Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-17
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Because an Iowa farmer refused to
ell out a mortgage blank that had been
sent to him by the census bureau he
was arrested and bound over by fed
| eral grand jury for trial. He had
| written to Mr.. Porter to mind his own
| business and not be too inquisitive
about private affairs
"A Massachusetts, farmer knows a
good thing when he sees it The pu-
pills of the high school at latham So
licited the privilege of husking his corn
and furnishing the refreshments be-
sides. and he granted both. The young
people had a good time and found
enough red ears to satisfy them.
Sam Jones was the driver OF pub
lie dray in his native town before he
became preacher. His outfit was a
small, rickety, rafting, ramshackle
wagon and an old sorrel horse He
was familiar figure at the railway
station, and his most profitable jobs
were hauling drummers' trunks to the
hotel
William IL, the new King of Wur-
temburg. is man Of simple tastes who
will have little desire to sustain bill
| ment to the gay Wurtemburgers. who
still hope that the Kew queen, who Is
but twenty seven. may induce the king
to furnish the people with some enter
tainments-
"A man not overburdened with a
conscience dwells in Clinton, Me- He
prides himself upon the possession of a
bird dog. who earns his board. The
dog, it appears, thinks that every hing
that wears feathers is bird. He is in
the habit of robbing the neighbors of
their chickens and bringing them to his
owner. Within the last month he has
brought home twenty-five chickens
John Fiske says that the word
viking" should be pronounced to
rhyme with picking" though the last
edition of Webster still gives the 80
its long sound. AS a matter OF fact
the word is a grandilolent fraud. There
is nothing OF the liking" about it in
reality, and it meant simply a man
who dwelt on riK-r. or bay. and made
predatory excursions therefrom-a
pirate, in fact
To the recent exploits of women
explorers must be added the adventures
her husband. an Englishman, on two
years visit to central Asia, during
which they visited the Pamir plateau
They saw great deal OF the scattered
tribes which inhabit that inhospitable
region. 1t will be remem bered that
from the time of Marco Polo until
twelve years ago no explorer had ever
visited the Pamir.
A story is told of Judge who be-
came so interested in the statement of
a would-be assassin, who had just
missed fatally stabbing his victim. that
he exclaimed at one point of the nara
tive: '.Ah, you should have struck
more to the left" The judge was the
last man to have committed deed OF
violence, but his surprise that the thing
had not been done more skillfully
caused him to forget the question OF
life and death which was involved.
Miss Cynthia Westover, recording
secretary of the Woman's Press club,
and also secretary of the New York
street cleaning department, is a native
of Iowa, and when child, lived for
time in the far west where she learned
to ride, throw the lariat and to excel
in many accomplishments not usual to
women, but requiring courage and
skill She paid her own expenses at
the Colorado state university, where
she made special study of geology.
and she has since written. studied and
taught in this branch of scientific in
terest Miss WestoTer has q fine con-
tralto voice, and can converse in four
different languages