Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

1t is estimated that 80, 600 piano
fortes are manufactured every wear in
London.
There are more than 40 600 mud
cabins in Ireland, consisting of but a
single room.
The Geographical Institute in Wei
mar estimates that German Africa con-
tains $4,000 square kilometers. All
European Germany contains approx
mately $40. 900 square kilometers
The French Minister of War lately
offered a prize for the swiftest bird in a
flight from Perigueux to Paris, $40
miles. There were 2,746 entries. and
the winner did the distance in hours
and 81 minutes.
In Tepe- kermene. an ancient town
in Crimea, platina coin has been
found bearing the image of Antiochus
of Syria, who died i. C. 1G4 The coin
is the only one of the kind known to
exist and for this reason it's value is in
estimable.
London to-day is five times as large
as it was at the opening of the present
century. From 900, 900 at that time the
l.
in 1880. and by 1855 it had increased to
Q, 500, 900. Since 1855 it has more than
doubled. Century.
The largest reservoir or artificial
lake in the world Is the great tank of
Dhebar, twenty miles southeast of
Udaipur. Rajpootana, which covers an
area of twenty-one square miles; the
masonry dam is one thousand feet long
by ninety five feet high, fifty feet wide
at the base. and fifteen feet at the top.
The Russianizing of all institutions
in the empire of the Gar is being
pushed emerge tically in matters great
and small. Some fifty railway en-
ployes IN Warsaw, whose knowledge of
Russian was considered defective. were
dismissed in body recently. Prince
Nikita of Montenegro has decreed that
Russian shall be an obligatory study in
every school in his little island.
An astounding piece of vandalism
is reported to be in progress in Egypt.
with the connivance of the native Off
Gals. Three gangs of workmen. under
two local sheiks, are daily extracting
blocks from the lower courses of the
two largest pyramids of Gizeh. These
are broken up on the spot and carried
away on camel back for building pur-
poses.
"A year from next March the railroad
now building from Jaffa to Jerusalem
will be completed, and tourists will then
he whisked away from the coast to Je-
rusalem in two or three hours, journey
that is now made by camel or in dill
gences over horrible road. The money
required to build the line is in the
hands Of Paris bankers, who have just
forwarded the second installment of
the funds to the contractors.
Tho average daily supply of water
delivered to London from the Thames
in August last was 90, 243, 2O2 gallons;
from the Lee, SO, $40, 500 gallons: from
the springs and wells. 90, 529, $50 gallons;
from ponds at Hampstead and High
gate, $50, $50 gallons. The daily total
was, therefore, 1S5, Oil, 100 gallons for a
population aggregating 5,671, 500, repre-
senting daily consumption per head of
81 62-1OO gallons for all purposes.
One of the least advanced races that
have come down to modern times was
the aboriginal race of Tasmania. There
is now Mrs. Fanny Corcoran Smith,
aged fifty-seven, who claims to be the
last survivor of the Tasmania people;
but she is pronounced by an investigator
of their history to be half-caste. The
last unq ues tionable Tasmanian, wom-
an, Truganina. died in 1876. At the
close of their existence the Tasmanians
had reached a degree of development
hardly equal to that of the flint workers
of the stone age.
M. Freycinet, the French War Min
lister, has retired a lot of old Generals,
and number ofdashing young Colonies
will soon take their places The oldest
General in France, and probably in the
world, is General Maudnit, who is one
hundred years of age. He has never
asked to be retired, and he still figures
among the officers of the reserve. He
is very proud Of his St Helena medal.
Three other old fellows also wear that
medal-Genera] Mellinet, born in 179S,
who commanded a division of the Inn
perial Guard at Magenta; General Rich
ard, born in 1875, and General dan
thouard Vaincourt, born in 1896. They
entered the service in 1918. But Maui
Quits military career goes back to 1907.