Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

This .ity of Hamburg has surplus
u 81, $50, 900. OF this amount Sl,5OO,OOV
Was from last years receipts.
The Bismarck monument fund Is
we'll on toward 100000. The citizens
of Hamburg are talking of giving him
a palace.
The decline of English beauty is as
serted, of course, with serious regret
Bad teeth, short sight and round
shoulders are the increasing faults
The population of the United King
dom in the middle of 1889 was estimated
at 81, sos, 500 persons-29, Ol5,613 in En-
Gland and Wales, 4,077. 070 in Scotland
Ind 4, TIC. 200 in Ireland
The Bavarian peasantry is still
loyal to the memory of poor King Lud-
wig. What if he did owe 10000, 600
marks?" All this money was spent In
Bavaria, and every trade got profit out
of it.
The Royal Mint of England coined
last year the largest quantity OF silver
ever issued in a year, the total value
being S4S, 732, 14O. The mint made
profit above expenses of 81, 900, 0Oo-
illustrated American.
The British Medical Journal, con-
sidering the danger OF kissing the
usually greasy Bible of the law courts,
recommends that clean wrapper OF pa
per be put on from time to time. This
was done recently for the benefit OF the
Duke of Fife. a recent witness, and Ills
approved as desirable practice.
The government tatistician OF New
South Wales, T. A. Coghlan, has esti-
mated the population OF Australia at
the beginning of the current year to De
8, 1856, 79s. This is an increase during
1889 of 113, 995. or $40 per cent. The
population of New Zealand is now $780,
279, an increase during the year OF H.
S99
Olga Loubanouski, young Russian
of high birth, has started from 81
Petersburg on journey to Odessa on
horseback. She is nineteen years OF
age, and has wagered $4,000 rubies on
the success of her trip She is accom-
panied by a committee charged with the
duty Of seeing that the terms OF the
wager are complied with.
When the Germans began to study
the tribes around Astrolabe bay, in New
Guinea, while ago, they were very
much interested to find that quite a
number of Russian words had been in
corporated into the various languages.
The circumstance was easily explained
by the fact that the Russian explorer
Maclap has lived for some time among
these people.
An interesting event took place on
the Clyde the other day in the launch
ing of Japanese steel-plated war YES
sci. She is 800 feet in length by AZ feet
in depth. Her tonnage is 3 $50; she has
twin screws and three masts with mill
tary tops She carries 81 guns and 3
torpedoes, and is manned by Il crew of
800. Viscountess Kewase, a Japanese
lady, christened the ship the Chiyoda.
1t is proposed to establish a medico-
legal institute in the center of Paris.
Many post-mortem examinations, which
at present have to be performed at the
morgue, will then be made in the new
institution, and it is hoped that this ar
will enable the practical
teaching of forensic medicine to be car
ried on without wounding the feelings
of the relatives of the deceased per-
sons.
in Switzerland and other mountain.
Gus countries the goat leads long strings
of animals to and from the mountains,
but it is in South Africa that it is regu.
larly kept and employed as leader OF
fiocks of sheep. Should binding storm
OF rain or hail drive the silly sheep be
fore it, or cause them to huddle together
in corner SO as to be in danger of suf-
location, the trained goat will by a
method best known to himself, induce
them to follow him to place of safety.