Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1t is only ten years since that in
France the science of geography came
to be considered of much moment.
| Queen Victoria is fond of cold
weather. A hot room causes her to feel
Ill and faint. At Windsor Castle the
hot air is never turned on in her suite of
rooms, even in the coolest weather.
1t is said that the railroad offices in
Austria employ upward of three thou
sand women. They receive a salary of
from $5 to $50 per month. They are
invariably the near relatives of dead or
active male employees of the road.
| Senior Sunol hss lsen entrusted
with the commission for the statrf Of
Christopher Columbus which is t. ce
erected in the square of the Casa de la
Moneda, Madrid. The Inauguration
will not take place until the 18th of Oc-
tober, 1883.
The summit of spur of the Khasia
Hills in India is described by Professor
j. Eliot as having the excessive average
annual rainfall of 493 inches, owing to
| the presence of a vast mechanical OBJ
struction which converts horizontal air
motion into vertical all motion.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, seems
to be greatly beloved by the Neapoli-
tans. They call her ''the Marguerite of
Marguerites. Recently when she en-
tered Naples every window and doorway
was adorned with her favorite flower
indeed the whole city looked like great
bouquet of daisies.
When the Scotch express train ar
rived at Darlington, in England, the
other morning at 80, two boys, broth
ers, aged ten and fourteen respectively,
were found hanging on by the brake un-
der one of the carriages. They had got
on the train at Edinburgh, and intended
to have gone on to London. The dis
lance from Edinburgh to Darlington is
2G0 miles.
Robert Dodson, woodman, of
Hexam, England, has established his
right to funds that have been locked up
in chancery for 1873 years. The brother
of his grandfather, who married an
heiress, but had no issue, was MUIR
dered after settling in Manchester, and
his property, then large, went into the
Court of Chancery. The value of the
estate is now more than 100000.
The French Minister of Agriculture
has published an official estimate of the
harvest for 1881, in which the number
of acres sown in cereals is given at H.
100000, showing an increase of nearly
half million acres on last year. The
crops, however, were not so good as
they were the year before, the total
yield of wheat being put at 100000
quarters, or nearly 100000 less than in
1880, while the average yield per acre
was only II 12 bushels, or bushel less
than last year. The yield of rye was
about 100000 quarters, or about $780,
900 quarters less than in 1880.
AT a recent meeting of the English |
Chapter fthe Order of St. John, the
silver medal for deeds of gallantry on
land was awarded to Mrs. Marion Smith,
widow of Bandmaster B. Smith, Ninety
fourth Regiment, for her courageous
self-devotion in remaining under fire |
during the action at Bronkorst Spruit |
on the Goth of December, 1880, and allie |
Waiting the sufferings of the wounded in
every possible manner, even tearing up |
her own dress to make bandages, and |
also for the good service rendered by |
her for a period of three months, when |
she voluntarily remained with the pris-
oners of war-lnany of them wounded
Ito whose comfort she displayed unre-
hitting attention under trying circum-
stances.