Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

F0nEt1N 1O0SiF.
The Rothschilds never empl,y a
man who has the reputation for ILL
luck.
During the reign of King James L
not one Englishman in thousand wore
stockings.
An English clergyman recently
performed 108 baptisms and nine mar
riages on one Sunday.
After riot which arose out of re-
ligious disputes at Winnebah, on the
west coast of Africa, it was found that
three natives had been killed and cut
to pieces. their remains being prepared
for cooking in a gigantic pie.
"A Belgian editor recently insulted
a rival editor in the morning, fought a
duel and killed him in the afternoon,
and came out at seven p. m. with a
special edition describing the encoun-
ter.
An order has been issued to the di-
rectors of the theatres in Germany
from the Court forbidding them to pro-
duce any plays in which ancestors or
collateral relatives of the Prussian roy
al family are represented, without spe-
cial permission.
The Bank of France is said to pos
sess an ingeniously arranged photo
graphic studio concealed in gallery
behind its cashier, so that at a signal
the portrait of a suspected customer
may be instantly taken without his
knowledge.
Miniature sedan chairs, filed with
real flowers, are the favorite decora-
tons for Paris dinner-tables this
spring. They are strictly copied from
the antique chdise-d-porteurs, and the
most chic are covered with dark blue
velvet ornamented in one corner by
three gold feurs-de-lys.
M. Pasteur recently recommended
a member of the Academic des Sciences
to experiment with young animals in
order to ascertain if they can be nour-
ished upon the absolutely pure food
which many people regard as an ideal
diet-that is, food wholly free from
microbes. He believed that such a diet
would not sustain life. and that the
presence of common microbes in the
digestive organs was necessary to the
proper functional action of those or
ganS.
One of the most important innova-
tons during the years. the new method
that has been adopted in Vienna of col
Letting and removing town refuse. In
place of doing this in open sscarts as
heretofore each household is supplied
with a barrel with a close-titting lid.
When this is filled. the lid is well fast
ened on, the barrel placed on the cart
and removed to the place appointed,
without the possibility of any house
hold dust and filth, impregnated with
disease-germs, being blown about. and
possibly disseminating disease along
the line of route.
The London Times prints letter
from Sir Edmund Beckett on the sub
ject of twenty-four o'clock. The horal
nomenclature adopted by astronomers
is, no doubt, he says. suitable for their
purposes; but it would be most incon-
venient for use in ordinary life, and no
notice ought to be taken of it by ordi-
nary people. The fatal objection is
that the human eye, which can tell
twelve marks made round circular
space one from the other at a glance,
without reading or counting them, can
not do so with twenty-four marks, and
that in looking at a clock of which the
short hand went round only once in the
twenty-four hours, it would be neces-
sary to find out at what figures the
hands stood either by reading the
figures or by counting from the nearest
multiple of six.