Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


"A young Madras Brahmin, mar
fied, in communication to the Indian
Magazine, speaks of his marriage as
''the eternal knot of sorrow tied"
"A London solicitor recently ten
dered bill in which the last item was
thus stated: ITO dining with you after
the case was lost. J"
The new Empress Of Germany is
I'm no danger of coming to want. If her
husband should die she would have an
income of $4,000 per annum and
palace to live in, besides the large sum
she may expect to inherit from her
mother, Queen Victoria.
There is an antiquated custom in
Vienna by which house-owners, in
stead of paying their porters properly,
allow them to levy toll of four cents
or every tenant returning after ten
o'clock at night. The consequence is
that the streets are comparatively de-
serted after that hour.
Lord Butte, who is among the
wealthy members of the Catholic peer
age of Great Britain, has stated his in
tention of building a fine cathedral at
Rothesay, Scotland, at an expense of
over a hundred thousand dollars. His
wife some time ago erected and main
tains an orphanage in the same town.
Good wheat land in India is album
dant. 1t only needs to be reached by
railroads to become available for
wheat growing. The production of
wheat in India is now only about one
bushel per capita The food of the
East Indian is chiefly rice and millet,
but includes more than 100000, 900
bushels of wheat annually for the $780,
100000 of population.
Steamers landing at Cabinda, a lit
tie port north of the Congo, are often
met by a young white man who ap-
pears to be in the egg and poultry
business. He has spring chickens all
the year round, and, as they are plump
and tender, he gets a good price for
them. This young man is one of
Bishop Taylor's missionaries, and when
he appears at the landing with his
chicken coops he is carrying out the
"self-supporting" feature of the Bish-
ops enterprise.
I'm spite of her otherwise sober
sensible opinions, the late DR.. Anna
Kingsford, who recently died in Lon
don, believed that she was the re-em-
bodied spirit of Lady Jane Grey, and
often alluded to the idea. She visited
the Tower of London one day express
ly "to behold herself as she was. DIR.
Kingsford was brilliant woman and
learned languages and history with
wonderful ease.
While Emperor Frederick, then the
Crown Prince, was at San Reno, he
was much amused at the efforts of
journalists to obtain news regarding
his condition. On the first day on
which his larynx was examined, after
tracheotomy had been performed, he
turned to Sir Morell Mackenzie and
said good-naturedly: "Sir Morell,
will you please close the blinds of the
window which faces the Hotel de la
Mediterrannee, or I am sure that the
young lady journalists will see down
my throat and send off an account of it
before the examination is over"
"A monument to the Inflated Flora
Hastings, has been erected in the kirk
yard at London, Ayrshire, near the
vault of the Hastings family, in which
she lies buried. The monument also
commentaries the Marchioness of
Hastings, Lady Flora's mother, who
survived her only six months and
whose coffin was placed beside her
daughter. Lady Flora was that inno-
cent, unfortunate young woman of
whom cruel scandal was set afloat,
which was believed by Queen Victoria,
occasioned abandonment from the
court, and finally caused the death of
the over-sensitive victim.