Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Many miners in the Newcastle.
(Eng.) collieries now work in safety
electric lights.
Scotland still contains seven mill
lions of acres reserved for the amuse-
ment of deer stalkers and grouse shoot
erS.
The Castle of Buda, a home of
Hungarian monarchy for centuries. is
to be completely rebuilt by the EN-
peror Francis Joseph at a cost of So, =
250, 900.
Only one-third of the inhabitants
of Vienna We're born in the city. In
Leipzig Sc. so per cent. are natives; in
Munich, 1882; in Berlin, As. 80; in Ham
burg. 54.29; in Cologne. 57.15.
There are no newsboys in Munich.
Some of the papers are sold at round
little houses or stands in the street,
others are carried about the cafes and
restaurants in baskets by old men and
women.
In an English town an infant fell
from an upper story and landed upon
the hustle of lady's dress. A gentle
man who was. walking behind caught
the little creature before it had time to
l.
The Berlin Medical Society has
adopted the resolution proposed some
time ago that measures be taken to Sc
cure the official Authorization of all
thermometers used by the profession in
determining the temperature of the
human body
One of the novelties at late En-
glish dinner was china dish contain
ing cut bread. which had inserted in it
a musical box. When the dish was
lifted from the sideboard the box dis
coursed pleasant strains while it went
its rounds. ceasing on being placed
down again.
"A poor crofter who had scant pas
ture for his pet COW one day tethered
hel on the summit of a barren hillock
on his bit of land where sand and
stones were far more plentiful than
vegetation, and. looking around him,
exclaimed: ''Well, Rosie, If you
haven't muckle to eat, you have at
any rate a splendid view. ''-Scotch
Paper.
Mr.. Gladstone is the owner of
what is probably the longest pencil
ever made. A manufacturer at Kes-
wick has sent MIN walking-stick
thirty-nine inches long. made of cedar.
and forming large pencil, W tn lead
nearly half an inch square running
through it. The curious pencil has a
solid silver band bearing an inscription
inscription in verse.
"A new Everlasting" wood pave
ment has been brought out in France.
The wood blocks are boiled in a solu-
ton of sulphate of copper, sulphate of
zinc and chloride of sodium. mixed
with heavy mineral oil, linseed oil
and tallow. The blocks are afterward
compressed to about one tenth their
original volume. In this state they are
said to be practically unwearable.
A remnant of the great forests
which once covered the south of
Sweden was recently dug out of bog
at kiuneved. consisting of boat six
feet in diameter followed out of log.
The tree from which it was obtained
must have been twenty feet in circum-
ference. The wood. which was blue in
color, was very hard, and the boat so
heavy that two bullocks could not
move it.
John Bright recently declared that
the resources of the nations of Europe
were being ''swaIlowed up by the in
satiable exigencies of the militarism in
which they live Last year the
armies and navies of Europe cost the
enormous sum of S917. 500, 9S5. while
the national debts absorbed the sum of
S1.O36, 1890 for interest alone. the
aggregate national debts reaching the
almost inconceivable amount of S23,-
oil, 949, 7O5. At the head of the list
stands Russia, whose army and navy
estimates reached $3.50, 512. 500. and
the interest on her national debt S16S,-
653,935. France, England and Ger
many come next in the order named.