Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

IAN English railway company ha:
adopted the plan of painting its cars
with Balmain phosphorescent paint,
Which a60rtfs sufficient light while pass
@g 8hrd kgh HQaeels. ~
The dispatches report that the brain
of Gambetta weighed LOO grammes,
or less than thirty-nine ounces. fhe
maximum weight of the healthy brain
in man is about sixty-four ounces, and
minnpurn about thirty one.y 80
"A piece of rose point lace. at the
London Aquarium six and three -fourths
yards long, is valued at $4,000. There
are ninety six sprays to each inch of this
fabric, and. each spray cost-two days
labor, showing that itreluired the seven
years work of a skilled workman to
complete the ,tritle. no.,
The King of Greece speaks English,
French, German, Greek and Danish.
In conversing together their Grecian
'majesties: use. tho German, language, in
speaking with their children they en-
ploy English, and to the general house
hold they speak in Greek. e.
-During the epidemic of typhoid
fever in Paris much was said of the
valuable results gained in the hospitals
( by the uses of heavy doses of quinile.
But the Progress Medical discovers that
the GUinine used was adulterated with
sixty-siN per cent of other. mater, and
now the question arises, were the good
results really obtained, and, If SO, what
is the true value of quinine? I Z Z
A dealer in human hair at Bir-
mingham was recently robbed of eighty
seven pounds of the choicest specimens,
cultivated by Swedish girls for the mar
ket, varying, in length from twenty-four
to thirty.three inches, the latter, f~of
good quality, realizing about a sover-
,eign AN ounce, and the whole Of the ag-
gregate value of $4,000. n I'll
4 IA Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgery, London, was lately fined ten
dollars and costs for 'furiOusly riding
tricycle." He was travelling so rapidly
that ascopstable on horseback had great
dificultyin catching him, Though it was
shown in court that the surgeon had
already travelled sixty miles that day on
his machine. GAsF
The fifteen forts that now surround
the city of Rome have an extent of about
twenty-five miles, so that the vanguard
of besieging party would have to oc-
cupy no less a circuit than thirty two
miles, and the main force a circuit of
thirty-eight miles. On the most modest
computation the besieging army would,
therefore, employ from $50, 900 to 16O,-
600 men.
A godsend is the telephone to the
imperial family Nihilist-besieged at
Gatschina. 1t enables them to hear at
will their favorite prima donna without
exposing themselves to the deadly bomb
or forcing the singers to come to the
bomb-proof palace. A wire has been
run from Gatschina to the Marinsky
Theater, St. Petersburg, forty miles
away, and over it are conveyed to the
listening ears of timid royalty all the
music, vocal and instrumental, aud the
dialogue and the popular applause, too,
of every opera there performed,
"A strange case of mistaken identity
has recently come to light at Gateshead.
Some time ago seafaring man named
Joseph Kilford was missing. 1t was
known that his vessel had entered the
river, and that he had landed. but no
further tidings could be obtained of him.
In the meantime his body was found in
the river. An inquest was held, the
body was identified, verdict that
Joseph Kilford was found drowned in
the River Tyne was returned, and the
body was buried. Two weeks ago Kill
ford turned up alive and well. 1t APP
peared that Just after his arrival in the
Tyne he again took ship, and while his
friends had been mourning his death he
had been in America.
"