Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Two immense gum trees, which
tower over hundred feet above little
church in Guatemala, are sixty feet in
circumference, and have pushed the
foundations of the church seven inches
out of place by their strong roots.
"A Musselman having served his
term in prison is regarded almost as a
saint, no matter as to the crime for
which he has been condemned. For
Mosle;n to say that he has been con-
fined in prison is to make a claim upon
the respect and admiration of his fell
low believers.
"A firm of chemists in Birmingham,
England, places upon all poison sold by
them directions as to the antidote which
should be applied in cases where the
poisons are taken accidentally or inten-
tionally by human beings. An English
chemical journal gives an instance
where the precaution was the means of
saving life.
One of the recent numbers of the
official Intelligent Blatt, of Berlin, APP
peared without line of police news.
The reason was that in the twenty
hours prior to the issue of the paper
there had been neither a crime nor an
accident in the German metropolis
worthy of an official report Such
days, however, occur seldom.
The existence of a cholera demon
is still firmly credited in certain dis
tricts of India A native in a village
near Allahabad recently assured an in
spector of police that the previous
night his home had been visited by the
cholera monster, with a head like a
large earthen pot He and his brother
drove away the spirit with bamboo
clubs, and fired a gun to complete its
defeat, as the creature fears noise.
"A Warsaw engineer has invented
new harness by which the danger of
shying horses is averted. 1t is SO ar
ranged that by pulling a string which
is attached to the drivers seat the
horses are at once unhitched and the
vehicle is brought to standstill. The
invention was tried by the best horse
men in the city and found perfectly sue
cessful. A model of it has been sent to
ST. Petersburg. 1t will be patented.
The ideal public lighthouses are in
birmingham. and are from eighty to
one hundred feet long and from three
to five feet deep. The poor battle for a
penny or two of our cents, while the
well-to-do get towels and dressing
room for twelve cents. These bath
houses develop swimming classes, and
from these expert swimmers are made.
Even tiny children are to be seen sus-
pended in sings and supported, while
they learn to strike out for themselves,
by men who hold the sings at the end
of long poles and walk around the sides
of the tanks with them.
In Morlanwelz, Belgium, the trus-
tees of the church engaged mechanic
for sixty dollars to climb the high tower,
bring down and gid the weather.
cock and replace it. A written con-
tract to this effect was made out After
gliding the weathercock the mechanic
asked for his money. There was dis
pute, and the church trustees refused to
pay before he replaced it. Thereupon
he climbed the tower, replaced the cock,
then removed it again and brought it
down with him. The money was of
course refused him, and he has brought
suit on the letter of the contract
The Austro- Hungarian vice-consul
at Yokohama states that at the begin
ming of 1889 the total population of
Japan amounted to 39, COZ, 234 persons,
2O,OOS, AS of whom were males and
1885, s9 females AS compared with
the census of the preceding year these
figures show an increase of 537, 543 in
habitants, equal to 1.3S per cent, from
which must. however, be deducted H.
Gas newly registered persons, who had
formerly been left out of the census, as
the excess of births over deaths in 1889
was only 40, s95. The average density
of the population for the whole island,
empire is 104 persons per So. KIM.