Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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The British training ship Warspite
has rescued 30, 400 childr n from pov
erty and degra iation and trained them
Tor the sea.
The oldest Empress livingAis Au-
gusta OF Gefmany, Nhogis seseAty lone
years. The youngest is the Queen
VI SerEA who is twsentyse ght- S.
IN. BE Lesseps IS 8 veritable Car
gantua in the matter. OF Battery; his ap-
petterfor notoriety is Unsuitable, and
the faris papers are constantly filed
win paragraphs about himself, his wife
and his children.
Five newspapers devofed to mgsti-
c:sm and spiritual SIN a:e pnblishe 1 ID
france, foar in Belgium. eight in pain
ana three in Germany. In fact, mysti-
cism - becoming fashionable, and the
last hew marvel is discussed in every
drawlng-room and at every dinner Ia
TiAe Nuremberg Minister of the,
interior has ssued orders t.lat hence
forth young 70 ks of either sex shall not
De allowed to dance together i'm places,
OF Punlic anus ment. He, however,
VIII relax this order in the case of mar,
mage Parties, if the originators Ct the
eno rtainment furnish the polite with
tnsnecessary moral guarantees. ',,-sssl
-Horsefiesh is. according to United
states Consul Ballou.. largely eaten in
Alsace. the retailer sells the choice
cuts for about eight cents, per pound;
Ior ordinary. six cents. A large guam
tlty Is used in the manufas ture, of SAT-
sages. Al horses, are, Before md after
oeing killed. given a strict eSa7pi alton,
ana II found IN any way diseased are
"A resolution was pas ed recently at
meetingof the Englisa Church Union
de lining to accept the prop sed Court
o. FINAL appeal, or any secular court
claiming to reverse spiritual senten e.
A -olution was also parsed urging
Ihat no re obstruction or regu alton OF
&c iesiasti al courts could CURE spirit
nal valid ty save from the authority of
the ynodi of the Church
Editors in German-Po land are learn
ing with vengeance what is meant by
liberty OF the press nnder Prince Bis
mafck. One of them has spent five
months ct the past year in prison. and
mas slxnionths more in prospect. An
other has been condemned to eleven
and one-third nj 2nths' Imprisonment.
AZ third is now in prison for fifteen
mcntns, a fourth for tn zee months, and
fifth for four months. Sass
"A let turer at Ed nburgh on the
Shetland Isles said lately '.Of the hun
dred islands and iSlets which constitute
tie Shetland group not more an aboue
twenty Ell hit are said to be Inhabited.
Washed son their Western sides by the
Wild ~ ares OF the Atlantic Ocean, and
On their Eastern coasts by the no less
tempestuous pillows of the n offhern
Sea, they look like w at perhaps they
ase-the skeleton or long sin e buried
peninsula. ley are an island Den
mark.
The dwarf trees Of China are curl
osities of flores try. Every child knows
how the Chinese cramp thei. women's
feet by bandaging them when they are
infa IS, and thus nder it impossible
for them to walk. 1t is, however. Won
derlul TO see miniature oaks, chestnuts,
pines, ard cedars growing in flower
pots, fifty year. old and yet not foot
high. To do this take young plant,
cut off its tap root, and place it in
basin in which there i good soil kept
we'll watered. + it grows too rapidly.
dig down and shorie en- in several roots
Every year tie leaves grow smaller, and
the little dwarf tees make Interesting
pets, 90 ~s'