Iron County register., 1893-10-19
PiTH AND POINT.

| VIII yOu, Dut i oOA Wdut W kO up AAA
the alligator"
| Mrs. Crimsonbeak-"Isn't it hard
work minding the baby?' Nurse Girl
'.Not half as hard as trying to make
the baby mind me."-Yonkers States
| man.
Shelf you married girl in the
hope that she would one day come into
a fortune, wouldn't you feel guilty over
it?" He-''Not if she got the fortune -
IN. Y. Herald.
| -Witticus-''Theys say De Sappy lost
his head completely the other night at
poker" Cynicus-"Humph! Must have
been penny ante they were playing
Buffalo Courier.
| The prophet hath a curious way
| His wonders to perform;
For he predicts q sunny day
| And straightway comes storm.
Kate Fields Washington.
"A Mistake.-'What? Engaged to
Miss Budd? Why, thought Miss
Willoughby was the incarnation of
your ideal" ''No-simply another case
of mistaken identity. Judge.
No Ice There.-The Rector-''Did
| you ever hear of the theory that peo-
| pie will have the same vacations in the
next world as they had in this?" The
Widow-''I don't believe my husband
will. Hewas an ice dealer."-Truth.
The List is Short.-Miss Backbay
| Qiterary)-"I am going to ask young
| Mr.. Mum what books have helped him
the most" Miss F1ypp-'I wouldn't
| ask him. There is only one. It's his
fathers check-book" - Detroit Free
| Press.
An old woman who had received a
check went with great glee to bank
| to draw the money. This check is
crossed; we can't pay it over the coun-
ter. my good woman" sAn right, sir,
I'll come around then," was the imme-
diate reply.-Tit-Bits.
"A Suggestion.-Uncl Si-'sMarthy,
them cows is gone wanderin' off ag'in,
what to do" Marthy-"Why don't ye
go daown to tn railroad people an ask
'em to sell ye a secondhand cow-ketch-
er."-Harper's Weekly,
-She-"You know, Reggie, that girls
are being called by the names of flow
ers now, and my sister suggested that
should be called Thistle" Reggie
''Oh, yes, I see; because you are so
sharp" She-"Oh, no; she said it was
because a donkey loved me."-Boston
Globe.
-"All flesh is grass" said the board
ing mistress, twas Mr.. Grace's text to-
day" (Which reminds me-" broke in
Fogg, cycling the bones and skins in
the central dish, that there's no occa-
sion for any keep off the grass signs
in your house, Mrs. Scrimpem. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
You don't see anything like so
many trunks with covers on them as
you formerly did" said a traveller, ''but
have occasionally seen lately some
thing that I don't remember to have
seen at all years ago, and that is peo-
pie carrying handbags protected with
covers"
An "An-Around" Family. - A
youthful offender being brought into
court was asked by the magistrate what
his family did for a living. "Jedge,"
he answered, 81 guess there amt
more all-around family than ourn GO
in" "What do you mean by an all
around family?" We'll. dad keeps
gin-mill, sis is in the ballet, an I go to
Sunday-school.'
MANY-EYEO MONSTERS.
Although . Great Annoyance They Serve
q Purpose.
The question where flies come from
Is asked many times during the sum-
mer. 1t is always a mystery to the
woman who has her house we'll screened
how even one of these little pests can
get in.
The parents of a good many of them
were proba bly, housed a year before,
when, in the autumn, vigilance was re-
laxed and perhaps door or window
left unguarded.
With the instinct with which nature
has provided them they crept into the
warm house, into cracks not percepti-
BILE, and there they hibcrnated. There,
too, they lay their eggs, one hundred
and seventy-seven to each fly. thus
looking out for the propagation of the
race; and so, when tho first warm days
come they surprise us by buzzing away
on the windows or around the table.
In the meantime the eggs are hatch
ing and by ''fy-time" they come forth
in swarmS.
Sometimes in the dead Of winter fly
will appear, beguiled from his resting
place by the deceptive warmth of the
furnace-heated house. He seems
harbinger of spring and perhaps one
may be inclined to pet it little.
Don't do it. Kill it and thus put an
end to a prospective future generation
of flies. They are natural scavengers.
Their purpose in life is to consume
various substances which are thrown
off from the human body, by articles
of food and by almost every animal
and vegetable production when in
state of change. These substances are
given out in such small quantities they
are imperceptible to common observers
and not removable by ordinary meth
ods of cleanliness, even in the best
kept rooms.
When a fly persists in crawling over
ones face it is merely taking care Of
the particles of dead matter thrown
off through the pores and thus helps
keep the complexion clean. So it is
really doing good while it annoys.
AS common fly has about four thou
sand eyes it is no wonder it is so hard
to catch or that it evades the blows
aimed at it.-Boston Herald.
Telling an Old Story.
Among the Jews it is still considered
a sacred duty among all classes On the
night of the fourteenth of Nizan, the
first month of the ecclesia Stioa1 voor