Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

When the river Nile begins to rise,
about June Il, f1ocks of sheep are driven
to the river and washed with the aid of
cows rib. After washing they are
exposed to the sun for two or three
days, until their wool becomes quite
dry They are then shorn on mats
placed on the ground
-Mail-carriers in Morocco are said to
avoid the risk of losing their places by
oversleeping by tying a string to one
foot and setting the end of it on fire be-
fore going to sleep. The string, they
know from experience, will burn so
long. and when the fire reaches their
foot it is time for them to get up.
The bicycle has been introduced into
Central Africa. Two Engiishmen ar
rived at TabOra a few weeks ago with
two of the latest improved BICYCLES.
They had travelled a large part of the
way from the coast. more than three
hundred miles. on the machines. and
they say they worked finely along the
well-troddcn native paths.
The Ribbon of the Bath. England's
priced decoration, is becoming scarce on
Frenchmen's breasts. Twenty years ago
IEeTe were Oh II III L
to whom it had been given by the queen
for Crimean services. but now there are
said to be but three veterans who wear
it-Canrobert. MacMahon and an other
wise inconspicuous colonel.
-Kansi is known to be among the
most valua bic and generally useful of
the many excellent timbers produced in
the forests of Australia. and il has many
giants that approach those of the Yo-
semitic. One recently felled had a trunk
that rose eighty-four feet to the lower
most branch. was over six feet in diam
eter. and its cubical contents were about
-, 800 feet.
English capitalists are complaining
at the number of steamers that are ~
ing idle in that country. In the Tyne
and Wear two hundred and fifty
steamers are laid up, while great
number are to be found at West
Hartlepool, Cardiff, Southampton and
other ports. 1t is estimated that alto
gether there are six hundred vessels not
in service.
The natives of Gibraltar. and also
the MOors. across the strait. have a ira
ditiOn that somewhere on the rock there
exists a cavern whence subterranean
passage leads under the strait to the
mountains on the other side. The ex-
istence of the passage, they say, is
known 90 the monkeys, who regularly
use it in passing from one continent to
the other.
The Argentine Republic, with l.
125. 0sG square miles. and 5000, 900 in
habitants. ranks next to Brazil In impor-
tance. The revenues of the country
last year were s74.0000, 900. The agri-
cultural products exported last year by
the Argentines amounted to nearly s40,
OO0,O 900. Their wool export reaches
nearly $50. 600, 900. The Argentines have
over 100000 900 sheep. They sold to the
United States last year products to the
value of s., 976, 544, and bought from the
United States 81, $50, 035 wearing ap-
parel, machinery, furniture. canned
goods and other manufactured articles.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is conflict of legal authority
in Dusseldorf, Prussia, in regard to
criminal who has just been convicted
of two crimes-robbery and murder.
For the first crime he has been sem
fenced to five years imprisonment, and
condemned to death for the other.
Some of the legal lights contend that
unless he serves his term of imprison-
ment before being led to the gallows.
he will escape a portion of his just
punishment; SO there is a dispute as to
which sentence should take precedence.
The culprit is very anxious to serve his
imprisonment first, because. as he adds
in whisper, Il might have a chance to
escape"