Iron County register., 1892-01-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The beautiful Chateau de Malmai-
son, once the loved home of Empress
Josephine, and which still contains some
trace OF her fine taste in the rich beds
OF purple violets which blossom amid
Its ruins. is to be sold and the estate
cut up IN small lots, Ito suit the pur-
chaser"
The so-called military zone" which
encircies Paris, is a strip of ground two
thousand five hundred feet in width.
which receives its name from the fact
that 1t lies just beyond the outer base
OF the old Notifications of the city
This strip can never be used for build
ing purposes, and is now mostly given
up to market gardens, which supply the
city with vegetables
The natchalnik (chief of policel of
81 Petersburg has prohibited all fac
tory owners and contractors settling
accounts with the laborers they employ
IN saloon or any place where spiritu-
Gus drinks are sold 1t was found that
many contractors had made it a prac-
uce to pay their laborers at su ch places.
where laborers get inebriated and are
cheated out of large portion of their
wages
Among the curious taxes livied on
tradespeople in Corea, according to
COL Rockhill. was one on sorceresses
arriving at the capital, where they had
TO pay the board of revenue a certain
numb Der of logs or sticks of wood, for
what purpose it is not said, but GER
talnly not to burn them with later on,
Tor they are an influential class in the
community. The tax is no longer
levied.
-Achilleion, the fery-like abode of
the empress of Austria, at Corfu. is a
model of Pompeian architecture, each
room being decorated after the myth
lcal designs found in the patrician
villas OF the ruined city. The entire
palaces and gardens are lighted by
electricity, placed beneath delicately-
tinted globes, while hosts of electrical
wires connect with the town and the
royal yacht Miramar anchored at the
port
The treasurer-general of Cape Col
ony. South Africa, states that the value
OF breadstuffs imported into that colony
last year was over one million two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, and yet
many parts of South Africa are highly
favorable to the cultivation of grain.
and only await development In fact,
there is enough of this excellent grain
land in the colony to supply all home
wants and leave a large surplus for ex-
port If 1t We're taken up and cultivated.
In Greece there are So 900 hives,
producing 1900, 600 pounds of honey;
in Denmark 10000, producing Q 600, 600;
in Russia 10. 1000. producing the same:
in Belgium 200. 600. producing 5000, 600;
in Holland 240. 600, producing 5000, 600;
in France $50, 500, producing %, 600, coo;
in Germany 1,450, 600. and in Austria
1,5a0. 600. each producing 40, 900, 900
pounds of honey. But in the United
States there are .. 500, 900 hives belong
ing to 10000 beekeepers and producing
CO, o0O,u0O pounds of honey yearly.
The price of patents. according to
a German industrial paper, is not the
same in all European countries 4
German imperial patent costs from $50
to 500 per annum; in Denmark the
annual price is from S45 to SIS; in Bel
gium, $50 to S45: in France, $50 to SIS;
in Luxem burg, $40 to $50: in Norway,
S45 to SO; in Portugal. $3.50 to $3.50 for
fifteen years: in Russia, S1a0 for three
years; in Spain. s55 to S75 annually; in
Sweden. 500 to S15: in Italy. $50 to $50
per annum; in Great Britain, $3.50 for
fourteen years--Jewish Messenger.