Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A London dealer in orchids en-
ploys sixteen collectors in South
America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific
Islands.
President Carnot of France says
that the fact that Heaven has denied
him son is the chief sorrow of his
life.
The Comte de Paris sent pun CHI
bowl of agate, ornamented with
precious stones, to the Prince of W ales
as his wedding present
The first complete fossil skeleton
of whale. found under ten feet of
mari in the south of Sweden, was pre-
sented to the University of Upsala.
Japan has nearly forty million in
habitants and almost one hundred
centen arians. OF those who have
reached one hundred years of age.
seventy-three are women and twenty
four are men.
In Yucatan every male between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty is
subject to military duty, and when in
service gets the munifcent pay of six
cents per day. and finds himself in
food. There is no commissary depart
ment in the army, which must tend to
shorten campaigns.
Bismarck is one of the largest
paper manufacturers in G erm any.
The daily production of his mills at
Varzln average something over fifteen
tons. He is also distiller on a large
scale, and as timber merchant he is
only surpassed by the Prince of Sake
Coburg- Gotha. who owns the great
Thurin gian forest, and the Prince Won
Furstenberg. who disposes of all the
timber cut in the Black Forest by
hereditary right
"A new helmet for fremen has
been invented in Bremen. 1t consists
principally of a copper mask. which is
very light. The wearer's nose. mouth
and eyes receive through an India rub
Der tube constant stream of pure
air. which leaves the helmet by an
opening opposite the eyes and pre-
vents the entrance of smoke. The
helmet has been practically tested and
is to be used by the B Rim fremen, it
is said.
The city of Liverpool is to be sup
piled with water from reservoir in
Wales. which is to be four and one
half miles long by q half mile to
mile broad and eighty feet deep.
There will be three lines of pipe, each
sixty-eight miles long, with filtering-
beds and secondary reservoirs. The
aqueduct alone will cost S15 O00.0 900.
AT Worcester Sessions, England.
Magistrate Willis Bund passed sem
tence on a boy named Joseph Slater,
who was convicted of stealing three
eggs. value threepence, of fourteen
days hard labor and five years con-
tinement in reformatory. The boy
bore a good character, and the jury
who tried the case were scandalized.
but the magistrate refused to change
the sentence.
Owing to the stringent law against
selling antiques in Greece. many OBJ
jects are broken when found by peas
ants or thrown into the sea. A similar
move in Egypt under Said Pasha pro-
duced similar results. A new decree
makes it unlawful to deal in antique
ties, and will make the Arabs who find
tombs and scattered antiques yet more
and lead them to destroy
objects rather than allow their exist
ence to be known.
Man eating tigers have become so
along certain road in Ma
lacca that panic has seized foot
and they will not 60 along
it unless they can do so IN company
with string of carts. The number
of people killed by tigers in Sungei
Ujong during the last half dozen years
must be enormous. for as many as
three men a day have been taken
off along the twenty-four miles of
the prin cipal road. One brute has for
months taken his two or three men a
week regularly, and another has done
the same at another place for three
while at five OF six other spots
on the road men are frequently taken