Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The King Of siam has 2os chill

The King of Siam has POS chill
dren.
The Emperor of China recently
authorized the destruction of s., 0Dl, J1U
worth of opium. and abso. utely refuses
to accept q revenue from its sale.
in Devonshire and other English
counties it is regarded as unIucky to
carry single flowers, such as a primrose,
violet, daffodil. snow lrop. ror Other
spring blossoms, in.o the house when
they first come in to season.
1.-The highest prize a tainable.~ ia
English musical students, the Mendels-
sohn scholarship. has been won this
year by woman, Miss Mary Wurm.
One of her chief teachers in piano
music was woman, too-Clara Schu-
mann.
One of the provisions ia the life
sentence imposed in Berl n on Carl
| Schenck, one of the trio of servant
girl murderers, is that on every ami
versary o. the killing OF each of his
victims he is to be confined for that ay
in dark cell. He viii thus have Ia
spend ten days per year in total dark.
ness.
Bishop Whipple says he was stand.
| ing in rapt silence in York minister. over
come by the grand interior, when he
was approached by typical country.
man who excl lined: ~ al, stranger,
there's one thing purity sartin, the men
who put up this here didn't build stun
| houses. for theirsel's and old wooden
houses for their God, did they?''
Here are the regulations of ..sad
| die and smoke race such as are hao
at Malta: men to stand by theil
| ponies heads with saddles over theil
arms. At the word Go to saddle ane
ride off, lighting a cigar before sc
doing. At the first bridge to dismoun
ON the usual side, aud remount on The
off side. The same to be done at the
| second bridge Winner must come II
with cigar alight and girth secure
"A curious method of swarming bees
is practiced in Corsica. During the
| swarming season man stations him
/ self in front of the hives with an empty
hive on his shoulder. This hive has
been rubbed inside and round the Dor
der leading to the entrance hole with
the rind OF lemon. The mans mouth
is filled with lemon juice, which he
squirts on the swarm. One bee is Ger
| td1H W CIitC1 tuO empty AtC3 anu tut
rest to follow.
A young man named Henry
/ Thomas Pugh, who went to China re
Gently, was bitten while there by q
panther. the wound being in the elbow
/ Pugh returned to England and AFas adj
vised by the doctors to have the
wounded limb amputated, but the oper
alton was never performed, and he dice
| from a disease resemb bling hydrophobia
While suffering from deiirium he fire.
quently cried o It, being under the de
| fusion that panther was attacking
! him.
A new fashion has found favor il
certain Partisan drawng-rooms. Al
the guests arrive, in response to an in
| vitat on for soiree d1nsante. they are
met at the door by a young lady who
| 81 es a small bouquet to each person.
and, insists that the flower shall be at
/ tached to the button-hole of the gentle.
man or the corsage of the lady. Each
gentleman is then expected to seek ou
| the lady who wears a nosegay similar
in every respect to his own, and he
thereupon, after the customary saluta
tons, becomes her partner for the res
| of the evening.