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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-09
LOSSES BY FLOOD.

The Property Destroyed by the Flood In
the Mississippi and Its Tributaries, from
Kansas City. Mo-, to New Orleans, will
Aggregate s5O,0OO.O0O. and the End
Has Not Been Reached Yet-Various
I.Ssses Summarized.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. June 3.-Now that
the great flood has about passed away
in the south. the following estimate is
made of the losses occasioned by the
high waters, a loss unprecedented in
the history of floods:
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28

At last it looks as if there would really be "Grant monument"
 Limburger cheese is eaten by many, and asafetida is said to be favorite article of diet with the Hindoos, who use it in all kinds of puddings.
 Dr. Caron of Berlin has caught the measles bacillus. Now let him discover some way of preventing the measles bacil- lus from catching people.
 The Vegetarian Federal Union, from it's headquarters in London, announces the discovery of the thistle as an article of food for man as well as beast. If boiled they are "like delicate turnip tops, and may be eaten like spinach on toast, with poached or fried eggs, and with little olive oil or mixed with cream"
 Chief Wadlin of the Massachusetts bu- reau of statistics has something interest ing to say concerning Woman in business. He reports that over 3O0,OO women are now engaged in industrial pursuits in Massachusetts, a gain of 12O,OOO since 1885. Two-thirds of these are under thirty-fve years of age, and this propor- tion has been maintained during the past six years, indicating that industrial pur- suits do not tend to diminish marriage.
 Seventy-6ve miles an hour is no feet 6 second, and the energy of 400 tons, or 8 train of cars moving at that rate is nearly twice as great as that of a 2, 900 pound sl,ot fired from 1C0-ton Armstrong gun. This is the extreme weight and speed now reached in passenger service, and, indeed, it is very rarely attained, and then but for short distances, but sixty miles is @ com mon speed, and 8 rate of forty or fifty miles is attained daily on almost every railroad in the country.
 Apaper on photography applied to the detection of crime was read by Dr. Paul Jeserich at recent meeting of the Photo graphic society of Great Britain. pho tography can be of good use for the de- tection of forgery. In an enlarged photo graphic picture erasures and alterations can be more clearly seen than in the orisi- nal. But, above all, photography can asneastrass di3sr9s's in inks which zen
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
How I Became a Gymna.t.

lrfom harpers s Young People
 The writer of this sketch was a little fellow himself not many years ago. He remembers how he used to look with com. plete and absolute disgust on his bony lit. tie arms and thin pipe-stem legs. He used to look at the big muscles of one or two companions with hopeless envy. In fact, it got so bad that this particular little fel- low determined to get strong if 1t took years to do it.
 The first thing was to get a bar. I se- lected nice spot between two grape ar. bors, planted deep in the ground two heavy oak uprights, and fastened firmly across the top, with mortised ends, long heavy pitchfork handle, which was pur- chased at village store at & cost, I be- lieve, of twenty cents. When the turn ing-pole was finished, the next thing was to learn to do something. The first thing I learned was to hang on the pole. This may not seem like a very exciting trick, but the fact is my muscles were so weak that it took all my strength to hang there.
 By this time other boys became interest ed. They began to put bars in their own yards, and the little fellow had to superin- tend the operation and give instructions. The oak uprights should be about three by three and planted with side braces. The post-holes should be at least three feet deep, and after the posts were set, filled in with stones and earth firmly stamped down. The bar must be just a couple of inches out of one's reach stand ing under it fat-footed Half a dozen private bars resulted in a gymnasium in an empty stable loft. The little fellow watched his arms and legs with great con- cern, and could not for the life of him see that they were getting any bigger.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
M. Renan's Gayety.

h ~-40 Aoaoou cpect&lor.l
 "Ahi" said lady a short time sIuce.
 in gentle depreciation of friend; .'hs is
 an intelligent creature. but be has A cork
 soul" The sentence. which was not nit
 tered of M- Renan, seems to us to describe
 precisely the defect which for us destroys.
 or at least grisvously impairs, shs value of
 his personality. He has charm, he has
 pleasantness, he has on many subjects in- cisiveness of perception; but he has 6 cork soul, one so light thstit does not even perceive the weight of the topics he dis cusses. He talks of God, and he means some spiritual influence which corporate humanity is to develop when it is sufs- ciently far advanced; he speaks of the soul, and only intends the mind when 1t is moved by some hot emotion; and he writes of sin, but he only thinks of & breach in s code of his own dcvising-nay, he hard ly means even that, for conviction of sin Is feeling he has not felt, and, if we judge him aright, could not by possibility feel. Theology Is for nim as light thing as literature, and he expects to await the judgment of God, ii there is any, much as hitherto successful playwright ex- Pects to await the judgment of the theater on e first night. He has a cork soul, in fact, like so many more, Engiishmen As well as Frenchmen; but the thing peculiar to himself ts that he is proud of it., for 1t is this quality in him which he calls gave ty of heart, and all through his souvenirs displays as recommendation, and leaves, in the semi-jocular, semi-earnest will he has published this week, to be distributed among French miners, of all men in the world, because they need it 60 much, and with explosions to come perhaps in the next minute, it will do them 60 much goodl It is thoroughly French, all that, as we'll as thoroughly Renanian, and one is tempted to stop a moment and reflect what this gsyety of heart which French men have claimed for centuries really is, and whether, after all, it is so well worth the having.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
SHOULD BE SUSPENDED.

It is evident that if the silver legisla- tion of 1890 has done any good its useful ness has ended. The Massachusetts Re publican convention put the matter well when it said: Great as were the benefits of the silver law of 1890, great for what it averted as well as for what it secured for the country, we believe, in view of the continued decline in the purchasing power of silver and in the absence of general international agreement fixing the ratio between the two metals, that the purchase of silver bullion by the treasury and the issue of certificates thereon should be for the time suspended. This is careful Ian guage, but it is plain. The law of 1890 was passed as a compromise with the ad vocates of free coinage, and because ss if there was genuine need of more money. It has worked as most compro- misses do. It has not pleased or helped any, body very much. It has greatly stimulat- ed the production of silver and thus helped to lower the price of it, until now it is so cheap that it will not pay to work some of the mines. And the free silver men are still as clamorous as before they were com promised with. They mean to have all there is to get. There is no safety or com fort in the present situation. It is dan gerous for this coutry to go on. piling up cheap silver and issuing dear dollars. What is needed is an international agree gold for coinage and open foreign hints to the coinage of solver. The Massachusetts Republicans have done their duty and set a good example in favoring a suspension of the present law. Never very wise, this law becomes more and more dangerous each month of it's existence.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
Howe & StetsOl. HIGH TIDE
 Y VALUES. LOW TIDE
 PRICES..

Special Glove item for this week, viz: 7 Hook Suedes, in tans, states and blacks, at 79c per pair :; regular price $1.25.
 Parasols, Sun Umbrel- las, Coaohings, Club Coachings, c arriage e Shades and Misses Para sols in great assortment. Special values at 75c, 98c, $1.25, $1.5O, $1.75, $1.98, $2. .25.$ .5O,$2. and $2.98 each. Ask to see our Club Coachings at $2.99.
 Bargains in Point d'Ir- lande, Point d'Gene and Guipure Lace at Sc, 7c, 9c, 15c, zoe and 25c per yard. 3 specials in CloakRoom, viz: Those Jackets at $5, $7.5O and $1O each. Look at them.
 Ladies' All Silk Vests at 59c each, in all sizes. La dies Spun and China Silk Vests in bodies, high neck wings, high neck, mol sleeves, etc., in a full line of sizes, at prices from 95c to $5 each.
 Monday, April 25, wei opened l case of China Cloth, 30 inches wide, in light and dark grounds, with handsome lowered patterns, at 1-2c per yard, as a flyer. Howe&Stetson,| 767-771 Chapel Street.
 NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
SHE RULES THE WAVE.

SHE RULES THE WAVE.
 Britannia rules the wave, and there are no signs that she is soon to cease to rule it. Indeed, the signs are all the other way. During the last decade the produc- tion of new vessels in Great Britain ex- ceeded 7,500,000 tons, and during that period one thousand sailing vessels and three hundred steamers of an obsolete type were removed each year from the national register. The tonnage of goods carried outward and inward, estimated at 53, coo, 900 tons in 1880, grew to 76, 800, 900 tons in 1890. The entrances and clear ances grew from 133, ,0O0, ,OO0 tons in 1880 to 164, ,000, 900 tons in 1890. As by far the larger part of the traffic carried on through the Suez canal is transacted by vessels sailing under the British flag, the gain in tonnage passing through that waterway, from 3,OOO,O0O tons in 1880 to nearly z, 100000 tons in 1890, is distinctively a British gain.
 MT. Joseph Glover, who has made a study of the matter, asserts that these inn
 
 the readiness of the English to take ad- vantage of any means of maintaining their commerce. He points out that fifty years ago England was relatively losing ground in consequence of the competition of the cheaper wooden ships of the Scandinavian nations and North America. In order to compete with them the English govern ment removed every restriction that ex- isted in the way of the free purchase of foreign-built ships. This freedom of pur- chase enabled the English merchants to hold their own up to the time that the in troduction of iron in the construction and of steam in the propulsion of ships made 1t possible for the English to compete even in shipbuilding with their foreign ri yala
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
THE MAIN ISSUE,
A Boy Who, Tn Time, VIII Likely be
 Great Judge.

From the Collector.l
 A lawyer advertised for a clerk. The next morning his office was crowded with applicants-all bright and many suitable. He bade them wait till all should arrive and then ranged them in row and said he would tell them a story, note their com ments and judge from that whom he would choose.
 ''A certain farmer" began the lawyer, "was troubled with red squirrel that got in through hole in his barn and stole his seed corn. He resolved to kill the squir- Tel at the first opportunity. Seeing him go in at the hole one noon he took his shot gun and fired away; the first shot set the barn on fire"
 "Did the barn burnl' said one of the boys.
 The lawyer, without answer, continued: "And seeing the barn on fire the farmer seized a pail of water and ran to put ii out"
 'Did he put it outg" asked another.
 "As he passed inside the door shut to and the barn was soon in flames. When the hired girl rushed out with more ws- ter"
 "Did they all burn upr' said another boy.
 The lawyer went on without answer:
 ''Then the old lady came out and all was noise and confusion and everybody was trying to put out the fire"
 Ibid any one burn upi" said another
 The lawyer said: "There, that will do; you have all shown great interest in the story" But observing one little bright eyed fellow in deep silence, he said, ''Now, my little man, what have you to sayp
 The little fellow blushed, grew uneasy and stammered out:
 'I want to know what became of that squirrel; that's what want to know"
 You'll do,n said the lawyer; "you are my man; you have not been switched ofi by the confusion and the barn burning, and the hired girls and water pails. You have kept your eye on the squirrel"
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28

not be perceived by the eye. The tints of
 the inks that are called black are either
 brown, red, green or blue in shade. As
 with ordinary sensitive plates yellow and
 green subjects are rendered dark, and blue
 ones light, the same will s,llow in photo
 graphingiinks of various tones.
 It is now alleged that the mortality
 statistics of the fsmine-stricken provinces
 in India, which were the subject of a debate in parliament last March, were 90 erroneous as to lead to totally false con- clusions. Instead of the increased mor- tality between last August and February being 95.000, it was only 5000, of which 1000 deaths were due to cholera cpl denies. Deducting these the increase in mortality is reduced to &, 900, which is partly accounted for by the increase in population and improved registration. A comparison of the figures for the period from August, 1890, to February, 1891, with those of similar periods for the pre- ceding ten years shows an increase of 1s,000. The sanitary authorities contend that as population increases and registra- ton improves every year, each new report shows a considerable increase in mortality. No preyentable mortality, they say, has occurred, and they even venture to hint that they were little premature in open ing relief works.
 Several faded old letters written by Lin coin have been discovered in Chicago. In the wife of O. H. Browning of Quincy, afterward secretary of the interior, the future president writes concerning his re- jection by young woman to whom he had | paid court: "My vanity was deeply wound | ed by the reflection that I had so long been too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the same time never doubting that | I understood them perfectly, and also that | she whom I had taught myself to believe | nobody else would have had actually re- jected me with all my fancied greatness; and to cap the whole, then for the first | time began to suspect that I was really a little in love with her. But let it all go. | I'll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by the girls, but this can never be with truth said of me. I most in this instance made a fool ,f myself. have now come to the con- ,lusion never again to think of marrying. md for this reason: can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhesded though to have me-"
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
PROPER.

If the corner of your building sags, something to stay it is the propper thing. -Binghamton Leader.
 There is one thing to be said for the in veterate story-teller. He thinks a great deal of his relations-Boston Transcript
 It is easy for the small boy to "make a clean breast of it." but the rub comes when you want him to wash his neck Jester.
 The Chinese exclusion bill is not yet & law. California may find that it has in dulged prematurely in its earthquakes ard other manifestations of joy.-Chicsgo Tribune.
 "Im going to start my boy in life as a maker of weather-vanes," said Parkly. "What an ideal" 'Yes. In that business one gets to the top at once, don't you sect" Boston Post.
 Hare-Hunting.- you ever hunt rabbits, Counti" "Non, madame" said the Parisian. 'But in ze war with Geair- many hsf shot sousands of herrs."- Harper's Bazar.
 MT. Norris-Is the janitor of your flat honesti MT. Skyhigh-I guess SO; I gave him five dollars when moved in last May, coal since.-Life.
 Sulu OI luS IcIlou-Ilc papa. ouN me a new rocking horse. Papa (reading the psper)-But, Elsa. you ask for some thing new every minute. Elsa (offended) And such a thing calls itself pspal- Fliegende Blatter.
 "No, it's almost impossible for a man to keep family on g, 900 a year. Why. was married five years ago, and am in debt all the time. My expenses are terri bler "What's your heaviest itemf" "Al- imony. News.
 "Did you ever try the advice, Think be- fore you speakf" asked the young woman who wants to do good in the world "Yes," replied Willie Washington. And how did it worki" 'I forgot what I was going to say. Washington Star.
 Country Landlady-I hope the guinea hens won't annoy you. City people gen. erally object to their noise. MT. Erbees- Don't mention it, Mrs. Green; I'm used to such things; my neighbors in the city are nearly all musical Boston Transcript. "Your husband" said the caller sympa- thizingly, twas & man of many excellent qualities" "Yes," sighed the widow, ''he was 8 good man. Everybody says so. l wasn't much acquainted with him myself. He belonged to six clubs. ."-Drake's Mags- zine.
 "This new sosp," said the barber, 'is very nice. It is made largely of cream, | with just a dash of alcohol in it." "Well, | remember Pm, a temperance man," re- turned Dobbers, "and don't put any more of it in my mouth than you can help."- Brooklyn Life.
 A nephew wrote to his uncle: "To come to the point at once. If you do not send me hundred lire, shall blow out my brains." Uncle's reply: "Some time ago 1 you wrote me in similar strain, and sent you my revolver, but you went and 1 pawned it."-Cri-Cri
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28

Dr. Caron of Berlin has caught the measles bacillus. Now let him discover some way of preventing the measles bacil- lus from catching people.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
THE GIRL WHO BRAGS.
Why . Young Man Gave up a Charm
 in0 Youug Woman

Why . Young Man Gave up Charm.
 ing Young Woman. From Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Ladies' Home
 Journal
 Only last week I asked a young bachelor who is comfortably situated in life why he did not marry. "Well, will tell you," he replied. 'I want a home, which, of course, means a wife, but am discouraged about making the venture. l admired a young lady greatly, and was beginning to think seriously of paying her court. She seemed to be my ideal. She was amodel daughter, progressive minded, intelligent, industri- ous. She was always neatly but simply dressed, and her cheerfulness was like sunny day. Recently I met her on the street just as she was emerging from a mil liners establishment.
 "'See my new hatp she said brightly, as I walked along by her side, isn't it pret- tyr
 'I had not noticed the new hat, but now saw simple open-work straw on which reposed few flowers and bow of rib bon.
 ".Yes, very pretty and becoming re- piled. I have a finer one being made,' she continued. This is only a hack affair, I paid only SEQ for it. It is stylish, though, for the price, think
 My QeArt bduk ht uer llSut way OI estl- mating cost. I have no sisters, and my mother possessed knack of trimming her own bonnets, 30 had never known what ladies' hats cost. If that simple bit of straw and ribbon cost SEQ, what would be the price of the finer hat being madF Thirty dollars at least I realized at once my in- ability to properly support girl who paid $50 for two hats in one feeting season. What fortune it would require to furnish ail her wardrobe at that ratel Yet she is SO simply dressed to all appearances; noth- ing at all showy about her. I suppose all girls in her station pay as much for their clothes, ,and 80 think will leave marriage for richer men. The average young man cannot stand that sort of @ thing, I assure you"
 Now, I happened to know who this young woman was, and happened to know that she was not an extravagant girl. If she had paid $20 for a hat it was an unusual expenditure for her, and would trouble her conscience and purse for many 6 day, and cause her much self-denial in other direo- tious.
 But she possesses the foolish ides so prev Alent in this age of great fortunes that men admire women who use money lavish ly, and who psy large prices for their gar nents.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

At last it looks as if there would really be "Grant monument"
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28

Limburger cheese is eaten by many, and
 asafetida is said to be a favorite article of
 diet with the Hindoos, who use it in all kinds of puddings.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
l.. W. ROBINSON,
 Architect.
76O CHAPEL STREET.

The loss of flesh is a trifle. You think you need not mind it.
 But, if you go on losing for some time or lose a good deal in a short time, you are running down. Is that a trile?
 Get back to your healthy weight and generally you get back to health.
 A book on CAREFUL LTv- ING will tell you what it is to get there, and when Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil is useful. Free. ScoT Bovsx, Chemists. rss South sth Asen,e, New York.
 Your drusEia keepa Scou's Emulsion Of liver eil-al druggisu everywhere do. si.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
NOTHING PROBATIONARY

ITO the world, than the best and most reliable
 1 Steam Boiler. with the greatest economy of any kind of fuel The Bridgeport Boiler an order for one of their one hundred horse power Lowe Boilers with all improvements, from . large concern who had put in one ot these boilers of seventy-five horse power, and employed one of the best experts to test 1t against the records of it's several public and other expert tests, and also to ascertain the facts in regard to any derogatory statements against it before adopting it exclusively, and found their test, aud boiler, exceeded the previous records, and the best results ever ob- tafned and the derogatory statements false Therefore they adopted the Lowe Boiler with all Improvements and replaced their two kinds of leading Water Tube Boilers with two seventy two inch Lowe Boilers and now order the fourth boiler as above, after several years experience with the first The first Lowe Boiler made has done over twenty four years' work without any cost for repairs and is still in under the pres sure 1t started with and carriesas good inspec- tors certificate. Hundreds of Lowe boilers have as good a pro rata record. The users have from one to thirty of these boilers, and from one to tweufy-four years experience, with fewer cases of unsatisfactory results from causes over which We had no control, than any otder boiler.
 espd for printed information on boilers to akeGS ldaraGs, spA eQd In
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court, !

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 April s7th. 1892. { TSTATE of ALFRED WALKER, sd. late of fI New Haven in said district, deceased. Upon application of Mary L. Walker, executrfx, praying that an instrument in writing pur- pporfing to be the last will and testament of said deceased may be proved, approved, allowed and admitted to probate. as per application on Ale more fully appears, 1t Is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at a Probate court to be held d New Haven, in said district, on the 9th day of May, A. D. 1So2, at 10 o'clock in the forepoou and that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing some newspaper having . circulation in san district.
 Py order of court. TIMOTHY '. CALLAHAN, sPHH cassS e Saia sssll