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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
Marie Antoinette,s slipper.

In an old French household in New
York the most carefully cherished
heirloom is slipper which was worn
by Marie Antoinette in the last days
before the French revolution. IL was
one of the precious relics in the bag
gage OF a court lady who fled with her
husband to Louisiana when the storm.
broke. She left the tiny, blue, faded
slipper to her daughter, with the in
junction that it should go down in the
family TO the eldest daughter if she
never allowed herself to have corns.
1t is pretty slipper and has been.
carefully kept in the jewel case Of one
French woman after another, SO that
it is perfectly preserved.
1t Is short very narrow and very
hfgh-heeled, and is brocaded blue,
lined with soft white silk. The sole
is of coarse grained leather and there
are three satin straps over the instep
fastened with IA paste buckle.
The pointed toe is embroidered with
silver threads and the edges are bound
with silver braid.
The condition regarding its inherit
ance has always been strictly adhered
to. The women of the house have
taken great care of their feet that they
might rightfully claim the unhappy
queens slipper, and for 100 years
there has not been a pinching shoe
worn in that family.
A relic of this sort would be boon
in a good many households, IL it had
the effect of inducing the daughters TO
abandon the tight boots. which future
not only their feet but their gait and
carriape
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
P1oMAINE PoIsoNs.
A Deadly Agent That Was Only Recent.
1y Discovered.

ly Discovered.
The recent cases of poisoning by
some mysterious agent have called
public attention to subtle and most
virulent form of poison recently dis
covered by the medical profession.
"Ptomaine' is the name given to this
poisonous agent. which is even at pres
ent but little known. Ptomaines, ac-
cording to accepted theory. are aka
loids generated during decay, and
closely resemble the vegetable aka
loids, but owe their origin to the putre-
faction of animal matter. 49,,
1t has scarcely been ten years since
the attention of Psychologists was at
tracted TO ptomaines. Yet the re-
searches of Selmi. who discovered and
named ptomaines. threw curious
light upon the obscurest pages of the
history OF poisoning those which re-
late to the mysterious and fascinating
exploits OF the Italian prisoners OF the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
1t is believed that the ptomaines
figured potently in their noxious pre-
parations. because in Italy, according
to tradition. the famous and deadly
acquetta di Perugia was a secret com
pound prepared by rubbing white
arsenic into the flesh of pig and col
lecting the liquor which dropped from
the flesh.-New Orleans Picayune
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
IN THE DARK.

o Thou who art my only Light
Thee do follow through the night;
Though home and hope are out of sight,
Firm trust in Thee my spirit hath;
Thou knowest my PATH
Although / cannot see Thy face,
feel the warmth of thy embrace,
Enfold me in the dangerous place
Where sin lies waiting TO betray;
Thou knowest my way.
o Thou who seest me through and through
The thoughts think, the deeds do
Thou mOwest would to Thee be truel
O draw me closer to Thy side.
My Lord, my Guide!
Thou knowest mo, lovedst me in the past,
Even when the temPter held me FAST.
Thy wanderer has come home at last,
Never again from Thee to stray.
From Thee, Ny Way!
know not what may yet unfold
Beyond the mornings gates of gold
This is my heaven-Thy hand to hold,
Thy steps to follow through the night,
Ny Life, my Light
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04

Any squint or cast in the eye can be
cured without the expense OF going to
a physician or an oculist. 1t is only
necessary to get a pair OF spectacles
with plain glass in and to color the
center of one of the lenses black. The
eye will naturally make an effort to
look straight ahead all the time and
after few days the effort will be inn
perceptible. With child cure can
be effected in a week, and with a
grown person month will suffice to
remedy the worst case. Wearing
smoked glasses is the best possible
safeguard for weak eyes when in a
strong light. and even these will help
TO get rid OF "cast" by strengthening
the eyes and relieving them from un-
necessary exerton.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
A ComnlimentrY cut.

Pretty Girl-"Isn't it stranger" Mrs.
Highup invited mo to the debut OF her
first daughter, but she has cut me at
tho debut Of her second"
Mothey (reassurinely)-'Her second
daughter IL very homcly, my dcar."--
New York Weekly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
He Didn't Know Her.

Mrs. Spitfire (handing her husband
photograph How do you like my
pictures, JohnP
"Who is ftp"
"Why, it's mel Who Go you suppose
IL Tsp"
IL wouldn't have known it, never
saw you look that way BEFORE"
What wayp"
Pleasant. Chicago Herald.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
A Trade That wa. a Trnde.

The Springfield Republican records
notable horse trade made in that
vicinity: "A well-kuown jockey So
cured snowy colt and hied himself to
the Dale TO see the boys. When he
came back he was driving fine black
horse, leading a good bay. while there.
followed behind pair OF oxen, COW.
an old SOW and eight pigs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
BURNING MOUNTAINS.

Expensive Sequel to the Newcastle Cody
Mine Observation-Disclosures Reported to
be Burning, with NIillions of Tons of Coal,
and the Inhabitants and Stock Fleeing
to Places of Safcty-The Confiagration
Seen One Hundred Miles Away.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-An afternoon pa
per prints the following special from
Denver, Col: Your correspondents who
left for Newcastle early yesterday morn
ing, wires that hundreds of families
Were fleeing for their lives last night.
Miles and miles and mountains of coal
are on fire. The loss will reach into
the millions, as mountain after mount
ain is rapidly burning up. The terrible
heat and smoke are almost suffocating.
Those residing within few miles of
the confiagration are rapidly moving
their household effects. Horses and
cattle are stampeding in all directions.
Railroads are running their trains, con-
veying passengers to place of safety.
The Colorado Midland railroad is the
leading owner of the coal mountains,
and is heavy loser.
The miraculous escape of hundreds of
miners is just being fully realized, and
II seems like kind act of Providence
that this mornings dispatches did not
recount the death of hundreds of brave
toilers. The day force had just set the
fuses and left the shaft for supper while
the members OF the night shift, number
ing over two hundred, were congregat-
ing outside the shaft. when the explosion
occurred. Had it happened ten min
utes later it would have been repeti-
ton of the Pennsylvania horror. How
much longer the fire will continue it is
impossible to say. If all the fire COM
panies in the civilized world would con-
gregate in front of the burning mount
aims it is doubtful if the flames could be
subdued. The residents of Glcnwood
Springs, a town of 1000 inhabitants,
thirty miles from the scene, are prepar-
ing to seek a more congenial cline.
The residents of Leadville. nearly 100
miles from the scene of the conf1agra-
ton, can plainly see the terrible scene,
while the smoke is perceptible here in
Denver
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
COUNTING THE COST.

What 1t Cost to Bring the Turbulent
Sioux into il More Peaceable Frame Of
Mind-An Expensive Campaign.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-An estimate
sent to Congress by the Secretary of
War to supply a deficiency in the Quar-
termasters department tells the story
of the cost of the Indian campaign just
closed. The round sum of 81, 800, 900 is
asked for, the principal items of which
are $935,016 for transportation OF
troops and supplies, and $751;
702 for extra clothing, camp
and garrison equipagc necessary
to fit out for the winter campaign; S10.-
900 to replace horses broken down in
the campaign and for the purchase of
ponies. and SS7, 900 to cover the differ
ence in the cost of supplies purchased
for troops in the field and the contract
price at the post from which the troops
We're drawn. There were other ex-
penses under the supply department
that will probably bring the total cost
of the campaign up to $4,000, 900. a sum
sufficient to have given the Sioux the
500, 900 annual appropriation promised
them for period of twenty years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

In seventeen Northern States III
total vote cast was within less than Z
per cent. of the Presidential vote of
1883. And in these States the Demo-
cratic gain in the popular vote was over
6O2.0 coo. In 1888 the Republicans car
rled every one of these seventeen
States. In 1890 the Democrats carried
twelve of them. The House of Repre-
sentatlves was made Democratic by a
safe-working majority without count
ing single member from the South.
BY an antiquated and unrepublican
arrangement of sessions the new Con-
gress will not meet in regular order
until December next. But it represents
the latest expression of the popular
will. In eontending for obedience to
that will the Democrats in Congress are
simply insisting that the majority shall
rule.-N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
"WTIAT AN ASS AM II"

The ass thought himself as fine look
ing as his neighbor, the horse, until he,
one day, saw himself in the Loo. ing
glass, when he said "What On ass am II"
Are there not scores of people who
cannot see themselves rs others see
themp They have bad blood. Dim-
pies, blotches, eruptions, and other kin
dred disfigurements. All these annoy
ing things could be entirely cradicated,
and the skin restored to silly white
ness" if that world-famed remedy, DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
were given a fair trial.
1t cures all humors, from the ordi-
nary blotch, pimple or eruption to the
worst scrofula, or the most inveterate
blood-taints, no matter what their ma
ture, or whether they be inherited or
acquired. The "Golden Medical Dis
coveryn is the only blood purifier
guaranteed to do just what it is rec
commended to, or money refunded.
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL AS
ISOLATION, Proprietors, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. 7.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
THE PEOPLES VERDICT.
Figures That Show Which Side Has TIL
Majority.

Figures That Show Which Side Has the
Majority.
The Republicans in Congress claim
to be contending for the right of the
majority to rule. In fact, they are re-
sisting majority rule and endeavoring
to perpetuate the power of discredited
and meager minority.
The policy which the Senate is striv-
ing to embody in law was submitted to
the people last year. The Republicans
of the House had adopted it. The Sen
ate, though it passed the Mckinley
tariff. declined to pass the force bill or
to adopt a gag rule. It permitted these
questions to go to the people. Repub-
lican conventions generally Endorsed
their party's policy. The Democratic
conventions everywhere condemned it.
The issue was squarely joined upon the
stump and in the party press!
In November the people gave their
verdict.
1t caused the most clearly defined
and overwhelming political revolution
ever known in the history of our Gov
eminent
In the vote of the whole country for
Representatives in Congress the Demo
cratic majority over the total Repub-
lican vote was S00,376. In total vote
of nearly 10, 900, 900 for representatives,
the Republican candidates were in a
minority of 1882, 2O2, while the regular
Democratic vote exceeded that of all
other andidates-Republican Farmers,
Prohibition. Independent and Labor
combined-26S,5 $50.
A Republican majority of twenty-four
in the present House was converted into
Democratic majority of 157 in the next
Congress.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Some of the Objects Covered by the SUM
dry Civil appropriations Bill Now Be
fore Congress.

Some of the Objects Covered by the SUM
dry Civil Appropriations Bill Now Be
fore Congress.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-The Sundry
Civl Appropriations bill as reported to
the House carries an appropriation of
S34, 242,910 There is an increased APP
preparation Of 81, 743, IL for public build
ings as compared with the appropria-
ton for the current fiscal year.
Among the appropriations for public
buildings are the following: Atchison,
Kas.. so. 200: Aurora, ILL.,. SD. 900: Alex
andria. La. $40, 600; Baton Rouge, La,
SO, 900: Burlington. Ia. $40. 900: Bro WINS
vile, Tex, $1,000; Bloomington, Ill,
S75, 900: Camden. Ark, $4,000: Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia. $4,000; Chicago
(custOm-house and sub-treasmy re-
pairs, $50, 600: Worlds Columbian Ex-
position Ito complete buildings). $780,
600: Davenport. Ia. 500. 600: Danville,
Ill, 500. 600: Fort Worth. Tex, &115,-
000; Fort Dodge, Ia, S75. coo: Gales
burg. H.. 100000: Kansas City, Mo.
S600,000; Lafayette, Ind. So. 900: Mad
ison. Ind. so. 600: Meridian, Miss. 500
600: Paris, Tex, $4,000: Rock Island,
Ill, $500 Salina, kas. $50, 600: Spring
field. No, $1,000 South Bend, Ind,
$4,000 Sioux City. Ia, S125, 1000.
Other items of interest in the bill are
Worlds Columbian Exposition, Govern
ment exhibit, 500, 900: miscellaneous
expenses. &153.O00; lady managers, S50,-
900: enforcement of Alien Contract La
bor law, $40. GEO: enforcement of Chinese
act, SG0,000 surveys of public lands,
$500, 0)o: Galveston harbor, 5000. 600;
Hay Lake channel, Michigan, $500, 600;
st. Mary's river, Michigan, 5000, 900;
Chickamauga National Park, $500, 900;
soldiers homes. $500 900
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The Republican party has had it's
day and must go. The exigency which
called it into existence is long over:
The great party of the future in this
country is the Democratic party, and
no oppressed popular interest ever
looked to that party in vain.-New
York World.
1t is too late for the Republicans
to gain any credit by an abandonment
of the force bill in the alleged interest
of practical and necessary legislation.
The burglar who drops his ''swag'' in
the street in order to escape the officers
of the law. does not thereby purge him
self of his dishonesty.-De Free
Press.
Among Mr.. WINDOWS last words
were: THE floating tonnage of the
United States engaged in coastwise
commerce and on our lakes and rivers
is very far in excess of that of any
other nation Could there be a more
eloquent tribute to free trade than
these last words of the dying Secre-
tary?-Louisville Courier-J ournal
by the way, apropos of the defeat
OF the closure rule and the force bill.
it may not be out of the way to remind
those Republican organs which lament
ed because the minority refused to
let the majority gag it that the ma
iority has conquered. Cheer up, most
rampant organs The force bill and
closure are dead, bot ,your theory has
been indicated. The majority is per-
mitted to rule in this country.-Chica-
go Times.
The Republican Senators have
formally and officially assured the
Democratic Senators that the force
bill has been permanently aban-
doned. There will now be no
more need of Congressional obstruc-
ton. All necessary business can be
finished by March f. No extra session
of the new Congress will be needed.
The abandonment of the force bill is
the greatest event for liberty since Corn
wallis surrender at Yorktown. End
less honor and gratitude to the Demo
cratic Senators and their Republicans
allies!-Brooklvn Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
A COSTLY FIRE.

OBSTRUCTION of the Hecla Iron Works at
Williamsburg, y. f.-Other Concerns
Damaged.
NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-The Hecla Iron
an early hour, causing a loss which is
estimated at $500, 900. The iron works
We're one-story buildings, but covered
an entire block. Brennan & Calligan' S
coopcrage, situated opposite the Hecla
Iron Works: Davis & Co. varnish fac
tory. adjoining the eooperage, and the
six-story building occupied by the j. 5.
Nugent Paper Company caught fire, and
were partially destroyed. The damage
to these firms and buildings is estimated
at 300. 600
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

ARKANSAS CITY, kas., Feb. 5.-Prof.
Coppeck, superintendent of the Cholico
Indian schools. has received the follow
ing message from Indian Commissioner
Morgan: Information has been re-
ceived here that cattlemen and settlers
propose to enter the Cherokee Outlet
Give public notice that all intruders
will be elected. Keep me advised of
any intrusion" Soldiers have been out
of the Strip for nearly a month, but a
large detachment has left for Reno to
reoccrpy the lands with orders to eject
all boomers now in the Strip and keep
every body out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

LEXINGTON, Ky, Feb. 5.-George
Best, young man of twenty, from
Washington County, went to Brandon
burg with his wife and couple of
friends. On his way home he was over.
taken by two young men named Holli-
day, who had taken good deal of whis-
ky while in town. The pair rode up be-
hind Best and began to shoot. Three
bullets took effect, one of them infiict-
ing a fatal wound. The shooting was
the result of an old family feud which
was supposed to have been settled long
ago. Best's young wife was witness
to the murder, and is heart broken.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
Down an Incline.

At Kansas City a runaway cable train
dashed down an incline the other night,
and it was only by the merest chance
that u number of lives were not lost.
The train went down an incline one
hundred feet long and with an angle of
thirty degrees. The gripman was in
jured and passenger slightly hurt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
L Fainter Killed.

Henry Richarz, a painter, twenty-four
years old and single, was almost in
stantly killed at Lemp's brewery, st.
Louis, the other day. He was at work
on the third floor of the building. when
the scaffold gave way and he fell seven
ty-five feet. His neck was broken.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

Henry tStocksick was shot and IN
stantly killed in a st. Louis saloon the
other night by William Crawford, an
ex-convict. Crawford was found in an
alley bleeding from wound in the
head and bad wound in the stomach.
Crawford claims that he shot in self-de-
Tense. as Stocksick and his friends
rushed upon him with clubs, and he shot
to save his own life
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
The Nevada Insane Asylum.

The number of patients admitted
since November 20. 1883, to Lunatic
Asylum No. at Nevada is 42S. OF
these 247 We're males and 1S1 females.
Within this time 500 have been dis
charged, AS restored and As improved.
Seventy-one have died This is the
largest proportion of mortality of any
institution of this kind in the country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

He Sold For Cash.-"You'1l give me
six months credit on this watch, sup
pose," said a customer to Chicago
jeweler. I'm sorry, SIR" replied the
jewefer. THE watch will give you
time, but it will be impossible for me to
do so. '-Inter-Ocean
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

1t is rumored in Catholic circles at
St. Joseph that Right Rev. Bishop j. X.
Hogan. after a half century's service,
has determined to retire, and has sent
his resignation as Bishop of Kansas City
and Administrator Of the See of ST. Jo-
Seph to Rome.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

Annie Burnett, aged twenty. colored,
of Kansas City, received a letter from
her husband. who is in Tennessee. and
had violent fit of weeping after read
ing it. She sat down and answered the
letter, and soon afterward fell to the
floor and expired.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

The Nevada Christian University,
erected and opened little over year
ago. dismissed the students and closed
its doors recently. The building is
heavily encountered and the institution
was unable to meet expenses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

Jock to Tam-s'Is that Pate an his
lassie walking alang over there?" Tam
-s'Ay, mon, he's no very lang marrit
tae her." Jock-''She's no very guild
loolSin'. Did he marry her for money?''
Tam-''Na, ma, mon, as the sayin' is,
Her face is her fortune.''' Jock
'sWeel, if that's the case, he's got puir
bargain, for there's vac thing, she'll
never be millionaire"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
believes He Will Recover.

William A. Walter, who was inoculat-
ed at the Missouri Pacific Hospital, St.
Louis. with Koch lymph, for the cure
of consumption, is reported to be great
ly improved His cough is gone, and he
believes that he will recover.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

Lucien Berry died in Nevada the other
day, aged ninety years. He was born
on Washington's birthday. and was The
weaithiest man in the vicinity OF Ne
yada.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
They are Ex-lTissouri.ns.

Governor Humphrey of Kansas ed
tied a paper in Shelbina in 1s6S-9-7O
State Printer Snow of Kansas was a
member of the Twenty fifth Missouri
Volunteer Senator PETER lived in
Morgan County from 1859 to 1862.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-20
American Indians Came From
Asia.

Prof. John Fiske, of Harvard col
lege, in a lecture on the discovery of
America said: "The aboriginal in
habitants of America were undoubt-
eddy of Asiatic origin. 1t is now
known that a land connection exist
ed between Alaska and Kamtchatka
in the pre-glacial period, and it was
probably by this route that the Ash
attic colonists reached our continent.
There is much evidence to show that
the Eskimos are descended from these
early Asiatic immigrants. The In
dams, however, are OF an entirely
different stock from the Eskimos.
From Hudson's Bay southwark to
Cape Horn the red men were prob
ably all of one race, though with
some welI-marked divisions into SUBJ
races; and they were. doubtless, de-
scended from the Asiatic tribes who
cal me after the glacial period. Abo-
rIginal America was much more
archaic world than Europe or Asia,
and its political and social features
are OF incalculabIe value to the stu
dent OF primitive culture.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-20
Strength of Modern Preaching,

Farmer George" speaking to his
English rector OF the poorness of the
preaching before his advent to the
parish, delivered himself in this wise:
Why, it reminds NE of what Tread in
our paper this week of a little girl
whose mother sent her to a Scotch
neighbor to borrow beef bone to
make some broth, and she said TO
the little 'un, 'Weel, ma lassie, can
Ma jist do that. Ye see, we made
broth with it oursels on Monday,
and we lent it to Mrs. slacyicar to
flavor some hare soup on Tuesday,
and we will ba using to day for our
sells; but We may get boiling OF OF
Friday, for Mrs. Tamson has the
promise OF for the morning for some
nice strengthening soup, for her
mans an invalid And that stuff
doled cut to US from our pulpit was
about as strong as that; no better
than mug OF skim milk in a bucket
OF water; not food enough for tom
tat, let alone man."