Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP. .
Birmingham is to have new. rail-
road station costing S1,25o,OO0 and COW
cring eleven acres.
Lotteries are to be licensed by the
Turkish Government on the payment of
= q ten per cent. tax on the receipts
! = Lord Wand offered Sarah Bernhardt-
4 &$25,0OO for the ragged little suit she
i wore wheniher talent was first discov-.
E 4 cred, but she wouldn't take it.
AT Oser's great glass warehouse in
London may be seen entire suite of
bedroom furniture in glass, the freak of
@G cn'na2s'sp ~sole faAlsune. shiss
has been ptH at the most exaggerated
figures by his enemies, proves to be less
than 100000, and it all came from
newspaper shares
-Horse-fiesh is sold in some parts of
Lohdonas beef. 1t has the peonfaElys
rosy appearance which people like and
it must be proved to be ''unft for the
food of man" before its sale can be le
gally forbidden. -------------.---
= e For hanging his son up to a hook
! by the heels with his head fip EpSySrd
+ for nearly half an hburf anil. Rd9@ng
i him four times with a belt while he MAS
i'm that position, an Engfishman was re-
six months hard labor.
~, The other day publican at Well
- ington, in Shropshire, was suddenly de-
prived of the license of a house which
.sI he had kept respectfully for several
/ years, because the police had tardily
discovered that in 1859 he had been con-
victed of stealing a faggot of wood
worth two pence.
~ TzAfabi and his fellow-eNiles in Cey-
Ion lsni inn CTR dx-if IN IiSh
~ for Arab declares, SO says the Times Of
India '.that the debt of gratitude he
owes to England is sufficient induce
ment to him to endeavor to have it in his
power some day to express his thanks in
the English language"
The gondola in which Wagner took
the air every day has been bought for
z his yidowranti sent to Bayreuth For
the table at which the master used to sit
jim the afternoon, listening to the mill
Etary band in the Piazza di San Marco,
three hundred francs has been offered to
the owner, who declines to part with it.
Another curious relic purchased, it is
stated, by some herO-wOrshippers is the
awag ru Isn in w W the body
: - An old maid died recently in Nor
way leaving will in which she di-
rected that her estate he divided into
. six equal parts and distributed to her
SIX discarded lovers, VINO are all poor.
In explanation Of this bequest, the de-
ceased left the following upon record:
''These lovers either courted me for my
money, which they may now have, or
else they loved me, and for that reason
they shall have the money, because
I disbelieyed them - go. 5 -
! e The eIHustrirte Zeitang. describes
some recent remarkable discoveries of
buried coins in Kothen, not far from
Leipsic. A month ago an -earthen jar
: was found containing four hundred and
seventy-four large silver coins and three
81 hundred and sixty six smaller ones, all.
- about 200 years old, and since then
deposit of one hundred and eighteen
gold pieces had been unearthed, sup
posed to have been buried during the
Thirty Years War, as the dates on the
E-cons are from 1890 to 1891. Many of
~ these latter ara unique and copse-
- - Giiena Very valuable. The whole col
lection was bought by Mr.. Hanlo,
banker of Berlin