Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

widow
A LONDON curiosity is a fulI-grown
deer only foot in length.
"JUsr FOR Fun is the name of a So
cial club started in New York
THE cost OF the recent Haytian war
it is stated was about SO, ZOO, O0O.
If die l want my wife to have what
l got' is the wording of will filed for
probate at Pittsburgh, Pa, last week.
A New YORK man has been sent to
prison for failing to pay his wife $500
that he borrowed before their marriage.
A WEALTHY citizen of the city of Mex
leo has subscribed for $3.50, 900 of Chicago
fair stock, and promises to raise 81. 800
600 if given time.
THE people of New York State paw
out about $25,000,O00 annually toward
the support of it's $50, 900 criminals, pau
pers, tramps and Migrants.
SOME of the finest hospitals in the
world are the municipal hospitals in
Brazil. The Misericordia at Rio Janeiro
receives $4,000 indoor patients yearly.
A SAUGATUcK (Mich.) housekeeper
discovered the other day that fowl she
was dressing was supplied with two
hearts and two ivers, all perfectly
formed.
OKLAHOMA seems to have greater at
fractions for the negro as an emigration
field than tho banks of the Congo. There
are already $4,000 colored people there
and more going.
IN Maine spruce gum now brings to
the men who gather it from $3.50 to $3.50
barrel, according to quality. a bar
rel weighs about one hundred and sew
enty pounds.
ONE of the keepers in Bushey Park,
Eng, lately discovered two fine bucks
living dead in ditch with their horns
locked together. Both animals had re-
ceived severe body wounds.
A YoUSG lady of Natchez, Miss, is do
ing a good business by manufacturing
new candy from the flowers of the sweet
olive tree, and also clear strip for ia
BILE use from the same plant.
THE Territory of Wyoming has one
law on it's statute books that has no
counterpart in any State, and that is
the law securing equal pay for equal
work to women and men as school
teachers.
THE longest frosts in England are, as
general rule, those which begin be-
tween Christmas and New Years Day,
and the deepest falls of snow during
the last twenty years have commenced
in the middle of January.
THE new States have all been nick
named, but the character Of the nomen-
clature is more suggestive than elegant.
According to supposed authority North
| Dakota is the Flicker Tail State, South
| Dakota Swinge Cat, Washington
| Chinook, and Montana the Stubbed Toe
| State.
! THE way immigration has i'm
pressed itself on Minneapolis is shown
/ by reference to the new directory of
that fourishing city, which contains
! 1900 Ole O1sons, 1,910 Erick Ericksons,
1918 Nels Nelson's, 1,011 John Johnsons,
| 1,010 Peter Petersons, $50 Jurgen Jur-
| gensons, 900 Paul Paulsens, 500 Swan
| Swansons and 21O Andrew Andersons
THE island of st. Helena is again to
| be used as a political prison. This
! time instead of affording a shelter to
! another world-dictator it will be the
| home of certain Zulu chiefs who dared
! to fight against England in defense of
their fatherland- Evidently a rage for
| the burlesque has taken hold of the
| Tory Government
PROF. HADDoN, the English natural
ist, who lately spent some months on
the islands Of South New Guinea, says
there will never again be SO good a
time as now to study the natives and
make anthropological collections, as
the Papuans there are dying out fast,
and are still moro rapidly discarding
their native arts, preferring to buy the
merchandise that the whites bring
among them.