Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Hydraulic powef at pressure
$50 pounds to the SOU, 're ihon 10 nov
conveyed about beneath INC s''ee's
London as steam is COW, oSe0 IL 'ni
country.
The annual cost per man L y
the armies of Europe is: 964 \ .
Britain, ESQ in Austro-Hungary, -. :.
Germany. e22. 16 in Russia. Sea>
land comes at the bottom of the \ >
with an annual cost of only 81 per sasse~
AT the Newcastle-on-Tyne pogiee,
court recently two men were arraignsd(
for shipping to Antwerp two ears loaded
with horses in a shocking condition.
The best of these horses were to be
made into beef and the second-class
into sausage
The Shah of Persia. in addition to
the masses of jewels in the royal treas
ury, has private fortune stored in vault
or elsewhere which is known to consist
of at least So, OOO,0 900. To this he is per-
petually adding fresh accumulations.
The Sultan may not be much of
lnancier, but his ideas of meeting a
monetary crisis are practical and sound.
An audit Of his finance department dis
closed a big deficit, and to meet it His
Majesty ordered a reduction in the sal
aries of his state officials. Another
monarch would have raised the public
taxes.
"A remarkable verdict was rendered
in the Court of Queens Bench in London
a short time since. A man sued for dam
ages for personal injuries, and the jury
awarded him e., 500, although he only
claimed e200. He stepped upon some
cotton seed in front of mercantile |
establishment, which caused him to fall
and injure his spine and eyesight.
-Autotype machines have just been
served out for the first time to some of |
the copying clerks at the Vatican, but |
they are only to be used for rough proof |
work to be done in a hurry. The Pope |
is not in favor of the innovation, for he |
fears that it will break up the admirable |
school of penmanship which has so long |
fourished at the Vatican.
The London correspondent of an En-
glish paper alleges that the Prince OF |
Wales has instituted the custom of
weighing both the coming and the part
ing guest at Sandringham palace. At |
the first opportunity after his arrival
the guest is weighed, and his weight
recorded in a book Ike pit for the purpose,
and he is weighed again on the morning
of his departure, and another record
made, accompanied by the autograph of
the guest. One of the latest signatures
in the book is that of Salisbury. and his
weight is put at eighteen stone plump.
The little King of Spain's first de-
mand. when he began to get well, was
that he should be taken ''to see the lame
beggar,' a cripple for whom he has
formed a great attachment, and who is
allowed to come to the side of the car
riage and hold long conversations with
the young monarch when he is out for
an airing. The King is very Self-willed
as he grows older, and will only yield
to his mother when she tells him she is
going to her room to cry. That always
wins him over.
The Duchess Dues on recent
visit to England became so impressed
with the physical development of En-
glish women that she returned to her
native land fired with the ambition to
introduce some sort of physical train
ing and systematic exercise among
French women, who are more deficient
In this regard than the women of any
other nation. In accordance with her
new purpose, she has founded lawn ten
mis- clubs, supplying the nets and bats
at her own expense and paying an En-
glish professor to give the necessary in
struction. Her own daughters take
part in the exercises, and she has also
rowing clubs and races for the daugh-
tiers Of her tenantry.