Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


London Truth says no party is now
considered complete without American
ladies.
As many as thousand quakings of
the earth have been felt in one day in
New Zealand.
The years wheat crop in Great
Britain is estimated at 10000, 600
bushels, from 2, 2S6,O0 acres.
A copy of sermon preached by
John Knox 321 years ago was sold the
other day in London for S2,075.
The Swedish and Danish newspa-
pers have been discussing schemes for
the construction of tunnel between
Denmark and Sweden under the Sound.
Two daughters of the Prince of
Wales, whose ages are sixteen and four
teen respectively, have made the tricy-
Gle famous. They think nothing of
making IA run of fifty miles in day.
-Carlsruhe. Germany, has its Bud
densieck, through whose careless oper
ations about twenty workmen were
killed the other dav. He used bad ma
terial and built SO fast that the walls did
not have time to dry.
The ancient city of Damascus is in
a prosperous condition. Its trade with
foreign countries is rapidly increasing.
The narrow thoroughfares and bazars
are disappearing and giving place to
wider streets.
Electric lights were recently intro
duced on the train going from Stuff
CART to Schwabisch Hall, in Wurtem-
berg. Each of the SIX cars was fur
nished with two electric lamps, whose
light enabled any one in the car to read
without effort.
The naturalist Karl Plotz died re-
Gently in Greifsward at the age of sew
entv-two. He was perhaps the greatest
European authority on butterflies. His
works comprise thirty volumes, with
more than ten thousand illustrations
from his own hand.
"A most astonishing phenomenon of
the Javanese earthquake was the split
ting of the Papandayang Mountain. In
flash of time it was split into seven
parts. Where the lone mountains had
stood doomed up seven peaks each some
seven thousand feet high.
Herr Schmidt, an accomplished
German horticulturist. who was some
time ago sent to East Africa to intro
duce the cultivation of European gar
den vegetables and corn, reported that
! after repeated trials the experiment
las completely failed.
DIR. LIE Plongeon and wife, who
have spent years studying the ruins of
Central America. believe the Maya CIV
ilization dates back eleven thousand or
twelve thousand years, and that it is the
parent of the Oldest civilizations of Asia
and Africa, and in the symbols which
the doctor finds he sees clear evidence
that the sacred mysteries of the Egyp-
tians. Hindoos, Persians, and afterward
the Greeks. originated in the temples of
Maya, and that the rites of Freemasonry,
TO which various origins have been as
| signed. likewise began here.
THE OK knoweth his owner. and
the ass his masters crib" So wrote
the prophet ages ago. An exemplitica-
ton of the truth of these words (says
the Rock) was given in Carshalton a
few days ago by pet donkey, which
had been stolen and sold to an unsus-
pectng purchaser who in Innocence
| took it to the locality where its rightful
owner lived. The donkey point blank
refused to pass his owners door. and
being seen by some of the occupants
| was claimed as their property. 1t j:
| satisfactory to know that the thief has
| been convicted.