Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Thelargest grape vine in the world
is that growing at Oys, Portugal. which
has been bearing since 1902. It's maxi
mum yield was in 1884, in which year
it produced a sufficient quantity OF
grapes to make 1875 gallons of wine.
I'm one day recently 456 petitions
were filed in the dominion parliament,
the bare list occupying seven pages of
the journal. Five pages are taken up
by petitions for the passage of pro-
hibitory liquor law and labor organi-
cations monopolize the rest.
According to statistical reports
there are 10000 goats now on the island
of Corsica. The average yield of milk
per goat is said to be two litres day.
The inha bitants of the island have been
urged by competent judges to intro
duce the goat industry" on a still
larger scale.
The ruin wrought on works of the
fine arts by the explosion at Rome is
SO great that no one thinks of cOmput-
ing it. For the necessary reservations
in ST. Peters sixty thousand dollars
will be needed, and one hundred thou
sand dollars to repair ST. Paul's, with
sums like these for other churches.
The interior of the vatican will need
one hundred thousand dollars.
There has been diminution of 81
900 in the population of Liverpool prop
err since 1881. but including the divisions
of Texteth and West Derby the town
shows an increase of fl. 900 in the num-
Der of inhabitants A decrease was
80. Al
a surprise, and especial pains were
taken to establish it's accuracy, with
the above result.
"A st. Petersburg lady of fashion
has invented an improvement in her
turnout which, the local papers say, is
likely to become popular with all the
ladies of her rank. She has mirror
fastened to the girdle of her driver
when she takes a drive. This enables
her not only to see whether her head
gear and dress are in perfect order, but
even to notice the carriages and the
people who are coming up behind her
vehicle.
The longest bridge in the world is
the Lion bridge near Sangang, in
China. 1t extends 81 miles over an
area of the Yellow sea and is supported
by 800 huge stone arches. The road
way is 20 feet above the water and is
inclosed in an iron network. A marble
lion 81 feet long rests on the crown of
every pillar. The bridge was built at
the command of the Emperor Kieng
Long, who abdicated in 1896 on account
of old age.
The Venezuelan methods for col
lecting duties are peculiar. If a cook
stove has brass knob on its door the
whole thing is weighed as so much
brass, and duty charged accordingly.
A barrel of flour costing five dollars
pays imposts not only on the flour, but
the slaves, hoops and heads, costing,
when set down, with freights and
duties added, fifteen dollars. And yet,
owing to cheap labor, bread is about
as low and quite as good in Caracas as
in New York.
"A man just back from winter in
Germany says: 1.-The only way of stop
ping the dangerous practice of carrying
canes and umbrellas horizontally has
long been known to the people of Ber-
lin. There a man no sooner tucks his
walking stick under his arm that he
feels quick blow on it from behind
1t either drops to the pavement or as
sumes the only proper and safe posi-
ton in which stick can be carried.
There is no use in his getting angry
with the person who struck the blow
or in his trying to do him up, for public
opinion is with the regulator of the
barbarous and indefensible practice of
which | speak.-N. Y. Sun.