Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-26
FoREA GIN GOSSIP.

-Artesian wells have been known il
China from times in memorable.
A walking site concealing
matchbox and cigaa cite holder is ,
late English device.
An English shoemak. r has patent
ed a reversible boot. WIKI IN may b
worn indifierently on either loot
1t is belief of the Bud1 'hists o
Ceylon that if a woman behaves hersel
properly she will eventually bec> ome
man.
"A women's rights association mas
been formed in Paris under the title o
La Lipue DIES Femmes. The claims o.
its members are to be defended at the
Chamber OF Deputies by NJ. Laguerre.
The tomb of Rachel. Jacobs favor
lite wife, is at the cross ng of the Beth
lehem and Hebron roads. about mile
from the modern Christian village OF
Belb-Jela 1t is square white struet-
ure made of plaster and rooted over
with a dilapidated dome.
The Mahdi has little trouble in
feeding his army. The native Will live
upon a cake of black bread and few
lentils and an onion, and never care
for animal food. All that an Egyptian
boarding house keeper requires to set
up business is a few dates, few Or
anges, peck of lentlls and onions,
and half-dozen pones of black bread.
The story is published respecting
the origin of balloons that Mime.
Montgolfier had washed her petticoat
to wear to great festival on the
next day, and hung it over chatting
d sh to dry. Tie hot air, swelling out
the folds of the garment, lifted it up
and fioated it. The lady was as
tonished and called her husbands at
tenton to the sight. 1t did not take
Montgolfier long to grasp the idea OF
the hot-ar balloon.
The Brazilian law of 1871 pro-
vides that all children born to slave
mothers can not obtain their freedom
until they are twenty-one years old,
and must serve their mothers owner
until that time. A traveller SAYS there
''never was a nation on the globe in
which slaves were treated with more
diabolical cruelty than they are to-
day in the coffee-producing provinces
OF Brazil. The punishments practiced
are simply barbarous.' There are
still / 100000 slaves in the empire.
In the collection of British state
Jewels kept in London Tower are half
a dozen crowns, the royal wand, solid
gold stick. three feet seven inches in
length, the royal communion service,
three large fonts, all of solid gold, out
OF which theroya CHI ldren are baptized,
besides numerous other valuable pres
ents that have been presented to the
State by friendly soyereigns. The en-
tire collection is valued at $15, 900. 900,
much of which sum is represented in
the rare stones that grace the crowns
and scepter the famous Kohinoor, the
second largest d almond in the world,
being one of them.
TO confirm other experience of trop-
ical thunder storms. Mr.. J. j. Meyrick
reports that very few persons or build
ings are ever injured by lightning n
the plains of India, although at the
commencement of the monsoon storms
occur in VIII CHI the lightning runs Like
snakes all over the sky at the rate of
three Or four flashes a second. and the
thunder often roars without break for
an hour or more at time. He sup
pose the rarity of acc dents to be due
to the great thickness of the stratum of
the heated ar and its effect in keeping
the clouds SO high that most of the cleo
trical discharges pass from cloud to
cloud, and very few reach the earth.