any warning. but strikes the
moment it is disturbed. aud it can
strike an object as far distant as it is
long. A friend of mine was riding
along in the saddle one day and big
rattler lying in the road leaped at him
as he passed. 1t closed to his boot
leg. driving one of its frangs clear
through the thick leather of his boot
and through his trousers, just escaping
the flesh. 1t required considerable
kicking to shake that snake off. and
when he was finally got rid of he
started in pursuit. My friend faced
bullets in the army with nonchalance,
but his hair stood on end when he saw
that snake coming, and he jammed
spurs to his nag and didn't stop until
he had gone a quarter-stretch. My
plantation is full of rattlesnakes. and
only last week my hands killed twenty.
six in a field of twenty acres"
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
Heirs Wanted.

Information is wanted of the whereabouts
Of Johanna Wilson. daughter of Mark
Sweeney, wife of Thomas Wilson, born in
Limerick Co., Ireland. She is, if living,
heir to an estate. If dead, her children or
next of kin are wanted. Address, w. ].
CovL, Webster City, Iowa.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
Save That Sweet Girl!

Don't let that beautiful girl fade and
droop into lnvalidism or sink into an early
grave for want of timely care at the most
critical stage of her life. DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription will aid in regulating her
health and establishing it on firm basis
and may save her years of chronic suffer
ing and consequent unhappiness.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

In cases where Quinine utterly fails to
have any effect, and where the patient can
fluence, a cure is promptly obtained by Shall
lenberger's Antidote. 1t cures Immediately.
In no care will there be more than one chill
after the first dose, and in the majority of
cases not even that Sold by Druggists.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

The fees to the officials at church
wedding in England amount to forty
dollars. The vicar gets twenty-one
dollars of this sum-
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

Mrs. FREDERICK STEVENS that was, now
the Duchesse de Dino, is New Yorker still
to the tune of ten real golden millions of her
own, and now, one may say, the Dukes, too.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

THE codling moth does not lay its eggs
till the blossoms fall, and the spraying
should not be done till the fruit is the size
of small meas
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

You hardly realize that it is medicine,
when taking Carter's Little Liver Pills; they
are very small; no bad effects; all troubles
from torpid liver are relieved by their use.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

ssPENNY wise and pound foolish" are
those who think it economy to use cheap soda
and rosin soaps, instead of the good old DOB
it once. Be sure. Buy genuine.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

THE Russian Government proposes to
take steps for rendering the rivers OF
Siberia navigable and connecting them by
canals.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

s., ,OOO, 600 between them, and bid fair to leave
it to collateral heirs with wonderfully fat
accumulations.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

CHEss-so named from it's principal piece
of the Rindoos, being devised by Brahmin.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

pointed out as the most desirable part
among fashionable widows, has life in
terest in 81, ,OOO,0C0.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

IT is positively hurtful to use ointment for
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

WE only know ourselves and what we
really are when the force of circumstances
brings US out
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys, 9TH
erwise YOU will excite and weaken them.
The happiest results follow the use OF Hos,
letters s Stomach Bitters to overcome renal
Inactivity. Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
stlmulants of commerce. The kidneys have
a delicate membrane easily irritated, and
upon this the action of such excitants is per-
nicious. MaIarial complaints, indigestion,
cumb to the corrective influence of the Bit
terS.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01
ASK your druggist for ''Tansill's Punch. -

IT will pay to shake off large proportion
Of the fruit from trees that are overloaded.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from
adisordered liver and is promptly relieved by
Carter s Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

BUFFALO BILL, Amelie Rives- -Chanler,
Belva Ann Lockwood and Whltelaw Reid
formed an interesting group at a recent re-
ception in Paris.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

A more pleasant physic
You never will find
Than Pierce's small 'Pellets,"
The Purgative kind.
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

that virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Iron County register., 1889-08-01

In addition to supplying Cuts Of every de-
seription we also carry on General Jobbing
Business in Eiectrotyping and Stereotyping,
at the lowest possible rates for thoroughly
reliable work, and we respectfully solicit your
orders. Write US for estimates, specimens
or sample sheets, and in doing 50 address ns
al the most convenient OF our seven houses.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11

THE high license and local option prin-
ciples have been adopted by the Rhode
Island Legislature as the basis Of the law
Just passed to take the place of the de-
feated prohihitory system that tie State
had discarded. Under the new law a vote
may be taken each year on the question OF
licenses in cities and towns, or refusal to
license. The maximum license must not
exceed 81 900, and the minimum not fall
below $500 for wholesalers, and for the re-
tail trade the license is to be $500 in Prov
idence, $3.50 in other cities, and 5000 to
$500 in towns. No distinction is made as
10 the kinds Of liquors to be sold. Penn
sylvania and New York high license men
declare that this new law is not one of
high license, at all, and that no law can
be that imposes less than $50 month on
the retail business, the experience of
Pennsylvania and Illinois showing that
less than that sum will not shut out the
dives and work the reforms that have
been accomplished in Philadelphia. for
instance. 1t is thus seen that high license
men sharply disagree as to just what high
license is. But it must be conceded bv
the bystander people of States where the
system has not been tried, that the true
measure of what high license is, is to be
best ascertained from the experience of
those States where the scheme has had
fair trial.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11

tue and lofty poetic character being con-
ceded on all hands. It was in this spirit
of contrast that the RECORD UNION treated
the production when the Atlantic Monthly
gave it to the world. 1t seemed to us to
be only question whether this production
of the age of senility in most men was en-
titled to rank among the works that were
born of the poets genius when the fires of
youth burned. We concluded after DELHI
Grafton that the publishers of the Atlantic
were doing Mr.. Lowell positive injustice
in announcing the new work as the great
est, as it is the longest of his poems. As
We then said, and we still insist, the great
est it is not; neither is it upon the lower
plane of his efforts That his consultation
of the Oracle of the Goldfshes is worthy
of him no one will deny to Mr.. Lowell,
but that it lacks the melody and impas-
stoned poetic eloquence of The Vision of
Sir Launfal," we think no admirer of the
works of James Russell Lowell will deny.
The consultation of the Oracle of the Gold
fishes is a graceful work. 1t breathes the
sincerity of the soul of the poet; it is
fragrant with the afectionate regard for
humanity; the imagery is matchless; the
conceit that limits the horizon of mans
activity and knowledge, as the glass by its
narrow bounds circumscribes the world of
the fishes, is more than happy but to say
that the poem ranks with the heroic eff
forts of LowelPs genius when he barred his
breast to contumely and prescription and
dehed hatred and wrong as he sang his
satires for freedom and the right, is pre-
sumPtlous and without the warrant of
reason. In this judgment we find not a
few of our contemporaries unite, but no
one has so happily expressed the truth
about the new poem as the Chicago Inter
Ocean. 1t says:
The latest product of LowelPs pen is worthy
OF his best DAYS but this is far from saying that
II is ms pest production. One note of the grand
organ ne played . After the Burial" was more
inspiring than all the melody which could pos
slply be extracted from gJldfshes but the SUBJ
lect could not have been handled better, which
is all that can be asked of any writer, be he a
worker in prose or verse. A subject has its own
limitations, and it is enough if It's treatment be
the extiartion from it of its choicest essential
ruth, its highest suggestion, and deepest re-
hection. A few dumb and monotonous fishes,
with nothing to recommend them but their
beauty OF color and grace of movement can not
De expected to stir the soul like the vacant era
Ole OF child just intrusted to the embrace of
mother earth. or even the delicious balm of a
day in June ; but all of anything is great deal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
What a Woman Can Do.

Some unknown philosopher thus essays
TO tell US what woman can do which a
man need not essay or attempt, viz:
She can come to a conclusion without
the slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and
no sane man can do that
Six of them can talk at once and get
along first rate, and no two men can do
that.
She can safely stick fifty pins in her
dress while he is getting one under his
thumb nail
She is cool as cucumber in half dozen
tight dresses and skirts, while man will
sweat and fume and growl in one loose
shirt
She can talk as sweet as peaches and
cream to the woman she hates, while two
men would be punching each others head
before they had exchanged ten words.
She can throw stone with a curve that
would be a fortune to baseball pitcher.
She can say mo" and stick to it for
time. She may also say "No," in such a
low voice that it means {" Yes"
She can sharpen lead pencil if you give
her plenty of time and plenty of pencils.
She can dance all night in pair of
shoes two sizes too small for her, and enjoy
every minute of the time.
She can appreciate a kiss from her hus-
band seventy-fiye years after the marriage
ceremony is performed.
She can 90 TO church and afterward tell
you what every woman in the eonerega-
ton had on, and in some rare instances
can give you some faint idea what the text
was.
She can walk half the night with a COZ
icky baby in her arms without once ex-
pressing the desire of numbering the in
FAINT.
She can-but what's the use? A wo.
man can do anything or everything, and
do it we'll
She can do moro in a minute than a
man can do in an hour, and do it better.
She can drive a man crazy for twenty
four hours, and then bring him to paradise
IN two seconds by simply tickling him nm
der the chin, and there does not live that
mortal son of Adams misery yhocan do II