Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-27

Various Foreign Topics.
AN uncle Of Hermann, the magician,
recently died In Germany aud left him $40 OOO.
THE King Sweden has published q
volume under the title Of Poems and Leaves
from Ny Diary"
TIE sum of fifty thousand marks has
been subscribed towards the founding of an
antiJewish new paper in Prussia.
GEORGE ELIOT's original first name
~as Mary Ann. She herself run it into one
word. Marian, when she began TO write.
The Official statement estimates the
not cost Ct the war in Afa hanistan at Ell, $780,
600, including the cost Of the frontier railways.
DURING the recent census taken in
Switzerland the female citizens Of all degrees
energetically protested against telling their
ages.
Ok the 18th Of last month took place
the thirty.fourth case Of cremation at Gotha.
The drst occurred on the 10th of Decem-
Der, 1879.
LORD RosEBERY, at his half-yearly
audit, RENTED Is per cent of the rents due
him from ali the tenants on his Buckingham
shire estates.
The Flemish Inhabitants Of Belgium
are signing an address to the English peo-
pie protesting against the annexation OF
the Transvasl.
MENOTTI GARIBALD1 has offered his
services, together with two legions Of Carl
bAldian volunteers aud SO, 600 Chassepot rifles.
10 Greece IN case of war with Turkey.
TIE Lord Chancellor of England de-
clared on the l4sn inst, that he thought jour-
naiists and Grown officials were decidedly dis
qualif. d for holding positions on the niagis-
tracy.
Mr.. BUDGETT, a well-known mer-
chant in Bristol, England, is colonizing large
property he possesses to the south of Lake SUI
perior with emigrants from the neighborhood
VI Bristol.
The ex-Empress Eugenia has pre-
scented to the Refuge of Nolre Dame d'Auglet
the library of TWENTY-FIVE thousand volumes her
husband had installed In the Villa Eugene
at Biarriix.
Mr.. D'OUvILLE, Superintendent a
French line Of steamers, has been on visit 10
Virginia, with the obi set, it is said, of inspect
ing the land in tn. interest Of wuuld-be French
imlnigrants
THE Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the
we'll known East indian prince who lives in
England, advertises 800 pheasants and 1000
lares for sale, all On the Elvedon estate,
near Thetford.
THE London city guilds which own
estates In Ireland said to be willing
to transfer about 10000 acres of land
there to tenants under the terms of the
new Land bill
THERE is exceptional bitterness
against Germany in Russia just now. A Sc
ries Of articles has lately appeared advocating
"a social aud political crusade of contempt
against Germany.
The nuns living in religious coinmu-
mites In Italy have suff ,red greatly from pow
erty nee their converts and possessions were
con6scated. Last year Leo XIII. affo dei them
what little aid he could.
THE principal streets of Liverpool
are to be H. hted with electric light. The
Council recently .accept.d a tender fpr year
1t $4,000, which is double the prize for
gas with the same service
Mr.. PARNELL had a run recently
with the Curras hmore hounds, mounted on q
very fne hunter lent HIM for the occasion,
1Au VINO his uiy CotupihCutSO w AOlu w dGci-
ford on his plucky riding.
A vienna dispatch to the Times, of
Lodon, says that wish Is expressed to have
the marriage of the Crown Prince Rudolph
and the Princess Ste phanie, OF Belgium, take
place on the 24th of April.
AN official return puts the feminine
"models'' in P iris at 675. The pay for a sit
ting 10 from so .nts to $40. Most of the mod
els are Italian; thirty Americ IN; 145 have
been in the h .,,ds OF the police.
THE books of the Paris Morgue show
that during the year 1889 total OF sos bodies,
the results OF crime, suicide and accident. we're
deposited In that grim establishment. These
figures show an increase Of 81 over those re-
ferring to the year 1879.