Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

China lost 100, 900 men and $780,
600, 900, and France Is, 900 men and
S215, zoo. 600 during the Tonquin cam
paign.
An octogenarian attendant at the
recent English Church Congress said
that he had only heard one sermon
against war in all his life.
King Solomon, in Arab literature,
as well as in the writings of the nations
they subdued, appears as the greatest
magician the world has ever known.
Sofia is steadily progressing since
it has been promoted to the rank of a
capital. The Is, 900 inhabitants, among
whom one-half are Jews, have swollen
to $4,000. and many fine buildings have
been erected.
Telephone communication has been
established between Paris and Rheime, a
distance of about lis miles, and the
Transmission of sound is said to be per-
feet. Five minutes conversation costs
one franc, and in five minutes each
party can say some 800 words.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
Escurial, the great Spanish palace, may
be formed from the statement that a
tour of all the apartments would involve
a journey of about 120 miles. There are
1900 doors and IL 900 windows in the
edifiee.
An interesting discovery has been
made during the excavations of the
Athens Acropolis. A tablet was dug up
on which was painted warrior, with
helmet, shield and spear. Near the fig
ure was an archaic inscription. ARCHIE
ologists fix the date in the fifth century
before Christ.
Although a stanch friend and pleas
ant companion to those whom he liked,
the Duke of Somerset was to the world
at large one of the haughtiest and most
reserved of Peers-a fit successor to that
former Somerset who deducted 800, 600
from his daughters portion because she
sat down in his presence without his
permission.
"A correspondent, writing to Notes
ana Queries, says that before our day
English was spoken by the troops in
Cyprus, for Cyprus is recorded as hav-
ing been ono of the stations of the IA
nous Waranghian Guard, the Waring
and English soldiers of the Greek EN-
perors of Constantinople. In the latter
city is a church which belonged to the
Waranghians. In Cyprus they were
stationed at Bafi or Paphos.
"A startling novelty in roses was
that introduced by Pedro da Costa, a
Portuguese rose-grower, under the name
of Lusiadas. 1t was a pale yellow,
spotted with red, and was awarded GER
tificates of merit by several French hor-
ticultural societies, and now it is claimed
by those who have investigated that the
red spots were painted upon it. In the
meantime Pedro has pocketed $4,000
francs from the sale of his novelty, while
he stoutly denies the painting.
Queen Victoria has great financial
advantage over her heir apparent in the
circumstance that, whether times are
good or bad, her Majesty's snug little
revenue of over f7,000 week is paid
just the same, while it is well known
that the Prince has for years past been
obliged to make heavy attachments in
his Duchy of Cornwall property-not
so much perhaps in the duchy proper as
in its outlying estates in other counties.
His allowance from Parliament of f40,-
600 year is just what the Queen re-
ceives from her Duchy of Lancaster as
little extra pocket money in addition
to her FL. 900 a day.