Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11

menu was exclusively FfeDcn, Wnlcn
no doubt gave added zest TO the feast,
but would have played havoc with the
equanimity Of common country edi-
tor. 1t is fair to presume that where
everything was so recherche and en-
regLe, an interpreter would have been
supererogatory. Here is the lunch
grog-ame in full:
Huitres Celeri
Potage d'Orleans
Olives Farci
Filets de Soles, Rothchild
Pommes de terre Duchesse
Chapon, Sauce aux Huitres
Filet de Boeuf, Pique Financiere
Terripan, la Maryland Petit Pois
Timbale, la Refine
Punch, la Roundy
Pluvier, dore' Asperge
Geatine de Poulardes
Salade de Homard
Charlotte, la Russo
Moules a Glace
Gataau, Assortis
Galee, au Champagne
Fromage Noix ct Raisins
Cdfe NO1r
Barring the ''terrapin' and the
champagne" the menu might, for
me, as we'll have been set down in
Sanskirt, and even those two articles
are weighted down with unknown ad-
iunctive phrases which make up an
uncertain whole. Punch la Roun-
dy'' | might have risked on venture,
but '.Gataau Assortis" or "Moules a
Glace'' would have knocked me out on
the first round! Yet the finale would
have found me all there; for, accord
ing to the paper from which the above
is extracted. "only Buncombe wines
were served" and of course they came
on in their native nakedness, unclad
in befrizzed and befrapped French pan
talettes.
This town has been shaken up the
past week through the trial of an eX-
collector, charged with the embezzle-
ment of $35,O State and county
funds The ablest legal talent in the
State was invoked by the prosecution
and defence, and the trial lasted a
whole week. Then the jury brought
in a verdict of ''not guilty." and the
defendant walked out OF the court
room free man-free in person and
in mind. And now the sureties who
made up the deficiency to the State
are asking themselves: Upon what
ground did the authorities collect thar
| $35. 900 from us?'' And echo answers
not.
see the Rifle Range problem is still
unsolved. AS for myself, have new
er been particularly enamored with it,
and our experience of last summer,
though pleasant enough, all things
considered, did not particularly exalt
its beauties to my mind. OF course,
l say this individually, and by no
means want it taken as the expression
of any considerable portion of our
community. But it goes nightly
against the grain to have the prize
taken from US on the report of an army
physician, who staid in the Valley
about three months. against the forty
years experience of people in ordinary
life Malaria! Don't tell US! And
vet navbe, the microbes secret lurk-
ing-place might be found even in the
Arcadia Valley under proper condi-
tions For instance. il might be re-
vealed to him who in the heated term
persistently drank beer all day, lay in
the creek half the night, and employ
ed the remaining hours of darkness in
search of the demi-mondes. Other
things might come upon him for which
our fresh, pure mountain air could be
held equally accountable. | do n0.
mean to say that sickness may not
come to a denizen of the Valley who
has committed none of these impru,
dences, or that only he who is guilty
of them is afflicted. People sicken and
die erywhere-else what would be.
come of the doctors, the druggists and
the undertakers?-but | know from
many years experience that this loca'
ton will not suffer by comparison il
this particular with any section with
in hundreds of miles, taken from anJ
point of the compass. The air of tht
Valley does not induce malarial dis
eases, except by frying out that tha
has been absorbed into the system o
the recent visitor from less favored