Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Thin plates of metal in the backs
OF books are a new London notion.
ere is a plot afoot to crush poker
Eur The st. James Gazette and
also cresin officials are encouraging it.
- Out of zoe, ZOO, 600 passengers on
brlcrsti railways last year only 100 were
Killed; In addition 857 employees, tres
passers, or suicides were killed.
-brltlsh Guianea is making large
shipments of gold to England. and the
prospects are that the shipments will
flVai In value the great exports of
sugar, molasses and rum.
Two years ago Baroness Alauier
lett Si,zOO,0 600 to the City of Paris for an
asylum to be named after her. The
municipality has now purchased park
OF zfo acres and will erect the asylum
therein
herr William Herr, the famous
Berlin manufacturer of ladies' cloaks,
recently celebrated the completion of
the 1oO.Oo0th cloak of this seasons
make with grand banquet to all his
employees.
a most astonishing phenomenon of
tne Japanese earthquake was the split
ting OF the Paupundayang mountain.
In flash of time it was split into seven
parts. Where the lone mountain had
stood, doomed up seven peaks, each
some seven thousand feet high
The discovery of a new variety of
eoffee-plant in West Africa is reported.
The berry greatly resembles that of
krauissi 6nse -anAsAsv6f4sv
grows on rapidly-developing and very
productive tree nearly seven feet high
instead of on shrub.
An experiment was recently made
OF female omnibus conductor on the
new line between Piccadilly Circus and
klng's Cross. She only lasted day.
Most probably she met with an offer of
marriage and closed her connection
with one bus to get another as legiti-
mate.-LonoloB Court Journal
"A strange effect of light transmitted
through solution of sulphate of uuin-
Inc upon the poisoning of plants has
been made known by Sachs From a
series of experiments he has shown that
plants terminated and grown under
the influence of such light, while thirty
ing otherwise, develop only small, i'm
perfect, and speedily perishable flowers.
Light transmitted i'll a similar way
through pure water impaired in no way
the blossoming powers.
Fred Archer is still talked about.
While at Newmarket the other day the
Prince of Wales made pilgrimage to
his grave, where he sent for Archer's
sister and baby daughter and sympa-
thized with them. Patriotic indigna-
ton has been expressed because French
papers have said that English ladies
loved Archer for his fine eyes as well
as for his riding. A proposition to
perpetuate his memory by founding
reading and reception room for stable
men and boys at Newmarket is meeting
with much favor.
In the vault of the Capucine Church
at Vienna, where the Austrian sover-
eigns have found their tombs, is a
splendid and enormous sarcophagus
raised by Joseph III. over the remains
of his mother, Maria Theresa, and at
its foot plain iron box, in which are
the bones of Joseph himself, with the
inscription. often repeated by him in
life: 81 have got SO far that love
nothing on earth except my mother
and the State" Near by is the tomb
of the unfortunate Macmillan of
Mexico, by the side of which the EN-
peror often spends an hour in medita-
ton and prayer.