Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP

"A Frenchman has made his suicide
remarkable By dropping from the tower
of Notre Dame.
The refusal by teetotal tailor to
make clothes for rumsellers is a new
cause for temperance discussion in
London.
The classic Tiber is once more to
become commercial highway, a line
OF steamers having been built to run
between Rome and Genoa.
One of the large English war yes-
sells. the Resistance, is to be coated
with India rubber to a considerable
thickness, to see how that material will
repel projectiles.
"A French musician has succeeded
IN making piano from musical stones.
The f1ints are suspended by wires from
q sounding board and are played upon
by two other tiints.
The museum of st. Petersburg has
a bank note probably the oldest in ex-
lstence. 1t is of the Imperial Bank of
China, issued by the Chinese Govern
ment. and dates from the year 1899 be-
fore Christ
The winner of the grand prize
$4,000 at Baden races this year be-
longs to an analytical chemist, who
bought her for S165. She has since
won him ten races, worth from $50, 600
to $35, 900, and would fetch as much at
auction.
Sir Lyon Playfair has ascertained,
In the course of some inquiries into
the manufacture of lacifers-of which
1t appears every English person con-
sumes eight day-that there are still
a few families who adhere to the tinder-
box, and for whom tinder-boxes are
manufactured.
Among the wedding presents of
Mile. De Rravura, a young lady con-
nected with the princely Russian house
OF Suwaroff, was q quaint little model
of Russian house in gold, with door
of emeralds and diamonds, which,
when it is opened, discloses portrait
After severe illness an English
man shaved off his whiskers and other
wise disguised himself. He then went
to his doctor and said he was brother
OF the sick man, who, he asserted, was
now dead. He thus obtained a certiti-
cate of his own death, had his Own de-
cease registered, drew the bp1fal money
from his lodge and decamped.
The late Earl of Dysart, Life Gon-
don) says, was one of the most eccen-
trio of noblemen. Though he had a
splendid park near Grantham, and very
great. not to say unbounded, wealt6,
he chose to live in two rooms on the
second floor of a house on Norfolk
street Strand, where he allowed nobody
to see his face. Indeed, it is said that
when he wanted a new pair of boots or
shoes the son of st. Crispin, who sup
piled his lordship, had to measure his
feet on the outside of his sitting-room
door, the noble legs to which they be-
lopged beng thrust through the door
panels
One of the most obstinate duels
ever fought was.between the Earl of
Lonsdale and Captain Cuthbert, of the
Life Guards, in June. 1892. They fired
together. Lord Lonsdales shot passed
through the frill of his opponents
shirt. The seconds having endeavored
to ad ust the matter, but the principals
remaining obstinate, they again fired,
but with no effect. The seconds then
insisted that as neither would make the
first concession. the principals should
advance toward each other, step for
step. and both declare in the same
breath that they were sorry for what
had happened. This ingenious plan
was agreed to.