Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

"A Bucharest artist has spent ten
years in decorating his rooms with post
age stamps.
Since the siege of Paris in 1870, the
consumption of horseflesh he's gradually
increased there.
M. Renkin, former Belgian Consul
General at Vienna, was burned to death
short time ago, having gone to sleep
with lighted cigar in his mouth.
Some gardeners near Paris were
lately fined 100 francs for cheating in
tomatoes. The fruit not having ac-
CURED its usual deep hue they covered
itwith red paint.
In many parts of Europe huge
earthenware stoves are used, that need
but little fuel; they absorb the heat in
stead of sending most of it up the chin
ney and then steadily radiate it for
long time.
"A society called the Dali Nippon
Keizai Kai Japanese Economical
League) has been organized in Japan.
Its object is to investigate the economi-
cal system of modern nations with
view to the establishment of such sys-
tenn in Japan.
From his studies of the Krakatoa
catastrophe Verbeck is led to maintain
that part of our globe remains still in
molten state. and he disputes the theory
which has been advanced that the heat
of the volcanic furnaces is entirely due to
local chemical action.
London would seem to be fast be-
coming the paradise of domestic serv-
ants. A lady living in Regents Park,
advertising fof 4 cook and housemaid,
announces that they Twill be allowed
the use of piano and late dinner" They
will also be allowed out two nights
week and every other Sunday.
Colonel Warren has been excavat-
ing at Nicosia, in Cypru. and has
come upon what appears to be the re-
mains of a glass mandatory. Hitherto
it has always been denied that glass has
ever been made in the island. but many
of the olden vessels are very curiously
shaped, and none like them have been
seen elsewhere.
-Itis scarcely fair to hold a father
responsible for the conduct of his grow
ing up son, and even wife can not al
ways answer for her husband. The
Turkish authorities at Janiva appear to
forget this. They have just inflicted
sentences of hard labor upon father
whose son had enlisted in the Greek
army. and upon a wife whose husband
has taken a like step.
Efforts have recently been made in
Europe to invent small steam craft ca
pable of being propelled at almost ex-
press railway train speed. A small YES
sci for service in the Adriatic is now be-
ing constructed by a Prague engineer,
the speed of which will, it is alleged.
equal that of fast railway train. This
result is expected from an improved
screw and a novel method of construc-
ton. Great interest is manifested in
the experiment.
The new Tay bridge, to take the
place of the one where the great horror
occurred, when completed will be rather
more than two miles long, its cost be-
tween f60O. 900 and 100000 and some
600 tons of new ironwork will be
used in addition to the side-g irders of the
old bridge. The eighty-five openings
which form the total length will in
crease in span from fifty-six feet near
the shore to 245 feet at the center of the
bridge, which will be some seventy-six
feet above the water. Another curious
piece of information is that if the 8, $780,
900 rivets which will be used in the work
were laid lengthwise they would cross
the broad river more than 100 times.