Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A recent petition to the Italian
Parliament prepared by the society
for Catholic interests. asked that Leo
Kill should be made Pope-King.
The Honduras Congress isdiscuss-
ing bill for the establishment of q
National jury system. Trial by jury
is rs yet unknown in that country.
Tho piano was lately heard in st.
PauPs Cathedral, London. in the as
sion music. and it is regularly heard
in Knightsbridge church in the Sun
day service.
The English system of naval pun
ishments is to be revised, and minor
offenses. instead of being treated to
the cat and swe at-box. will now be
punished by fines and stoppage of
leave.
An important feature of the Swiss
Alcohol act recently passed. giving
the government control of all alcoholic
drinks sold in that country, is that ten
per cent of the net revenue which the
cantons will gain from the alcoh oil tax
is to be spent in unfolding to the PEG
pie the effe cts OF alcohol.
The English Board of Trade has
made report in which it alleges that
the paupers in that country now num-
Der only PAT to the 1000, while in
1870 these were 40 to the 1000. and
that the total numb has fallen from
900 900 to 697. 900. while the popula-
ton has increased by 5. 100000.
In Constantinople considerable in
dignation is felt because President
Carnot of France threw overheard
the name Sadi to sign only with repub-
lican simplicity the neater name of his
illustrious ancestor. The Turks feel
as if slight had been given to the
peculiar poetry and Asiatic splendor
of their oriental favorite.
The city of Liverpool is to be sup
piled with water from a reservoir in
Wales, which is to be four and one-half
miles long by half-mile to mile
broad and eighty feet deep. There will
be three lines of pipe. each sixty-ei ght
miles long, with filtering- beds and
secondary reservoirs. The aqueduct
alone will cost $15, 900. 900.
An organized society of female
thieves has just been broken up by the
police of Vienna. The society existed
for long time and fiourished
! audaciously. 1t was composed of
pretty shop girls IN league with their
pretended purchasers, and the tracks
of their operations were covered cum
ningly. But at last they were dis
covered. Fifteen of the beauties were
arrested, and more are expected.
The budget of the expenses of the
city of Paris amounts to 303, 500. 600
francs. The city debt absorbs for the
payment of interest and liquidation
105, 900. OO0 the street-paving and
cleaning costs 20. O0O 900; the water
and sewer service, s. 900. 900; trees,
lighting and watering. $500 900; po-
lice. $4,000, 900; public charities. 81
900. 900; primary and superior instruc-
ton, $4,000, 900; architecture and fine
arts, 4 600, 900.
The same precautions agains fire
are taken in Moscow and ST. Peters.
burg to-day that were in use century
ago. Scores of re-towers are every.
where SUCH. 1Hey run up doouO SoNeh'
ty-five to one hundred feet, are built
like lighthouse, with winding stair.
way, and have platform all around
at the top, where the watchm an patrols
day and night If a fire is discover &c
signal is given and the fire depart
ment turns out. 1t was only recently
that St Petersburg, the capital, will
Io IS nf 1,Yn-
property, secured steam fire-engine.
and that is poor, old-fashioned af
fair. The hand-engine does service
there yet, and in most other cities O.
the empire.