Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

fOH6i1N 0oSStf.
Mr.. Giles Loder. England's largest
personal-tax payer, is assessed at $15,-
100000 on his personal property.
The London Echo says the King of
Siam, for his 263 children, buys mar
bles by the ton. hoops by the gross,
dolls by the hundred and paragoric by
the gallon.
Smoking in France has increased
wonderfully within the last two years.
Indeed, the demand for tobacco has
been so great as completely to exhaust
the Government supply.
Professor Angel. the court painter
of Vienna, has completed life portrait
of Queen Victoria, intended for the
historical line of portraits of Kings and
their consorts in Buckingham palace
M. Lauth. of Sevres, has, after ten
years experimentation, produced a
porcelain far superior to the famous
old Sevres. 1t will take all kinds of
glazes. and is susceptible of the h CHEST
kinds of decoration. -.
In Prussia all express trains are to
be provided with means of communi-
Cat on before the close of the present
year, and all other passenger trains
within year or more. The Prussian
roads simply use a cord. running out
side and lust above the level of the
window This cord is to be connected
with the locomotive whistle giving the
signal.
Every army has its particular mode
of payment. In France, Italy, ETC.,
the men are paid every five days; in
Spain-seldom. and in Turkey on still
rarer occasions. In China soldiers
are pad monthly. Out of his month
ly pay of 1-2 tails. about so francs,
he sets aside one-third for his keep;
the rest goes for clothing. equipment.
and pocket money-should any thing be
left
The last census report in Chill pre-
sents an anomaly that is puzzlng the
people very much. The married popu-
latIon of the country, distinct from
widowers and widows, is stated to be
59S.312. OF course, half of this num-
Der. or 200. 156, ought to be males, and
half females. But such is not the case
according to the census report, whic h
says the married persons CONSIST of
800, 577 males and 297, 735 females.
This leaves 2,S42 married men without
visible wives.
One day when the ground was
white with snow, Nine. Dorian, a
great whip among the Paris an sports
women" invited Victor Hugo to drive
out and see the skaters in the Bois de
Boulogne. As he got up beside her on
the box of her turnout, she remarked,
t'You have forgotten your overcoat,
mon cher maitre." My overcoat! |
haven't any. and / never had one; and
Il dress just the same way in winter
las I do in summer. My overcoat is
my youth
1t is the opinion of many EN-; nent
British engineers that the English Goals
will gradually cease to be sent to the
Mediterranean, and even the Red Sea,
as the use of petroleum refuse in en-
gines becomes better understood. AL
ready it is the only fuel in use on the
Caspian, either in the mercantile ma
irine, in the Russian gunboat fiotilla, or
on the railways. and even in domestic
stoves it is in favor throughout the
Caucasus. At present. in the countries
of the East. much oil refuse is poured
into the sea as the only way to dispose
of it.
/ "A novel and really beautiful idea in
the form of bouquet has been sent
from Ireland to the English royal
family. 1t is one for days and years.
almost imperishable. The bouquet is
composed of dainty cambria handker-
chiefs, made up into various devices of
of flowers, heartsease, jonquil and
.r1ses being most prominent. They are
so beautifully and cleverly twisted and
turned that the shapes of the flowers
are all shown, and the illusion is near
ily complete of its being nosegay of
white flowers. 1t has been drehched
with essence of millefleurs, and fixed in
a handsomely chased holder.