Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


I'm Berlin every carcass sold to be
saten is microscopically tested.
Earl Goodwin was the first British
staeesman- He was the father of Har-
old, the last King of England of the
saxon race. o
"A series of experiments lately car
ned out upon fishing vessels in the
North Sea, with view to lighting
them by electricity, proved very salts,
factory. sous
"A Russian inventor has devised
means of so impregnating wood with a
certain chemical that matches made
Tom it can be used several times over.
a youth in Bohemia, being impris-
oned for i've years for theft, spent them
IN making straw watch, five centime-
tres In diameter. 1t was an example of
patience and ingenuity without paral-
In the public baths of Bremen.
ouift IN 1877, at a cost of 1925, 600
mostly subscribed by private bounty
a bath. with all the conveniences Of a
private house, may be had for twenty
nve cents, and one with all that is really
necessary for six cents.
a London society for the suppress
SION OF mendicancy has handed over two
hundred thousand begging letters to a
committee, in consequences of which
over sixty thousand professional vaga-
bonds and impostors have fallen into the
hands of the police.
Medical studies appear to be too
severe for the average woman. In En-
gland, according to the census of 1881.
the number of women physicians was
twenty-five. From 1880 to 1884 eight
had been placed in the lunatic asylum,
and at the end of last year three were
under treatment.
AT the German naval port of VIII
helmshaven, on the North Sea, num-
Der of laborers who were engaged in
cleaning the iron hull of a steamer ate
the mussels they found clinging thereto.
The consequence was that nineteen of
the men were taken violently ill, with
unmlstakable symptoms of poisoning,
and in the course of few hours four of
them died.
The heavy copper consumption of
India is due largely to a religious rite of
the natives. At certain seasons of the
year small cups of sheet copper about
an inch in diameter and an inch and a
half deep are filled with rice, and are
thrown into the river as an offering,
with religious ceremonies. The quantity
OF copper thus annually consumed is
heavy, India sheets being an important
article Of commerce
Music from gas is the latest English
invention. 1t is called the pyrophone.
Its compass is three octaves, with key
board, and it will be played in the same
manner as an organ. 1t has thirty
seven glass tubes, in which number of
gas jets burn. These jets, placed in
circles, contract and expand like the
fingers of hand. When the small
burners separate the sound is produced;
ceases. The tone depends upon the
number of the burners and the size of
the pipes in which they burn, SO that by
a careful arrangement and selection all
the notes of the musical scale may be
produced in several octaves. Some of
the glass tubes in which the jets burn
are nearly eleven feet high.
The new French Chamber will now
cost the country nearly three millions
sterling yearly, owing to the number of
Deputies having been increased from 557
to 5S4. The President of the Chamber
receives $4,000 year, and the salaries
of the Deputies alone amount to 42e0,-
600, the remainder of the sum being re-
quired for subordinate official salaries,
printing, warming and lighting, re-
pairs, etc. Besides their stipends, the
Deputies get various official ''pickings,"
such las ;gratuities for serving on COM
missions of inquiry and free railway
passes.