Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Queen Victoria's maids of honor
are eight in number and receive 81, 500
year each.
There is more crime in Rome and
vicinity than in any other region of the
world having the same population.
bombay husbands cut off their
wives noses for punishment. In a sim
gle week five such cases were lately re-
ported.
"A London newspaper. devoted to
notei lntei ests, laments the fact that
the Motel business of England is grad
ually slipping into the hands of for
eigners. owing to English inactivity.
-Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mex
leo, spends only few thousands year
In her mad-house, and the accumulated
interest OF her immense fortune has be-
come enormous. Her heirs will be her
brothers.
Many visitors who are surprised at
seeing m mbers sitting in Parliament
with the hats on forget that this is
really the revival of once general Gus
tom. Instead o being survival from
the days OF open-air parl:aments it is
rather a remin scenee of the long Pc
Rod during which men almost inva-
and at the dinner table.
The most artistic of Italian furni-
ture, made from precious woods inIaid
with 60 d. mosa. cs and ivory, is turned
out in Bergamo by firm that has been
engaged in the business during a CEN
tury- Old and new specimens of its
workmansh p are much sought after bv
foreign connoisseurs for the adornment
of DaIacpS and oountry villas
The new Partisan 4 rial machine is
cIgar-shaped and pointed at each ex-
tremity-not simply underneath. as is
usually the case There are seats for
TIVE ,ronauts in the car The balloon
has directing apparatus and rudder.
The force is obtained by series OF
electric accumulators of ten horse
power. The balloon Is operative for
four hours.
In a recent sermon in birmingham
Cardinal damn ng said that men were
Iaboring to efface rom the law of the
land the very name of God. Politics
was cd ess. philosophy was goddess.
Science was goddess 1t was the same
with. education. There was no true
education without religion. What had
made n land greatp Not warfare,
not conquest, not politics nor legIsla-
ton. it was the one faith and the love
of cod and of the neighbor.
"A singular method of preserving
histori al records has been disco. cred
in Ireland. On Case Hill, near Bel
fast, there was short time ago an an
cient cast e. In order to protect its
ruins from the ravages of time and
passing vandals, some local antiquar-
ians determine to surround it with a
wall. and employed a contractor to
execute the work. The wall was fin
ished IN due course, bat when the
anti1uar ans came to admire the castle
it was lone. The contractor had used
the ruins for Building materials, and
not stone of the ca tie remained.
The terrible operation lately sub
mitted To by Lord " illiam has directed
attent. on to maladies of the tongue.
One of the most extraordinary cases
was that O. Thomas Forder, at W in
chester, in 1o24. who was apparently
IN every respect healthy until with n
about twenty hours of his death, when
he complained of a soreness on his
tongue. which radually swelled until
he was suffocated A post mortem
failed to disco er any cause, and the
verdict was '.Died by the visitation of
God, in consequence of a sudden dis
ease and enlargement OF the tongue"