Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The lace bark tree grows In the
West IndIes- It is lofty tree. with
ovate. entire smooth leaves and white
flowers Tt is remarkable for the te-
nacity of its inner bark and the readi-
ness with which the inner bark may be
separated after maceration in water
into layers resembling lace.
I'm the kitchen of Richard /. of En-
gland 800 persons were employed. and
the queen had like number to attend
upon her service. During famine the
king entertained 6.001 persons daily.
He valued, himself on surprising in
ma9nificence all the sovereigns of Eu-
rope. and lived rs if he possessed mex
haustible treasures
in the year 1861 a gathering of no
bilitv and gentry took place at New
castle. England. to celebrate great
anniversary, when, on account of the
number of guests. each was required to
bring his own dish of meat. OF course
there was sort of competition in
which strove for pre-eminence: but the
specimen of Sir George Goring was con-
sldered the masterpiece 1t consisted
of four huge. hrawnv pigs. piping hot,
bitted and harnessed with ropes of
sausage. all tied to monstrous bag
pudding.
At an entertainment in London for
the benefit of a certain fund there was
given a representation of ''the old wom-
an who lived in her shoe The man.
moth shoe. which was at least nine feet
high. with the width and length in pro-
portion, was filed with many children
from three to ten years old. The old
woman herself was clever young girl
of sixteen. who taught her children to
dance, sent them out to walk, gave
them singing lessons. endeavored to
put them to bed in the shoe and did
many other funny things that delight
ed the audience.
An instructive a,ad pathetic custom
still prevails in Munich. Every desti-
tute child found begging in the streets
is arrested and carried to charita BILE
institution. On his arrival he is photo
graphed-dirt, rags and all. After be-
in4 maintained and educated, when he
quits the institution to begin life the
aforementioned photo is given him,
and he is required to make a solemn
declaration that he will keep it as
reminder of the wretched state from
which he was saved and the kindness
shown. The charity has received many
gifts from its reclaimed waits.
The new British house of commons
is much older than the one that pre-
eeded it: that is. the average age Of it's
members is much greater. The ages
range FROM twenty-five to ninety. It
has two members only twenty-five
years of age. and Mr.. Villiers is again
the father of the house, being ninety
years of age. Four other veterans are
Isaac Holden, eightyfive: Mr.. Glad
stone. eighty-two, and c. Wright,
eighty-two. 1t has forty members
thirty. 143 from thirty one to forty. 1917
one to sixty. seventy-eight from sixty
one to seventy. and four from eighty
one to ninety.
I'm the early days of England we'd
ding rings were made of rushes, but in
this age even more curious materials
are sometimes pressed into service when
demands it. Many cases are
on record where rings of brass or iron
and curtain rings and door keys have
taken the place of the bands of gold
which nervous grooms have mislaid.
One bride is said to have been married
with a leather ring, cut from a finger
of one of her gloves, and another en-
barrassed young couple We're relieved
by a suggestion from the minister that
the wedding ring be cut from a visiting
card. Quakers and Swiss Protestants
do not use rings at their marriage cere-
monies. The Irish have q strong objec-
ton to any but gold weddings rings. In
st. Kilda wedding rings are made of
worsted.