Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The women of Russia do all the
harvesting; the grain is cut with
sickles, as it was g. 900 years ago. and
is threshed with fail.
THE great American deer
stalker" Mr. Wiman. now controls
100000 acres of deer forest in Scot
land, and employees several hundred
Keepers.
1t is stated that more than 2. 000.-
900 glass eyes are made every year in
Germany and Switzerland; while one
French house manufactures 800, 900
of them annually.
The city of Buenos Ayres, with a
spirit of enterprise superior to that of
many cities of greater pretensions. is
about to establish a pneumatic postal
service on the European plan.
Sea otter has only been known TO
Europeans as fur for about one hum
dred and fifty years. 1t is the rival of
seal in fashionable favor Minever, or
gray squirrel. is very old fur. and
was at one time the special favorite of
royalty.
There are whole towns in Germany
that do little else but make dolls for
American children. They are mostly
simple country folk. EngIand's chill
dren spend almost million dollars
for French and German dolls, and
Americas children almost double that.
An Englishman has invented a
brake by which any person in COM
partment eau turn a lever and stop
the train. At the same time white
disk will appear outside of the COM
partment to notify the conductor in
which carriage the brake has been
used.
The heir presumptive to the Bel
gian throne, Prince Baldwin of Elan
ders, receives with the newyear a sep
arate and independent court and
household, and officially takes his rank
and place as successor to the crown.
The Prince is now in his nineteenth
year, and is son of Prince PHILIPPE,
Count of Flanders, the only brother of
the present King.
Tho oyster trade in France has un-
dergone a remarkable extension dur
ing the past few years. Over six hum
dred million succulent bivalves, ten
times more than in 1876 were har-
vested from beds belonging to France,
and they have become so easy to OBJ
tain that even laborers eat their oys-
tiers daily, and every wine shop in the
poorest quarters has its oyster stand
outside.
"A sewing machine of solid silver
and enriched with sapphires was re-
Gently received by the Empress of Rus
STA. 1t was present from the So
ciety for promoting the use of Russian
Materials. The Czarina has taken
great interest in this organization.
Her enthusiasm, however, will not
cause her to use the sewing machine
in all probability.
1t is rather interesting to observe
that the little baby Princess who h as
just made her distinguished arrival at
Balmoral Castle is the first scion of
royalty born in the Gray North
since 1900 Our Scotch cousins will
be charmed, no doubt, at this event;
which, taking place earlier than was
expected, seems to have produced
something very like furry in the
Royal household. TABLE Talk I'm Leeds
Mercuay.
To 4 grand dinner, given recently
at Belgrade, by an august parsonage
TO some foreigners of distinction Wis
iting the Servian capital, several men,
bers of the Skuptschina Tor national
parliamen) had been invited. One of
the alien guests. a well-known Frenc
financier. happened to sit next to q
Servian M. P. and was considerably
diverted by his quaint expedients for
dealing with certain attributes of civ
ilzation obviously unfamiliar with
him. Toward the conclusion of the
feast the Frenchman selected tooth
pick from q small tray lying near
him and politely passed the recepta-
Gle on to his neighbour. who, however.
peremptorily declined his offer, ex-
claiming: mo, Gospodin; have
already eaten ten of the things and l
want no more