Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Australians have been having
very cold summer. Last year at this
time hot wave swept over the coun.
try, and for weeks the temperature was
between ninety and one hundred de.
grees in the shade. This year there
have been only three or four hot days.
The highest chimney in the world,
that at Halsbruckner Hutte, near Fret
burg, Saxony, has been finished. four
hundred and sixty feet high. It's diane
ter at base is thirty-three feet and six
teen feet at the top, the inner diameter
being eight feet. 1t is built of clay
stone.
Gloves are largely grown in Zanzi-
bar. a tree ten years old often yields
twenty pounds a year, while one of
twenty years growth may yield one
hundred pounds. The crop last year
was not far from thirteen million
pounds, and the average local value is
about ten cents pound.
There are spiders in Ceylon that
spin webs so strong as to prove pain
full check to anyone moving quickly
against them. Hats have been knocked
off the heads of travellers by single
thread, and cane thrown into one of
these webs will remain suspended.
Some of these spiders are eight inches
across, and spin silk as thick as ordinary
sewing cotton.
The Hawaiian race has been stead
lily dwindling in numbers during the
present century, and the latest census
gives it a population of but forty thou
sand. or a decrease of one-half within
half century, so that its extinction must
soon be complete. The Japanese. who
number forty million. are increasing,
and it is thought they may soon replace
the vanishing race and repeople the
island.
Mount Pilatus has heretofore been
saved from having a railway built up it's
side by the perpetual cloud that rests
on its top, it has been discovered that
this cloud is never more than 90 feet
high, so now the company is ready to
build the railroad and raise an Eiffel
tower 800 feet in diameter at its base.
$40 feet in height, with platform at
the top 120 feet square. Krupp is to sup
ply the steel, and the building is hoped
for in 1895.
Nj. Paul Crampel, a French explorer,
has given an account of the Bagayas, a
pigmy race, inhabiting the great forests
north of Ogowe, who appear to be re-
lated to the Wambuttis of Stanley's ex-
petition. They live among the Mfangs
to whom they are in q measure subject.
The Bagayas hunt ivory for the Mfangs
and receive manioc and bananas in ex-
change. The M'fangs are about five
feet nine inches to six feet high, where
as the Bagayas are four feet seven
inches.
Observations taken at Manchester,
England. this winter, are said to show
that during three days of fog nearly
six hundredweight of sulphuric acid per
square mile was deposited round the in
Urinary, while round Owens college the
quantity reached four hundredweight,
besides two hundredweight of hydro
chloric acid and two tons of blacks.
The leaves of plants growing out of
doors yielded deposit of from six to
eight per cent of sulphuric acid and
five to seven per cent. of hydrochloric
acid.
-PrivateS of the garrison at Avignon.
France, amused themselves one March
afternoon by throwing hard army bread
from the barrcks windows at passing
civilians. In the midst of the sport
tall, elegantly-dressed man in a high hat
came in sight A chunk of bread
knocked off his hat. He saw the SOL
diers at the windows, and. without
waiting to pick up his hat, walked into
the barracks. Two minutes later the
soldiers learned that he was Gen. Que
not, commander of the Thistieth di-
vision of the French army, and five min
utes later they all were in the guard
house