Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

NO clergyman is eligible to a seat in
the House of Commons.
The census bureau for Japan re-
ports for 1881 nearly 90O, 900 births and
about 6oo.DoO deaths.
The drum, which was abolished in
the French army by General Fare, has
been restored by General Billot, the new
Minister of War.
The lately deceased Duke of Graf
ton is said to have shown some years
ago to physician who flattered himself
he had cured his Grace, all the bottles
of medicine which had been prescribed,
but none of which had been taken, al
though the patient had got well.
The new City Hall of Paris, recent,
liz dedicated, is marvel of architectural
skill and of palatial magniicence. Five
million dollars was appropriated for its
erection, but only So. 800, 900 has thus far
been expended, and it is so far complet-
ed as to be open for use.
One of the most mysterious of re
cent events in BerEn was the suicide of
a successful lawyer. He was one of the
clients were of the wealthiest and be It
paying, and among them was Bismarck.
His family relations were as fortunate
rs his pecuniary ones. No one has been
able to explain why he drowned himself.
The reign of forty five years which
Queen Victoria has just completed is
certainly long one; still it has been
surpassed by three reigns in English
history-those of Henry III. Edward
LII. and George I'LL, which were
fifty-six, fifty and sixty years. Victoria,
however, has beaten the record for
English queens, having reigned longer
than Elizabeth
There are 407 fountains and SOP
trOughs in London, which it Is est,-
mated, supply water for 100000
drinkers each year. The society which
provides these humane conveniences re-
ports that nearly twice as many new
drinking places were prepared the past
year as in any previous twelvemonths.
The daily consumption of water in
London is about 100000, 900 gallons.
"A local English paper gives an
account of very intelligent dog in
Wiltshire. The animal was in the
habit of going every day to the railroad.
and as the train passed the guard threw
out the Standard for clergyman who
lived hard by, which the dog seized in
his teeth and carried to his master. One
day the dog came back to he rectory
without the newspaper. On inquiry the
guard insisted that he had acted as
usual. but upon making a search it was
found that Daily Telegraph, and not
Standard, had been thrown out and the
dog had refused to have anything to do
with it.
-"Antwerp is MORALLY busy" writes
MIR Edward King to the Boston Journal.
'tyet to a stranger it seems quiet. The
streets are not crowded with bustling
people; but ring at this quantity carved
door, enter this courtyard, and 60 up a
flight of stairs. Here are counting
rooms, hum of trade and much smoke
of cigars. So it is all over the city. In
a corner left over from the Middle Ages
AN old corner-you may step into the
Bourse, or Exchange, where thousands
of merchants herd together twice day,
not merely to buy and sell stock, but
everything else. The Antwerp mer-
chant does half his business in these two
visits to. the Bourse daily. In his Office
he simply, notes down and carries out
the results of his visit. He is stirring
man, full of ideas about expectation to
South America and the Indies, full of
jealousy of Rotterdam, and very much
afraid of his gigantic American COM
petitor over the sea-"