Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-06
OLD WORLD ODDS AND ENDS.

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prison philanthropist, has been cele-
brated in England.
| No hod-car-iers in Japan. The NOR
tar Is rolled into balls weighing about
six pounds and thrown to the bricklay-
| erS.
| THE crematory has now taken the
| place of the potters field in Paris. All
unclaimed bodies are cremated at the
new establishment in Pere Ia Chaise.
! 4 LONDON confectionery store gives to
| every purchaser of a shilling's worth a
ticket emitting the purchaser to have
| one photograph of herself taken at an
! establishment upstairs.
! NEW South WALES people are growl-
1 ing about the new scheme for printing
/ advertisements on the backs of postage
stamps. They say that the ink leaves
an unpleasant taste in the mouth of the
/ Ticker Of 4 stamp.
THE beethoven House Society of
Bonn has come into possession of
Beethoven's last piano. 1t was made by
| Conrad Graft. ssof Vienna. Because of
Beethoven's deafness it had four strings
to each key instead of three.
"A LOVE jubilee" is the latest cele-
bration devised. On the occasion of
the sixth centenary of the loves of
Dante and Beatrice" a grand demon
stration in honor of the tender passion
will be held at the Politeamo at Flor
ence.
WoRKaIEN excavating near the Cal
cutta custom-house recently came across
an old iron cannon, five feet long, which
1nrtc n nnlD TO of
those used on the ships of the English
fleet that bombarded the town after the
tragedy of the black hole.
AT Castua, small town in Austria,
all the couples who become engaged
during the year are united in the bonds
of wedlock at one and the same mar
rage ceremony. In virtue of this an
cient ceremony, thirty young women
were the other day led to the altar.
THE price of game in Franco is al
legged to depend principally upon the
state of the moon. When the moon is
dark the poachers can not see to set
their snares at night, and game is
scarce When the moon is full there is
plenty of light, and the poachers get
lots of game.
vi TX practice leeU III Une MeOlJer-
ranean has good deal of trouble with
foreign regulations. Spain forbade the
landing of crews anywhere on her
shores for land practice, and Italy has a
law that more than three war ships of
any foreign power shall not be in any
one of her ports at the same time.
THE English Government has been re-
deeming at their nominal value the old
gold coins that have become short
weight through much use, with the idea
of getting them out of circulation. 1t
was supposed that there were twenty
million dollars worth of such coins in
the country, but the call only brought
out about half that sum. After the
18th inst. the old rule of taking such
coins only by weight will go into force
again.
y CHEMIST has lately performed feat
IF no common order. The explosion
and fire at Antwerp reduced to a charred
mass bundle of one thousand form
Austrian obligations. Without pres
entation in some identifable form there
could be no payment. The imperiled
obligations were given to a chemist and
he succeeded in separating the whole of
them and finding out the numbers, and
upon his report the money has been
paid.
AMONG the pictures at a recent eXhi-
bition of old masters in London was
Romney, owned by a maiden lady, who
wanted it insured for s., 500 because it
was family heirloom. This sum was
thought excessive, but soon after the
eyhi itiOO OOenpd the old lady was Of
fered $500 for it, and in day or two
afterward a dealer raised the bid to S20,-
900. She took time to consider and
another dealer offered $3O,0 900. She did
not accept that, either.