Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

New ENGLAND merchants are begin
ming to organize to secure legislative
protection against fire" and bankrupt
SALE companies that tour that section.
A-sTRIhI, y. H., with a population OF
about 300, boasts of four nonogenarians
and twenty-five octogenafians. Twenty
| one of these twenty-nine old people are
| women.
EXAMINING physicians say that alcohol
and tobacco are largely responsible
for the color blindness with which large
numbers of applicants for positions on
railways are affected.
A CURIOUS fact about cigarette smok-
ing is that nearly double as many cigar
cites are smoked during July, August
and September as during any other
three months of the year.
THE Cape of Good Hope can now be
reached by telegraph via the west coast
of Africa, as we'll as via the Red Sea
and Zanzibar. So the dark continent Is
bound around by electric wire that is
constantly making the world smaller.
Miss ELLA GREEN is the prettiest
drummer on the road. She is travelling
for St. Louis paint house that employs
eighteen travellers and receives the
highest salary of any of them. She has
saved money enough to buy hotel at
Topeka, Kan.
A SPRINGFIELD CO., baggage handler
roughly jostled an elderly gentleman
and babe him ''get out of the way"
The elderly man was the superintendent
of the road, and when he turned around
the baggage man crawled behind a
trunk and kicked himself
DURING the recent foods at Anaheim,
Cal, every hummock was swarming
with hares and rabbits that were driven
from the plains. They were slaughtered
by thousands by boys and men, who
used sticks, and when tired of the sport
would run the poor beasts off their dry
places into the raging waters.
+ In the shadowy hooks of the vesti-
bules, Railways and corridors OF the
modern mansion may be seen great
china jars of foliage, giving decidedly
unique and picturesque finish to their
surroundings. Wavy tufts of palmas
grass in coral red rest against q back
ground of feathery brown grasses, while
large palm leaves are often added to i'm
prove the beauty of these gcnerous-sized
bouquets.
A TOPEKA (Kan.) preacher dressed
himself in rough clothing and started
out to see if he could make a living as a
common laborer. He found he could
not and gave up the attempt after one
days trial, thus escaping the abuse that
would have been heaped upon him when
the horny-handed working-men found
that mere preacher was trying to take
away their trade without having joined
their union.
THERE was an amusing incident the
other day in Justice Feibleman's court
at indianapolis. \ case was on trial,
and one of the attorneys called: Bring
out McGinty." Here, that will do"
was the resp nse of the court, as
the Justice reached for an ink
stand. Il don't want any of those OLD
Jokes in this courtroom" But Nc
Ginty is witness in this case" per-
sisted the attorney, and then Michael
McGinty stepped to the front and was
sworn to testify.
ACCORDING to a paper read before the
Natural History Society at indianapolis
the other day, the smaller birds are
often destroyed by thousands during
storms by being blown out over the
lakes, notably SO during their migra-
ton. The writer spoke of birds de-
stroyed on Lake Erie and Lake Michi-
gan, dead bodies being cast upon the
beaches by thousands. This destruc-
ton is especially notable from storms
that are accompanied by a sudden fall
of temperature. The fact was regarded
as indicating one of natures methods OF
checking the overproduction of species.