Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

fOREIGN GOSSIP.
es.sS..szz "a German who made fun of Bis
marck's whiskers was sent to Jail for
three months. d
Every penny of the vast debt which
bore down the city of Glasgow bank
4 : tour years ago has been paid, amounting
to $50, 200, O0o.-
- : The Russian author, Tchernichew-
4, - SKY, who has been convict in Siberia
-. for eighteen years, is at liberty, the
Gar having granted the prayer of the
sifaa International Society of Letter to that
.aJe effect. . -.5.rs, X ---55 -4~4=
Madagascar is rather larger than
France. A belt of almost virgin forest
3 r. runs around the island. The population
. 80, Is about 1900, 000,. and the soil will
easily support so, 900, 900. India rubber
n2s3 IS q principal export. The mineral
10 wealth is enormous 1si
-p4 "a when Captain Cook first visited
III. Tahiti, the. natives were using nails of
! 81 - wood, bone, shell and stone. When they
saw iron nails they fancied them to be
10 shoots oof some &er.t hard NWesd, and
haa bdesiropS of securing, .suehq a valuable
.t,ir acommedity, they planted. them in their
ys EgardenS,UH -hIsRsI 10 Rl9isYs :
, dllssd--Ini Italy, when the country men and
5aa wofi1eT dance 't5gether,' the first thing
they do is to toss off their shoes, If they
% a. wear any. A man does not 90 up to q
- girl and ask il she will dance, but he
fixes his eye upon her from a distance
IT, and mods. She Sneds in lEeturn, and
then both. kick off their, shoes. and ad-
ueit vance toward each other and begin to
dance, ri .t.9i,l.,. -, 80 ~ 80, 2
IA shocking occurred at the
i's' village iof Schonewalde, near Konigs-
berg. One night a woman Of that place,
IN q lit of insanity. threw her three chil-
dren into deep Wa 81 tie back Of her
dwelling house. She thenssetfre to the
~S 0utbEklingsy and afterward ieaped
s into tba we'll. ron1swhichs next morning
sasafonr corpsessw were taken OUT 10
80 $. a. - Mr.. Faweett; the present Post
SO master, General, at England, was one
a. night dining with a small party of po-
=. .hhcI friends, including Sir Dixie,
EFT the, Star and Garter at, Richmond,
- when the rnanager appeared and re-
=. quested them to leave. Mr.. Fawcett,
sesl being disinclined to move, somewhat
. Indignantly asked the reason why.
8. - swell, sir, - the answer, sssyou gentle
III men make the laws, and as they COM
- pei me to close my estab hshment at IL
~ 81 ask you to go.''s ase- II r-.as s-ssss 7ei'
"A young English Lord who had been
living in Paris q couple OF. years in great
style was observed by his. friends to
choose for his daily constitutional the
-, doleful surroundings'of tie great GENE
terry of Pere-la Chaise, or some one of
-. the smaller suburban cemeteries. His
q friends rallied him ron his lngubrious
- tastes, and inquired il he were posing
-ag for effect, Ia Young's Night Thoughts
7.'- To which the young Englishman replied
-. frankly: ssNot at all; but the GENE
oe teries are the only places, where up to
:. the present time, L owe nothing
~ The burglars who broke into
house in Belgium were discovered in a
= peculiar manner. 1t was remarked,by
the occupants of the house that several
e, bottles of mineral watershed been drunk
- by the marauders. One day the police
heard that some men of more than
doubtful character had, while drinking
in q public house, expressed their dis
gust at the meanness of rich people who
from avarice kepsin their cellars wine :,
50 bad thatit made i'll all who drank it. !
The, men were closely questioned, and
cQnfessed that they. were the robbers.
Theyshad mistaken the mineral water
for white ,wine-a mistake for which
they paid dearly in aiorSFways than one.
FSf - = 1910 I'M 4