Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
--Hand-painted bonnets are the lat
est thing in fashionable headgear in the
gay city of Paris.
In Wurtemburg girls under sixteen
years OF age are no longer to be allowed
to dance round dances.
1t is said of Prince Bismarck tina.
he eats at one meal enough for half q
dozen persons in good health.
VII e- beating has increased so rap.
idly OF late among the miners in the
Midland collieries that a bill has been
introdu ed in the English Parliament
making the penalty fiogging.
To show the splendor of the offer.
ings made by the pilgrims at the grave
of Victor Emanuel a writer instances a
wreath of gold set with Jewels. which
was brought by the Palermo pilgrims.
1t is said to have cost 100000 francs.
dwellings for artisans are at pres
emit built on an improve d plan at Horn
sey, England. They are erected on
plats fifteen feet six inches wide by
eighty feet in depth. and differ from the
first class merely in having one bedroom
less and one water-closet only on the
ground floor. The rental is not more
than 50 week. seEysE .sEstg
From the opening of the last ses-
sion of.Pariiament. in 1888, to3the open
ing to the present one. there have been
twenty-five elections Ten OF these have
been in Ireland, in which the Parnell-
ties have gated four seats allow.
Sligo County, Monaghan County and
Limerick City. OF the fifteen English
and Scotch, the Conservatives have
gained two, Southampton and York,
and the Liberals one. ipswich.
Il he Treasury of the German En-
pire has Just undergone it's annual in
spectfon. Every year three important
financial Off ials visit and verify the
imperial funds kept in the Julius Tower,
at Spandau, and divided into four sec
tons : that intended for the expenses of
Notifications, the share for pensions and
invalids, that set apart for building the
Parliament House, and the war portion,
which now amounts to $50, 100000.
According to the Aa1stral0 sia,a Med
zeal GGze.te, pious New /ealanders do
not fail to pray earnestly to their gods
for recovery after they have received
gunshot wounds, but this does not pre-
vent their using their own scientific
methods of cure, which consist, in these
cases, of drinking hot d g's blood.
Professional observers say that the per-
centage of cures effected by native doc
tors is very large, and is attributed to
the abstemious habits of the people.
An Englishman who has for some
years past been engaged in teaching
English in Russian schools, wishing to
publish small English periodical for
the use of boys learning English, re-
Gently submitted the first number for
the Censors approval. 1t contained
nothing but short stories and essays
from standard authors, couched in easy
language, and among them a short &C
count of Hamlet and the Chest The
Censor objected to ''Hamlet" as a per-
niclous piece of literature t, pa e in
the hands of respectable young people.
The death of Jean Trottet, of Gene
va, recalls a man of an energy and cour-
age which have seldom beensurpassed.
He was born without legs, hands, or
feet, yet he learned to write, fastening
his pen at his elbow. and when he grew
older became an active hay-maker. used
the reins with deXterity, and was SO
good a shot that he often carried Off the
village prizes for mark-fring. He was
inGe >endent and sagacious, and has left
a widow and four children amply pro-
vided for. Temp ing offers were made
to his parents, and later to himself, by
showmen, but were invariably declined.