Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-05
EoRE,cn GOSSIP.

-Seasickness caused the death of .
yachtsman off the English coast re-
Gently.
M. Bourbon, chef. shot himself IN
Paris because wedding breakfast got
ten up by him was q failure.
-"Robinson Crusoe's gun and sea-
chest'' were shown in downright earnest
to an amused tourist, in Fifeshire, Scot
land, the other day.
A starving laborer took three apples
from a garden and was sentenced by
Bailie Hunter, of Dundee. Scotland, to
forty days imprisonment.
Lord Vivian, an advanced Church
of England man, recently discharged
his entire yacht crew for not attending
PRAYERS. Then the crew sued him Tor
a weeks wages, and verdict in their
favor was rendered.
1t is discovered that Isabella OF
Spain has double in Paris, who fire.
quently appears at the theaters and else
where in public and is generally mis-
taken for isabella, whom she strangely
resembles in feature and form.
The Danish expedition to East
Greenland, after an absence of twenty
nine months, has returned to Copenha-
gen. The expedition made special
chart of a hitherto unknown coast,
reaching latitude sixty-six degrees eight
minutes north, and named it Christian
TX. Land.
-Bombay's ice is provided from inn
mense machines, in which the ice is
manufactured daily. Recently the
water supply gave out. and for three
DAYS no ice was to be had. During the
time the death rate of the city more
than doubled.
The new Goethe Society, which is
exciting so much attention in Germany,
has already obtained about six hundred
members. The first publication which
it will bring out will be the correspond
ence, extending over many years, be-
tween the Duchess Anna Amelia, of
Saxe-Wejmar, and the Frau Rath, the
mother of Goethe.
Some of the queerest names hail
from the Basque provinces of Spain.
Two officials in the Treasury Depart
ment at Madrid. who claim Basque de-
scent, call themselves respectively Don
Epifanio Observation-Disclosures y Zengotide
and Don Juan Nepomuceno de Burisns-
neutrality-suspicious..
The Minister Gin attendance" at
Balmoral rarely sees the Queen, is Civ
en- small bedroom and no sitting
room, is bored in the evenings with the
society of the courtiers, and if he brings
| q dog-as was the case once with Lord
Hartington--he is ordered to send the
animal away Immediately. - London
Truth.
I'm the British Medical Journal, DR..
Fotheryill says that patient dying OF
exhaustion is generally dying of starva-
ton eve give him beef tea. calf's foot
Jelly, alcohol, settler and milk; that is.
a small quantity of sugar of milk and
some fat. But the jelly is the poorest
sort of food, and the beef. tea a mere
stimulant. The popular belief that
beef tea contains the very strength OF
the meat is a terrible error; it has no
food value.''
Mr. Terriss, of the Lyceum Thea
ter, London, has been awarded the
medal of the Royal Humane Society
for gallant act. On the 9th of August
three lads were bathing near Deal, when
one of them was seized with cramp
about two hundred yards from the
Shore and shouted for assistance MIR.
TBeerriiss, and his son were sailing close
South Foreland. He at once 1oWerreed
his lugsail, and, without divesting him.
self of any of his clothes, plunged over
board, and swimming out seized the
lad just in time, for he had sunk twice.
Mr.. Terriss' son. twelve years of age,
threw out rope, which his father
grasped when he was clutchej by the
drowning lad.