Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The city of Vienna has granted the
goe 70 an English company to build an
elevated railway.
-Gen. Wolseley will be the thirteenth
soldier admitted by Queen Victoria, for
tae good temper of his sword, into the
peerage.
The ssuper' of a Melbourne thea
Ter died friendless and alone recently,
and then it was learned that he was a
son OF Mark Lemon, the famous editor
of London Punch.
MIR. Bass, the famous brewer, has
mad wire fence, which cost $4,000,
erected on his Locheanhead estate, in
order to keep deer within the limits of a
certain territory.
Professor Haeckel saws that in Cey-
Ion, where he lately sojourned, he fire.
quently met with women from twenty
70 thirty years of age who were grand
mothers.
By means of a chemical refrigerator
Ncorpses are now frozen as hard as blocks
= of marble before they are laid out for
inspection in the Paris morgue. The
chances of identification are greatly in
creased by this method.
The immense cost of living in Egypt
IS very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain there.
THE prices for everything are enormous,
ha18 thewhoie days pay of a subaltern
~wlh purchase him but one meal at a
hotel
Thomas Hughes, Judge of the
Nautwich County Court, and better
known as the author of ssTom Browns
School Days." gave an important de-
~,cision on the law of libel, by deciding
that an c fitor. might alter an advertise
meat to prevents libel g. z
At Carlsruhe, in Germany, a usu-
rer, who was known as the ''Vampire of
Biernheim," has been sentenced to
eight years. imprisonment, a fine of
$4,000, and five years loss of civil
rights, for extorting $50 and two calves
from q peasant in return for an original
loan of SIS q sssR
An extraordinary mode of commit
ting suicide was tried by woman at
Buda-Pesth. She bought sixty leeches,
then went to bathing house, put the
1eeches on her body. resumed her cloth
ing, and left. She had gone but a few
blocks when she fell down senseless, land
was thus found by a policeman, who
forwarded her to a hospital.
If the Indian tea trade has an enc
my, a stone ready to his hand may be
found in an advertisement in a paper
published in the Puniaub. 1t begins in
these terms: ssTo tea planters in Dehra
Doom and Kangra Valley. For sale
Soapstone, very useful for coloring
green teas" and proceeds to give the
terms per maund at which this very
useful article can be delivered at a GER
tain railway station.
The Bishop OF Ely stopped in Bris-
toi enc day recently for few hours, and
happened to enter the cathedral just as
afternoon service was commencing.
AS he was walking up the nave, his at
tention was attracted to a new brass
which has recently been erected, and he
made momentary halt in front of it,
whereupon verger, who did not mark
the episcopal garments, jumped from
behind pillar and gave the Bishop a
sharp rap on the shoulder, informing
him with BUNDLE like bluntness that
"persons must not look at the monu-
mentS till after SERVICE The Bishop
walked On into the choir, and a kind
spectator nearly caused the verger to
drop upon the pavement by informing
him of the name of the person he had
treated so unceremoniously.