Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

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8 The Chinese Government has taken
Ftrong measures to put stop to the
growth ofsopium in Sling King; in
Ffouae instances the crops have been
: ,purposeIy destroyed. s
IN Paris they make artifcial ears.
They are good for everything but hear
ing. and y blessing to the wearer, who
is thus enabled to &c turn deaf EARL to
duns, SANDERS and appeals for charity.
The tunnel under the English CHAN
mel has been finished to mla and q
quarter from the French shore ,aand the
engineers say they can advance 1872
feet day. at this rate the tunnel
5hd be completed to Dover in a year
s~sa and aFhA 60 -ra ese
- The analeps, vivaparous fish. of
: <s EastAr4 a sia, has singular eye II 1t is
divided horizontally into two hemis-
pheres by a membraneous band. Each
half is a perfect organ of vision. The
two upper halves are long-sighted, and
the two lower ones near-sighied.
Two ladies of Rome, the last de-
gave the name of America to the Vest
ern Hemisphere, ARE nov begging that
the pension of fenEcsowhs per month,
which was assiSneda to their family BY
the Republic of Florence in 1890 be re-
stored to them.
Prince Gortschakoff's diplomatic
career extended over the reigns of Tour
Cars, Nicholas and the three Alexan-
ders. His life extended over the reigns of
six. The treWend0us Catherine l..
was Empress when he was born. He
saw five Romanoffs and their great an
! ycefress, Eatharine, on The throne. Of
Russia fufing bis sventful lifetime.
y IA drill master at the Naval Acade-
my was a determined sufferer. One
DAY he was dgifpsf 2 saaadk of cadets
who were maf0hhsk toward the Severn.
AS they neared the sea wall the Lieuten-
lantRttyn1pted tuzhatt them. The word
huns fF Qvetbnrdt the mischieyops
precaution to tell his men the next time
he did not get Ftshzlt" ont they needn'r
go overboafd ABo,stIon Times ~
"A startling plot for a three-volume
novel has just come to light in England.
Early last summer a woman named
ElizasEb9bn disappeared. Adead body
was found, identified by friends, and a
man named Strattons~tried- andzeon-
sdemned for the mnrder! His reason
ssaa gave way, and he was. Subsequently, re-
proved and sent to Broadnoor Criminal
Lunatic Asylum, and now Eliza Ebbon
is discovered Alive and WE'LL. kA1s1s
"A glover's apprentice at Prague,
about efghteenr years Of age, hanged
himself the other day, and left behind
him 81 lett to his parents stating that
he had been selected by a secret society
to take the life of one of the chief Off
GERS of the police of the city-Police Di-
rector Steipkal-and that he had COM
mitted suicide in order to evade the per-
formance of this task. If he had, not
carried out the behests of the secret or
ganization, the writer added, he would
himself have been assassinatsd yby his
colleagues.
,yrFrFhe census returns of India show
: an aggregate of owe 5000 professional
/. acrpbats in the northwest provineataiid
Oudh. There are I, 100 actors, 5000
ballad singers, 146 curers by incanta-
ton, thirty-three gamblers, ninety-seven
.snake-charmers, fifty matchmakers, four
"a -poets,S 10000 singers and dancers, four
- story tellers, seven thieves (not includ-
- ing persons returned as household serv-
ants), and some professionals whose
ancestors were probably among the
Catilinarian retinues.~ Three classes of
persons are$worth q separate numerical
quotations. There are over 100000
cu!tivators Of the soil. The landholders
number nearly 10000. The number of
money-lenders is nearly 10000.