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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-16
SOLD BY THE MILE.
Tissue Papers Means of Decoration Ar
Receiving Wide Recognition.

Tissue Papers a Means of Decoration Are
Receiving Wide Recognition.
Although crepe and crinkled tissue
papers are just now being sold by the
mile, few people have any idea of the
innumerable purposes for which they
are ada pted. besides that of making
lamp and candle shades and perhaps
fower-pot covers. The crepe paper. in
particular. is so strong that it will take
a needle and thread through it without
becoming torn. hence it can be tackled
up into folds. paaits. a nd killings. or
gathered into ruchings and puffings.
The crinlzled paper. being less finely
crumpled. can scarcely be utilized for
these more elaborate trimmings. but is
generally employed as foundation
upon which are laid the folds and dra-
peries made of crepe paper.
The paper is sold in rolls, two of
which are supposed to be the right
quantity for shade for duplex lapsp.
and are each joined into round for
the purpose. One roll is generally laid
inside the othe-, the paler serving
lining for the darker shade. For a
small lamp about four inches will prob
ably have to be cut away from the width
of the paper, but this must depend upon
the style of the shade that is required.
A royS of gathering stitches should be
run along the paper five or six inches
below the upper edges. These stitches
are drawn up to the size required to fit
the brass ring of the frame which holds
the shade, and are hidden by band
and bow of ribbon, into which is often
passed spray of artificial flowers.
grasses, or some similar decoration. In
some cases the cut edges of the upper
part of the shade are smoothed out so,
that they set very full like frill, and the
gofferings thus made are often all-suffi-
cient to hide the stitches of the CATER
ing There is literally no limit to the
ways in which the paper may be
smoothed out, folded up, and pinched
together to give variety to the shades
many of which are made up of So many
layers OF paper, and are SO much
fiounced and fulled out that they be-
comes at last enormous balls of putfipgs
ana frills.
Candle shades are made on exactly
the same plan as the lamp shades, but,
of course, they require less fullness.
They are always lined with tale. to
lessen the risk of their catching fire.
Colossal roses. dahlias, carnations, pop
pies. DAISIES and many other flowers are
often used as candle shades, made up
simply on a wire stem and finished with
two or three leaves. These are hung
to the brass ring or clip which is used
for an ordinary round shade. Flower
pot covers are made much in the same
way, the friu being placed at the lower
edge.
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CANDLES FROM PLANTS.
Vegetables Which Bear Wax aud TalIow-
Facts About CamphOr.

Vegetables Which Bear Wax aud TalIow-
Facts About CamphOr.
'..Several very curious substances OF
an intiammable nature are produced by
plants" said naturalist. Many vege-
table species bear wax, which, in the
form of minute scales on the surface of
the plum and other stone fruits, makes
what is called the bloom. 1t exists so
abundantly in the fruit of Virginia
myrtle that the latter has received the
name of candle berry Those berries
are collected in great qualities for their
wax and candles made from them
burn with remarkab BILE brightness
and freedom from smoke at the
same time giving out a pleasant
fragrance. a wax-bearing tree exists
in south Africa, the berries of which
yield substance which is made into
candles by the Dutch. There are sew
eral species of wax palms in South
America. One of them has it's leaves
covered with scales of wax, while the
trunk of another kind is covered with
the wax as with a varnisb.
"A substance very like tallov is yield
ed by tree in China, the seed vessels
of which are hard, brownish husks.
Each of them contains three round
white kernels, about the size and shape
of hazel nuts. These kernels have small
stones inside them. around which the
fatty matter lies. From the pit of the
stone an oil for burning in lamps
is pressed. Almost all the candles
used in the south of China are
made from this vegetable tallow.
A tree abounds on the Nal
abar coast of India. called the 'piney,
which bears pulpy fruit that yields
great quantity of solid tallow ap-
preaching wax in frmness, and SUI
perior to animal fat for the manufac-
ture of candles
Another remarkable infiammab BILE
substance secreted by plants is cam
phor. 1t is chiefly obtained from spe-
cies of laurel native to the East Indies.
In preparing it pieces of the roots are
put into an iron vessel tightly covered.
When the vessel is heated the camphoI
rises in the form of vapor and is con-
densed on the cover. That is the primi-
tive method, at all events, though l be-
ieve it is improved upon by newly-in-
vented processes. In old trees the
camphor is sometimes found, when the
trunks are slit open, in very pure
state, forming small concretions OF
tears '"-Washington Star.
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Dainty garden hats are made Of crepe
paper which can either serve for the
trimming OF an ordinary straw or cr;ao-
line shape. or can itself be made up over
, light foundation OF wire. These hats
are very dainty when made in delicate
colors. and are light ard cool, bat are
| essentially fair-vea1ncr friends. = -erv
few drops of rain be ing enou3h 20 ruin
! them.
The Parisians have been quick to sec
| the suitability OF these papers for
dresses, and have given balls. at which
all the guests were attired in fancy cos
{ TUNES made of this material. An extra
wide make of crepe paper is especially
| prepared with view to decorating
bathrooms, bazaar stalls. house boats,
| summer houses, and for curtains and
! blinds of all kinds that are required for
! ornament and not for use.
Screens lend themselves ad-nira bly, to
| covering with crepe. especially as this
material may be spotted or striped With
| color or bronze. gold, silver or other
metallic p:-ints. giving it the appear
| ance OF an Oriental woven material.
Amongst the smaller articles to DE
made. or at any rate trimmed, with
crepe and crinllled paper. are table
napkin rings. serviettes for picnics
| mats and doylies. menu cards. wall
| pockets of all kinds, and calenders.
Delica te ruchin~s encircle many of these
things. others are decorated with wee
tassels. pompOns. bows. and fringes.
Antiuuated baskets may be made new.
and cardboard boxes are easily trans
formed into attractive and useful lnicl-
knaclls by being carefully decora ted
with paper. An old mutI-bol. in par
ticular. can be converted intO an excel
lent receptacle for waste paper by COW
ering it first inside and out with crinizled
paper. and arranging over this. round
the upper edge, a fiounce Of crepe.
caught up here and there with large.
full roscttes. y small twist or plat of
crinlled paper should be gummed round
the inside edge of the box.-Chicag0
Tribune
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CURIOUS FACTS.
Odd Things That Might Have Happened
But Didn't.

Z.
The daily papers occasionally print
interesting items under the head of
Curious Facts. The subjoined para
graphs. which are entitled to place
under that head, are now published for
the first time:
In Gainesville, this spring, q farmer
found under the hay in his barn hen
that had evidently been buried there
last summer. The fowl was not only
dead, but it had not laid single egg
during it's long imprisonment.
A lady, while bathing at the seashore
last season. lost a valuable diamond
ring from her finger. A few days ago
large fish was caught near the spot;
and when it was cut open, much sur
| prise was naturally manifested when it
| was discovered that the missing ring
was mot in it,
A young woman in this city. recog-
nizing her lovers pull at the door-bell,
| went in person to admit him. During
| her brief absence, her mischievous lit
tie brother stole into the parlor and
placed hunk of soft molasses candy
| on the big rocking-chair. When the
| young lady's lover entered the room, he
| deliberately took seat On the sofa,
and the girls little brother picked up
his candy and left the room in disgust.
A young man, employed by a large
firm, took two thousand dollars from
his employers safe and staked it all on
horse race. He won three thousand
dollars. The money he took from the
safe was his own.
Last winter a poor but respectable
young man saved the life of a wealthy
old gentleman by dragging him from in
front of moving locomotive at rail-
way station. The rich man took the
rescuer's address. and month ago he
died. When his will was read it was
found that he had left seven hundred
thousand dollars to charity, and not
cent to the young man who had saved
his life.
During a thunderstorm last week
three men took shelter under large
tree. Suddenly there was a binding
fash of lightning and a terrible crash
of thunder, and four cows standing in
field were killed. The three men
under the tree were not hurt. FL.
Williams, in Puck.
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WHAT A SIGH MEANS.
Extract from a Lecture by DIR. j. Fl. Kellogg,
of the Battle Creek sanitarIum.

Extract from a Lecture by DR.. j. Fl. Kellogg.
of the Battle Creek sanitarium.
A sigh is a slow inspiration accom-
panied by peculiar movement OF the
muscles. The most common occasion
for it is the want of breath. Every
sixth or seventh inspira ton is naturally
a little deeper than the others. But
when person sits down in a relaxed
position with his shoulders forward,
his lungs do not have chance to
draw in the necessary amount OF
air, and so nature rebels against
the restriction and compels him &C.
casionalIy to take long, deer
breath in the manner of a sigh, and
that ventilates the lungs and washes
out the poisons. The process must be
repeated as often as he allows himself
to collapse INTO bad position. Notice
a student as he bends closely over his
book or slate. Presently he straightens
up and does what is considered an i'll.
hammered thing-he puts his arms to
the back of his neck as in the Swedish
gymnastics, which brings his shoulders
back and raises his chest. II
is in fact, natures antidote for
bad position, and it is better
to encourage school children to do IL
than otherwise. If we were more OBJ
serving nature would teach us many
important lessons in the things which
we do automatically.
The old saying is that every sigh
drives nail into our coffin, but that
must refer to the man who goes about
signing with a long, sad face, the
lines of his mouth pointing down
ward and his head bent. His
whole position is an attitude of
weakness. His long face and bowed
head makes his shoulders fall in, his
stomach is collapsed, lungs are cramped,
muscles relaxed and everything wrong
because of his long face and signing.
A man who carries a bright, hopeful
face, holds his head and his body erect
and the effect is just as marked on his
bodily condition as it is upon his counte-
nance.-Reported by Helen L. Manning
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ton, so a grand hunt was organized for
Christmas day The whole neighbor-
hood was to meet at Dulin's cabin at
early dawn, and under duly appointed
leaders open a systematic campaign,
which was not to be abandoned until
the mystery was solved and the sheep
slayer himself slain.
On Christmas eve Dulin had killed
and dressed n fine deer, two or three
miles distan. from his cabin, and had
brought it home across his horse, and
hung the carcass up in shed room
built behind the main part of his house.
This common, everyday incident was
dest ned to solve the riddle of the iden-
tity of the sheep-killer which had puz-
zled Dulin and his neighbors SO long, as
We shall presently see. Christmas
morning came. and with it company
of forty or fifty men gathered at Du-
lima They were nearly all armed with
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EARTH'S PEANUT CENTER.
The Unique Distinction Enjoyed by tn
Little City of Norfolk.

The Unique Distinction Enjoyed by the
Little City of Norfolk.
| Norfolk has a crop which is worth
millions of dollars annually-peanuts.
Norfolk supplies the civilized world
| with peanuts. The street-corner Italian
who empties a pint in your overcoat
| pocket, and the Partisan fruit merchant
! who weighs you out quarter of kilo-
gram of the homely nuts, get them
| from here, for this is the only peanut
market in the world. Smyrna has its
figs, Barbary its dates. Bordeaux it's
grapes and Norfolk its peanuts. What
would life be without peanuts? One
can scarcely picture an existence which
would be tolera BILE under such circum-
stances
The peanut magnates grow the edible
tuber in Nansemond. Isle of Wight,
Surry and Southampton counties, but
the common market is in Norfolk.
The rows for the nuts are laid off
three feet apart. They are made fif-
teen inches deep. and phosphates are
largely used as an under dressing.
They are Strewn along in these trenches
about the middle of April. and mature
after the same term which is required
for potatoes. It is a crop which is
marketed like the Dutch drumhead and
purple Savoy cabbage, running from
November to March. The nuts. how
ever. have to go through the factories
before they are shipped northward,
and these factories are. with a few ex-
ceptions, situated in Norfolk. There
are two factories in Franklin, South
amptOn county.
What is peanut factory?' might
be asked. A peanut factory is
place where they put the ''goobers"
through some such process as wheat
has to undergo when it is
being cleaned of chaff and
rid of cockerel. The most COM
plicated machinery is used to
assert and polish the nuts, and when
they are packed in the ninety-pound
bags the prime class bring by the pound
from two dollars and seventy-five cents
to three dollars bag. The tops"
bring this price in northern cities and
are mostly used by the swell groceries.
The street-corner vender sells at his ap
pie stand the second grade. and the old
lady at the foot of the wharf carries a
stock of doubtful ..tailers.'' This is the
result of market which yields to Vir-
ginia truckers eight millions annually.
1t is second in Importance only to the
sweet potato crop of Accomack and
Northampton counties. on the eastern
shore of Virginia, which is calculated
at as many millions per acre as Ber
muda has square feet, and Bermuda is
the only yam-raising country that can
compete with the southern peninsula
Baltimore Sun.
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A story of remarkable instance OF
equine friendship comes from Portland,
Me. One of pair of horses belonging
to the street railroad company was
sold, whereupon his mate, blind
horse, refused to be comforted, and so
pinned away that the general manager
of the road asked for the loan of the
animal for visit to the stable. The
purchaser assented, and as soon as the
horse was put in his old stall the blind
mate showed signs of great delight, and
at once began to recover his health and
appetite The owner of the other horse,
seeing the love of the blind one for his
friend, bought him, too, and now drives
a span of very willing and happy steeds
Golden DAYS
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in short ORDER Then he went on with
learned dissertation on finance, Civ
ing in detail the history of gold, silver
and paper money. and proving with
scrupulous nicely their different in
fuences on the worlds trade.
Presently he took up the labor ques-
ton and in few brief, clear statements
showed that the theories brought out
in Caesars Column" and Looking
Backward" were entirely erroneous.
He tore them all to pieces. but with
some material from each of them, COM
bined with much new thought of his
own, he built up theory seemingly as
practical as it was glittering. All his
hearers felt that he was wholly correct.
81 can't for the life of me- he said,
understand why men should differ in
politics. AS matter of course all the
present parties are wrong, but I'll out
line platform on which any political
organization could sweep this country
like a whirlwind," and he built an
imaginary political ia brication that was
wholly without defect, and combined
every desira BILE feature imaginable.
Presently he took up religion, and the
manner in which he discussed the here
and the hereafter was truly remark
able. He talked about cherubs and
seraphs and angels and archangels as
though he had always dwelt with them.
He tacitly admitted that the Creator
had made a few mistakes that might
have been avoided, but on the whole
the most of the trouble was occasioned
by the dizziness of human comprehen-
sion.
AS supper time drew near this univer-
sal encyclopedia of knowledge and wis
dom sauntered up the street till he
came to little narrow opening that
led him along between two buildings to
a low. rickety house that stood facing
the alley at the rear of a lot. A ragged,
slovenly woman sat in the doorway
smoking n black clay pipe.
Come after somethin' to eat, hev
YEP" she growled out. ''Well. We won't
git 1t till there's some fuel to cook it
with
Then the fnancier, the moralist, the
politician. and the theologlan took up
dilapidated basket with piece of
rope for a handle and mosied down the
alley to the railway tracks. where, as
he solved in his own mind the questions
that are puzzling the worlds thinkers,
he picked up enough coal to cook a sup
per with.-Chicago Times.
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SILK STOCKINGS.
The Love of Fine Hosiery Seems to be Borf
in Women.

The Love of Fine Hosiery Seems to be Born
in Women.
We venture to say that if any girl
were to come into sudden fortune and
were asked what she intended to buy
first, she would reply: "a dozen pairs
of silk stockings" Silk hosiery and
underwear meet with a responsive
chord in a woman's heart that even
diamonds can not touch. Why it is no
one knows.
Why silk should be so far more ap-
preciated than the finest Isle thread,
which may be equally expensive, is a
problem past finding out. But the fact
remains, and Paris shop dealers, recog-
nizing this failing, keep all sorts
of grades, but nevertheless silk,
SO that even moderate purses can
revel in purchases of the one great
luxury of an essentially feminine
woman. There is wonder
full satisfaction in knowing that one is
dressed even better underneath than
outside, and very pretty girl re-
marked: Il always think of being
thrown out of a carriage or having a fit
or something, that would necessitate
the exposure of my petticoats; there
fore, whether in gingham or velvet,
meansto have my vest. corset, stockings
and petticoat of silk" Some women
will advance the argument that they
are cooler for summer, but have nothing
to say when they are accused OF wear
ing the same weight during the winter
months. Go where you will and ques-
ton whom you like, you will discover
that above pretty gowns and bonnets,
dainty finery, and even jewels, a woman
genuinely enjoys the luxury OF wearing
silk stockings. Philadelphia Times.
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A MENTAL HERCULES.
All the Rest of the Human Race a Lit
Dull of Comprehension.

All the Rest of the Human Race Little
Dull of Comprehension.
He was one of those men who inn
press his hearers with the thought that
he knows what he is talking about,
and he talked about almost every
thing. 1t is true that his hearers may
not have belonged to the highest class
of citizenship, nor did he deliver his
homilies on the issues of the day in the
most suspicious place imaginable, but
the c1ink of glasses at the bar did not
seem to disturb him seriously.
''f we had just one man in congress
who could tell how much two and two
are, he could solve the money question
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for miles in an almos. unbroken will
dcrness. OF course game of all sorts
was abundant, and Dulin was m ghty
hunter, it being an open question
whether he spent the most time on his
farm or in the chase In the course OF
time other settlers located in the neigh
borhoOd. until at the time the incidents
of this story occurred there were prob
a bly, a dozen families within a circle of
five miles from Dulin's homestead. 1t
was during the late fall and early win
ter of 1880 that Dulin and his neighbors
were much harassed by repeated at
tacks made by some wild beast upon
their little fiOcks of sheep, and the
raids at length became so frequent and
fatal that the entire destruction of the
sheep seemed imminent. There was
mystery about the whole matter, too,
that added not little to the indigna-
ton and mystificatiOn of the simple
backwoods folk, for notwithstanding
the utmost vigilance, no man had yet
been able to get sight of the marauder
and opinions varied vastly as to the ami
NAL or animals responsible for the
trouble.
The flocks might be carefully brought
into well-constructed folds at night and
every precaution taken TO protect them,
but sooner or later the farmer would
go out in the morning to find a score or
more of sheep weltering in their blood,
or torn and bruised 50 badly as to neces-
state their being put out of their mis-
err. Some attributed the damage to
wolves. many of which animals still in
Tested the great woods, but the work
done by this animal did not resemble
that of wolves. Far greater strength
was evidently possessed by him than by
any wolf. Sheep had repeatedly been
carried away bodily, and that without
leaving any sign to indicate the man
ner of their removal.
A part of the farmers held that bear
had strayed out of the swamps on the
lower Wabash. and was displaying the
penchant for fresh mutton that bears
possess. but the fact that high ''stakeG
and ridered" fences had proved no OBJ
stacle to the thief, seemed to indicate
some animal possessing greater activity
than a bear. At length 1t became
necessary that something be done at once
to save the focks from absolute EXITING
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nust and Diction.

Bridget NEW acquisition in a Boston
household Does the nantel want To
be busted, mum?
Mrs. Emerson-Inanimate objects can
not ,cant anything, Bridget; but 'cisn
the mantel busted. Pray, be careful OF
the vahses.-Puck
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THE MARCHING OF THE GRASS.

o the marching OF the grass.
. the Jog that comes to pass
"hen the mighty silent army with green ban
ners overblown
Drags the winter from his throne.
'CoDiuers all his shining valleys climbs the
rampant of the hill!
steals By homely wayside hedges fords the
river broad and still,
Cnoermines the fortress forest, overtops the
castle wall
Swift invading wins the ci,ies and ,,o t,,,,,o.
brown and small
IN TIE whole wide world is captured
And the soul Of man enraptured
Thrills with passion OF delight
Sunny morn and deyyv night:
And the joyous rhythmic puIsing rlar,;cth time
II lad and lass
To the marching,
Marching
Marching,
OF the grass
o the marching of the grass.
falrer things may come to pass
WINE OF June:
Fitting wild birds all atune
Win the odorous breathea dawn:ng; wonGruus
tapestry OF flowers:
Balm OF incense: rest Of shadow: TANGLED veil
OF jeweled showers:
HymniGg chOirs OF happy rnl.sic backward
tossed from earth 70 sky:
Ihe full beauty Of completeness in rich chorus
lifted high,
But what means its regal splendor
To the love beat shy and tender
with which hope, the bIest, doth chime;
In . mans pulses marking time
To the haunting spell of gladness that doth
cOme-and 90, alas;
With the marching,
Marching.
Marching
OF the grass
Nary Z Blake in " Y Independent
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-Johnson-''What's the matter?
Where are all your clerks?'' Tomplzins
-''A1 sick; am just reading their ex-
cuses for being absent" Johnson
Something catching?" Tomp<ins-
Eyes; game of ball played to-day. Let's
90. too"-N. Y. Herald