Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-23
Foreign Topics.


Typhoid fever is scourging the
French troops in Tunis.
The British Government will soon
include Minister Of Agriculture.
The English Irrational Dress Sofi-
tyr has its model costume on view IL
London. sssa rs
The English Admiralty has order.
ed huge ironclad after the pattern ls Oh
Italy,s monster. ii sfa
.-swedcn has tremendous anti-li1uor
laws. and they are almost AZ effective
as those in Maine.
The Canada Pacific railway has
sold oOO, 600 acres of land to French
agricultural society at SIPS per acre.
The Duke of Buccleuch has kept
pack of hounds, and hunted them en-
tirely at his own expense. for hfty-four
years.
A Translation into French of Mark
Twain's "American Sketches" by M.
Emile Belmont is shortly to be pub
lished in Paris.
Rosa Benheur is at work on grand
study Of some lions she k.pt in her
the Paris .'Zoo.n
The manufactured oil from Amer
lean cotton seed has begun in Italy on
a large scale. It is mixed with olive
oil. and sold for table use.
Bret Harte says that the Princess
Beatrice looks like a pleasant. comfort
able, corn-fed Kentucky girl, and he
DrOnounc0S her charming.
German mattresses have been in
very popular. They are called .kel-
lerinen In Italianized speech.
Measles continues to be fashiona-
BILE complaint in London, and is OIL the
increase, especially in the West End,
where fresh cases are daily occur
ing.
House linen in Germany lasts a
very long time from being 50 seldom
washed. It is q sign of wealth to
wssh such things but four times a
year.
The exhibition of wines at Milan
has never been equalled at any worlds
fair. All sorts are on hand. Wine is
the principal crop in Italy, silk the
next.
An American lady now assists at
the lectures of the celebrated physiolo-
gist, Prof. Virchow, and is the first
student Of her sex ever entered at the
University of Berlin.
When the proposition to erect a
statue to Theirs was put to the vote in
the Municipal Council of Marseilles the
other day, his fellow townsnlcn reject
I'D it by twenty-four votes to two.
Major Knorr, German author,
tries to show that the partition Of Po-
land has not paid, because the Poles
are at the bottom of all the mischief
done upon the Continent of Europe.
The German Post Office has adopt
ed and uses postage stamps whose
colors can be cancelled by water. This
prevents fraud, for as soon as the |
stamps are washed the color is obliter-
ated. 800
Only one telegraph line is in oper-
alton in China, from Shanghai to
WOosung, twelve miles. An effort is |
now being made to entend the wires to
Tientsin, but the native mandarins are
There is now published in Vienna.
in periodical parts, 1.-THE Oriental
Travels Of the Crown Prince RUDOLF"
The work is profusely illustrated with
original sketches by the royal author,
and it IL fa vorably SPOKEN Of by Her-
man critics.
-Sophocles's "Edipus Tyrannus,
translated into French verse, il to be
produced at the Comedis Franchise
with great ..eclat. This version was
first played there in 1858, and the mus
ic Of Membree, written for the occasisn,
will also be revived.
-Parsees around the "Towers of ST.
the corpses of Parsees
mt Bombay are taken Immediately af-
ter death to be devoured by vu!tures
will often wait and watch until every |
atom Of flesh OF those they love has
been consumed by the birds.
king Kalakaua, Of the Sandwich
Islands is making the tour Of the
world, and proposes to do the JOb ~ I
something under eighty days, II posi-
be. At last accounts he was in Asia,
ON his way home VIA Paris and New
York.
An effort IL being made to have the
presence of Queen Victoria at the open
ing az the New Dock Works at Leithi
IN July. 1He SIUuHu u0S uCSn CHslOiy
reclaimed from the sea. and the extern
sion, when completed, will have cost
G375, 900.
Prof. von Ranke, the historian,
who was born in the same year and in /
the same month az the late Mr.. Car
lyle, IL to visit London for the purpose |
Of arranging with firm Of English |
publishers for the issuing Of . new re-
vfsed and complete edition Of his histo-
rical works.