Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP


voted to opera -
The Prince of Wales is charged
with growing old faster than his years
and giving evidence of impaired health
and strength in many ways.
-"Marian, the Amazon Queen" is
now exhibiting in Glasgow. She is a
native of Germany, seventeen years of
age, and over eight feet high. She is
plump and of good figure.
1t is said that the old Omnibus
Company, of London, which runs about
CSC vehicles, loses an average of $3.50, 900
year by dishonest conductors. Posi-
tions as conductors are consequently
much sought after. fsss .-F..
Near Metz tame bear was walking
in the woods and suddenly came upon
an Alsatian hunter, who pointed his gun
to fire, when the bear stood on his hind
legs and danced. The hunter thought
, it was the devil and fled. -
! THE Pop6lasion Of Manila was being
Sdecinnated by cholera, says = colonial
paper, when tremendous hurricane
swept over the island and acted as a
meteorological antiseptic, for on the fol-
lowing day not single additional case
of cholera broke out, and none have
Deen reported SINCE. ,rr,
The London Truth does not re-
member to have ever seen the following
lines in print, which, rightly or wrong
ly, are ascribed to the late Lord Bea-
consfeld: -.~ q
For heiress hunting, to eternal fame
Belongs Long Tylney Wellesley Longpole's
But sure he was not fit to black thy boots
Coutts Burdctt- Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-
"A most extraordinary and painful
phenomenon has lately occurred in
Warsaw. A lady died-under somewhat
peculiar circumstances, which gave rise
to a report that her death had been
caused by her husbands Entertainment.
Hence several weeks after the interment
her body was exhuped for post-mortem
examination, when it was found that
in the grave a perfectly healthy child
had been born.
MIR. O'Donovan, the intrepid Merv
correspondent of the London Daily
for his services, was, on his return to
England, presented by the proprietors
of that newspaper with check for
$4,000. 81 owe my success and good
fortune," Mr.. O'Donovan recently said.
s'to Ireland, that reared me; to my old
frieze coat, that protected me to the
Daily NeuS, that encouraged me, and to
Merv, that imprisoned me-
Sir julius Benedict, the veteran
English musician, now seventy-two
years of age, is as hale and hearty as he
was when he came to America with
Jenny Lind, a trip of which he is still
fond of talking. He recently sat up
composing music forty hours without a
moments sleep or rest, and when at
last the work in hand was finished, and
Lady Benedict urged him to 60 to bed
and rest, he gayly responded: eyes,
after I've read the evening papers,"
Ladies will no longer wear gloves
with full dress in Paris; the fashion has
changed. Apropos of the fact the Tol-
taire tells an anecdOte of old French
ideas of courtesy. Formerly ladies used
only to wear knitted silk gloves. When
Louis NV adopted kid gloves he wore
them at the chase, at reviews and in
the country, but never at home. One
day he saw the Marquis of Drosmeull-
who wanted to obtain a military COM
mission-speaking to the Duchess of
Cont with gloves on. The Roi-Soliel
refused the commission, stating that
man vulgar enough to accost a woman
as if he were approaching acannon, was
not Worthysto' hold a colonelcy.E