Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The King of Bavaria has spent
$3.50. 600 for a chandelier from the
Nielsen mandatory.
-Cedrae the Saxon, the famous boar
hound. is the largest dog in the world.
He weighs more than POO pounds
There are e23, 325 Odd Fellows in
Great BritaiH. n gain of 3S.S17 dur ng
last wear. The number of deaths in
1884 was 1,01S-
A Venet an gondolier makes. on an
average. four francs, about eighty
cents, a day the year round On this
he will marry. rear family and put
some money by
In giving his daughter $3.50. 600,
the Duke of Bedford gives her about
half wears income. His rural prop
erty Yields that sum. and he owns an
immense district in London as well.
"A Madrid man has invented cane
that contains complete set OF topo-
or phical and telegraphic instruments,
Telegraph and a lantern. 1t Is IN
tended for the use of engineers IN the
army service.
There ale 80. 000. 900 women and
girls in China. nearly all OF whom are
uneducated and ignorant. Chinese
women are secluded, and it is contrary
to custom tor a stranger OF the male sex
to speak to one.
As carrier pigeons in China are fire.
ouently molested by birds OF prey, an
ingenious plan for protection IS en-
ployed. Ten small bambo tubes are
attached to the birds tai by means OF
threads passing under the wings. The
hasty fight of the bird produces a
whstling sound, and this keeps BIRDS
OF prey at a safe distance.
A few wears ago, SAYS the London
Standard, the Young people OF In
gland became imbued with the roller
skating craze, and Kinks were built all
over the country. The fever. how
ever. was as brief as any other .vaga-
les of fashion; the enthusiasm died
away, the Kinks were deserted. the
investors lost their money, and roller
skates disappeared in the land
Mime. Hurtrelle. well-known soci-
ETY. belle in Paris. was arrested for
drunkenness. In defense she stated
that she read that the surest way Of
preserving furs from moths was to
place them IN an empty spirit cask-
She accordingly purchased one and in
it put her cloak. The weather being
chilly, she required the garment, and
the alcoholic tunes produced lntoXica-
ton. She was acquitted.
in London there is said to be a
burglars company, which conducts
business in a systematic manner 1t
has a number Of inspectors, who
travel over Europe in quest of open
inrs for work" and mechanics who
can open the most elaborate safes.
Finally, there is a solicitor who nego-
tiates the restitution of bonds Tor a
commission of thirty-five per cent.
All the managers have received prison
education.
TO incarcerate a man as lunatlc
in Denmark nothing is required but a
certificate from competent medical
practitioner stating that the individual
in question is insane, ANY one in Den
mark i entitled to keep private asy-
lum without license, and the patients
in such an asylum are not under State
control. Denmark has an excess of
lunatics, due chiefly to the Scandinav-
ian habit of constant dram drinking.
They are well cared for in spite Of the
defect of the lunacy laws.
According to the ST. James Ga
zGtte the bar at this moment is the
most over-stocked profession in En-
gland. The Law List of 1884 com
priseS PAP pages of counsel entitled to
practice at the English bar. and each
page contains on an average rather
more than thirty names. thus yielding
a grand total of about 7.200 practit on
ers for England. and those British
possessions where English counsel
have a right of aud ence. This total
does not include the members of the
Scotch bar or of the Irish bar, or of
the bar of the Isle of Man.