Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

As many as thousand quakings .
day have been registered in New Lea
land.
Client is built ON twenty-six islands,
Amsterdam on ninety and Venice on
eighty.
AS many as thirty thousand shawls
are made annually in the vale of CASH
mere, which are worth, on an average,
$1,000 apiece.
The steamers on the Nile have
driven the crocodile from that river to
such an extent that the reptile is prac-
tically extinct.
Complete returns of the French
census show the population to be, in
round numbers, SO, OO0, 000-an increase
of 100000 in five years.
-Labouchere, in Truth, deplores the
English custom of torturing women by
sentencing them to death when there is
not the slightest intention to carry out
the sentence.
Queen Victoria health is said to be
better now than it has been for several
years, and more guests are being enter
tanned at Balmoral than at any time
since the Prince Consort's death.
which the King occupies only six days
in the wear. Il is built upon piles, and
has cost, all told, five millions of dollars.
This palace the King shows to visitors
for a consideration. Pay two cents and
you are taken through by guide in
livery.
One would have thought that the
electric light, or perhaps the more
modest gas, or even oil, would have
been used for the purpose of lighting
the Mersey tunnel extension works at
Liverpool. but the contractors are adj
vertising for tenders for the supply OF
$4,000 pounds of candles.
The Sultan of Morocco is said to be
a veritable Haroun al Rasehid. He Is
handsome and most courtly in manner,
and processes to be a prophet, in which
character he leads a quiet and rather
secluded life. He possesses six thou,
sand W YES. whom he keeps in harems al
Fee, Morocco and Mekues. He also has
travelling harem which constantly at
tends him.
THAT s'kissing goes by favor" ano
by favor only, Berlin dentist recently
found out with a vengeance. He hae
been so impressed with the beauty of ;
sixteen-year-old client that he could no
resist the temptation of stealing severa
kisses from her, for which theft ane
fragrant breach of professional etiquett'
he was sentenced to fine of five hun
dred marks, or fifty days imprison'
ment.
Some excitement was recently
caused in Rome by the discovery of :
stranger at night on balcony in thu
so-called "Benediction Loggia," adioin
ing the Vatican. He had climbed tn
statue of Constantine in order to reacl
the balcony, and had made an openin.
in the wall of the Vatican when discov
ered He stated that his only motive il
doing this was his irresistible desire t.
see the Pope, and his manner clearl.
indicated that he was religious ia
matte.
"A singular kind of family registe
| is kept in some parts of Switzerland
Wherever those big round cheeses ar
| made it is the custom for the friend
| and relatives of newly-married coupl
| to Join in presenting them with an ex
ira specimen of their dairy produce
which is not intended to be eaten, bu
serves as family register. on whic
| the family events, such as births, death
and weddings, are marked by crosse
cut perpendicularly into the cheese
This custom dates back as far as tn
! seventeenth century, and good man
| cheeses two centuries old are said to b
| extant.