Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
Foreign Topics.

Foreign Topics.
Russian soldiers are taught trade,
and allowed, when off duty, u earn
money by it.
The colossal works begun f1ve
years ago for the Improvement OF the
port Of GENOA have been successfully
completed.
According to architectural statis-
tics twenty-seven thousand houses
were built III Paris during the reign OF
Napoleon Ill.
1T is calculated that the traffic nm
der the st. Gothard tunnel, to be open
ed next year, will greatly surpass that
of the Mont Gents.
"A hundred and one persons died OF
starvation in the metropolitan district
of London last year. That IL about
twenty in a million.
Miss Lucia Zarate, the "midgit'-
certainly the smallest woman living.
commands larger salary than any 9TH
or woman in England.
A Catholic Congress will be held at
Madrid next Ootober, which Is to be at
tended by Catholic notabilities from,
every part of the world.
Late reports say that dry, harsh
winds have materially damaged the
English crop prospects. Spring wheat
has begun to look yellow.
1T is reliably estimated that the
Ottawa, Ontario. mills will cut about
the same quantity OF lumber as was
produced last seasOn-sOme BOO, OOO.OOO
feet.
Naples has lost its noted beggar.
He had been married thirteen times.
and the number Of his children is said
to have been 1872, now all living except
two.
"A bronze statue of D. nte has late
" been set up in the square Of the Col
lege de France, this being the quarter
i'm which he lived when III Paris in
1902.
An exhibition of works Of art was
opened at Yetido, in Japan, OIL the 18th
of March. 1t is to close OH the 3Oth Of
June. It contains many French pic
lures.
-Shakespeare's works are being rem
dered into Malo-Russian language by q
wall-knOwn writer in that dialect. NJ.
Kulish, who has already completed u
translation Of six of the plays.
In proportion to population the
taxation il higher in France than in
England. In France it is Sc % per
head; in England. 4.35. The interest
on the French debt now exceeds that
Of the English debt.
The supply Of water received in
~ -, f. lhns.
hills is magnificent, but 1t does not as
cend to the tops of the highest houses.
It is now proposed to put up works to
accomplish this end.
In Paris false ears are now manu-
featured for the tnilet. Ladies' who
think they have ugly ears place these
artistic productions under luxurient
tresses OF false hair, fasten them tn the
natural ears, and wear them for show.
George Brine, known as the King
Of the Migrants, who boosted that he
had been in every jail and workhouse
in England, died lately at workhouse
after ten years. residence. He had
never been convicted Ut felony or lar
ceny.
"A drama written some years ago
by King Oscar, of Sweden, upon an
episode that occurred in one of the
wars waged between his country and
Denmark, Is being prepared by per-
mission for presentation on the stage
in Germany.
The Princess Dolgrouki, the NOR
gantio: wife Of the Gar, h instrEcsing
her financial agents to invest largely on
her behalf in America securities, in
American securities, in which she has
already placed between two aud three
million dollars.
Strict orders have been given by
the Russian Minister Of Finance pro-
hil,iting the entry Into the empire OF
nitro-gIyceline, which n declared a
Government monopoly. This corner
the wits Of the Nihilists.
There is still running from the Pr
azzi di Venezia to the entrance Of the
Vatican, in Rome, line of Omnlbuses
which has been running for fifty years;
they are rickety and dingy, and are
drawn by shabby horses. The city has
only two street tramways.
The agitation Of the International
Association for the Suppression of
Gambling at Monte Carlo has received
fresh impetus from the suicide Of two
young Italians, brotheIs, who lost all
they had, and threw themselves under
q train at San Reno, Italy.
Lord Beaconsfield did not place on
the statute books single measure OF
relief to the laboring classes. The most
useful act which he introduced was that
by which electoral disputes are tried by
q Judge Of the Supreme Court, instead