Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Not until the tenth day Is the Zuni
chilo put INTO the cradle The baby's
arms are placed by its sides. and tits so
strapped in its cradle that it can not
move hand These cradles have hood
shaped tops. and over the whole thick
coverings are placed, and it is a wonder
the child does not smother
The want of a sufficient suppIv Of
good quality ore in Japan has stood
largely in the way of the country man
ufacturing its own armor plate. But
the great wish of the nobility to make
the empire Independent of foreign man
ufacturers in case of war has led to
large sums of money being expended in
opening up the mining districts.
The criminal statistics of New
south Wales show that of S. 900 crimi-
nails arrested III 1890, 10, 900 were Brit
1shers and Is, 600 Australians. OF this
number s.7OO of the English were ar
rested for drunkenness while only g. 900
Australians We're arrested on similar
Charge In cases of assault and robbery
with violence there We're 1.149 Austria
hans arrested and IT'S Englishmen.
The Tansa water-works for the
supply of Bombay were only completed
after very great physical difficulties
had been overcome. The work involved
the construction of a masonry dam two
miles long to form lake of nearly six
square miles in area There are fifty
five miles of ducts, twenty-seven miles
of iron mains, four miles of tunnel and
nearly mile of iron girder bridges
One of the finds frequently made
al
and particularly in Paris. is the cross of
the Mexican order created by the ILL
fated Macmillan. As for the insignia
of Isabella the Catholic. that decora-
ton and the military orders created by
her father Queen lisa bella bestowed so
generously that many unworthy peo-
pie had them. and the lavish bestowal
of them suggested the libretto OF LA
Grande Duchesse."
The ladies of high caste who live in
Nair. Nalabar. have been prohibited by
time-hoHored usage from crossing the
karapCysI river. which divides the prov
lnce into two parts. 1t has just oc-
CURED to the more enlightened natives
that this relic of the dark ages has exist
ed long enough. and an attempt Is now
being made to do away with the sense
less custom The Nair ladies are delight
ed at the prospect that before long they
will be able to go wherever they please
in their native country.
At the telling of an ancient hollow
oak in a German forest when the tree
crashed to the ground it disclosed a
human skeleton in excellent preserva-
ton From his long boots. powder
flask and other articles found he ap-
peared to have been a hunter. and it
was concluded that the unfortunate
nan, in climbing the tree in pursuit of
some wounded animal or bird. had
slipped into the hollow trunk. had been
unable to extract himself. and so had
persisted miserably of starvation in h is
ready prepared oak coffin.
-Narius was the first Roman to wear
n gold ring, and no one, unless he had
been an ambassador, could wear one
except on state occasions. Gradually
the ring came to be the badge of knight
hood. and finally all restrictions as to
its being worn were east aside and the
ring was adopted generally as an orna-
ment- The Roman dudes" finally be-
came so enamored of their rings that
they put one on every joint of both
hands Then they had weekly" rings
and summer and winter rings. and
Some never wore the same ring twice.