Iron County register., 1888-08-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| "A Russian subject who is suspected
Of ever thinking that any particular
law is not wise and just can be pun
ished as severely as an American wht
attempts robbery.
Pancake parties is Q French fame,
In amusement. The cakes are pre-
pared by the assembled company OF
the sands or on the grass under tht
trees with the necessary materials
| and after a feast of the cakes the
guests strive to toss pancakes as high
rs possible.
Regulations have been established
| In the coffee districts in Guatemala by
which farmers are required to build
furnaces on their lands, and whenever
| signal is given to indicate the danger
| pitch or other substance likely tc
| make a great smoke and keep away
the frost.
Two gentlemen recently elected tc
the Oxford and Cambridge Club in
London had been waiting nine years
for their names to be reached on the
list of proposals, and at another Lon.
don club gentleman just elected had
been proposed so many years ago that
he had forgotten all about it, and was
surprised when he received notice OF
his election.
"A silver crown piece, known as
''the petition crown" of the reign OF
Charles II, fetched Sits at recent
sale in England At the latest pre-
vious sale similar coin had brought
only SLIPS. A sovereign of Edward
Wis time brought 1926 fifty shilling
piece of the Cromwell era $3.50, an
Oxford crown 1886. Apenny of Ethel
bald brought $3.50, and other old pen
nies 800 and $50 each.
-Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor
of London, seems to be most remark
able man. His eccentricities are al
most startling. Not long ago he in
spected the boys of the British naval
training ship Warspite. During his
address he told the boys that his wife
would take great pleasure in giving
each one of them a shilling, which he
hoped ''they would keep throughout
their future life as a souvenir of the oc-
caSion."
"A foreign medical writer says:
''Mothers in Paris, who are devotees
of fashion, not content to see their
children free from illness and wearing
the rosy hue of health, have called in
the aid of dyes and powders to impart
what they consider to be still more
becoming complexion. Mere infants
hardly able to walk are to be seen
thus unattractively decorated, and
their future, whether as regards COM
fort or appearance, is evidently of little
account in the eyes of their senseless
parents.
Rear Admiral Hennage, the officer
commanding the British Pacific sta
ton, is earning the epithet of ''Sir
Joseph Porter" He has forbidden
any officer or man to walk on the poop
of the flagship while'he is there, and
insists on the crew uncovering their
heads as long as he is on deck He
also requires his officers to wear white
kid gloves at divisions on Sundays,
and to have their frock coats and tu-
mics buttoned ON all occasions.
The London paupers have been
counted, and this is the result: Pau
pers, exclusive of lunatics in asylums
and vagrants, taken on the last day OF
the weeks named hereunder (enumer-
ated Inhabitants in 1881, 1915, ,O00),
third week of May, 1SSS-indoor, So,
769; outdoor, 1856; total, 1886.
Third week of May, 1SS7-indoor, 55,
Os6; outdoor, 37,2O5; total, 92,291.
Third week of May, 1ss6-indoor, 53,-
255; outdoor, 1929; total, 9O,553.
Third week of May, 18S5-indoor, 52,-
3O4; outdoor, "a, $50; total, Sc, ,554 (ex-
Guiding patients in the fever and
smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylum district).
The Italian Government has decid-
ed, in view of the celebration in this
country of the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery of America in
1892, to collect and publish all the
documents and charts that can be OBJ
tanned relating to Christopher Colum-
bus and his discoveries. Twelve thou
sand lire (about two thousand four
hundred dollars) annually have been
appropriated for the next five years to
pay the cost of the great undertaking,
which is to be carried out by Senator
Correnti, assisted by a learned commits
sion.