Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Imperial Rome" swarms with
more tramps than any city in Europe
"A very large majority of the All
vertisements for drug clerks in the En-
glish papers insist that the young men
shall be tall.
A tree growing in New Zealand
proves fatal to birds in a singular way.
A gummy substance is emitted from
the seed vessels, and birds get SO COW
cred with the fluid that they are unable
to fly.
There are sc, 900 blind persons in
France who are without other means
of support than begging. France is al
most wholly without asylums, either
public or private, for the blind.
An almost perfect skeleton of the
mosasaurus has ust been found in a
quarry near Mons. 1t has the extra
ordinary length of fifty-fve feet nine
inches, and will be preserved at the
Natural History Museum at Brussels.
The deepest coal mine in the world
is the Rose Bridge Colliery, at Wlgan.
Lancashire. which is S0S yards deep.
or almost half mile There is plenty
of coal further down. but the heat in
the solid strata is 50 1-2 degrees F.
-Pan-fa is the Chinese name for
the shavings of species of elm, frag-
ments of which, soaked in warm water
one night. produce vegetable muci-
lage or bandoline as useful for dress
ing. curling and crimping the hair of
Chinese beauty as is the ounce seed.
At a guessing match in Glasgow.
the subject being a jar of peas, the
winning guess was 1858. within two
of the actual number The remarka-
BILE feature about the affair was the
great number of guesses that fixed on
the same figure-no fewer than 800. for
instance, having chosen the number
7,777.
Complaint is made that in Dublin
81, POP families live in 1924 houses
containing As. 116 rooms. One hundred
and seventy-tive Dublin houses which
as freeholds are valued at fS,6 77 are
sublet to poor tenants for tS,311 a
year, and one house which is valued
at IS is occupied by eight families,
who pay rent of ESQ year.
Baron Adolphe Rothschld has re-
Gently purchased. at an almost fabu-
lous price, the famous jewel-box which
was presented in 1910 by the gold
smiths of Nuremberg to the Duke Al
brecht of Bavaria. on his marriage
with the Princess Anna of Bavaria,
the renowned Anna with the golden
hair" 1t is of enameled gold and
richly ornamented, and is altogether
one of the most perfect gems of medi-
aval art in Europe.
Every Afghan believes that he is
an Israelite. The tradition is that the
Afghans are descended from King
Saul. Their physiognomy is Hebrew.
They come from those regions where
we might expect to find remnants of
Hebrew race and many of their names
are Hebrew. Yakoub, Jacob; Ayoub,
Job; Musa, Moses; Ibrahim, Abraham;
present Amer S family.
"A notorious guack. Widow Noel.
one of the boldest of the charlatans
of Paris. was recently fined and i'm
prisoned for trickery. She was not
content with prescribing nostrums,
but insisted upon being in the house
with her patients, whom she then
robbed at her leisure. Her last VIC
tim was a man with heart disease.
For sixty days she remained with him.
receiving her board and $3.50. The
principal medicament was an ointment.
which she made by boiling bull
pups for nine days IN mixture of
red earth. for which vile stuff she
charged four dollars per pot. Strange
to say, seven witnesses of good char
acter testified to the efficacy of the
womap's remedies