Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-12
Foreign Topics.

Sarah Bernhardt will receive S1OO, 900
for her st. Petersburg engagement.
About e53, 900 of the Spanish debt
has been converted into 4 per cents.
The Duke of Devonshire and the
Earl of Leicester are patrons of skat-
ing.
The Car has subscribed. 100 900 rou-
b1es for the victims of the Warsaw
riots.
The authority of the ssKhedive of
Egypt is to be sustained by England
and France.
The Pail Mall Gazette and the ST..
James Gazette appeared on the I'd inst.
as penny papers.
The eAnglo-French commercial treaty
negotiations have virtually ended, with
out satisfactory result.
The recently discovered opera by
Donlzetti, 1.-The Duke of Alva," will
soon be performed in Rome.
The Jewish committee in Vienna
say that twelve Jews were killed in
the riots at Warsaw, Poland.
The French Academy of Medicine
lately their attention called to the case
of girl of six weighing ia pounds.
Anna Parnell presided at meeting
of the Dublin Ladies' Land League a
few days ago. The police did not in
terfere.
The famous Dolby's chop-house, Lon
don, which has been open two hun
dred years and more, is to be pulled
down.
John Bright regrets that cheap nov-
els find their way into cottages and
workshops of great manufacturing
towns.
The Russian press have opened a
subscription for the purpose of max
ing Sarah 3ernhardt a handsome
present.
Applications will be made at the next
session Of Parliament for the granting
by England Of absolute copyright pow
ers 10 Canada.
It is stated as probable that the Duke
of Connaught, who has a strong desire
to visit India, was selected for an In
dian command.
Prestige was defined by Lord Rose
berry, at Hull, the other day. as "the
most expressive word in the French or
any other language.
Nine. Alfray, the last principal wit
ness in the famous robbery of the
courier of Lyons. has just died at
Melun at the age of 96.
The ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany in
tends to erect the long-delayed facade
to the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore,
the Cathedral of Florence.
The Russian court officials are in
quest of fifteen snow-white horses of
the same size and build to be used in
the procession at the coronation of the
Gar.
st. Catherine, the patron saint of old
maids, is annually commemorated on
Nov. 25 in Brussels by spinsters' So
ciety of 100 members. Paris has a sim
liar society.
A Russian newspaper announces the
Insolvency of the Grand Society of
Railways of Russia, and the misappro-
pration of 25,OOO,OOO roubles on the
Nicholas line.
The wearing of costly jewelry, except
on rare occasions, is likely, it is said,
| to go out of fashion in London for the
present, as people are afraid to keep it
| in their houses.
The Emperor William has received
congratulations from the Gear OH the
advent of the new year, and on the
seventy-fifth anniversary of his en-
trance into the army.
Lord Salisbury has remitted the
whole of his agricultural rents for the
last half year. He has, however, a
London estate worth some $3.50, 900 a
year to struggle along upon.
Boucicault says that Oscar Wilde is
clever man, and not the ass which his
ridiculous posing in London society
makes him appear. His devotion to the
aesthetic crazeis three-fourths assumed.
The niHth volume of the French edi-
ton of Prince Bismarck speeches, COM
prising his Parliamentary activity dur
| ing 1sSO-S1, has just appeared. The
French translator is thus ahead of the
! Chancellor's native editor.
A firm in Havana, Cuba. was win
died out of $2s9, 900 BY some clever ras-
Gals who pretended to have drawn 9
prize in Madrid lottery. The lottery
ticket was substantiated by means ol
cablegrams forged i'll Paris.
Sick headache can be permanently
cured by taking L-i,' DASDzLIoN EoSIc N
small doses after meals.