Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP,


After four years work the tunnel
through the Khwaja Ameran noun
tains in the northwestern frontier of
India, known as the Khojak tunnel,
has been completed It is about two
miles and one-third in length, twenty
three feet in height, and thirty two
feet in width Only two shafts were
used besides the portals.
The mikado of Japan has a palace
called Hakme, which is situated on the
borders of second Lake Washington
In size, but up in the mountains five
hundred feet above the sea. The
mlkado's summer palace is built upon
an island, like Mercer island in Lake
Washington. He seldom visits it, the
Journey over the mountains being too
rough for his health.
The colony of Sierra Leone is LOG
years old, and yet it is said that there
IS no machinery there except the sew
ing machine. The population is up
ward of $4,000, and not a saw-mill or
any other kind of a mill is in operation.
There is plenty of building material,
stone and wood, and as for bricks, if
anybody would make them and set
up III the sun IncY WOulO
themselves if left alone.
The dean of Worcester tells Of a
curate who, when passing a group of
men standing on a street corner, over
heard one of them say: ''There goes
chap with nothing to do, and gets hum
dreds for doing it." The curate stopped
and made answer: my wages are SIS
a week. / have been at work all the
morning in my Masters service, in
church, in school, in my study, and now
L am going to see more sickness and dis
treSS in one afternoon than you have
seen in all your fife Their response
is not given.
The Russian newspapers report a
singular discovery in Central Asia.
They say that in Russian Turkestan,
on the right bank of the Amou Daria
in some rocky hills near the Bokharan
town of Karki, a number of large caves
have been explored. which were found
to lead to an underground town built
apparently before the Christian era
Efhgies and inscriptions have been
found. and also designs upon gold and
silver money which lead to the belief
that the town dates back to some two
centuries before the birth of Christ
There are a number of streets and
squares surrounded by houses two and
three stories high.
The lake of Genesareth called also
the sea of Galilee, etc, situated in Pal
estine, sixty-five miles north of the
Dead Sea, is pear-shape d. The greatest
width is six and three-quarters miles:
its extreme length is fifteen miles. The
Jordan enters it muddy at the north
and passes out clear at the south. The
natural features of the lake are neither
various nor especially attractive. The
chief interest connected with it is that
Christ passed much of His time on its
shores. 1t abounds in the best kinds of
fish, which make the southern part of it
particularly noted as fishing ground
The towns around it in former times
are now mostly in ruins.
The salaries of mayors throughout
the British kingdom show this list:
Liverpool, 60, 700: Cardiff, e750; Bristol,
G70O; Swansea, $500; Gloucester, e24O;
Bath, e20O: Preston, ESQ; Canterbury,
G110; Ipswich, eI05: Coventry. 21O0:
Lichfieid, 500; Oxford, e25 los; Walsall,
! $50. In such towns as Barrow-in Fur
ness, Blackburn, Bolton, BootIe,
Brighton, Bury Ia salary has been paid
on two occasions at Bury for special
purposes), Birming ham, Birl1enhead,
Bradford, Chester, Derby, Exeter, Hud-
dersfeld, Hastings. Hull, Leeds. Lei
ccster, Lincoln, Manchester. Middles-
borough lat Middlesborough occa-
sionally to meet special circum-
stances, the amount depending
lo of lo
tingham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Read.
ing, Rochdale. Sheffield, Southampton.
York (oecasionally)-no regular allow