Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

According to Cardinal Manning, it
is an indictable offense in England for .
man to propagate atheism.
The dire report that scrinoline has
made a reappearance IN London has
filed aesthetic Paris with dismay.
A Russian traveller says that one
third of Asia and considerable part OF
Europe still remain unexplored.
One of the late victims to insanity,
caused by the French financial panic, is
the DUO de Banos, private secretary to
the husband of Queen Isabella.
The Kezanlik Valley, in Roumania,
is entirely given up to the cultivation OF
roses, the essence of which is sold
wholesale in Paris at $3.50 to 5000 a
pound, while it is retailed at $500 or
more a pound.
Mr.. Guilford Onslaw and other
friends of the Tichborne claimant visit
ed him at the Portesia prison few days
ago. The convict is reported to be in
good health, and, although depressed as
to his prospects of release, rallied con-
siderably when informed that efforts
were intended to be made on his behalf
in Parliament by one or two members
who had hitherto taken no active inter-
est in his cause
The Paris Euenenent relates queer
story of a Partisan adventurer who
makes decent living by torturing the
nerves of his neighbors. He hires an
apartment at rent of 5000 or 1000
francs, obtains lease of three, six, or
nine years, and then he begins to play
on the trombone. At first he plays an
hour, night and morning; then, when
The neighbors begin to complain, he
plays two hours, and so goes on gradu-
ally until he plays from eight o'clock in
the morning until nine O'Clock at night.
By that time the landlord or the tenants
have offered him sufficient pecuniary
inducement to sacrifice his lease, and the
trombone-player departs and begins the
trick elsewhere.
M. Gambetta has had narrow es-
cape from being fired at by a young
man who, last October, went all the way
from Rheims for the purpose. He
loitered for three days about the Palais
Bourbon, but failed to see the EXPIRE
mier once, and, casting about for some
one else to shoot, selected DIR. Weymar,
who attracted his eye by ribbon in his
button-hole. He fired at the Doctor,
but failed to hit him. An officer arrested
him, and he has just been sentenced to
twenty years hard labor. .e
All those who had the honor of
Lord Hatherley's personal acquaintance
will, says the London World, miss a
most genial friend. His memory was
and took him back to the
childhood of Queen Victoria, who owes
her birth in England to the instrument
tality and foresight of his father, Sir
Page Wood. When first introduced to
the little Princess, he was a boy and she
a baby about seven months old. On her
little Royal Highness entering the room
in her nurses arms, he scarcely knew
what was expected of him, but without
more ado stepped forward and kissed
the baby's hand.
When the British Prime Minister
returns to his residence in the small
hours of morning, from the House of
Commons, he continues the custom he
has observed through his whole political
life, of sitting down to the piano and
himself on the instru-
ment in an old English or Scottish bal
lad or two. Mr.. Gladstone adds to his
many sided gifts as statesman, legisla-
tor, author, woodman, atrocity monger
and general sympathizer, no small mu-
steal faculty, a natural turn inherited by
his son Herbert. 1t is hardly news that,
no matter how prolonged the sitting
may be, Mrs. Gladstone waits up for her
husband and prepares for him with her
own hand the cup of tea, with a lemon
squeezed in it, which the prime minister
holds to be the most effective form of