Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

No clergyman is eligible to seat
In the British House of Commons.
1t is proposed to build an under
ground railroad in Paris. The cost of
Its construction is put at $50, 100000.
The recent dinner given by the city
OF London to the Prince of Wales cost
$lSS, 300. The saying that s'money
makes the mayor go" seems to have
been twisted about here.
Two hundred refugees were saved
during the bombardment of Alexandria
in the Catholic chapel by the ingenuity
OF the Arab doorkeeper, who told the
soldiers that the place was empty, and
there was nothing to steal or he would
have taken it himself.
Japan is promised constitutional
form OF government at the end of eight
years. By way of preparation for that
event, the Japanese Minister at Berlin
has been instructed to make careful
study of the Prussian system of govern
ment, which is likely to be the one chosen
as q model.
The guests at Baroness Burdett.
Coutts' first garden party were treated
to a sight of the smallest pony in the
world-Lady Jumbo. The tiny crea-
ture, which looks like thoroug hbred
race-horse seen through the wrong end
of an opera-glass, stands thirteen inches
high and is five years old.
Another of the Duke of Argyll's
numerous brood of daughters was mar
ried lately, the bridegroom being Mr..
Glyn, Vicar of Kensington, where the
Duke lives when in London. Only one
of his daughters has made great match
Lady Percy, whose husband will be
Duke of Northumberland.
Field Marshal Sir William Comm,
who died three years ago, and whose
journals have lately been published,
was gazetted an ensign at ten, and at
fourteen had his s'baptism of fire" with
his regiment in Holland in bloody en-
gagement, lasting thirteen hours, when
haH Gomm's battalion was lost. The boy
slept after it for thirty-one hours. He
lived to past ninety.
in. Germany, where there are no
restrictions upon the sale of intoxicating
beverages on the Sabbath day, thirty
two per cent. of murders and crimes of
violence are committed on Sundays, and
fifty-eight per cent. on Saturday and
Sunday, the idle days of the working
man. In Scotland the Forbes Macken-
zie act has beon followed by a consider
able diminution in those offenses.
More than one thousand deaths are
reported as having resulted last year
from accidents in mines in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The average of such deaths during the
last eight years is one to every 464
employed. Fall of rock from the roofs,
but more particularly from the sides of
workings, continues to be the. most
fruitful source of these disasters; and
there seems good reason to believe
that large proportion might be pre-
vented by a sufficient provision of tim
Der supports.
A young male African elephant now
occupies the stall in the elephant-house
lately vacated by the much-lamented
"Jumbo." ssJingo' is the name which
this recent addition to the Geological
Society's collection bears. He is young
in years and small in stature, being only
four feet and two inches in height and
weighing about 700 pounds. As he is
without blemish or defect of any kind,
and perfectly tame and gentle, it is not
unlikely that he may soon enjoy the
popularity of his predecessor. "Jingo"
was captured by Arabs in Upper Nubia
about eighteen months ago, and is be-
lieved to be about three or four years
of age.