Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — An Iron Town. [ARTICLE]

An Iron Town.

Ishpeming, Mich., is an iron town. Its population is said to be 5,000, though one wonders where. they can all stay. There is' iron everywhere. It is shoe deep in the dust of the streets. It sparkles on the sidewalk like-frost on unspotted smm'." It is~ln~Tliediii\ It isin the kitchen, and you feel thte grit of it in your dinner. It is on people’s faces—the women have red hair, -and the men are bald, of course. Iron is king, and it might not be out of the way to remhrk that iron is God. Babies are named by the ores. Here is “Specular” Jones and “Magnetic?” ' Brown, “Kidney" Mortimer and “Hematite” Smith.— Cor. Transcript. The he are about thirty thousand Christian Indians in the United States, one-half of whom are Baptists.