Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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1t is said there are only about a
dozen wooden houses in London.
Chickens near Paris are dying of
consumption, which they caught from
a man who cared for them. Funny
things happen in France.
The death is reported of Mrs. Da-
Wis. who for over fifty ears had the ex-
elusive privilege of setting up fruit
stall in Westminster Hall.
An additional picture for nearly
every day in the year was placed last
year in the 'rogues' album in the
Berlin Criminal Police Court. During
the year the collection served to identi-
fly 124 criminals.
Frau Mollenweber, at Remscheid,
in Germany, is over one hundred years
Old, and has had the privilege since
May Sd of being great-great-grand-
mother. She is in good health. has
never worn spectacles. has two chill
dren aged seventy-two and seventy-siN.
th;Tty-sM grandchildren and forty-two
great grandchildren.
-First-class carr ages are not much
required on some German lines. The
statistics have always shown that they
are little used. On one of the State
railway systems in the year to March
Slst, 1888, only three passengers in a
thousand travelled frst-class, so that
most of the trains must have had no
first-class passengers at all.
"A Welsh farmer named ANN Lew
is, of Lianharran. near Pencord, has
died at the age of one hundred years
He enjoved excellent health through
out his life. and up to November last
he was able to follow his daily duties
on the farm. When in his ninety
seventh year he, with his grandson,
moved four acres of grass in one day.
Winning the Derby seems to give
brevet of longevity to horses, for out
of the twenty-three last winners of that
race only five have died, and one of
these not from natural causes. But
while all but five of the horses which
have won the Derby since 1873 are
alive, only ten of their owners, or
eleven. counting the two owners of the
horses which ran a dead heat last year,
are still in the flesh.
The railroads in Guatemala are
run on the credit system. Freight
charges are seldom paid upon the de-
livery of the goods. but merchants and
Others expect three or four months aud
some times more time. If package
arrives with your name upon it the
, railroad company is expected to deliy-
er it at your residence, unless it hap
pens to be very bulky, and a few weeks
after a collector comes around for the
freight money.
At Buxton. in England, lately, a
man who was i'll began to recover. but
conceived the idea of Stimulating death
when the doctor came. and was able to
persuade the doctor that he was dead.
A certificate was accordingly made
out. The man arose. shaved off his
beard, and became '.the brother of the
defunct," registered his own death, OBJ
tanned an insurance claim, and was
well on his way to foreign parts when
the trick was found out. e.
The following instance of persist
ency on the part of rejected admirer
has. perhaps. rarely been surpassed.
The d sappointed sutton followed the
young woman and his more fortunate
riva INTO church hit was the church OF
Burwash. in Sussex-addressing the
brde-elect from time to time in
p teous tones: "Say No Martha;
S ny 20 Martha;" and this he CON
t.Lued till the crucial question was put:
s ''Wilt thou have this man to be thy
8 welded husband?' As soon as the
fatal words Il will'' had passed the
BRIDES lips instead of the NO" which
he had fondly hoped for, he turned
away and left the church.