Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
CURE FOR LAZlNESS.
How a Young Fellow Was Made to Lear
That He Could Work.

That He Could Work.
During morning walk a merchant
who was detained by business in
Amsterdam, came to group of men
who were standing round a well. into
which a strongly built man had just
been let down. y pipe, whose mouth
was at the top of the well had been
opened and q stream of water from it
was flowing down into the well and be-
ginning gradually to fill it. The fellow
below had quite enough to do if he did
not want to be drowned, to keep the
water out by means of a pump which
was at the bottom of the we'll. The
merchant, pitying the man, asked for
an explanation of what seemed heart
less, cruel joke. Sir" replied
an old man standing near, that
man is healthy and strong: |
have myself offered him work twenty
times. nevertheless ne always allows
laziness to get the better OF him, and
will make any excuse to beg his bread
from door to door, though he might
easily earn it himself by work if he
liked. We are now trying to make him
feel that he can work. If he uses the
strength which is in his arms he Will be
saved, if he let them hang idle he will
be drowned But look continued the
old Dutchman. as he went to the edge OF
the well, 1.-The fellow finds out that he
has got muscles: in an hour we shall let
him out with better resolutions for the
future" Such was the case, and the
cure was effectual-ChriStian at Work.
\ Primitive Incubator.
Rcnsler Il. Dayton, of Speonk, L. l.,
is interested in chickens, and recently
had a hen sitting which, through per-
versity or other cause, did not hatch out
the eggs which were put under her. as
dutiful hen should. Believing that
the eggs had been brought far along to-
ward condition when they might be
expected to hatch, the young man taxed
his brain to produce something which
would take the place of the hen. and
after a series of experiments he succeed
ed. Taking an ordinary tin pan, he put
the eggs in it, and then placed this in
another pan containing water. Then
the TWO pans, one inside the other, and
covered with an old quilt, were placed
| in a standard or frame, which suspend
| ed them over kerosene lamp, the
| chimney coming within about an inch
| of the bottom of the pan. The lamp
heated the water in the pan, and thus
the eggs were warmed. a thermometer
was placed in the pan with the eggs,
and in this way the heat was regulated
until this primitive hatcher had done
its work, and out of twelve eggs all but
one had produced a chicken.
Herald.
Story OF "A Curious Calf.
In the absence of n sea-serpent some
Partisan deSSeminatorS of so-called
news have invented a phenomenal
calf, which. according to the elaborate
description furnished, would seem to be
a canard. This curious animal is said
to have seen the light at place called
Beaumont, and has the head of bull
dog, with cropped ears; its eyes are
starting out of their orbits like those o.
a far-eastern dragon; its mouth is small
its forelegs are shortened abnormaiy
while its hind feet resemble those OF {
pig, and are exceptionally long. If thi:
} calf be really grazing in the fields o
| Beaumont it deserves to encounter al
enterprising Barnum who will take i
about on show.-Paris Letter.