Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The temples IN Dahomey are ole
most entirely built of human skulls.
Chill pays bounty of five dollars
q head for the scalps of condors, but
the birds are SO sly that it does not pay
to hunt them.
A rock altar. with steps battered
and weatherworn, has recently been
discovered near Zorah. the home of
Manoah. the father of Samson.
The pavilion of Henry w.. ut st.
German, has been turned into a res
taurant, and people dine in the very
room in which Louis XIV. was born.
The little town of Battenberg,
from which the husband of Princess
Beatrice and his brothers derive their
title, has been part of the Prussian ter
ritory nearly nineteen years.
An invention which will be of
great service has just been patented by
MIR. Crammond. of Belfast. 1t shields
the wheels of train cars so as to pre-
vent the possibility of injury to any
person from falling between them.
Though simple. it fuliills the purpose.
Including women and children
whose livelihood depends upon the es-
tablishment, there is in the Krupp iron
works, at Essen. working class popu-
lation of not fewer than 65, 3Sl persons,
of whom nearly $4,000 live in houses
owned by the works.
The Arabs made pyramid of the
skulls of Hicks unfortunate command.
which persisted in the Soudan before
Gordon went there. Of this expedition
1000 soldiers, including 1000 caval-
nv, persisted. and l 900, 900 rounds of
Remington ammunition, seven krupp,
six Nordenfelt and twenty-nine noun
tain guns were captured.
A patriarchal couple living in the
south of France have haditwenty-seven
children. of whom twenty-five are Iiv-
ing. and three are serving in the army
in Tonquin. The father and mother,
aged respectively seventy-three and
sixty eight, cultivate a farm, aided by
six other sons. OF their twenty-seven
children, twenty-one were bows.
Out of 500 members of the House
of Lords no less than $40 are landlords
in the fullest sense of the term; that is,
they derive the whole or greater part Of
their revenues from land. Fifteen mill
lion acres of land. with an annual rent
roll of Els, 900, 600, represents their
property and income. while another
t750.O 900 in the shape of pensions. an
nuities, and salaries also falls annually
to the lot of this. privileged class.
Last autumn a bookseller named
Meyer, of Ronneberg, tied water
proof label under the wing of swal-
low which had occupied a nest at his
house and had become comparatively
familiar. On it he wrote a query in
German to the effect that he would like
to know where the swallow would pass
the winter The bird returned to it's
former nest bearing an exchange label
similarly fastened saying, in German
also: .sIn Florence, at Castelar, S house,
and l bear many salutations.
Among the f1ints of chalk formation
is occasionally found one that emits a
clear musical sound when struck with
another flint A Frenchman has just
succeeded in making a piano" from
these musical stones. The flints are
suspended by wires above a sounding
board, and are played by two other
tiints. The stones of the piano number
twenty-six, forming two chromatic oc-
taves, and were collected with much
patient labor, during period of more
than thirty years. There seems to be
no relation between the sizes of the
stones and their tones.