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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
ARSENICAL POISONING.
Its Danger In Our Homes from Curtain
and WALLPAPER.

Its Danger In Our Homes from Curtains
and Wallpaper.
The danger through arsenical poison
ing in our homes is not confined to the
wallpapers, having been found often
present in cretonnes and imitation In
dian muslin in poisonous quantities
A bad specimen of cretonne has yielded
on analysis nineteen and half grains
of white arsenic, two and a half grains
having been known to be fatal dose.
Some months back London doctor ex-
perimented upon forty-four samples Of
cretonne supplied by a local tradesman,
not one of which was absolutely free
from the poison; eleven of them were
grouped by the analyst as every bad"
and nine as distinctly dangerous" 1t is
quite a common occurrence to have pieces
of these substances in a room contain
ing sufficient arsenic to give one hun
bred people fatal dose. A very popu-
lar impression has been that greens
and blues are the dangerous colors,
but the analyst declares that reds,
browns and blacks are more dangerous
still. With relation to this matter the
following letter on arsenical poisoning
through green candles was contributed
to the Times in March. 1889. by Maj.
eadbetter, chief constable of Denbig-
shire. and can not be too widely pub
lished:
"A curious case came under my no
tice lately which / think is of public
value. A children's party and Christ
mas tree resulted in many of the little
people and many of the older ones be-
ing seized with symptoms of mineral
poisoning. The fact OF several who were
present who had not partalxen of food
or liquid of any kind being in the
number of those affected directed my
attention to the eolored candles on the
tree These I had examined by the
county analyst, Mr.. Lowe. of Chester,
whose report is to the effect that the
green candles were colored with
arsenical green to the extent that every
eight candles would contain one grain
of arsenious anhydrite. He further re-
ports that the red candles were colored
with vermilion. There is no doubt,
therefore, that we have not further to
seek for an explanation of the symp-
toms-a crowded room with the atinos-
phere charged with arsencial and mer-
curial fumes sufficiently accounting for
it. 1t is only fair to state that learn
the candles were not of English manu-
facture and were bought with the
toys Chambers Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
INTERESTING FIGURES.

ABOUT SOC, 900 telephones are in use
in the United States.
LIEUT.. PEARY found many humble
bees and bluebottle flies within $50
miles of the north pole.
ABOUT 100000 is the estimated
cost of the proposed cable between
North America and Australasia.
THE various German fraternities of
freemasons were incorporated into one
body by Jost Dotzinger in 1444.
THE average weight of horses is 1000
pounds and the strength of one horse is
equal, on the average, to that Of five
men.
THE United States furnish 613, 900
freemasons and CAT All odd fellows with
lodgeroom reasons for late hours and
latch keys.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
VAST ExIRAuAaANcE.

Novel Exposition of q Road System Which
Wastes Many Millions.
About 100000 acres of land have been
taken from the farmers of Illinois for
roads. This strictly for country roads,
not including city and village streets
This land. at $40 per acre, is worth S20,-
coo. 900.
Is $40 per acre fair estimate? Roads
are most numerous near cities. where
the land is worth 81, 600 per acre, and
much more is worth $500 per acre, also
near villages, where the land is worth
from $3.50 to $500 per acre. Much more
land is worth 500 per acre. Other
land is worth from $40 to $50 per acre.
a fair average for the whole state,
therefore, is not far from $40 per acre.
All the roads in Illinois are by law
four rods wide. But not one-fftieth of
the roads are actually utilized for a
space more than two rods wide. In
many cases the space used is not over
one rod wide to twenty feet of length.
The rest-Lhe part not actually used
is wasted. Worse than wasted-it is
the great public breeding ground of all
the noXicus weeds and destructive in
sects and worms that injure the agri-
culture of Illinois.
Therefore this waste land is positive
damage, causing an annual loss OF mil
lions of dollars to the state.
If this unused land were all culti-
waited. it's profit would probably equal
the entire annual cost of road main
tenaDce.
If the roads of Illinois were so CLASH
fed that there would be only a few
great roats occupying four rods in
width: most Of the important roads oc-
cupying only two rods in width, and
ell important roads occupying only
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
A Nursery Idea.

In many nurseries in England there
is to be found upon the wall a large
card, perhaps two by three feet At
the top of the card is written the name
and address of the nearest doctor, or
the one to be called in case of accident
Beneath are the words: ''What to do
and how to do it." There is a list of
the accidents most liable to happen to
children and the remedy for each.
Bites and swallowed buttons, bleeding
nose, burns. commissions, stings, bruises
and sprains, and poisons are all provid-
ed for; and in a box beneath the card
are kept absorbent cotton, court-plls-
ter. lint, arnica, and various necessaries
that are only to be used in cases of ac-
cident. When general chaos reigns.
and even the intellig emit have lost their
wits, this card is invaluable. To be
able to read and understand it might
be one of the tests us ed in engaging .
nurse-maid. Printed cards could prob
ably be read more readily than hpse
written.-Chicago Ihter.Ocean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
word Abou. seed,,nr,.

pSeedlings are apt to succeed best
where they originate, says an author
ity. We might suppose q survival of
the fttest q cause. If one had sown
southern apple seed in Dakota ard one
survived it might be expected to be the
hardest that terminated. If we had
sown apple seed produced from Dakota
trees we should have hoped to have
been more successful, expecting that
the Dakota-grown seed would inherit
and tend 20 perpetrate characteristics
produced by their parents struggling
with the great severity of the climate.
Prof Beal has shown how the vital
forces of trees are thrown to the points
bearing the greatest strain or hard
chip, citing the strength of branches
that buffet every wind. This acci-
dental characteristic might be utilized
in producing harder varietieA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
OlD-TlME HOSPITALITY.
A Trait Which Ii Prominent in Old Viz


A Trait Which In Prominent in Old Vlr.
ginLa.
ION a bright summer morning early
in the eighties, with my father I left
Berryville, in Clarke county, and drove
east across the Shenandoah river, up
the road to Snicker'a gap, in the Blue
Ridge. There we turned south to visit
a point where a shooting affair had oc-
CURED, in which my father was inter-
ested as an attorney. On account of
the many winding roads we became
lost and drove beyond the place we ex-
pected to reach. In a short time, how
ever. we heard q rooster Growing, and
going q short distance saw a mountain
farm
I'VE drove up. and were greeted by
an old gentleman who was as least four
scores and two. His home was a simple
one, but the right royal welcome he
gave us was as cheering as "a rock in q
weary land,n and as free from decep-
ton as dross is foreign to tempered
steel. The patriot was a great admirer
of .-Old Hickory, /" and had strong views
about the affairs of the day.
There hung his rusty rifle over the
door. and everything showed a sign of
rural independence A large dagger
was sticking between the upper floor
and one of the joists
81 had that made, he said, for some
of our soldiers. but it ~as never used
The wonen folks got hold of it here
hast spring and chopped pea sticks with
it and dulled it up. just like 'em.
though 1.-The next morning when we
arose we were unable to find . comb or
brush
When We asked our friend abont it
he said: why, can't you find itf
bought q comb directly, after the war,
but 1 reckon the women have been
usin' it, and there's no tellin' where it
is Women are q heap o. trouble about
such things"
Despite these facts, that afternoon
dinner. supper by early candle-light
and breakfast near the rising of the
sun will long be remembered That
old ham, oven-bsked biscuits. solid but
ter. clover honey. rich milk. blackberry
preserves. iee-cold water from the
mountain spring. and those kind hearts
have ever since been tempting US to re-
turn once again to the spot where we
learned that Old Virginia Hospitality"
IA a. native to our humble homes ~ Il
is to our richly -furnished mansions
with their marble halls Richmond
Dispstch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
The Virtue of Fromptitude

Is in nothing more forc.oiy shown than In
the escape from disease Of those who heed
its warnings. Foresight is wisely practiced
by persons who, observing that their kid
neys want activity, impart to them health
full impulse with Hostetrer's Stomach Bit
ters. By so dong they avoid Bright's dis
ease and other destructive renal maladies,
Chills and fever, indigestion, constipation.
liver trouble, rheumatism should be nipped
IN the bud by the Bitters.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
MILL AND FACTORY.

THE value of the product of Ameri-
can manufactures for the year 1892 is
estimated to have been 81, 215, zoo, 600.
TIE largest needle mandatory in
the world is in Redditch. Worcester
shire, Eng. Over 10000, 900 are made
weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

OrTM ~ America is good enough for me
Ia country where every right is given to
the meanest ciClzen.'' Pessin-s.Y Yes, in
deed. The meaner he is the more he Makes
Indianapolis Journal
..REMEMBER that in Garfield Tea you have
an unfaiiing remedy for Indiges ton, Sick
Headache, and every attending i'll that IN
abused stomach can make you suffer. Every
druggist sells it. 25c. SOC, and 81 90. 7
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

Little Dot-We h goin' to have = pic
mic party 1t Dotty Dimple's mex week.
Will You make Eme . LOT OF cakes an
things to take?
Naana-Cerninly, ny pet
things always Il mixed mp on III table
and L nay get sous uysslf-Good
News s.-'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS you
want to get on this afternoon. What's
going on?" Clerk-..An affair Of hon.
or" Observation-Disclosures! You are
not going to kill anyone. arc your"
Clerk-s.No air. / am going to pay .
dept"-Black and White
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

Use BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocREs for
Coughs, Colds and all other Throat Trou bles.
Pre- eminently The best."- l.eU. Hsary
Ward BeecEer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

: PARA said Willie. s'do they name that
place in the Sandwich islands Heneyluin
because there's so much sugar there.'-
Harper's Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

II causes Confusion to call comets ssceles-
tial tramps," and to talk OF their striking
the earth. Tramps never work. and there
fore can't strike.-PhilaGeiphii. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

NOTHING hurts US like dssinterested kind
ness. when we knew that we do rot deserve
it.-Ram Horn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

One dose of Beecham's Pills relieves sick
headache in 90 minutes. For sale by all
druggists. 25 cents q box.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

CURE your cough with Hale's Honey of
Herehound and Tar
Pixies Toothacie Drops Cure in one minute.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

MoTHER-IN-LAw-"Ugh you haven't the
manners of pig!" Son. inlaw-" You
have Judy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly On the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habituaI
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &c
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re- syrup co.
SAW FRANCISCO. cal.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, NEW Y0Rk, N.Y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

some of the most valuable lessons sell
dom reach those who need them most. The
man who does it seldom has a chance to re-
feet on the folly Of trying to thaw out dyna-
Times.
WORK to which man should give his
whole heart-courtship.-N.Y Y. journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-09

11E1W1T77T6 - 49, - r i
snn1e 49, - eow - Il ll. -
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
A Javanese Bed.

The very bed on which a man reclines
at night affords him considerable op-
portunity for reflection. At first sight
it never occurred to him that the great
square object-looking with its cover
ing of mosquito curtains more like a
huge bird-cage than anything else
was bed. He knows better now, and
proceeds to examine it with interest
before turning in for the night. He
finds that the large square mattress is
covered by sheet. bat otherwise en-
tirely devoid of bed-clothing. At the
top are two pillows for the head and
down the center is placed long, round
bolster called q Dutch wife. This
scarcely comes up to his notion Of what
. bed should be, but after he has slept
Tor tried to Sleep for two or three
nights in the hot, steamy atmosphere
of Batavia he changes his mind. He
finds that bed-clothes are not wanted in
the coast towns of Java, and in partic-
ular he learns to appreciate the relief
which he experiences by throwing arm
or leg over that useful contrivance for
securing coolness, the Dutch wife.-
Fortnightly Review.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
Making People Uncomfortable.

There seems to be sort of mania in
the minds of certain persons for doing
something to make others uncomforta-
bic or ridiculous, or to frighten or
worry those who are younger or more
timid than themselves. Aside from
such practices being decidedly ILL
bred. they are dangerous, unchristian
and unfeeling, and are never indulged
in by people of considerate minds and
good hearts. And it is not at all worth
while to amuse oneself in any such
ways, for there are plenty of legiti-
mate and pleasant entertainments
short of this. Those persons who can
not find amusement in rational forms
of enjoyment will do well to remain by
themselves and spare their friends the
embarrassment and discomfort Of their
presec%.-N. Y. Ledger.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
The BELGIAN Block.

Anyone asked whence the Belgian
block comes would say: ''Why, from
Belgium, Of course" but this is far from
the truth. Great quarries at a point
four miles above Sellersville, Bucks
county, known as the ''Rocks," supply
most Of the blocks used in the city. A
great piece of rock was recently
blasted there from which were cut
thirty-five thousand Belgian blocks OF
regulation size. The rock was thirty-five
feet wide, twelve and half feet deep
and sixty-6ve feet long. The blocks
cut up will realize nearly fifteen hun.
dred dollars for the quarryman.-Phil
adclphia Record
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
e.TH AND POINT.

-Hc Charged for It.-Patient-"Do
You give gas?" Dentist-No; you have
to pay for it. This isn't . barber shop"
brooklyn Life.
THAT'S q queer notion of Dayton
calling his lawn mower the tramp" ="
Fright enough-it won't work, you
see."-Inter-Ocean.
There are plenty of people who pay
their hotel bills without any trouble
that will have to scratch around when
the mosquitoes present theirs.
-''Smash is an utter failure as ring
fighter" ''With all his strength and
courage?" Eyes. He has no command
of language. Tribune.
Professor in Mathematics XX.-
"Do you understand the theory of
limits, Mr.. Butch?" Mr.. Butch-s'No,
sir; never play poker" ~ Harvard
Lampoon.
-Jack-''1'd give your chaperon five
dollars to look the other way for mo-
ment." Jesse-''How dare you suggest
such thing; q quarter is all she ex-
poets. IN. Y. Herald.
MIR. Bushley, thought you PROM
ised to paint flowers and birds in your
next picture" Mr.. Brushley-''So
did; didn't your sister tell you?" mo;
she said they were daubs."-Inter-
Ocean.
For mercy's sale!" suddenly OK
claimed the lady in the steam car to
the ugly-faced stranger who sat beside
her; do speak to me, or people may
think you are my husband. ."-Boston
Transcript.
Visitor at the Club-"How singu-
larly looks belle character. The pale
youth yonder. l hear, is very hard
case" Old Member-'"I really know
very little about his habits. He is my
son."-Vogue.
Hard Work-"So you have gov
ernment clerkship, have you?" ''Yes." ="
Don't have to do any work, sup
pose?" 81 don't, ell? have to get my
pay warrant every month, and get it
cashed."-Truth.
Mrs. Figg-"That boy is getting
more and more like you every day. 1t
is all can do to manage him." Mr..
Fight strikes me that those two
statements don't consist little bit.'-
indianapolis Journal.
He-"I shall never marry until I
meet woman who is my direct op-
posite." She .(encouragingly)-"Well,
Mr.. Duffer, there are numbers of
bright, intelligent girls right in this
neighborhood." Art in Advertising,
Mustn't Stop This Epidemic
Poverty is disease" howled the ex-
cited speaker. 'And yet," murmured
the poor chap in the back of the hall,
tive who are afflicted with it are arrest
ed whenever we take anything for it!''
Vogue.
The feeling of superiority in the
sterner sex is Unborn. "Mamma, do you
think you'll go to Heaven?" said Jack,
thoughtfully looking into his mothers
face. Eyes, dear, if I'm good" said the
little mother, cautiously, wondering
what would come next. 'Then please
be good, for papa and would be lone
some without ou."-Kate Fields
Washington.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
AN OLD THEORY ATTACKED.
10 Childhood the Hsppiest Time In Our
Lives.

10 Childhood the lIappicSt Time In Our
Lives.
It is often said that childhood is the
happiest time of our life but to admit
this is to give to happiness a very mar
row definition. If to be unconscious of
any thing but mere physical existence
is to be happy, then one may possibly
allow that this is SO; but to those who
look upon happiness MS positive in
stead of negative quality such view
seems scarcely reasonable. The same
argument will hold good if one declares
that only those people who are lowest
in intellectual capabilities and ideas
are superlatively happy. In one sense
this may be SO, but the happiness Is
not of that order that the class
of critics would crave either for
themselves or their immediate circle.
Nothingness in any form can not be
thought desirable by intelligent human
beings; neither can that form of pleas
ure that simply means absence of dis
comfort and tho enjoyment of purely
animal existence; indeed the term hap
piness has SO many definitions that it
seems impossible to define it other than
relatively. What is the highest de-
light for one individual would be
misery unspeakable for another. 1t
may be safely said that there are times
in later life, after ones intellectual and
moral faculties are fully developed.
when seasons of enjoyment occur that
may be looked back to as filled with more
pleasure than the unconscious. rollick-
ing, kitten-like comfort of childhood
can ever dream of. 1t is difficult, in
deed, to fix a standard, and so we must
allow that this old theory of the de-
lights Of childhood days is about as
near the actual fact as the old theories
of most things are likely to be.
There is more pleasure in the antici-
patton of one young and trusting heart
than in all of the animal comfort of
youthful days. If by happiness one
means freedom from care and response
bilities, the definition might stand; but
the absence of accountability and the
Indifferent Incidence of the pleasure
seeker are scarcely to be rated as high
type of human enjoyment.-N. Y.
Ledger.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21


to the comfort and equanimity of Jones
Second to hear the loud and profane
comments made upon the awful messes
he served up.
In a few days Private Timothy An.
drew Maher was summoned into the
presence of garrison court-martial
and solemnly charged with conduct
to the prejudice of good order and mill.
tary discipline"-a vague and omnioue
phrase, that covers every military
offcnse from pitch and toss to man.
slaughter, and believed in the ranks OF
the army to be an ingenious device in.
tended to take in anything and every.
thing that the articles of war had by
chance overlooked. But If the charge
was vague. the specifications were
models Of brevity, directness and ex.
plicitness; and, though Tim pleaded
mot guilty" on general principles, the
evidence of Lieut. Goosehawk and tive
cooks police removed all doubts of his
offending from the three bored gentle
men comprising the court.
A few days later at retreat roll call
Tim was marched from the guardhouse
to the center of the parade ground,
where the adjutant knocked the wind
out of him by reading tho sentence OF
the court: ITO be confined in the post
guardhouse for thirty days and pay .
fine to the United States of ten dollars
from his pay as a soldier" Tim heard
the thirty days unmoved, but the
''blind," as a fine is termed in army
parlance, made him groan.
He was marched back to the guard.
house disgusted. and when locked up
he turned his tongue loose on the folly
of soldering and the short.sightedness
of a government that permitted idiots
of the type of Lieut.. Goosehawk to
wear it's uniform and command its sol.
diers.
For thirty days Tim chopped, sweatcd
and swore at the quartermaster's wood
pile. varying that occupation by un.
loading trains of quartermaster's SIP.
plies; and for thirty days his discon.
tented comrades in arms wrestled with
the horrors of evil cookery, and Jones
Second began to wear the look of
hunted man and to whisper vaguely
that when the paymaster came there
would be one less man in the tropp.
But at the end of that period white.
winged peace settled on tho troop.
Tim came out of the jug" with
callouses on his hands, pain in his
back and q more correct estimate OF
himself-a subdued man, q conquered
autocrat, cook willing to confine his
energies to cooking, and revolutionary
in his utterances regarding the evil in.
fuences Of suffers stores on the army.
He returned to the cookhouse new
man, and in his unusual urbanity and
toothsome dishes convinced us that the
recruit had conquered the cook.-Illus.
trated American