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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
STRANGE PHENOMENA.
Freaks of Nature Which Terrified and AS.
tnliSiei AL isehOlIers.

At Rome, in 1922, it raineG dust, mixed
with blood, for three days, and when the
heavy clouds drifted away it looked as
if the sun was swimming in a sea of fire.
Four years later, in 1926 snow fell in
Syria, which presently melted and
flowed in carmine rivers of blood, or
some fluid much resembling it in every
particular Many of the old writers
record three-days' shower of bloodred
rain in the island of Rhades and through
out Southern Italy in 1886. A monk.
writing in 1851, tells of a loaf being cut
out of which blood flowed as freely as
from fresh wound. In 134S there were
many great tempeSts. Several towns
and thousands of people were swallowed
up, and the courses OF rivers changed Or
stopped. Some chaSmS in the earth sent
forth poisonous fluids, as red as carmine
ink, as at Nillach. in Austria. Ponder
Gus haiistones fell in many parts of
Germany the same year, some of them
weighing from twenty to seventy
pounds. At Lamech it rained flesh,
dust, comets and meteors; fire.
brands and corruscations were in the
air; mock suns, with fiery tails, sailed
through the skies. Soon, after these
terrible scenes at Lamech. it began at
Cataya, near the sea, and went sweep
ing throughout Southern Europe. An
igneous vapor or sulphurous, fire broke
from the earth at Caahery,- Asia, and
utterly consumed men, beasts houses
and trees, so injecting the air that a
great plague followed. Young sepents
and millions of venomous, insects fell
from the clouds.
In 1861 burgundy experienced the
novelty of shower of blood-red rain,
which ensanguined every, thing it
touched., and in 1868 the Antiura reap
ers found all wheat heads to be as. red
as blood. In 1888 bread put in the oven
at Nuremberg was taken out covered
with bloody sweat Wertemberg had
a shower of birthstone and ashes in
1884 In 1695 Limerick and Tipperary,
Ireland, had many showers of soft,
fatty substance resem bling butter. 1t
was of dark yellow color and always
fell at night. The people gathered it
and used it as an ointment, reporting
many astonishing cures.-St. Louis
(y1nba-D prnacrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
THE RIVAL LOVERS.
A Story Old as the Hills But as Good as
Ever 1t Was.

A quaint story is, told of two artist
lovers who sought the hand of a noted
painters daughter. The question
which of the two should possess him
self of the prize SO earnestly coveted by
both having come finally to the father,
he promised to give his child to the
one that painted the best picture.
With the highest skill his genius
could command each strovo for the
maiden. One painted picture of
fruit, and displayed it for the fathers
inspection in beautiful grove where
gay birds sang sweetly among the foil
age, and all Nature rejoiced in the
luxuriance of bountiful life. Presently
the birds came cdown to the canvas OF
the young painter and attempted to eat
the fruit he had pictured there. In his
surprise and Joy at the young artist
skill the father declared that no one
could triumph over that. Soon, how
ever, the second lover came with his
picture, and it was vailed. take the
vail from YOUR painting" said the old
nan. I leave that Etc YOU" said the
/ young artist, with simple modesty. The
father of the young and lovely maiden
then approached the vailed picture and
attempted to uncover it. But great
was his establishment when, as he at
tempted to take off the vail, he found
the vail 10 be the picture. Plainly he
who could so vail his canvas with the
brush as TO deceive skillful master wa.
the greater artist.-N. Y. Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
SOME CHEERFUL ADVICE.
Western Farmers Are NOW EeapinS Wht
They Sowed in 1888.

Western Farmers Are Now Ecaping What
They Sowed in 1888.
We commend to farmers the following
sample of sympathy for their condition
by the protection press of the country.
y little more than a year ago these pa
pers we're deyoting Il great deal of at
tention to the home market" created
by protective tariff. To-day farmers
are in worse condition than they have
been tor years. and with no prospect of
improvement during the present admin
is.ration. Agricultural products of all
kinds are at the most discouraGing
prices. Confronted By the fact that
Kansas farmers find burning corn for
fuel the most profitable use they can
make of it, the Des Moines Register says:
4 farmer can just as religiOusy raise corn
for fuel as he can raise timber for fuel. The
Kansas farmers are all right, and if stoves can
be arranged to burn corn as economically and
with little trouble and labor coal and
wood. ali town and city people can greatly aid
in increasing the prosperity of the farmers and
of the whole people by burning corn. More
corn and less coal and wood for fuel is policy,
the general adoption of which viii speedily
bring relief to the farmers. Corn makes Il very
hot fire in the usual stoves but there is too
much increased labor involved in keeping the
heat. This is the only problem necessary for
solution to give farmers speedy relief from
cheap corn, and the subject is worthy the at
tentioH OF grangcrs, alliances and inventors.
What a pleasing suggestion this must
be to the poor devils who voted for Har
rison, high tarEf and free whisky in
1888, ard swcated in the fields through
the summer of 1889 to raise their crops.
Unable to turn their I-cOduct into money
on account of the policy they supported,
their friends now advise them to invent
some method of getting it into the fire
as rapidly as possible; of course they
have plenty to eat in the meantime.
Corn is excellent food. They can afford
to eat beef. TOO. as it is selling for one
to two cents per pound on the hOof
throughout the Mississippi valley.
Clothes? Well, they must buy clothes,
but then the farmer is making, on an
average, thirteen cents per year out Of
the tariff on wool. and he can clothe his
family with that. Besides, Mr.. lIarri-
son himself said that it was a mighty
mean man" who would want to get
Clothing any cheaper than it is now sell
ing. The situation is apparently not so
very distressing, after all. If the Re
publican farmer would only keep in
! mind that he has a ''home market he
ought to be a very happy man.-lndian-
apoliS Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
HYPNOTlSM IN CRIME.
Experiments That Show Dreadful Posal-
biIities for WrOng-DOers.

T.
bilities for WrongDoers.
Science not only accounts for great
deal, but has a, great deal to account For
The other day M. Charaot publicly
hvpnotised a gendarme. aad then told
to assassinate, NJ. Grevy, whom he would
find in the corner of a garden. The poor
constable went out and stabbed tree
with paper knife, aad came back
trembling and confessed the murder.
Such feats have been done in Leeds as
we'll as IL Paris, and we know what is
the power. of the magnetiZer. 1t has
hitherto been one of he fairy tales OF
science but now it is said to have added
a new and terrible chapter to tae records
of crime. One waits for proof, but &c
cusation is definite enough.
One malefactor, ) French libe~ine.
actually in the hands of the police, is
said to have selected his victims. choos-
iar those of an emotional temperament.
and then to have magnetized them and
and ordered them to commit suicide.
One poor girl did do So Law and sci
ence are equally interested in the TO-
suit of an Investigation which, it i
said, will shortly be held. IL the fact,
are proved the question will arise
whether the offenss actually amounts
to what the law recognizes as murder
If not, We certainly ought to have
new law, and we shall probably have
a new word ITO suicide person
seems a contradiction in terms Pat
Mall Gazette.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
AN UNPROVOKED MURDER.

llama Murphy Tennessee Book-Maker
Resents a Chicago Hackman's SoIic;t:-
ton for - Fare by Shooting Him, Prob
ably Fatally.
CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-Daniel Downev,
well-known hack-driver. was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Hama Muir
ply, the hoOk-maker, about eight o'clock
this morning. Bystandcrs who wit
messed the shooting say there was no
provOcation for it. Murphy, who is
here from Tennessee on a visit, came
out of Hogan's saloon at $40 State street
about eight O'Clock. With him were
Joe Ullman and Charley Thomas, the
wealthy Chicago book-mallcrs. All
three were more or less under the influ-
ence Of liquor. The three mon were or
their way 20 4 carriage that was wait
ing 70" them. when Downey. not noticing
the carriage. in waiting, asked them if
they did not want a carriage. Get
away from me-, Murphy is alleged to
have said. with &n oath, and without
furtho" prOvOCatiOn he drew Il revolver
and shot Downey in the cheek. and, as
the unfortunate man fell. fired another
shot which took effect in Downcy's left
side. The three men then entered
their carriage and were driven rapidly
away. GoWrey was taken to the hos
pitGl where the physicians express tho
opinion that he can not live. Murphy
and his two friends we're arrested about
nine o'clock and locked I'D at the Iar-
riSOn Street station.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
MENUS IN ENGLISH.
French Names on Bills of Fare Scum
Queer When AnsliciZed.

French Names Bills of Fare Sound
Queer When Angliczed.
Those persons who objec: to the
French names of dishes as given on
menus and want them in English would
be much amused with literal transla-
tio71 OF them. For instance, puts
d'amour means, literally, fountains of
love; aniS etoile, starry aniSe-seed; allies
de poularde au soleil, pullets' wings in
the sun; mufS a laurore, eggs blushlng
like Aurora; bmuf Iecarlate, beef in
scarlet, i. g. rare; sauce en- petit deuil,
sauce in half-mourning, and haricots
vierges, white virgin beans. French
cooks, too, are ingenious in the new
dishes as we'll as in the epithets they
Sttach to them. Thus we have culottes
a Ia royale, sauce veloute, breaches in
the royal fashion, with velvet sau';e;
tendons de veau en- queue de paon,
te1ldons Of veal in a peacock's tail, and
epaule de mouton en- balloon, en-
musette, shoulder of mutton in 4 bal
loon or a bag-pipe.
Sometimes their names are so fanciful
as to be totally incomprehensible, es-
pecially if you look for them in a die
tionary; such as palais de b9uf en-
craeovie, a palace of beef in Cracovia;
fraises de veau, strawberries of veal;
ris de veau en- amourette, strawbreads
of calves' marrow; flotte, sauce tomato,
q feet with tomato sauce, and pufs au
miroir, which is literally eggs in q
loeking-glass," but means "poached
eggs" But there are many of their
dishes which are monstrous, and show a
ssrong tendency to cannibalism; for in
stance: Salmi de chasseurs, a hash of
hantsmen; compete de bons chretiens,
a.stew of good Christians; bouchee de
slames, mouthful of ladies, and quatre
,nendiants, four beggars, the -four beg
yars'' being almonds, raisins, figs and
ilberts.
They like veau a Iahouffade, liver of
veal, and poulets rvoire, chickens
like ivory. Other dishes are, on the
contrary, quite shadowy and unsub-
stantial, such as sesnelles de perdrix,
partridges' soles; souffie de rose, a rose
puff and une jonquilla entiere, whole
/ jonquil. The French cook, too, has a
way of serving up his dishes which is as
extraordinary as the rest. What should
we think Of merlans en- turban, Writings
in turbans; eperlarS en- comets, smelts
in waters; raie hSuclee aux clpres, a
thornback served With capers; or of the
cook who would he, so untidy AS to send
to table truffes> la condre, trutiies
cooked in ashes?-Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
THE BERLIN TREATY.
1t Does Not Attempt to Settle the Status
OF PaGo-I'aEo.


OF Paco-EaEo.
The only excuse that has ever been
offered for the making OF the Samoan
treaty is that it was necessary for the
protection of American interests in
Samoa.
The only American interest there is
in Samoa is a piece Of unimrrovcd
property at Pago-Pago called coaling
station, though 1t is not station and
there is no coal ii 1t.
But the Senate. which has just rati-
fed the treaty, is not able to make out
whether the compact protects this sol
itary American interest or abandons it
The uncertainty is so great that the
Senate has declined even to pass Mt.
EJuuads' resolution declaring its con-
viction that the American interest IS
still ours.
1t IS difficult to understand precisely
wnv. in these circumstances. the Sen
ate confirmed q treaty of dangerous al
lance with two European monarchles,
so radically contrary IS this one Is TO ail
the traditions of our National policy ana
which appears to involve the surrender
Of the only interest it was meant tc
guard.
I;ut Tor the sake of nineteenth century
| diplomacy let us have the status e.
! Pago-2ago definitely settled.-N. Z
/ World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
PlTH AND POINT

They that will not be counseled can
not be helped.
Its very wise father who knows
as much as his son.-Somerville Jour
nal.
| An optimist is an unreflective indi-
vldual with nerves at concert Pitch
| Century.
! Culture does not make gentleman.
A regular beet may be a cultivated
thing.-N. o. Picayune
You may not be able to teach an old
log new tricks, but you can teach old
tricks to new dog quite readily
brakes Magazine.
"A good motto for these days is that
which Cromwell gave his Ironsides:
Trust God, and keep your powder dry"
Union Signal.
An ant is said to live only one sum-
mer Perhaps this is the reason that
Did Solomon advised the sluggard to in
terview this interesting insect.-Texas
Siftings.
Our desires always increase with
our possession. The knowledge that
something remains yet unenjoyed i'm
pairs our enjoyment of the good before
us.-Dr. johnson.
The same truth NAV suggest one
duty to one man, and quite another duty
to another man. 1t is important to
know the truth: and it is hardly less
important to see the application of that
truth to our particular Cases. s.
Times.
The wise and wholesome restraints
of parental love, of family ties, of a
good government, of public opinion and
even of social Observances, are the best
possible preparations for that self-re-
straint which is the rock on which all
true liberty is built.
Many persons think that there can
not be too much of what is SO good a
thing in itself as sympathy. The duty
of its cultivation is clear; but it is not
yet so clear that wise cultivation in
cludes pruning as we'll as nourishing.
SO long as it is abundant it is not eX-
pected to be discriminative, and thus
sometimes, running to seed unchecked,
it develops into rank injustice. a
Week.
Practice and theory must go tOgeth-
er. Theory without practice to test it,
lation; but practice without theory to
animate it is mere mechanism. In
every art and business theory is the soul
and practice of the body. The soul,
without the body in which to dwell, is,
indeed, only a ghost, but the body with
out the soul is only a corpse.-N. Y.
Ledger.
If man elects to mount the rounds
of the worlds ladder, he must have
what Charles Lamb calls grit" The
man who expects that quality OF nature
must become a pugilist, knocking the
81 out of all IFS 1t is the chief elc-
ment in the body polite of every sue
cessful man. a man low down you can
not keep low down if he wants to rise.
Men rise from cutters to rule in palaces
of Kings, and to command the men con-
tent to remain in bondage.-Old Home
stead.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
THE DEADLOCK BROKEN

ihe Iowa House of Representatives Comes
TO an Understanding Mt Last on the Ba-
SIS OF 81 Division of Spoils-The Terms
as Agreed Upon.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Feb. 2O.-Yesterday
the Iowa House of Representative sue
ceeded in breaking the deadlock with
which they had been wrestling for the
past four weeks. Last night at half
past seven o'clock John T. Hamilton.
Democrat. from Linn County. was
elected Speaker. BY the terms of COM
promise which have been accepted. the
democrats have the Speaker. and the
republicans the important chairman
shlps OF the committees. while the
minor offices are divided as equally as
possible between the parties. Follow
ing are the accepted terms:
L. The Democrats to have Speaker and
second assistant clerk
2 The Republicans to have the Speaker
pro tenn, chief clerk, first assistant clerk,
engrossing clerk, enrolling clerk, file clerk,
Dill clerk, assistant postmaster, seTgeant-at-
arms, door-keeper, six assistant door keep
ers, two jantC-s-
g. Each side to have one paper folder and
four pages.
f. Republicans have first choice of stand
ing committees. and to choose five commit
tees; Democrat to have second choice and
TO choose one committee; the remaining
committees to be chosen alternately, Rcpub-
ticans having first choice the parties choos-
ing said committees to have 4 majority of
one on each committee, including chairman,
the ether party to have the right to name
the chairman and membership of all com
mitteeS chosen by it.
.. The investigating and special commit
tees to be equally divided unless otherwise
agreed.
6. The same committees TO have clerks as
in the Twcnty-second General Assembly.
z. The division of the committees to be
made by Il committee composed of seven
members of each party to be chosen by their
resnectIYe clucuses
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, Feb. 2O.-A
Tribune special from Sioux City, Ia,
says: The proprietor of the Sioux City
franchise in the Western Baseball AS
sociation yesterday received from Prcsi
dent Won der Abe of the St. Louis
Browns an offer of $500 for the club
and franchise. This is the second offer
Won der Abe has made recently. The
Sioux City club. as it has been made up
for the season, is one of the strone;t IN
the Western ASSOCIATION. 1t is already
-. 600 short and unless that sum is
promptly subscribed by the citizens,
Won der Ahe's offer may be accepted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
THE PETERSBURG MISSION.
Benny's Latest Insult to Illinois and the
Great West.


Great West.
The President has shown fair in
clination to recognize the services of his
friends of the newspaper persuasion in
appointments to the diplomatic service,
but it can hardly be claimed that he
has acted judiciously in some cases in
following that inclination. He nomi-
mated Mr.. Halstead, of Cincinnati, to
Berlin, which was we'll enough: but
then he allowed lot of guerrilla states
men of his own party to defeat the
nomination in the Senate, when a little
determination and back bone might have
saved 1t. The designation of Thorndike
Rice for Minister to St. Petersburg gave
one of the big prizes to a magazine pub
Usher who had hardly been known as a
party man. 1t was blunder which
death kindly rectified. This vacancy
remained untitled for some months, and
offered an opportunity for the Pres
ident to perform graceful act and
pay q well-earned compliment to the
editor of the leading Republican pa
per in the West, Mr.. Joseph Me-
dill, of the Chicago Tribune. 1t is
an assertion fully justified by known
continent has been more influential
than the Tribune in fighting the battles
of Republicanism and winning the tri-
umphs of the party, and that the rea-
sons which induced Mr.. Harrison to send
Reid, of the New York Tribune, to
Paris and to nominate Halstead to Ber-
lin might have been urged with equal
force in giving the Russian mission to
the We teran Chicago editor, whose great
ability, sound Judgment and prudence
peculiarly qualify him for diplomatic
service. The President neglected the
opportunity for bestowing a deserved
honor on Mr.. Medill and gave the place
to Philadelphia journalist. The Re-
publican press of the great West is thus
left without a representative in the serv-
ice, while the seaboard cities have a
double share of honorS in that line.
This discrimination against the West
is offensive, and more particularly so as
it appears in the case of Mir. Medill, be-
cause there is reason to suspect that it
is really chargeable to the Presidents
incurable prejudice against Illinois-a
prejudice originating in the preference
of this State for Judge Gresham as a
Presidential andidate.-Chicago Globe.
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& Woman Ends Her Domestic Troubles
81 SCI. Inv u Dose of I.Iu.lanum.

PuIL.ADELrHIA, Feb. 20.-Airs. Ida
Walker, WHO was saloon passenger On
the steamship British Princess, which
arrived here Yesterday from Liverpool,
committed suicide on the 18th instant
by taking an overdose of laudanum.
she was buried at sea the next day.
She was the wife of wellknown bicy-
clist, and was twenty-five years old.
She had suffered greatly from sea-sick.
mass and had not mixed much with tae
passengers. 1t is understood that the
suicide was premeditated, and it is said
20 have been due to domes tic troubles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

Never in the history of National
legislation in this country have there
been such arbitrary rulings and reVoiu-
tionary assumption of power. AT the
present rate of Mr.. Reeds autocratlc
development it will not take him more
than year or two to buckle on spurs,
abolish Congress, invade the White
House, tip out the misfit President and
get himself crowned King, Emperor,
Sultan, Gar or something OF that sort
Boston Globe.
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SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE.
The Danger of Putting II Jester in a
Place of Great Power.

race OF Great rover.
Tho Republican party when in control
of the House has chosen the following
Speakers:
Schuyler COlfax.
James G. Blaine.
Warren hcifer.
Thomas Il. Reed.
The CreGit-Mobilier scandals drove
Schuyler Colfax from public life.
The rulings of Mr.. Blaine in connec-
ton with certain bills before the House
cost him the Presidential nomination of
his own party three times, and defeated
him when nominated.
Warren keifer's conduct in the chair
Disguised his own party and ended his
political existence.
The Democrats when in control of the
House have chosen the following Speak
crs:
Michael Kerr.
Samuel !. Randall
John G.. Carlisle.
Mr.. Kerr died from overwork and the
results of a strict performance of his
duty. His conduct in the chair won for
him the honest praise of friend and foe.
Samuel j. Randall was firm, courteous
and exceedingly Jealous of the rights of
the minority. His conduct reflected
high honor on his party
John G.. Carlisle presided with the dig
nifty and the impartiality of a judge. No
man on the Supreme bench was ever
freer from partisan rulings than was
Speaker Carlisle. With Carlisle in the
chair it ceased to be u partisan office,
and was clothed with the dignity of the
Judiciary.
Mr. Reed is bent on making a record
that Will link his name with every
deed of violence against the constitu-
ton and every scheme of corruption di-
rected against the Treasury. His two
years in the chair will stand as per-
petual warning against putting jester
in place of such power. The Demo-
Gratis can we'll afford to conduct the
Congressional campaign in the fall upon
the records of the Republican and the
Democratic Speakers of the House.
Louisville Couricr-,I ournal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

You don't care how much n man
thinks of himself SO long as he thinks
we'll o. you.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

IIECG OF tIF3slt L'OWEr.
The Republican party when in control
of the House has chosen the following
Speakers:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

Hana Murphy, Tennessee Book-Naker
Resents Chicago HacEman's Solic:tn-
ton for :, Fare by Shooting Him, Prob
ably Fatally.