Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The total Chinese territory in
ciuu1ng China proper and her con-
uguous possessions, is put at 4. $50. 800
square miles.
Sieiiy's sulphur is estimated At
about 100000 tons, from which the
world draws 4oo, 600 tons yearly.
London is said to have eight homes
Ior poor working girls at which break
.ass' o1nner and tea cost only one dol
.ar a week, and room not over one
oolar more. They are said to be well
managed and literally supported by
charitable people.
diasgow will soon be the second
city OF the United Kingdom. It's
boundaries are to be extended so as tn
include number of populous subur-
pan towns, and it is estimated that it
WIZ then have a population of nearly
eight hundred thousand.
The guides to the intricate recesses
OF the Catacombs under Rome some
Times use a card. which they fasten at
points along their way as a guide to
their return. For want of such guid-
ance explorers of these inner recesses
nave sometimes persisted.
"A French company, with capital
OF seventeen million dollars, is said to
De waiting for permission from the
RUSSIAN Government to begin work ON
canal that will unite the Sea of Azoy
and the Black sea. The canal will be
IIo khometers long, will take five
years to construct, and will benefit the
southeastern districts, which produce
grain, salt, minerals and fuel.
The fever bacillus and other dead
ly germs find permanent home in
Bengal and destroy large proportion
OF the natives in childhood or before
they reach their prime. The survivors
are an attenuated race, with slender
bodies, but of bright intelligence and
marvelously patient of mental labor.
The promoters of "burial re-
form" movement in England demand
"cofiins of the most perishable and
hghtest material. all lasting substances
being rejected; interment as early as
possible; the pail to be discarded as
an unnecessary and baneful covering,
and burial in plain earth with total
disuse of vaults and bricked graves. -
Burial vaults are especially condemned
as tending to the spread of disease,
and as injurious to the health of per-
sons attending burials.
The Sultan of Morocco has such
ideas of the dignity of rank that when
he rides in the carriage presented to
him by Queen Victoria7he compels the
coachman to walk On foot, because no
one must sit on more elevated place
than the Emperor. He .imagines that
he has taste for geography, but it
has been necessary toiconstruct es-
pecial maps for him, so that Morocco
occupies three-fourths of the globe.
in Paris masters and mistresses, it
is alleged by correspondent. dread
ing the criticism of the servants hall,
and desiring comfort in the dining
room, have dispensed with the services
of walters; instead miniature electric
railway is laid down on the dining
table and continued on the same level
to a kitchen through an aperture in the
wall. Dishes come in, and after hav-
ing made the round, go out ON a sort
of small truck. The truck can be
stopped anywhere, and does its work
admirably, and any amount of art may
be lavished on it to make it beautiful.
The old saying that ''beefsteak is
better medicine than quinine'' is re-
ceiving able support from many white
men ON the Congo. Stanley regarded
Bona as particularly unhealthful
place, but it has lost a part of its bad
reputation since cattle were introduced
and European vegetables began to
thrive in the gardens. The thirty
white men at this settlement have not
been called upon to attend the funeral
of a European for a year. Their herd
has multiplied until they are able to
have fresh meat on their table every
day, which they think a great improve
ment on the timed meats and canned
vegetables upon which Stanley and his
followers relied for strength to lay the
foundations of the Congo enterprise.