Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

China has begun the use of postal
cards.
"A Berlin house is making crayats
and scarfs of paper.
The Castle of Simonetta, near
Milan, reports an echo sixty times.
The husband of the Queen of Mad
agascar is some fifty years older than
herself.
King Theebaw has given up drink
ing and now proposes to imprison and
fog every drunkard in his realm.
Bavaria has enacted law forbid
ding the marriage of couples who do
not possesses sufficient means to main
tain themselves.
Sir Walter Raleigh once asked
Queen Elizabeth to smoke his pipe.
She tried it once, and only once. 1t is
a. significant fact that inside of a year
she ordered his head to be cut off.
A magnetism limestone found at
the entrance of the Tyne, in England,
is reported to be so flexible that thin
layers three feet or more in length may
be bent in circle while damp, retain
ing that form on becoming dry.
The cleaver with which the Earl of
Essex's head was cut off by reason of
Queen Elizabeth's failure to receive the
ring in season is still preserved in the
Tower of London. 1t is a savage-look-
ing instrument, and somewhat rusty
with age.
Count Spantini, friend of crema-
ton in Florence, had the ashes of his
grandfather preserved in beautiful
urn. A thrifty servant helped herself
out of it to sprinkle the floor before
sweeping up some filth, and now the
Count has less than half his ancestor
ashes.
in Nankin and Kai-fun children
from six to twelve years of age are sold
| by tens of thousands. Not hired out
or transferred. but sold for small sum
| in cash, in consideration of which the
progenitor, by tacit understanding,
| renounces all parental right, even the
right of inquiring into the fate OF his
offspring.
The English Post-office Depart
ment is big thing. In addition to
CARRYING and delivering the mails prop
er it does a general eXpressage bus
| mess, operates all telegraph lines, takes
care of the savings of the people. in
sures lives, and grants annuities.
1t does all these things and makes a
| handsome profit out OF them.
The second thimble centenary has
| lust been celebrated in Amsterdam.
| The first thimble was made in October,
| 1854. by goldsmith, Van Renscholten,
whose idea in the manufacture OF the
| pretty conceit was to protect the lin
| gers of his lady love. The English
were the first to adopt the new inven-
| ton.
Last year some one in England
sent to Mr.. Labouchere tie sum of 5, 900
new sixpences for distribution among
| the children in the London hospitals
| and warehouses. The same person has
| this wear sent to Mr.. Labouchere 5000
sixpences with a request that they be
| given to children in the London work
| houses, workhouse intirmaries and
| workhouse schools.
In Persia. long ago, they had a
| cheerful and effectual manner of pun
| ishing criminals. For stealing, death
was the penalty. Two young trees
were by main strength brought togeth-
| er at their SUBMITS and then fastened
| together with cords. The culprit was
| then brought out and his legs tied with
ropes, which were again carried up
and fixed to the tops of the trees. The
| cords that forced the trees together
were then cut, and by the elasticity and
| power of the spring the body of the
| thief was torn asunder, and thus left to
! hang divided on each separate tree.