Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Vatican Library contains
los. 600 printed books and p, 900 manu-
scripts.
1t is formally announced that the
Crown Prince of Sweden IL to marry the
eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Of
Baden.
The bleak and remote farm of
Craigen Puttock, Dumfrieshire, where
for six years Carlyle lived in deep seclu-
sion with his wife (and which he has
now bequeathed to Edinburgh Univer-
sity), came to him from her. Mrs.
Carlyle, nee Welsh, was descendant Of
John Knox.
The exposition for inventions and
applications of electricity to be held in
Paris is to have exhibits from Germany,
England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Swift
zerland, the United States, and perhaps
other nations. The Germans expect to
make sensation with locomotives pro-
PEELED by electricity.
The total completion of the st.
Gothard tunnel will very likely take
place next July; the railway Is to be
opened in July, 1882. The mailbags are
even now carried through the tunnel by
messengers when rough weather pre-
walls upon the mountain. Arrange
ments will be made to illuminate the
whole tunnel by electric light.
Three young women of st. Denis,
Paris, were married recently and dow
cred with some gifts provided many
years ago by a Benevolent gentleman
for annual distribution to "three poor
and meritorious" damsels Of that city on
the occasion of their nuptials. They are
known as the three annual rosieres.
Each of them received $120 in money, a
diploma certifying that she was meri-
torious, and silver medal.
The London Society of Arts has de-
cided to award three silver medals for
as many London houses as may be found,
on examination, to be furnished with the
best known sanitary appliances. The
conditions include proper provisions
against frost, infection, damp, and 9TH
er cognate evils. The comment of an
English contemporary on this is that If
the judges have to visit the metropolitan
houses until they discover three worthy
of the prizes, the peripatetic labors of
Diogenes will be trivial compared with
their task.
The late Prince Imperial was the
last Napoleon that set foot in the park
at Malmaison. He was playing there a
few days before the outbreak of the war
that cost him his inheritance, and
thunderstorm rising, the lightning
struck the tree planted there by Napo-
leon l. in the presence of Josephine.
The tree gradually withered, and it was
at last cut down with other decaying and
defacing timber, and as it happened, to
the satisfaction of the superstition of
the neighboring country people, on the
very day that the Zulu assegais laid low
the Prince.
Previous to his marriage, Mr.. w.
L. Ashmead Bartlett had applied for
and obtained the royal license to assume
the name of Burdett- Coutts, which he
elected to bear before that of Bartlett.
He was unwilling to allow his family
name to disappear, as it would probably
have done had it been placed before
that of Burdett- Coutts. This change Of
name has nothing to do with the will of
the Duchess of st. Adams, but has been
made in order that Mr.. Bartlett should,
as is not unusual in cases of marriages
with great heiresses, bear in conjunc-
ton with his own the name of the lady
he has married. Mr.. Bartlett will apply
at once for the additional name of
Coutts, in compliance with the injunc-
ton laid down in the Duchess's will, to
the effect that any husband of the pos
SCISSOR of the bank property shall, with
in six months after the marriage, assume
the name of Coutts. BY this arrange
ment Mr.. Bartlett will comply with the
Duchess's will, and will, in addition,
bear the name of the baroness