The Iola register., 1885-01-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Chill is the most prosperous cour

Chill is the most prosperous coun-
try in South America.
Queen Victoria has the finest set
of plate in the world. 1t cost $40, ,000,-
900.
! A movement is on foot in Dublin to
substitute Irish names for the present
English names OF streets.
Savage dogs which kill their mas
ters are condemned to a curious form
of death in Japan. They are. shut up
in a box with little food and are
thrown into the sea.
"A house in Craven street, Strand,
London, which has over its front door
a tablet bearing the information that it
was once the residence of Benjamin
Franklin, is now a boarding house.
Two cases of the successful joining
of divided nerves have been reported to
the Paris Academy of Sciences, function
being restored in one case to nerve
which had been divided for fifteen
years.
On the spot in High street, Oxford,
on which Ridley and Latimer were
burned at the stake, there is now a
small brass cross, over which hundreds
of drays pass daily, not five per cent.
of whose drivers ever heard of the fires
of persecution once kindled there.
I'm France newspaper men often
fight duels, it is supposed. for the pur-
pose of bringing their papers into pub
lie notice. but these duels are rarely
fatal. Indeed. so uncommon are fatali-
ties in French duels at present that
of 545 ducls fought since 1869 but eight
have resulted fatally.
The second thimble centenary has
recently been celebrated at Amster-
dam. The first thimble was made in
October. 1854, by goldsmith. Van
Benschelton, whose idea i'm the manu-
facture of the pretty conceit was to
protect the finger of his lady love. The
English were the first to adopt the new
invention.
Nine million square miles is GER
tainly = mighty measure, being forty
four times bigger than France and
and seyenty-three times larger than the
combined area of the British Isles.
Yet this is said to be the measurement
of the expanse of territory embraced
in the geographical basis of the
Congo which the International Afri-
can Association claims.
In Scotland. as in England, they
regard theft as good deal worse
than murder At the High Court of
Judiciary in Edinburgh the other day a
man was condemned TO two months
imprisonment for having Knocked his
wife down and kicked her unto death.
The next prisoner was convicted of
having stolen letter containing two
half-soverigns and sixty stamps. He
sentence was five ears penal servi-
tude.
A native chief in Fiji presented
himself for baptism. '.How many wives
have you?" said the missionary.
Seven" said the chief. ..Oh. that
won't do; can't baptize you till you
have got rid of six of them" A month
later the chiefcame again; saying: Me
all right now; you baptize me now.
Only one wife now" what have YOU
done with the othersp" said the mis-
sionary. "Oh," said the cannibal,
Mes eaten ebery one of 'em. Zen
Brierley's Journal.
The place where William Tell shot
the apple from his sons heaG-proyid-
ed the incident ever really took place
is now called Altorf, and is one mile
from the head uf Lake Luzerne. The
side of the tree under which. Schiller
saws, the boy stood. is marked by
huge square monument sixty feet high,
the sides of which are adorned with
paintings that are more suggestive than
art site. On the spot where Tell stood
is now large white statue of the
Swiss patriot in the act of drawing his
bow.