Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The fashion of dress never varies in
Japan, therefore the wear and worry
endured by American women in their
efforts to keep up with the styles are
n>ver visible upon the features of jap
anese females A Japanese woman of
forty-fve looks as young as an Ameri-
lean or European of thirty-five.
AT the meeting of the woman's
Liberal Federation in England, DIR.
Hunters divorce bill was favorably
voted upon. 1t not only allows to
woman relief from the marriage tie
from the same cause as permits it to
men. but so extends the laws that four
years desertion dIssolves the marriage.
Some workingmen Were making
Some altera tons to the parish church
Of Long Clawson. near Melton Now
biar. ENGLAND, when they discovered a
large quantity of honey. 1t is thought
that portion of the west end of the
church has been inhabited by bees for
Nor" than twenty-five years. as during
the whole of that time they have been
seen in the vicinity, and not infre-
ouentlv have been observed fitting
about inside the building during divine
services
During the Reign of Terror in Paris
in 1888 many of the nobility were re-
duced to starvation and bepgary. The
abattoirs sent their hides fresh to the
tanneries without removing the tails:
and in cleaning them the tails were
thrown away. One of these noble beg
ears asked for a tail and it was willing
" given to him: he took it to his lodg-
ings and made the first dish of oxtail
soup: he told others OF his good luck and
they annoyed the tanners SO much that
price was put on them.
The great ship Benbow. recently
completed ny the British admiralty. is
believed to he the most formidab BILE war
vessel in the English navy. She is
armed with two Hilton guns. forty
three feet eight.inches long, and throw
ing an 1.S10-pound shell. Il he dis
placement OF the Benbow is 10 900 tons,
her speed seventeen knots The It.lia,
not long ago compile ted in Italy, has a
displacement of IA. 900 tons and speed
OF nineteen knots. though the weight
of guns is somewhat inferior to that of
the Bonbow. These two are believed
to be the strongest war vessels in the
world.
A society called "The Association
of Married Women for the Control of
husbands has been formed in Berlin.
The aim of the society is to enable
members to prevent their husbands
from getting into mischief. 1t employs
detectives. who. upon complaint of a
member against her husband. are sent
ont to watch the suspected man at
night. and eventually induce him to
attend meeting of the association.
At this meeting the husband is in
formed Of the proof against him and
he is threatened with exposure in ease
he does not promise to reform. All bat
one of the me n arraigned by the society
last year found it expedient to accept
repr;mand and reform without utter
ing protest. but the culprit who re-
fused to submit to its discipline be-
traved its secrets to the newspapers
"A Paris letter to the London Tele-
graph states that an infant phenome-
non has been discovered at Plaisance. a
suburb of Paris. in the person of a
little girl called Jeanne Eugene Mo-
reau. aged only five. but endowed with
q most extraordinary memory. She is
walking encyclopaedia on all matters
and esp ,ciailv of the great revolutions:
is an adept also in natural history. and
ut the same time answers without hes
itation or error practical questions
about cooking. gardening and house
hold management The parents of the
child are very poor. and she has been
adopted ly Madame Galaxy. who has
had the child's remarkable faculties
H.. u l.
BILE of passing n competitive examine
ton that would be far too difficult for
older persons of more expensive educa-
ton
During the last epidemic of chol
era in England it puzzled the sanitary
inspectors of n northern town why the
inha bitants OF one cottage in a certain
row were not affected by the disease
which was raging among their neigh
hors. Finally it became noticed that a
net of onions was suspended in the for
tunatc house. and on examination these
were found to be all diseased. 1t is
also reia ted that during a former out
break of infectious fever in Somors
Town and st. Giles the French priests.
who constantly use garlic in all their
dishes. visited the worst cases in the
dirtiest novels with impunity, while
the English clergy who were similarly
engaged. but who did not eat onions in
like fashion. caught the infection in
many instances, and fell victims to the
disease. Raw onions contain an acrid
volatile oil. sulphur. phosphorus, aka
ne earthly salts, starch and free. I'M
crystalized sugar. The fresh juice is
colorless. but by exposure to the air be-
comes red.