Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The French FOREIGN ofHoe hoe do
cided that when the wife of Tho 80
Piesioeht OF the United States is pres
emu a1 state occasion in France she
shaii rank after the wife of the presi-
uen' Oh the chamber of deputies, but
peiore the wives of all other cabinet
members.
-1here was Mohammedan wedding
In London the other day, and the bride
repeated after the crimson-clad Nom
i've; Il stand here in the presence of
God and all who are assembled to
unite my heart to your heart and nv
destiny to your destiny and to be called
by your name. Your sorrow shall be
my sorrow and your happiness nv hap
piness-''
1t Is customary for the emperor of
Chlna to offer prayers every New Years
day for the welfare and bright pros
poets of his subjects in the eighteen
provinces of his empire. At the cere-
mony eighteen pairs of candles are
burnt, and the name of each province is
marked on each pair. Any of the can
dies that burn badly signify that such
provinces as are named will suffer great
calamlties-siclsless and the like
The scientific gentlemen who I'M
dertook to study the vagaries of Lon
don fogs last winter report tn at they
extend furthest in a west and south
west direction. At as great a distance
as fifty miles from their source their
effects have been noticed in the buds
and flowers of sensitive orchids. They
do little harm to foliage SO far away,
altlOnDh
found to destroy the seedlings of toma-
toes.
The latest scheme for direct rail
way communication between England
and France provides for double water
tight tube, capable of containing two
railway tracks and sunk about forty
feet in the channel The engineer pro-
posing this method proposes to utilize
the displacement and buoyancy of the
tube to give the necessary support,
piles being driven into the channel. to
which the tube would be chained to
prevent it rising.
The encouragement of the AmoOr
region lin Siberia) has planned to en-
ploy convicts at hard labor on the
Trans-Siberian railroad. For every
year such convicts are employed on the
road they will be credited with eighteen
months of the term they have to serve.
Since the Crimean and Caucasian ports
were opened large parties of laborers
and materials for the new road are sent
to Siberia by government and hired
steamers.
Perhaps the most important addi-
ton that has been made to the interest
ing collection of animals in the Calcutta
geological gardens since its establish
ment fifteen years ago is the greater
Bird of Paradise. The committee of
management had long been DESTROYS of
acquiring a specimen, but owing to the
great rarity of the species and the great
cost of those that are on rare occasions
offered for sale, their efforts to pro-
cure one had hitherto proved unsuccess-
full. AT last. however, they have sue
ceeded. thanks to the liberality of the
Maharajah Bahadur of Dumraon, who
is a great patron of the institution.
1t is to native postmistress that
the Firms owe it that their own ma
tional postage stamps are, in couple
of months time, to be replaced with the
stamps in use throughout the Russian
empire generally. And this is how it
came about: In 1889, during the impe-
rial visit to FINLAND, the postmistress
of the post Office at Ekenos kept back
letter which had been sent by the
car himself, because it bore a Rus
sian. instead of Finnish, postage
stamp. The result of this ill-advised
act is that, though the Firms will still
be allowed to use their own stamps for
letters circulating in Finland, all let
tiers intended for other parts of the
Russian empire or for foreign countries
will honceforth have to be stamped
with Russian stamps.