Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
There are 81, 900 paupers in Lon.

There are $1,000 paupers in Lon
don.
In 1920 the first striking clock was
invented by Cisterican monk.
Many of the plants in the Iuileries
Gardens are two and three hundred
years old.
The lance has disappeared from
the list of weapons used in the Aus
trian army. The lancers will be con-
verified into light cavalrymeh.
A Paris Judge refused to hear a
case against a wife who had thrown
her husband out of a window and brok-
en- his leg. but advised her to open a
gymnasium at which other wives could
train.
1t IS officially reported that $780,
600 acres of grazing lands in the king
dom of the Netherlands supports
1,500. 600 cattle. 275,O horses, $50. 600
sheep and $50. 900 hogs. This is less
than one acre to the animal.
During a recent speech in favor of
cremation. Sir Spencer Wells men,
toned that an epidemic of scarlet fever
broke out in a country town on the
opening of some graves of persons who
had died with that disease thirty years
previously.
In Normandy bird dealers arrange
singing contests between favorite chat
finches which are sometimes compelled
to sing alternately as many as eight
hundred times. Occasionally the cruel
practice of depriving them of sight is
hdulged in, as blind birds are often
the best singers.
The French Captain who on the
march at While tied private to a
mules saddle has been cashiered for a
year, and the Government journals
quote this punishment as evidence that
torture is not tolerated in the French
army, although the opposition prints
affirm that it is frequently inflicted.
There are now established on the
coast of Great Britain 2S4 lifeboat sta
tons. In the current year there were
1854 casualties to shipping around
the British Isles; 633 lives and eigh-
teen vessels were saved, in addition
to 1S9 lives by shore boats and other
means, where rewards were given.
being a total of 1872 lives saved through
the agency of the society. During the
year lifeboats were launched 252 times,
and not one man of their crews was
lost.
The New South Wales regiment,
which took part in the Soudan cam
paign, has arrived home in Sydney.
They. were given a tremendous re-
ception. The day was made public
holiday. Delegates came from all the
colonies in Australia, and all the
available troops were drawn up to well
come the returning soldiers. The
Governor delivered an address to the
contingent. thanking them in the
name of the Queen and the colonies
for the great services they had rem
dered.
Japan is made up of chain of
volcanic mountains, and the arabic
land of the empire is officially put at
1,215. 600 acres-less than one-half the
area of the State of New York-and
this is so fertile and thoroughly cult
waited that it feeds population of 81
600, 600 about that of France. Rice
is one of the principal crops, and of
this some 200. 100000 bushels are raised
annually. Hand labor is generally
used, and two or three crops a year
are raised on the same land. Artificial
irrigation is general, being necessary
over one-half of the cultivated land,
and frequently the water is taken from
streams from twenty to thirty miles
distant The total number of horned
cattle is 1, 1la, 900. and of horses 1,605,
600. Wood of all kinds is cheap and
abundant