Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-05
NUMBER 40.
Foreign Topics

AT dinner parties in japan il Is
common to have five courses OF soup.
Mr. Carlyle's bust will be placed in
the Poets Corner, Westminster Alb
bey.
The present Car is the first since
Peter the Great who has not married
German wife.
The number of kilograms sent in
Italy in 1880 was 26 s., $40, being $685.
s24 more than in 1879.
I'm one hundred years no three con-
secutive Januaries in England were SO
cold as theithree last
The London papers complain of
grossly unfair DETERMINATIONS on the
part of the English railways.
The Canada Pacific syndicate has
ordered twenty thousand tons ef steel
ran, to Se delivered this summer.
The Austrian Crown Prince. heed
less of the proverbial Ill luck of mar
riage in May, will be married on the
10th.
A company has been formed in
Paris with a capital Of ~, ,OU0. 900 francs,
for the importation of American live
stock.
Moscow has now more than four
hundred churches and chapels, and
yet wicked people are still found
there.
1t is said that Lord Derby will
probably receive the Order of the Gar
ter made vacant oy Lord Beaconsiieid's
death.
A Major Mills has given Montreal
$50 100000 for nvestment, the interest
10 be used in dis tributinS loaves of bread
to the needy.
Admiral Glyn, To whom Miss Neil
son left her fortune, proposes To devote
$4,000 to charities connected with the
historic profession
Sir Bartle Frere lately stated that
in single year more than e3,50900o
worth of diamonds have passed through
the Cape Town Post Office.
1T Is said that the Avenue d'Eylau,
in Paris. is aenceforth to be called. AZ
ter the illustrious poet who lives IN il,
the Avenue of Victor Hugo
AT recent meeting of the Congress
of Education League, Gambetta insist
ed upon the necessity of developing and
perfecting suffrage by universal educa-
ton
Italian workmen are much sought
after in France, ON account OF their su-
perior intelligence and artistic taste,
and are going thithsr in large num-
bers.
| Bodies at the Paris Morgue will in
| future be exhibited clothed, 10 present,
as near as possible, the deceased ap-
l - III ~ l..
living.
Sparkling sherry is a vinous nov-
city in Spain. The Spanish Govern
ment has granted "A monopoly Of pro-
duction to three firms. 1t Is a very
dear wine.
Col. Paris, head of the Paris fire
brigade, proposes i'm a recent report that
large warehouses be compelled TO light
by electricity, and urges that it would
be great safeguard
/ Mr.. James BonwfclS, British eth
nologist, concludes that the welch are
decidedly mixed people, the chief ele-
ments belonging to the early IberiEn
and later Celtic type.
The French Chambers have voted
81 ,200, 900 to indemnify those who suf-
Il IfTtu Tile CsUD % ftttt Va
| III. in 1851. 1T is computed that IN all
il made 5000 victims.
An air-prsssure engine has been
found to answer in underground rail-
roads in London, and before long this
method of propulsion will probably be
adopted, and steam and smoke got rid
Of
A jeweIry store and dressmaking
shop adioined, at London, Ontario. !.
The jaweller made disrespectful re-
marks about the dressmakers, and
they went in body with whips and
punis he'd him severely.
| The Marquis Tseng, the Chinssd
| Minister TO France, IL forbidden by
custom and etiquette sleeping on be,is
used by outer barbarians- Wherever
he goes, therefore, in travelling about
Europe, he carries his sleeping appa-
ratus-
| Owing to the severity of the past
winter in Japan, the deer have in sDne
parts descended from the mountains To
! the neighborhood fthe sesshore, where
/ they have been slaughtered by thous-
ands, without any apparent effect on
( their numbers.
A vessel recently arrived in Lon
| don from the River Plate with 1900
earcasses OF sheep on board. which were
I brought over i'm a frezrn sfatc. They
weighed on an average thirty six
I pounds each, and fetched 4.d. Per
pound in the market They soId as
fast as rossinls.
/ -1he invitation by the Sandvi
Island Government 70 Chinese emf
grants has resulted in such ,lslugp OF
| them that they outnumber the native
male population. They continued. at
last accounts, To arrive by the hundred,
and the authorities were considering =
mode of stopping the influx.
/ The Australian colonies have estab-
! lished an intercoionial Court of Appeal.
| The Governor OF each is TO appoint n
Judge tO be n member OF the court,
which y 70 consist OF three as quorum
] The court il to sit In each colony where
there are appeal cases once n year.
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