Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Chill is the most prosperous coun-
try in South America.
Queen Victoria has the finest set
of plate in the world. 1t cost SIC, O0O,-
600.
"A movement is on foot in Dublin to
substitute Irish names for the present
English names of streets.
Savage dogs which kiln their mas
tiers are condemned to curious form
of death in Japan. They are shut up
in a box with q little food and are
thrown into the sea.
"A house in Craven street, Strand,
London, which has over its front door
tablet bearing the information that it
was once the residence of Benjamin
Franklin, is now boarding house.
Two cases of the successful joining
of divided nerves have been reported to
the Paris Academy of Sciences, function
being restored in one case to nerve
which had been divided for fifteen
years.
On the spot in High street. Oxford,
on which Ridley and Latimer were
burned at the stake, there is now q
small brass cross, over which hundreds
of drays pass daily, not five per cent.
of whose drivers ever heard Of the fires
of persecution once kindled there>
in France newspaper men often
fight duels, it is supposed. for the pur-
pose OF bringing their papers into pub
lie notice, but these duels are rarely
fatal. Indeed, so uncommon are fatali-
ties in French duels at present that
of 545 duels fought since 1869 but eight
have resulted fatally.
The second thimble centenary has
recently been celebrated at Amster-
dam. The first thimble was made in
October, 1854, by a goldsmith, Van
Benschelton, whose idea in the manu-
facture of the pretty conceit was to
protect the finger of his lady love. The
English were the first to adopt the new
invention.
Nine million square miles is GER
tainly a mighty measure, being forty
four times bigger than France and
and seventy-three times larger than the
combined area of the British Isles.
Yet this is said to be the measurement
of the expanse of territory embraced
in the geographical basis of the
Congo" which the International Afri-
can Association claims.
In Scotland, as in England, they
regard theft as a good deal worse
than murder. At the High Court of
Judiciary in Edinburgh the other day a
man was condemned to two months
imprisonment for having knocked his
wife down and kicked her unto death.
The next prisoner was convicted of
having stolen a letter containing two
half-soverigns and sixty stamps. He
sentence was five years penal servi-
tude.
A native chief in Fiji presented
himself for baptism. '.How many wives
have you?" said the missionary.
Seven said the chief. .sOh, that
won't do; can't baptize you till you
have got rid of six of them" A month
later the chief came again; saying: ..Me
all right now; you baptize me now
Only one wife now" ssWhat have you
done with the others?'' said the mis-
sionary. .'Oh," said the cannibal,
.Me's eaten cherry one of 'em. Ben
Brierley's Journal.
The place where William Tell shot
the apple from his sons head-provid-
ed the incident ever really took place
is now called Altorf, and is one mile
from the head of Lake Luzerne. The
side of the tree under which, Schiller
says, the boy stood, is marked by
huge square monument sixty feet high,
the sides of which are adorned with
paintings that are more suggestive than
artistic. On the spot where Tell stood
is now large white statue of the
Swiss patriot in the act of drawing his
bow.