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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
beWaRe OF The bull

would have been a large man to-day,
with whiskers, had he not been am
bilious to turn over new leaves. He
turned leaf after leaf, each revealing
such hidden treasure that he got excited
and let his thoughts wander. He didn't
know for many days what planted him
over in the middle of the adjoining corn
field. His friends knew it was the
."bul." There are other instances. A
man travelling in far country received
an important letter from home. He
read two pages and chuckled with un-
comfortable merriment, the happiest
man on earth. I'm a father, proud,
happy father Hooray!" he shouted be-
fore he could go on. But his chin sank
clean into his neck when he turned over
a new leaf and read: There are three
of them; three bouncing girls, all rosy
and doing splendidly."
A small boy listened so attentively
to his teachers remarks on the subject
of turning new leaves that she compli-
mented him and said she hoped he
would profit by her suggestions. He
went to his seat and turned over four
new leaves of vulgar fractions, and said
10 himself. IL Jake IL easy lO" I'LL
the class catch up" but when he under
took to explain his case at class time,
it didn't work The rest of the fellows
played Skinny that night after school,
on the ice. He didn't. Another boy
was in the tip-top of a cherry tree, we'll
out toward the end of a slender limb.
He was turning leaf after leaf in search
of fruit pretty we'll picked before hand.
He was about to come down, but first,
said he. III turn over one more new
leaf" He reached away out beyond
any former attempt, and with the tip
end of his finger nail managed to turn
one more leaf Nothing but his grand
fathers grind-stone prevented his fall
ing to the ground. He struck that, and
felt the shock for many day.
These are but a few of the many in
stances that go to prove, what has been
often asserted, that the best of rules
have their exceptions. In turning over
new leaves look out for snakes.-Detroit
Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The consumption of American can
ned fruit is continually on the increase
among the middle classes of England.
The rchbishop of Paris denounces
cremation, and orders his clergy to do
so. He says it is triumph of material
ism over spiritualism.
An Australian town has given its
streets chemical names, such as Argent,
Beryl, Cobalt, Kaolin, lodide, OXIDE
Bromide and Sulphide.
Some beer was recently discovered
walled up in the cellars of brewery at
Burton-on-Trent, which had been
brewed in the year 179S. 1t was 1ouno
to be in good condition.
1t is reported that the Car OF
Russia has added to his imperial cares
and anxieties those of becoming an I'M
mense cotton planter, and that he an
nually raises huge crop OF cotton from
his vast estates at Mughab.
The Gar has new train OF cars to
travel in. The cars are connected with
each other by vestibules, so that he can
mass from one to another without being
seen from the outside, and they are COW
cred with iron and eight-inch walls of
cork.
In a library in Paris, the largest in
the world, is a Chinese chart of the
heavens made about 600 years before
Christ In this chart 1,460 stars are
found to be correctly inserted, as cor
roborated by the scientists Of the pres
ent day.
-Roumanian pigs feed in herds, eat
grass, go home at night of their own ac-
cord, and in the most good-humored
manner to their styes or stables; but
now and Their they will chase man,
and, if they can overtake him, will
knock him down and eat him.
"A remarkable three-story reservoir
has just been built upon Montmartre,
the highest point in Paris. The capacity
is 1900 square meters and the area
$500 square meters. It is proposed to
supply the whole city with water from
this high level.
The London Institute of Actuaries
proposes to dispense with the services
of medical men in examining for insur-
ance in cases where the applicant pre-
fers to make statement before re-
sponsible officer. This change is based
upon the idea that thousands of people
in good health will not insure because
they have to pass through the doctors
surveillance.
The German Empress is forming
League for the Preservation of Good
Habits among Prussian ladies. The
members bind themselves to discourage
luxury in every form, both for them
selves and their friends; to wear fewer.
more simple and cheaper dresses, and
to practice rigid economy in their
households.
A new French law bestows certain
advantages on fathers of more than Z
children. The resulting inquiry shows
that there are 1000, 900 households in
France in which there has been no
child. ,, 500, 900, with l.; $500, 900, with ,
children; 1,5OO, 900, with 3; about 1,000,-
900, with 4; $50, O0s, with 5; 230, 900 with
6; and 200, 900 with or more.
Modern inventions have hard time
of it N Constantinople. A German
photographer undertook to catch d
picture of the Sultan as he rode to the
mosque, but the royal guard rushed
upon him and smashed his instruments.
The reason for the violence is an inter
dict of the Koran which forbids all
tographer, after a months impriSOn-
ment, was saved by the intervention OF
his Ambassador.
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sons to find on authority well-known
hospital writer that, could the infants
of year be ranged in line in cradles.
the cradles would be overlooking and at
the same time extend around the globe
We have the ingenious conclusion also
that, supposing the little ones grow up,
and the sexes be about equally divided,
we would have an army 100 times larger
than that of Great Britain, and wife
for each soldier besides The same
writer looks at the matter in a still
more picturesque light. He imagines
the babies being carried past given
point In their mothers arms, one by
one, and the procession being kept up
night and day until the last corner in
the twelve-month had passed by. A
sufficiently liberal rate is allowed, but
even in going past at the rate of 20 a
minute the reviewer at mis- post would
only have seen the sixth part of this in
fantile host after they had been passing
him at the rate of 1000 an hour during
the entire year, In other words, the
babe that had to be carried when the
tramp began, would be able to walk
when but a mere fraction of its COM
and when the years supply of babies
was drawing to a close, there would be
a rear guard. not of infants, but of romp-
ing six-year-old boys and girls.-St.
Louis Republic
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10

She knew it was necessary to becoms
beautiful in order to be considered attract
i've. and so she made the art of identifying
study. She felt it wiser to be plump ant
hearty than to be thin and delicate To thi:
end she knew good health was csscnt al
She had suffered from backaches, sideachcs
and bearing down pains, and was restles.
until she found the medicine she needed. II
improved her appetite and digestion. Her
habits became regular. Her flesh increased
and became more firm and solid. Her COM
plexion became clear and beautiful and free
from pimples. Her lips grew red and her
cheeks grew rosy. She did not know an
ache or pain. Exercise gave her pleas
ure and she became the life of her com
panions. She could ride q tricycle. fol
many miles and never seemed to grow
weary Her laughter was catching and al
the young men loved her. She is nows
happy wife and mother. Who was she
What was her namel Well, no matter, lei
US know the medicine she used. With pleas
ure, with pleasure, sweet girls. She useo
DR.. John Bulbs Sarsaparilla. If any there
be among you who are sickly, go quickly
and do likewise-Mansfield Independent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
" SIZES" IN THREAD.
How the Numbers Now in Use Originated
and What They Mean.


Every SeamStress, whether she wants
No. so or 90 or 125 thread, knows from
the number just what size the thread
will be and what kind of sewing it can
be used for: but how the numbers came
to be just what they are and just what
they mean not one person in 1000
knows; get it is a very simple matter to
explain, providing you only know the
points and how to elucidatc them.
When $40 yards Of yarn weigh 1000
grains. pound of cotton, the thread
makers mark it No. 1. If 1850 yards
weigh 4 pound it is marked as No. ,.
For No. 80 yarn it would take 80 multi
piled by $40 TO weigh a pound; this is
the whole explanation of the yard meas
urement as used by the spool cotton
manufacturers. The early manufact-
ured thread was of three instead of six
cord, the number being derived
from the number of yards to
the pound, just as it is to-day. No. 60
yarn made No. 90 thread, though in
point of fact the actual caliber of No. 60
thread would equal No. 20 yarn, being
made of three No. 20 strands twisted to-
gether.
When the sewing machine came into
the market as the great thread-consum-
or, unrcasoning in its work AID in
exorable in it's ID mandS for mechanical
accuracy, siX-cord cotton had to be made
in place of the old and rougher three
cord, it being much smoother As thread
numbers were already established, they
were not altered for the new article, and
No. 60 siX-cord and No. so three-cord
were left identical in both size and
number. To effect this the six-cord has
to be made of yarn twice as fine as that
dem anded in making the three-cord
variety. The No. 90 siX-cord is made OF
six strands of No. 100 yarn. The three,
cord spool cotton is the same number as
the yarn is made of. Six-cord spool cot
ton is always made from yarn double its
number. Thread is simple thing, but
simple as it Is, there are 1000 kinds OF
it and each kind goes through hundreds
of different processes.-St. Louis Re
public.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10

for an aUctioncer of small wares IS eE-
pected to be funny. The articles put
up for sale were inexpensive, and were
carefully and laboriouslY packed in
large boxes. libcrally stuffed with pa
per, and the bidders were not permitted
to know the contents of the package upon
which they were invited to bid. The
auctionecr refused to guarantee any
thing, and all who proposed to invest
their money were compelled to do SO in
the dark. Notwithstanding this disad-
vantage the bidding was very spirited,
and the city attorney rang out all the
changes to be found in the vocabulary
of the auctiOneCr.
The first article was knocked off to a
dignifcd judge. Great curiosity was
manifested to ascertain the nature Of
his purchase. In fact, the excitement
became intense, though the gentleman
of the ermine preserved his dignity and
his self-control. From the outer in
closure he took out y cigar box, and it
was supposed that he had obtained q
hundred cigars; but upon opening the
interior box he found a fve-ccnt rubber
doll. The laugh was upon him, and he
enjoyed it quite as much as others.
The superintendent of schools, after
O. vigorous search into the contents of a
large box, produced spider on his web.
Many ludicrous purchases were made,
for there was abundant opportunity for
the maiden lady to procure a man, the
confirmed old bachelor cradle, and
both of them toys and rattles for babies.
The articles purchased called forth
many Jokes and much badinage.
When the stock OF goods to be sod
was exhausted the prizes were given
out. had the honor to win tho '-hooby
prize by giving dollar for tin
match holder covered with gilt. Tho
gift was as thoroughly enveloped a
wrappers as an Egyptian mummy, anti
it proved to be miniature skeleton
with a fan in its hand, as though it had
just come out of a high temperature
The other prize was equally appropri~
ate. as the company went to the col
1ation they all voted that Auction" was
a decided success.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
AMERICAN COLLEGES,
Their Progress Since the Close of the War
of the Rebellion.

of the Rebellion.
The installation of Hon Seth Low as
president of Columbi College will di-
rect attention to the remarkable devel-
opment of the principal American uni
versities in the last quarter of the cent
ury. 1t is safe to say that during this
relatively short period such educational
institutions as Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton and Columbia have made greater
advance in their pecuniary resources,
In the size of their professional stats
and in the number of students than in
the preceding hundred years.
Indeed, from their founda ton up to
the close OF the war of the rebellion the
progress of these establishments was
comparatively slow. Mr. Henry Adams,
in the first volume of his History of the
United States, notes that in and near
1890 only fifteen or twenty grad
yates were annually sent forth
from Columbia. and that most of
the nominal professorships were I'M
filled. We are told on the same author
ity that on an average during the decade
from 1870 to 1890 only thirty nine young
men yearly took degrees from Harvard
College. This was actually a smaller
average than had been exhibited in the
decade preceding the revolutionary war.
In 1900 only one professorship had
been added to the tutorial resources of
Harvard since 1920. A review of old
catalogues would no doubt reveal SIM
liar backwardness at Yale and Prince
ton in the early years of this century.
Now, although the number of students
and of instructors naturally rose with
the immense increase of the country's
population, the figures reached in 1860
were far below those attained to-day.
AS to the academical curriculum of the
four institutions named, it remained in
1860 pretty much what it had been in
1900, and no decisive change took place
until the era of educa tional expansion
and reform which followed the civil
war. Now, all of the colleges mentioned
rank among the foremost universities
of the English-speaking world in respect
of standards, me thodS and stimulation.
N Cd
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
A KNOWING COLLIE,
An Awfully Smart Dog Who Understands
the English Language.

the English Language.
| saw this myself. down in Kentucky,
and thereunto l give my hand and seal
and can produce my witnesses in proper
form. / was visiting cousin down in
the bluegrass region-Conner was his
name. He has been a member of the
Kentucky Legislature for years. He
has magnificent farm, a herd of fine
cattle, good horses. and other possess
sions that belong naturally to the Ken
lucky gentleman of the old school We
were sitting out on the old veranda in
the shade one hot August afternoon,
smoking. A splendid collie lay sleep
ing on the step. l commented on his
beauty.
Yes" said the legislator, that's
the smartest dog in all this country.
Every evening at six o'clock. punctual
to the minute, he goes by himself and
brings the cows from the pasture
Then the conversati ton turned upon
something else and we forgot all about
the dog. In little while we heard a
commotion in the road before the front
gate. and there was the collie with the
whole herd, which he had reused from
their siesta and cud-chewing in the
middle of the afternoon. His tail
waived like a plume, his ears were
cooked, his tongue was lolling out and
dripping. his eyes were blazing with
pride, and smile of radiant exultation
lighted his handsome face. lie said, as
plainly as ever man spoke: There
ye see, it's true; can do it just exactly
as I'm billed"
But pride goes before fall, or some
thing of that sort, a silly old saying
whatever it is. Conner looked down
the front walk in amazement; then he
stood up and shouted. as only six-foot-
er of a kentuckian can shout: You,
Ranger. take those cows straight back
where We got EN- from"
And the dog understood the English
language perfectly. But what trans
formation! His ears fell, he hung his
head, tucked his tail between his legs,
and started off down the road again
He was the most chagrined, detected
and Inundated creature We ever saw.
Kentucky Bourbon? No; l never drink
it.-Chicago Inter-O Ocean
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
POPULAR EXPRESSIONS.
Origin of Slang Words and Phrases Now
in General Use.

Dun is word now whose meaning
is known to every one who understands
the English language. About the be-
ginning of the century constable in
England named John Dun became eel
ehrated as a first-class collector of bad
accounts. When others would fail to
collect bad debt Dun would be sure to
get it out of the debtor. 1t soon passed
into a current phrase that when a per-
son owed money and did not pay when
asked he would have to be ''Dunned."
Hence it soon became common in such
eases to say: You will have to dun
So-and-so if you wish to collect your
money"
Until the nomination of Franklin
Pierce for the Presidency the word
outsider" was unknown. The commit
tee on credentials came in to make its re-
port and could not get into the hall be-
cause of the crowd of people who were
not members of the convention The
chairman of the convention asked if
the committee was ready to report and
the chairman of the committee an
swerod: Yes, Mr.. Chairman, but the
committee is unable to get inside on
account of the crowd and pressure of
the outsiders The newspaper re-
porters took up the word and used it
''You are a daisy is used by Dickens
in David Copperfield'' in the sense of
calling person daisy in way to ex-
press admiration and at the same time
to laugh at ones credulity. Steerforth
says to young Copperfield: David, my
daisy, you are SO innocent of the world.
Let me call you my daisy, as it is so re-
freshing to find one in these corrupt
DAYS so innocent and unsophisticate ted.
My dear Copperfield, the daisies of the
field are not fresher than you"
TOO thin" was given currency by
Hon. Alexander Fl. Stephens, of Geor
gia, in the United States Senate in
1870. Some member had made a reply
to Mr.. Stephens, and the latter had his
chair wheeled out in the aisle and said
in that shrill, piping voice, which al
ways commanded silence: MIR. Speak
er, the gentleman's arguments are
gratuitous assertions made up of whole
cloth. And cloth, sir, so gauzy and thin
that it will not hold water. 1t is entire
ly too thin, sir. American Notes and
Queries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
STARVATION FOLLY.
The Self-StarvinS Crank Is Probably the
Most Stupid of Idiots.

The Self-StarvinS Crank Is Probably the
Most stupid of Idiots
The self-starving crank is probably
the most stupid of all the host of nui
sanCeS idiotic of natures bountieS. The
National Druggist expresses some very
sensible views respecting the utter use
leSsneSs, either to the world at large or
to the individual concerned, of this fad
of experimental abstinence from food.
An English doctor, named Allenson, has
recently attracted considerable atten-
ton by living for month on a diet of
cooked wheat meal and water. Our CO.
temporary relates how the doctor, in a
sort of manifesto to his fellow-vegeta-
rians, tells how much weight and
strength of grip he had gained; how his
eye-sight had improved and brain
cleared under a regimen which had
cost him under two pence day, and his
statements are now being copied in
the medical and secular press of
the world as though they were
something new and valuable. The
fact is, they are neither one nor the
other. The American Indians, more
especially the Creeks, Cherokees and
ChOctaws, had long ago shown that 4
man could suhsist for considerable
period, and travel vast distances, on a
daily diet of few ounces of parched
corn-meal and water ad libitum. Long
before these the accidental experiences
of shipwrecked sailors, or men lost in
wildernesses, imprisoned in mines, etc,
had proven the same thing We have
yet to learn, however, that these men
were any wiser or happier, or that they
attained any greater longevity by their
,abstemiousness. voluntary or enforced.
The fact is, the problem of nutrition is
not how little we can subsist upon, but
how to get the greatest enjoyment con-
sistent with sound health and length of
days out of the bill of fare which our
purses enable us to provide. The graft
fication of the sense of taste within
proper limits is as laudable an ambition
as that of the acquisition of knowledge
or any other of the admitted ends and
aims of existence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10

The partridge of the Southern States,
or quail, as they are called in the North,
is the only species of game whose num-
bers have not been lessened by the in
PRODUCTION of the breech-loader. 1t is
wonderful. even marvellous, how the bird
holds its own, while other varieties of
game have been either utterly exterIni-
mated or have become so diminished as
to exclude them from the game list.
Where are the wild pigeons that used to
swarm in their annual flights all over
North America? l have not seen one for
fifteen years. Where are the swan and
mallard, the robin. the wild turkey that
filled the woods, highland, and lowland
alike; the rice or reed bird and other
varieties once so plentiful, but now sell
dom seen in the sportsman's game bag?
Neither their wildness, wariness, or
cunning saved them. Now, the par
fridge has but little craft: he haunts
open fields and has absolutely no protec-
ton save his quick, flashing fiight.-The
Weeks Sport.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10
MATRIMONIAL NEWS.
Queer Extracts from an Old Copy of tt
..Gentlenan'S Niagazine."

Queer Extracts from an Old Copy of the
.GentIeman's Magazine"
Marriage notices a century or two ago
were much more interesting than they
are now. 1t was not mere announce
ment of the date of the wedding and
names of the contracting parties that
the people looked for. They expected
to be informed as to the many details
which are now received for the more in
innate friends of the families of the
newly-married couple. The Gentle
mans Magazine contains number of
these notices. Under date of March Is,
1855, it gives this item of matrimonial
news: 'John Parry, Esq, of Carmar-
thenshire, to a daughter of Walter Lloyd,
ESQ, member for that county; fortune
of S, 900 pounds sterling" That is to say,
the bride brought with her dowry OF
$40, 900. Another notice printed few
years earlier goes still further into de-
tails. 1t reads: Married, the Bev. Mr..
Roger Wanna, of York, about % years OF
age, to a Lincolnshire lady, upward of
so, with whom he is to have 5000 pounds
sterling in money, 800 pounds sterling
per annum and a coachand-four during
life only" Evidently the blushing bride
of eighty summers was willing to pay
high price for a husband. Probably Rev.
Mr.. Wanna was worth it, or he would
not have allowed himself to be restrict
ed to the use of coach-and-four dur
ing life only" The same magazine in
March, 1888, announced the marriage
of The Earl of Antrim of Ireland to
Miss Betty Pennefeather, celebrated
beauty and toast of that kingdom" 1t
is to be surmised that Miss Penne-
feathers beauty was her only fortune.
otherwise some mention would have
been made of it.-Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-10

. l nave seen about as much amusement
in the game of Blowing Out the
Candle as in any other. A lighted
candle is placed on stand, and the
victims are blindfolded with the greatest
care, for even the least sight spoils the
game.
Each of them is then placed about six
feet from the table and required to walk
up TO it and blow out the candle. AL
most every one thinks he can certainly
do it the first time trying: but 1t proves
to be much more difficult matter than
was supposed. Each one is allowed to
try three times, and the putting at the