Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Abbotsford is still so popular a resort
that the fees paid by tourists usually ex
coed e40o year.
English syndicates have invaded the
Austrian empire, and are buying up
breweries in Bohemia and printing-of-
fees in Vienna.
Over S15, 600, 600 has been spent in
Australia within the last fifteen years
in efforts to exterminate the rabbit, and
late estimates agree that he has also
doubled in numbers during that time
The gala coach in which the Prin-
cess Sophie, recently married to the
Crown Prince of Greece, rode to her
wedding was built for the Count de
Chambord in expectation of riding in it
to his coronation. The King of Greece
bought the coach for 1000 francs.
Every thing in the country of the
Kiver Chat, in Central Asia, is described
by Gabriel Bouvalot as covered with
salt. 1t is seen in the wells of the
houses and on the banks of the river,
and the water one drinks is very salt.
Visitors to the vaults of the Pan
thoen in Paris remember the echo
which the guide used to produce by
shouting and pounding on drum. This
has been forbidden by the Minister of
the Interior as "a Dissertation of the
abode of the illustrious dead"
Smallpox is stated to have greatly
diminished in Chilli, owing to the spread
vaccination. In 1880 there were T.
ty6eaths from this disease: in 1888, 3, =
JOE, 1885, 8, 13S; and in 1888, only L.
r. i he death rate, however, taken on
trfct BE, is still high, owing to the
J. ;. sanitation among the people.
" me is also going in for the cleo
light. 1t has been resolved to cleo
trically illuminate all the streets and
public, places of the ancient city, and the
motive power is to be obtained by the
use of the famous Tivoh waterfalls,
which are distant about thirty kilo-
metres. 1t is expected that at least 3
O00-horse power will be derived from
this source.
From the Pail Mall Gazette appears
this account of a curious custom: THE
London road car-drivers have a griev-
ance which approaches the lud.- rous. If
they do not wear high hats they are sus-
pended for a week. Last Monday a
drivers hat was blown off and a cart
went over. it, SO that he was obliged to
resort to low felt hat for the remain
der of the day. For this heinous crime
he was stopped and suspended until yes
terday."
There is new establishment in
London, where an ingenious French
woman sells stands of everlasting trop-
ical flowers, which, having been sub
mitted to chemical process, are unfad-
ing. The flowers are rather gorgeous,
of course, as they are all exotics. They
are made up into screens, wall orna-
ments and in stands, some of them sew
era1 feet high. Some of these are dec
grated with foreign birds.
The carrier pigeon has been turned
to a curious use in Russia. 1t is to con-
vey negatives of photographs taken in
balloon. The first experiment was
made from the cupola of the Cathedral
of Isaac. in st. Petersburg, and the sub
ject photographed was the Winter Pal
ace. The plates were packed in envel-
opes impenetrable to the light, and then
tied to the feet of the pigeons who safe
~ and quickly carried them to the sta
ton at Volkovo.
The new city of Johannesburg. in
the South African gold region,is attract
ing attention, and there are those who
predict for it phenomenal future.
They promise million inhabitants in
five years. an output of gold which
shall gild the whole world. CONNER
cial Importance threatening the estab-
Hshed trade centers of the Old World.
and political and social position second
to no city in Africa, north or south.