Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The population of Africa Is
eighteen to the square mile; in Europe
there are lightweight to the same
space.
in Liverpool the rate of mortality
is 1873 per cent. Every fourth funeral
is that of child under one year old.
and every second funeral is that OF a
child under five years old.
Princess Eugene, of Sweden. has
borne the expense of establishing a
mission house for the benefit of the
Laplanders in the northern part OF
Sweden. 1t is over two hundred miles
north of the Arctic Circle.
A Russian officer who has made a
tour of observation through India
concludes that English rule there is
Var from tottering to its fall. 1t has
struck out so many deep roots that to
disturb it would be no easy task. /"
1t has hitherto been the rule in
Japan that all persons visiting gov
ernmental Offices must alight from
their horses or vehicles at the outer
gate; unless they were of certain rank.
This relic of feudal times has now
been abolished. Every Japanese is
now at liberty to go where he pleases
on foot
Thorough tillage, combined with
irrigation and drainage, enables Japan,
from only IL, 000,0 900 acres under till
age, to clothe and feed $4,000. 900 peo-
| pie, to say nothing of exporting an
nually 100000 pounds of tea, sew
eral million dollars worth of silk and
large quantities of tobacco and rice.
The German Empress is not a
| woman of dress, but when she does
array herself in her stateliest robes
she presents a marvellous spectacle.
The other Sunday she appeared in a
| gown of white silk, with a train sew
eral yards long, embroidered with gold
and silver. The material cost 81 500.
1t took twelve girls two months to make
the embroidery.
The Emperor of Russia has dis
tributed small tokens of gold to all
| those who were with him in the i'm
perial train at the time of the railway
accident near Borki, in memory of
their miraculous escape. The keep
sakes are miniature copies of a sacred
picture which was found quite un-
damaged after the accident in the din
ing saloon of the train.
1t appears that land grabbing has
been going on at lively rate in the
South Pacific. Official reports at
Washington are said to show that up
to 1886 foreigners had laid claim to
694,OOO acres in the Samoan Islands,
which have a total area of GO, 720.
Thus aliens asserted ownership of
$4,000 acres more than the entire king
dom possesses! During the past two
years the Germans have filed addi-
tional claims amounting to many thou
sands of acres.
Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh
air that she is in the habit of sleeping
with open windows even in the dead of
winter. The Empress Maria Theresa
| of Austria was more peculiar in this
respect Her writing-table, even in
winter, was close to the open window,
and the falling snow often drifted in
and fell on the paper on which she
wrote. 1t frequently happened that
the hands of the hairdresser were
partly frozen while attending to her
majesty's couture.
The rapid increase of the foreign
population in France is causing great
concern to the government. Since
1886 no less than 1872, 600 Belgins, $780,
600 Italians, 100000 Germans, $4,000
Swiss, and $4,000 Spaniards have gone
into France in addition to the foreign
population previously resident there
In 1851 there were but 381, 900 foreign
ers in total population of nearly
thirty-six millions. In 1886 the for
eign population exceeded 1000, 900,
while the native population remained
/ nearly stationary.