Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A new French invention is smok,
bomb, intended to be fired into thu
ranks OF the enemy who uses smokeles
powder and obscure his view.
"A London lawyer, was lately dis
barred for telling his client to wha
country he should flee after committing
a crime, without danger of extradition
There is small cemetery for sui
cides only near Berlin, where are buried
! all suicides in or near the German car
ltal whose bodies are not claimed by
relatives or friends.
Tho three thousand new block.
erected in Rome, and the eighty-twc
miles of splendid streets, have SC
| changed the capital of Italy that it is
scarcely to be recognized by those who
visited it twenty years ago.
Strikes have even spread to Egypt.
| The Cairo cigarette-makers are the first
to introduce this Western system into
the land of the Pharaohs, having struck
against some extra strict regulations en-
/ forced by their employees.
Russian officials have decided that
the telephone is dangerous to the
given that telephones be removed from
all restaurants, coffee-houses and liquor
saloons. Similar orders have been issued
in all other large Polish towns.
The Desert of Sahara is said to be
growing. A French scientific official
reports that the sands are invading
Tunis, and the whole southern portion
of that country is becoming desiccated,
there being an insufficient supply of wa
ter to support vegetation.
-Lepers are still numerous in Nor
way. The number is upward Of one
thousand. most of whom are found in the
sea-coast districts. There are four leper
hospitals. Leprosy, once common in
Europe, has maintained its hold in Nor
way longer than in other countries, but
is gradually being exterminatcd there.
Tho work of attending to trees in
the Paris avenues, boulevards and parks
is in charge of PIG men, who are headed
by sub-cngineer and two forest in
sDectOrs, and whose work costs $4,000
francs annually Their work, however,
does not include the Bois de Boulogne
nor the Bois de Vincenncs.
In Berlin the street-car fare costs
from two and half to seven and a half
cents, according to the distance you ride.
No one can be carried after the seats are
full. The ears stop to take on or let OFF
passengers only at certain points, which
are three minutes apart. This city leads
the world in street-car mileage.
The number of cloistcrs and monks
in Spain have increased with astonish-
Of 10 in
has 20 O00 monks and -, 600 nuns in l, $50
cloistors and i79 orders. In Barcelona
alone there are 1G3 cloisters for women.
In the II years the number of monks in
Spain has been sextupled and the num-
Der of nuns has been doubled.
-Parisians have lately been enter
tanned By remarkable artist who dis
plays wonderful skill in her peculiar form
of painting. With plates of various col
ored sand before her. she takes the sand
in her right hand and causes it 10 fall in
beautiful designs upon n table. y bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand,
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand and relief and shadows by
other sands; when the work is brushed
away q bouquet of roses and other OBJ
iects are represented with the same dex-
terity and delicacy.
In Spain farming is conducted in a
very primitive way. Grain is cut with
q small reaping hook and thrashed as in
the time of the Caesars, that is, by
tramping about with asses hitchod to a
stone boat. The pillow is a crooked stick,
pointed with iron. In the towns are to
be seen heavy wooden carts drawn by
oxen. Most Of the carrying, trans
ferring, etc, is done by donkeys. Sand
brick, lumber--in fact almost every
thing that has to be novels carried
on their backs. These animals are used
all through Spain, and for every pur-
pose in the same way in which we use
them in the almost impossible canyons
of the Rocky mountains.