Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The predictions of the French
Weather Bureau were verified last year
IN ninety cases out of every hundred.
Hungary has an insurance compa-
ny which pays married men from 100
to 500 fiorins in the event of the elope-
ment of their spouses.
Under seventeen was the French
girl who savagely murdered her father
with club because he would not al
low her to marry her sweetheart.
At the Greenwich England) Police
Court recently ruffian was sentenced
to three months hard labor for beat
ing kittens head off.
The chimney of q manufactory in
Breslau, about fifty feet high, is made
OF pressed paper substance which, it
is remarked, has almost perfect power
of resistance to fire.
in Paris the people are asked to
give their sous in aid OF aproiect to bore
big hole far down into the earth to
see what is going on inside this mys-
ferrous planet. upon the unscratched
crust of which we live.
OF the sixteen members of the En-
glish Cabinet thirteen are peers own
ing among them 654, 600 acres of land,
and drawing from it total income of
close upon S3.O00,O00 a year. They
own among them eighty-three church
ivings.
AT Smaland, Sweden, a debtor,
whose liabilities amounted to about
$4,000, gave up his estate for the bene-
fit of his creditors. The assets, when
realized, were sufficient to pay seventy
eight per cent, and the cost of the ad-
ministration amounted to the sum of
eleven shillings!
The Museum at Berlin has acquired
q picture on panel, formerly part of
the famous altar-piece which was paint
ed in 1910 by Duccio di Buoninsegna
for the Cathedral of Siena. This fine.
well-preserved and beautifully colored
fragment is an important addition to
the Prussian gallery.
Mr.. Ruskin says that horse racing
should be conducted without whip or
spur and only for laurel crown with
out any money!" The only race which
approaches this ideal takes place in
Siena. where the reward for the win
ming horse consists in public feast in
which the horse is toasted and partakes
himself of bucket of wine.
-Velocipedes of all kinds are no
longer tolerated in Berlin. When they
were first introduced. one of the Uni
versity professors, DR.. Traube, predict
ed that this sport. like long-continued
employment at sewing machines,
would lead to heart disease enlarge
ment of the ventricles. Whether this
prediction has been verified is not
stated.
During the last two years several
Celtic tumuli in the district of GEM
berg, in Upper Austria have been
opened, and found to contain valuable
relics of prehistoric times. A few days
ago similar tumulus was discovered
near Mattighofen. in the same neigh
borhood. and among its contents was
found a diadem of pure gold, richly
carved in the well-known style of old
Celtic art.
To test the enamel or timing of
cooking vessels. etc., for lead. NJ.
Fordoz recommends drop of strong
nitric acid placed on the enamel or
timing. and evaporated to dryness by
gentle heat The spot where the &C
ton of the acid has taken place is then
wetted by drop of solution of potas-
SUM iodde-five parts iodide to one
hundred of water-when the presence
of lead is at once shown by the forma-
iton of yellow lead iodide.