Iron County register., 1882-03-30
F0REIGT GOSSIP.


The barber profes sion in Paris has
ceased to be especially lucrative. The
fashion of Frenchmen of wearing long
tiair and full boards is increasing alarm
ngiy.
The Pope expects to purchase for
the Vatican the largest topaz in the
world, which weighs seven pounds, and
apon which lapidaries of Naples have
been working since 1882, fifty years ago.
1t has carved upon it representations Of
Jesus at the Last Supper.
"A banquet in steam boiler was
recently given by German manufac-
turer in the duchy of Baden to celebrate
the completion of one of the largest
steam boilers in the world. Inside the
boiler table was arranged for thirty
guests, while racks for the cookery and
wines were placed along the sides.
--Garibaldi loves the sea and can not
bear 60 De away from it. When he was
= carried out on a terrace overlooking the
water after his recent illness, he cried:
ssHere L have the sea | live on the sea;
and for us sailors the sea is life!' He
. at first insisted upon staying on the
terrace so late that his doctors had to
beg him TO be more prudent. The poor
old man urged that it would be depriv-
ing him of his greatest comfort.
A gentleman in Paris owns hand
some and valuable dog named s'Bis-
marck." He recently received note
from the German Embassy inviting him
TO remove the name from the dogs col
lar and to cease calling the animal by it
= under pain of prosecution, upon the
ground that the patronymic belongs ex-
eiusively to the German Chancellor, and
the Embassy can not allow it to be pub
iciy applied to dog.
Citizens of the Hanoverian town of
Osuabruck have resolved to settle their
differences SO far as possible by arbitra-
siou before entering upon the worry and
expense of prOtracted lawsuits. They
have formed themselves into an associa-
zion by which they are bound not to 90
to law until acourt of peace of their own
making has failed n hiing about an amic
able adjustment II their disputes. Last
year out of % cases 2j were decided in
AIiS inexpensive and civilized manner.
The new building for the German
J Parliament is to occupy a site 450 feet
long, and 500 feet broad. There are to
be seats for 400 Deputies arranged like
those in the Hail of Representatives at
W ashington, each with desk. All
around the sides of the hall will be
ragged boxes as in n theater, with a
separate entrance. The two most inn
pUrtant of these are reserved for the
Imperial family and the Diplomatic
body, and only about 80 seats are set
apart for the use of the general public.
Switzerland has suffered an ire
parable 2oss by the recent burning of
the historic church of Rapperschwyi, in
the canton of ST. Gall. The only part
of the edifce left is the great tower
which contained the archives; the nave,
the choir, the little tower, the seven
altars, and many precious relics were |
utterly consumed. The great tower |
was built in 14i2. The little tower, the |
nucleus of the edifice, was built in 1859 |
as private chapel for Count Rudolph |
of Hapsburg. At the time of the |
Reformation the church received very |
rough treatment, but ever since 1929,
when the PrOtestants were defeated at |
exclusively for Roman Catholic worship. |
The German wife of the Grand Duke.
Vladimir has a will of her own, and is |
not disposed to submit to the peculiar
re yulatiOns of the Russian Government. |
She discovered not long ago that a letter |
which she had written Do her family, |
and i'm which it is said she complained |
Of the dullness and Insecurity of life at |
the Russian court, had been opened by |
her own personal aid-de-camp before
delivery to the post. The angry grand !
duchess complained to the Emperor,
but, to her astonishment, met with no |
sympathy from him. Still more enraged,
she delivered her emphatic decision that
If the offender was not Immediately dis |
missed she would make Il public scandal |
aud quit the country. The aid-de camp |
was dismissed, but only to receive a
much more lucrative appointment.