Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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A new case OF migration is the APP
pearance of the Tartary partridge In
Germany.
-. G. Turnbull is the Jay Gould OF
Australia His fortune is estimated at
$50. ZOO. 600
The Queen OF Roumania says man
and wife should never cease to do
little counting, no matter how old they
may be.
The city of London is said to have
fewer inhabitants to the house than any
other of the large cities of Europe.
Vienna has five times as many.
American travellers in Ireland
companion free of expense, it seems
Nevertheless. government detective
in ones tracks can hardly be said to
add to the pleasure of jaunt through
Erin.
Versailles is falling into state of
ruin. The statues there are moss
grown. water infiltrates into the arches
of the orangery from the terrace above,
and the southern wing of the palace
has SO gone to decay that large stones
often tumble from the cornice, while
the roof is hardly protection from
rain.
Near the Ponte Fabricio, in Rome,
the river bed has yielded a great guam
tity of terra-cotta busts, many of which
have openings, and show within rude
representations of the lungs, heart, etc.
They are considered dedicatory gifts
in thanks for return to health, per-
haps once placed in a temple OF Apollo.
"A modern French custom at bap
tisms is that of presenting all the
monds in bonbonniere, which has the
appearance of roll of parchment.
On this roll are inscribed the names of
the child, of the parents, god-parents,
the date of the birth and christening,
and the name of the church where the
ceremony was performed.
The Emperor of Japan has a very
poor opinion of dancing. The Toxic
Dempo relates that recently Minister
of State, while, in audience. touched
upon the subject of dancing, where
upon His Majesty expressed the opin-
ion that the prevalence OF such. q
| voluptuous custom was a sure indica-
ton of the decay of the nation The
minister, therefore, upon retiringgave
orders, to- those engaged in the con-
struction eff the new palace to dismantle
! the dancing saloon in the new build
ing, which was already completed
Queen Victoria recently, it is said,
desired to inspect detachment of Cey-
Ion Rifles that. were in England. None
of them knew any English. When
they were paraded in the, grand cor.
rider at Windsor the Queen, passing
among them, asked one: Have you
been long in England?" The, answer
was in pure Cingalese, and the Queen,
without betraying any embarrassment
answered.: "Oh, indeed!' and dropped
the conversation. All the, soldiers
caught the remark and remembered it,
and when they went home repeated il
to their comrades and friends, and now
in Ceylon the principal English phrase
is: ''Oh, indeedr' which is very Inn
portant, because the Queen used it.
The statistical bureau of the mu
nicipality of Paris recently issued the
returns as to- the population. of the city
and the department of the Seine at thu
end Of 1856. These returns put ths
total population Of the department a
1851, O89. of whom 2,341. 4bO.were resi-
dent in Paris itself. At the, beginning
Of the century the total population. O
the Seine was only 6S1, 5S5, SO that il
is now more than four' times larger
than it then was, increasing to 1,2O0,.
GOO in 1910 and to 400, 900 in 1876. 1
has therefore increased by about 600,
600 in the last ten years.