Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-15
FURNGN GOSSIP.

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The Prince Of Wales weighs 224
pounds
A young Austrian inherited 10000
francs, spent all but two of them in ten
days in dissipation. and then suicided.
"A peasant named James Ygelof has
just died at Odessa, aged AT years His
SON is still alive at the age of 112. He
has grandson of eighty-five, and a
great grandson of forty years.
The Count de Chambord's widow
has decided to take the veil, and will
spend the remainder of her days in a
convent. Her immense estates are to
be given to the church.
The following advertisement APP
peared IN London newspaper: "a lady
wishes to recommed another lady who,
through no fault of her own, has be-
come in distressed circumstances, think
ing that if one thousand benevolent
persons were each to subscribe f10,
it would place her again in atfiuent cir
cumstances.
At the State banquet gwen to the
German Emperor in the Palm Garden,
at Frankfort, the Imperial table was
ornam ented by magnificent display of
gold plate lent by Baron Rotchschild.
In the middle was the famous center
piece purchased from the city of Nu-
remburg, which is valued at f36, 900.
The whole service is worth over f1O0,-
900.
Lady Anne Blount, daughter of the
Earl of Lovelace and his late Countess
Ada Augusta Byron, is said to be
speaking likeness of her grandfather,
Lord Byron. When Lady Anne was
presented to the Queen, her Majesty
kissed her, saying as she did so: II do
that for the love | bear your ancestor,
the poet whom most love-
-Pavements in Paris are made in
this way: A bed of lime concrete is
made for base, and on this are placed,
narrow side up, blocks OF pine wood
previously stepped in tar, and of the
size of ordinary bricks. Between every
row an interstice is left, one-quarter of
an inch wide, filed up by gravel and
sand, well rammed in, the whole being
coated over with another concrete where
tar is the binding medium.
An industrious German contempt
rary has compiled the statistics of all
the actresses who have succeeded in
gaining coronets. The total is not par
ticularly encouraging to the favorites of
the foot-lights. as during the last twenty
years only one in every SIG has married
a royal Prince, one in every SIP Duke,
one out of 200 Count; one out of 40 a
Baron. This list includes not only Ger
many, but all European countries.
On very grand occasions. His Ma
jesty of Dahomey dispatches a
gorgeously- got-up Ambassador, with..a
royal umbrella over his head, to take
his compliments to his good friend the
ocean. 1t is an office of much dignity
and honor, but not greatly sought after,
because etiquette prescribes that the
Ambassador, after being taken out to
sea in canoe. shall be thrown over
board to the sharks.
There are some very curious laws in
Saxony regarding servants, girls es-
pecially. The mistress is obliged by
law to allow the servant one pound of
butter and one of coffee per month. or
the equivalent in money. II the girl
furnishes her own bedding she secures
one and half cents per night for SO
doing. Seventy cents a month is allow
ed for her washing. and she receives
five per cent, upon all purchases she
makes. She is required to give one
months notice before leaving her place.
The law also requires that each servant
keep a book for recommendations, in
which, upon her leaving her place, her
MISTRESS is compelled to state the cause
and the girls character.