Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Fox-hunting not being national
sport in Austria, the animals are habit
ually shot. Over 10000 of them perish
by the gun every year.
The Empire of Japan has 81, 600, OOO
inha who are slowly but surely
adopting western customs in dress as
will as in civilization and methods of
research.
The British War Office has decided
that when it becomes necessary to hand.
cuff a soldier in uniform he must not be
marched through the streets, but COW
cred conveyance shall be provided.
All the best sites along the hill
country of Judea, between Jerusalem
westward and the sea, have been bought
by Russia, and covered with splendid
Greek temples. The great pilgrimages
of the day are from Russia to Palestine.
Every year about thirty to forty thou
sand Russian pilgrims visit the Holy
Land.
Small shop-keepers in London often
complain of being ruined by the mon
ster establishments which sell every
thing, and monopolize the trade former
ly shared by their minor neighbors.
The same complaint is raised in Paris,
but the French Government now pro-
poses to lay additional license duties on
big shops, so as to restrict their opera
tions and allow small traders fair
chance.
The admirers of Prince bismarck in
Germany are developing plans to found
a Bismarck museum in Berlin on the
next birthday anniversary of the Chan
celor. Collections have been made
already and requests sent out for all
relics pertaining to the Prince or his
family. 1t will, in all probability, be
arranged somewhat after the style of
the well-known Hohenzollern Museum,
which is one of the palaces of Frederick
the Great The Chancellor is fiattered
by the idea.
"A correspondent hears from Japan
that the latest western innovation in
that land of flexibility and innovation
is system of railway boOk-StallS at all
the principal railway stations. in the
empire, which an enterprising book
seller in Toxic has decided to introduce.
The Japanese are a nation of readers,
but they are, indeed, far from being
nation of travellers, but fortunately
labor and the materials are cheap, so
that the pioneer of the new system does
not risk very much
The latest recipient at the court of
Constantinople of the Turkish medal
for art and of the Mejidieh Order is
the mason who lately put up Russian
stove in the Sultan's palace. The Sui
tan had fallen in love with the stove at
the Russian Consulate at Constantine
pie, and had a similar structure of
brick and tiles ordered from Odessa
The Russian laborar who was sent with
it to put it up was simple moujik, but
the Sultan was so delighted with the
mans skill that, besides a money pres
ent of $3.50, he conferred this ''distinc
ton"
In Zurich, Switzerland, the other
day one of the law courts closed novel
case. A beggar who opened the garden
gate in front of a house where he in
tended to ask for relief was attacked by
the watch dog and bitten in the left
arm. Soon afterward he commenced'suit
against the owner of the place, calling
tor heavy damages, on the ground that
the wound he had received rendered him
permanently unable to earn his living.
The defense was that he could beg just
as we'll as ever, and that the injury IN
question, far from being 4 disadvantage,
only increased his chances in his profess
sion. But the court held that the pro-
prietor of house is responsible for the
security of the people who come to visit
him, even when the object of the visit
is to make an appeal to his generosity.
So the beggar won his suit.