Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


"A curious marriage custom is re-
corded by DIR. Post as existing in south
ern India among some of the more
primative non-Aryan tribes. This con-
sists of wedding a girl TO a plant.
tree. an animal, or even to an inani-
mate object the notion being that any
iii luck which may follow an actual
marriage may be averted by a union of
this kind.
An elevator is being constructed at
the house OF commons in order that
ia.iv visitors may be saved the trouble
and Inconvenience of having to ascend
the eight flights of steps which lead to
the ladies' gallery. This improvement.
of which the need was pointed out
years and years ago. will be found a
great boon by elderly ladies. who have
always found the stairs very trying.
Emperor Alexander has freed the
kaimucks of Astrakhan from serfdom.
These rowing people are Buddhists.
and they number $780, 900 souls.
When the other Russian serfs
were freed. in 1861. the Kali
mucks were not permitted to enjoy
the results Of that proclamation, for it
was Thought that so wild a people
would abuse the privileges
Robert Braybrook. bishop of Lon.
don, who died in 1904 was taken from
his tomb after the great fire of 1866. at
ter having been buried for 262 wears.
Notwithstanding this. his remains were
found to be perfectly fresh and un-
shrunken- His hair had grown more
than a yard in length. and had a nat
ural. lfelike luster. The workmen.
who believed it case of vampirism.
fled in terror from the scene and some
Others had to be hired to complete the
removal
Experiments with malleable cast
iron by the admiralty of Sebastopol.
Russia. have been successful A trial
bar. heated to red heat. was folded and
refolded several times in succession.
and at the end only one scarcely per-
ceptible crack showed. Another bar
that was folded cold under hydraulic
pressure. broke after taking a persist
ent curve A third bar. heats to cherry
red. could be forged and heightened
into strips Its tensile strength was
almost equal to that of ordinary Sic
mens-Martin steel.
bohemia was overrun. devastated
and conquered bv the Germans in 1920.
and there is still extant among her peo-
pie feeling that the insolent oppres-
sion of the victors has been continued
until the present day. This ferment
among the Czechs has hitherto been
kept in check by the Austrian govern
ment, but the task is becoming more
difficult. and a serious outbreak is
among the possibilities The two ma
tionalities have never assimilated. and
their enforced close relations must be
productive of continued friction.
in 1891 l.36s persons were killed on
railways in the British isles. according
to the report of the British board of
trade. Of these only los were passen-
gers. and more than 800 were persons
neither passengers nor employees. the
number including trespassers and sui
cides. The total number of passenger
trips, exclusive of those made on season
tickets, was s45. 463. 66s. which is q. 49,
622 more than in 1890. Accurate re-
turns of trips on season tickets would
swell this list But on the basis of these
figures the proportion of passengers
killed during the year was one in s. zoos.
3s@. and the proportion of injured one
424.5S1.
Street cars in Bombay are mostly
of American manufacture. and the pro-
moters of the street-car lines are Amer
leans When it was proposed. not many
years ago. to start such lines. Europeans
prophesied their failure upon the ground
that such common public conveyances
could not be profitable in caste-ruled
community. 1t was believed that the
high-caste man. who will not eat or
drink from the vessel used by low
caste man. would refuse to ride in n
public conveyance beside his humble
brother. In spite of these doleful proph-
ecies the railways We're built and
equipped. and 10. the high-caste man
complacently pays his fare and rides
untroubled by the side of any sort of
man. The cheapness and convenience
of the street cars were too much for
even the hard and fast rules of caste.