Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The death is announced from the
western coast of Africa of King Omoru.
de leaves 700 widows. OF his ninety
nve children seventy-seven are still alive.
His eldest son has 400 wives.
The wife and accomplice of Marin
Fenayrou, the murderer of the druggist
ALBERT, at Pecq, France, under pecu-
liarly atrocious circumstances, has OBJ
tanned permission to share her hus-
bands captivity in New Caledonia.
"A bust of Robert Burns, the cost of
which has been betrayed by small SUBJ
scriptions, will be placed in Poets Cor
ner in Westminster Abbey, near the
memorials of his fellow poets and coun-
trymen, Campbell and Thomson.
The executinner's tariff in the four
teenth century was lately discovered in
the archives at Darmstadt. For. boiling
criminal in oil the executioner re-
ceived twenty-four f1orins; if the wretch
was burnt alive the fee was fourteen
horins, and ten for hanging. To break
a man on the wheel cost six forms; the
fee for the rack was five, and the same
sum was charged for branding on the
shoulder or forehead, or for cutting off
Tue nose ana ears.
The number of distinguished female
violinists' is so constantly on the increase
that the gentlemen players of the future
will have difficulty in holding their own.
One of the latest celebrities is a young
Italian lady, SignOra Tua, of whose ac-
complishments the Berlin and Vienna
critics relate extraordinary things. An
other young lady violinist is Fraulein
Soldat, who has just won the great Mem
delssohn prize of fifteen hundred marks
at the Berlin Academy. She is pupil
of Herr Joachim.
AT wayside inn in the south of
france is a roasting jack moved by ami
NAL power. Two dogs turn the machine,
working alternately. One day the dog
whose proper turn it was being absent,
the other was caught and put on the
wheel. He firmly refused, however, to
work, and neither coaXing, threats nor
chastisements produced any effect. After
some delay the missing dog was found
and set to the task. After he had
nearly completed the job he was re-
leased, and the first tried again, and the
animal so lately recusant now offered
no opposition, and made the wheel re-
Volve with hearty good will till the
roast was nnlSneQ.
During the French invasion of Mex
leo plant was discovered which was
found to possess the property-when
chewed or crushed-of stopping hem
orrhages. To the native Mexicans this
plant was known by name which may
be rendered as s'fOwlwort. The dis
coverer carried specimen toVersailles,
and planted it in 1867, and it has since
f1ourished, lowered, and fruited with
out apparent change in its peculiar
qualities. The action of this plant is
said to exceed that of all Supplies
known, and this valuable property is
likely to give it a wider extension, es-
pecially as it seems to be so readily &C
climated in foreign lands. Its botanical
name is 1radescantia erecta (Jacq.)
Herr Won Bismarck had shoe
maker who had often broken faith with |
him, despite his most solemn promises,
and he at length resolved to put stop
to this sort of thing. One morning at |
six O'Clock a messenger was dispatched |
to the dilatory shoemaker with the SIM
pie question: 'Are Herr Won Bis !
marck's boots ready?" Being answered |
in the negative the messenger departed, |
but in ten minutes there was another |
ring at the shop door. A second mes
senger thrust in his head with the in
quiry: care Herr Won Bismarck's boots !
ready?" And so it went on every ten !
minutes, the same question all the day |
through until evening, when at last the |
boots were finished. Never again did |
that shoemaker keep Bismarck waiting |
for his boots.