Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
FoREleM GOSSIP.

improved sanitation in England
has led to a diminution of the death
rate Since 1881 the rate has fallen
from 2O.5 to 1873 per thousand.
Five years ago a Christian Police
Association was organized in London.
1t now has membership of 1000 and
lo3 branches. which extend as far as
Singapore, Tasmania, South Africa and
Canada.
"A traveller in Greece says that the
creek language has never died, some
few learned men having ALWAYS spoken
the classical idiom. In that country
the newspapers are the chief promoters
OF the literary language.
-hefutlng the assertion that meat
diet causes cancer, Surgeon-Maior
Hendley reports from India that out of
1O2 operations for cancer performed aft
Jeypore since 1880, forty-one were on
the persons of meat-eaters and sixty
one on those of strict vegetarians. who
had not known the taste of meat from
birth.
Baron de Bostoit, who died recent
ly In Paris, gave his whole life to
gambling. As sure as the hour of four
struck every afternoon he repaired to
his favorite club. There he PLAYED
without a break until about six o'clock
the next morning. In many years he
was absent from his place only four
nights.
The American circle in London, so
an English paper says, is beginning to
attain an important position, owing to
the fact that so many American ladies
have married Englishmen of title, land
are, on this account, as well as for their
personal attractions and accomplish
ments, well received everywhere.
"A custom that attracts the atten-
ton of strangers in Panama is the
spectacle of native women walking
along the street smoking long, slender
cigars. 1t is the custom of the women
there to gather in the public markets
as early as sunrise to gossip and talk
over affairs while enjoying their morn
ing smoke. Their confabs take the
place of morning paper.
Some remarkable and valuable his
torical documents have lately been
classified among the archives of the
Palace OF the Grimaldis at Monaco.
There are letters from Henri I'LL, Henri
Quatre. and Catharine de Medicis, and
letters of Louis /. and Anthony /. of
Monaco, to and from nearly all the
great personages of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries.
Three lads at Drummond, En-
gland, aged ten, eleven and twelve
years, were caught by the police seeing
how near they could come to killing
each other with shotgun without do
ing it. The boys took turns standing
against sand bank with mark over
their heads, and the others firing at the
mark. The boys liked the sensation
of hearing the shot whistle near them.
and coats in a heap and fired into them
until they were riddled with shot holes.
The queerest part of it was the young
est boy had an official gun license.
The Russian statistical committee
having made minute inquiry as to the
number of blind people in Russia, it
appears that blindness is very une-
qually distributed among the different
nationalities inhabiting the Empire; it
being more widely spread among the
Ural-Altayans, and especially among
the Finnish-Mongolian stems, than
among the Aryans and Semites, al
though the condition of these races, so
far as poverty is concerned, is much
the same. 1t is worthy of note that
one-eighth of all cases of blindness in
Russia are due to the smallpox, and
one-half only to direct eye diseases.
"A Baltimorean, writing from Ores
den to friend in that city, says: at
was here that 1 saw the best managed
street-car lines. The hill boys are
men, and the jaded' hill horses are
fiery steeds;' all the company's en-
ployes are uniformed, and such uni
forms are not on our police; they look
more like our military dress. The cars
are spotless, double decked, first and
second-class, roof cheaper; first-class
fare fifteen pfennings, or less than four
cents from end to end of the route, and
ten pfennings for shorter distances.
The horses go like race horses, and are
evidently not overworked. There are
along the route, and the morning pa
pers are kepton the racks-two papers
to each car"