Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-29
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: d-Qpeen GVictorias has twenty-five
grandchildren -
i"'I-Baron Nordenskjold will start this
spring on anew Arctic expedition up
the eastern coast of Greenland, direc-
lion in winch few attempts have hither-
TO been made -Is,i .ii'.5- I''5E .'af =
re In London, Mrs. Murphy. drunken
iy engaged in household pursuits, fell,
and her head striking ina tin sauce
. pan, just filed the litensil and fitted so
closely that she could not remove it:
and she died Of ,sufecation.
Il srs7-Ihe recent death of Matilda Diez,
the greatest. actress Spar. ever pro-
81 duced, caused general mourning in that
country, her funeral in Madrid being
one of great public demonstration She
B. was born in 1878, and was known as the
sRaohei Of Spain: GGE -Er5,'E.T.F~.
Ia When pr. Wecker, the celebrated
Z German oculist,, removed Gambetta's
right eye, in 1861 the organ was pre-
{ served in spirits. 'sItis the eye,r the
surgeon said. t'of q man who is sure to
enact an important part in the worlds
= history" He was right, and the eye is
still preserved. Is'i1fI ..-a' - -
'.-'--Dr. Bah, IN a lecture before the
Paris Faculty of Medicine, said ssthere
is a broad frontier between folly and
reason, between sanity and insanity,
..peopled by millions of inhabitants He
held that the number of persons per-
1Sectly reasonable on all points through
out the entire period of their existence
formed but minority of mankind.
In the southern portion of the coun-
try drained by the River Congo, in
Africa. there has been found by Lieu
tenant Wissman a very dense popula-
ton. During his Journey from Loanda
to Zanzibar this traveller does not seem
. 70, have met with any serious obstacles.
On the contrary, the noted Miranda
gave him every assistance. At one por-
ton of his route he found a tribe of
dwarf negroes.
"A church in the village OF Cesano,
near Albenga, Italy, was robbed. The
authorities searched the stable of a sus-
pected man. They found subter-
ranean apartment. The entrance was
hidden by straw. A poor woman, thirty
years old, entirely nude, was the only
occupant: She had been there thirteen
years fed on sswill and pacorns. Her
reason was gone, and she was speech
. s>SASfre was removed to an hospital,
and her Father was placed under arrest.
:, Tie, physicians in one of the hospit-
ais OF, Vienna have made the remarka-
% bic discovery, in dissecting the body of
u a patient, that he had carried about in
his bpain an iron nail covered with rIlst,
that to all appearances must. have held
its singular lodgment since early child
hood. The man, was forty-fve years of
age, bookbinder,. and always passed
for thoroughly intelligent person. The
nail in his brain did not seem to effect
his mental powers in any particular
= There il probably no case on record to
parallel this e. .; e. .-a@aa ..1' 7-e
When Wagner first went to Paris,
n-1S4O, then celebrated musician Liszt
was the idol of the public, the pet of
society, shining in the meridian splen-
dor of his-unexa1npled career. It is not
surprising that w agner, looking up to
:. him from the; abasement of poverty,
. Should have turned bitter and resent
full, and fancied that List disliked him,
when Iiszt was only unaware of his ex-
: istenoe. aAfterward Wagner learned
how completely he had misunderstood
the great and generous artist, and a
friendship grew up between them which
was never broken. Twenty years later
Wagner married LISTS daughter.
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