Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The first Hindoo lady who ever
went into trade has opened q bookstore
in Bombay.
Nearly ton of rough diamonds
passed through the South African POST
offices last year.
Out OF sc. 900 prosecutions by the
English Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals during the last
twenty-five years 55, 900 have been sue
cessful.
The plate at Windsor Castle is
worth e.. 100000. 1t is Crown prop
erty. and IF single spoon were lost,'
says Mr.. Labouchere. sit would have
to be replaced by the Queen
1t Is notorious that for years i'm
proper books have been exposed for
sale in hundreds of London book-stalls,
and along Fleet street and the Strand
the most Objectionable advertisements
appear in certain shop windows.
The lately deceased Anna, Count
ess OF Meran. widow of the Archduke
John of Austria. was famous in her
youth for her beauty, which gained her
an aristocratic husband. by enchanting
him suddenly as he stopped at the small
Post-office kept by her father.
Twelve mounds of incinerated hui
man bones have been dug up in France
which makes it likely that they are the
remains of Gaulo-Roman warriors,
who, in the time of Hannibal, fell in
defending the Rhone against that Cen
erals passage.
The Chinese have just completed
an immense bridge over the arm of the
chinese Sea at Lugang. 1t was con-
structed entirely by Chinese engineers.
and is five miles long, entirely Of stone
mas 3Oo arches, each seventy feet high,
and a roadway. 1t is the greatest
structure of the kind in the world.
bath bags" are sold in Paris.
by their use ''refined people may OBJ
tain a sort of velvety, oatmeal SOAP
complexion ablution for the moderate
sum of eight cents. These queer ar
ucles consist of bag containing half a
pound of bran. some meal and a little
powdered soap. On wetting and press
ing the bag lather is produced and at
the same time soft pad for rubbing
purposes.
A railway up Mount Pilatus will
soon be constructed. The line will run
close to the summit of the Esel-the
highest of the Pilatus peaks, so that
delicate and indolent travellers will
now be able to survey the lake of
Lucerne and the Bernese Overland
from the opposite side of the Lake to
the Rigi. The Esel is 6,696 feet high,
just over 1000 feet above the Rigi.
The deepest boring yet made is at
the village of Schladebach. near the
line between Leipzig and Corbetta.
1t has been made by the Prussian Gov
eminent to test for the presence of
coal, and was bored with diamond
drills. Its depth is 1890 metres-4,5 500
feet-its breadth at the bottom two
inches. and at the top eleven inches.
1t has occupied three and one-half years
to bore. and cost little over Is, OOO
The temperature at the bottom is 11S
degrees Fahrenheit.
"A pretty ceremony held at Albert
Hall. in England. was the browning of
rose queen at festival of working
girls. A deserving young working
woman was crowned queen and pre-
scented with purse of gold A shower
of rose leaves sprinkled on the queen
by her attendant courtiers was
charming episode of the ceremony, and
music and addresses formed a portion
of the proceedings. The event was
symbolic. and planned by philanthro-
pists to bring public opinion to bear on
the needed improvement of working
girls as class.