Iron County register., 1888-01-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

England has about thirty thousand
blind people.
Fifteen young Moors from Morocco
have gone to Italy to study in the mil
itary colleges
The Japanese have voluntarily
contributed over two million one hun
dred thousand dollars to provide for
the defense of their coast.
The Hospital Saturday fund in
London amounts to fifty thousand dol
lars this year. Collections are made
every Saturday in workshops and fac
tories.
Mr.. Phelps, the American Minister
to England, says the finest scenery he
has found in Great Britain is in the
valley of the Dee.
A Japanese official is travelling o
through the country studying the in
candeseent electric lighting system,
with view to its general adoption in
his own country.
The shop-keepers in Trafalgar
Square made up portion of their
losses in con sequence of the stoppage
of trade because of the riots by letting
rooms upstairs to spectators who
wanted to see the fun.
London TRUTH describing loud
young American girl who has been
shopping considerably in London re-
Gently, says that there is some fun in
saleswoman. 'Look here" said the
American, "are you above your pla ce
or have you got q toothache?'
"A DR.. Barnado in Edin burgh is
devoting himself to the work of secur-
ing homes in Canada for destitute girls
and boys of his own country. He has
already started town on tract of
four thousand seven hundred acres of
land in Manitoba. which he calls Vic
toria Regina, and will populate it with
young emigrants. 1t is to be run on
the system of an industrial farm.
The English Bo ard of Trade has
made a report in which it alleges that
the number of paupers in the country
are only PAT to the 1000. while in
1870 there were 40 to the 1000. and
that the total number has fallen from
90O 900 to $4,000 while the population
has increased by 100000. In Lon
don, it is alleged. there are now only
21 paupers to 1000 inhabitants.
There are forty thousand different
symbols. each representing a word, in
the Chinese language, and telegraph
operators in the empire find life a bur-
den. The operator sending even q
brief message by telegraph is obliged
to make use of a complicated system
of numerals which the receiver must
wearily translate into Chinese.
The Lion of Chaeronea, amonu-
ment erected to the memory of the in
habitants of The bes slain in the COM
bat at that place against the Macedo
mans, is now lying about the field
broken into large fragments. The
government of Greece, has now en-
gagged Doerpfeldt, director of the
Archaologic institute at Athens, to
put the lion together and raise him in
the old location.
There is a growing feeling in En-
gland of the necessity of providing an
improved commercial education for
the young men, On every hand, says
an English paper, we hear that for
eigners are pushing Englishmen from
the places in the commercial world
they have been accustomed to occupy
by reason of their superior qualifica-
tions and willingness to work harder
for small pay.
There are now more than two
hundred thousand bird-skins in the
Natural History Museum at South
Kensington London. The latest addi-
tion Is the great collection of birds
made by the late Marquis of Tweed
dale, the gift of his nephew, Captain
Wardlaw Ramsay, who has also given
to the museum the Tweeddale library,
comprising nearly three thousand vol
umes of ornithological works, many of
which are extremely rare.-M Y
Ledger.
The French Academy the other
day distributed the annual prizes of
virtue" The Montyon prize of 2, 900
francs was awarded to jean Adolphe
Delannoy Calais pilot who has twen-
ty-one times risked his life in saving
shipwrecked crews. Delannoy is load
ed with medals and wears the cross of
the Legion of Honor. The Academy
now proclaims him the most heroic
and devoted of Frenchmen. The
other awards included 1000 francs to
MI. Bonaparte Wyse for his survey
and book on the Panama canal