Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Russia is to have railroad tunnel
three miles long. at a cost of 90, 500, 900.
The Emperor of China new throne
at Shanghai is to have its foundation
and pedestal made of gold bricks.
Three years is about the ayerape
active street life of horses in London,
against sixteen to twenty years in this
country. WIS
"A New Zealand chief claimed a
piece of land on which he had settled nm
the ground that he had eaten the pre-
ceding owner.
The six hundred French army cats
whose duty it is to catch mice in the
clothing store-houses, are to have their
rations reduced, since they have become
too fat and lazy.
King Theebaw's state chariot has
lately been exhibited in London IT is
OF the pattern used in Europe one hun-
dred years ago, and it is literally coat
ed with sheet gold, inlaid with sheets of
glass. Within there is room for only
one person.
There has been formed in London
an association. 1.-THE Society for the
prevention of Hydrophoba and the Re-
form OF the Dog Laws having for it's
main object the enforcement of better
control over dogs. One of its methods
Will be to accomplish the destruction of
dogs of low degree
Mr.. Gladstone's library numbers
about $4,000 volumes. ..Ah! YOU are
looking at my books,'' he said to a yisi-
tor the other day. s.If there is one
thing am vainer than another about it
is my plan for stacking books. can
get more books into given space than
any man 1 know
There are now thirteen women Iiy-
ing who are Chev alters of the Legion of
Honor, all of whom except Rosa Bon
heur, the painter, and Mime. Dieulafoy,
the antiquarian, received the decoration
for actual service on the field of battle
OF the machines imported into Aus
tro-Hungary in the three-quarters of
this year. tifty-five cent came from Eng
land. thirty-seven per cent from Ger
many, seven per cent from Switzerland
and one per cent from Italy, France,
Belgium and America. The machines
imported from England were chiefly
destined for the cotton and linen indus
tries.
Benjamin Moore, who died in Ber-
lin recently, left by will reward of
one dollar for every policeman report
ing case of cruelty to animals .sAs
men have no hearts," he wrote in his
will. 81 leave my money to the brutes"
And he did. enriching the Berlin Society
for the Protection of Animals by nearly
100000.
A large factory of Breslau required
a chimney tifty-four feet in height. In
stead of constructing the chimney with
bricks. as usual, a large number of solid
blocks of paper firmly compressed were
made use Of These blocks were placed
carefully one on the top of the other and
Joined together with special cement
The chimney is non-infammable, is
very elastic. and is by the nature of the
material quite secure from lightning,
which so often plays such sad havoc
with the more ordinary sort of factory
chimney.
The ''typo-telegraph," which is
new invention, is now being tried in
Paris by the minister of Posts and Tele-
graphs; it mas been submitted by M.
Etienne de Fedor, and it is intended to
be devoted chiefly to press messages.
The article of paper or journal which
is to be forwarded by telegraph to an
other journal is first set up in ordinary
type in column and then stereotyped.
The block is afterward sent to the tele-
graph office and serves as original of the
message. M. Fedor claims that the
rapidity of the transmission may reach
one thousand two hundred letters per
minute, or about fourteen thousand
words per hour.