Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The house in which Christopher
Columbus once lived, in Via Dritto, at
Ponticello. is being restored. 1t will
be provided with a Latin inscription to
the effect that mo house is more
worthy of note than this, within whose
walls Christopher Columbus passed his
youth"
The idea of a canal along the pres
ent route of the great Suez was consid-
cred practicable and excavations were
actually commenced upward of $500
years ago, and in the time of the reign
of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 373 years be-
fore Christ, the union between the two
seas was perfected.
The days of the giraffe are num-
bered- Where herds of seventy or
eighty could be easily found ten years
ago. nowadays nineteen is considered
AN unusually large number to find.
khama, an African chieftain, has taken
the giraffe under his protection and is
striving to preserve it from entire ex-
tinction.
The work of installing the Jewish
immigrants in the Argentine republic
Is being actively carried on. a branch
known as the Maurice colony. where
the Hebrews are being established. and
two hundred families are comforta bly,
settled and engaged in the cultivation
of the soil
The French appr opriations for 1898
VIII be Gas. 900, 900 francs for the army
and 100000, 900 francs for the navy.
-Ninety-eight new vessels are in course
OF construction, of which eight iron
clads are to be finished next year.
Twenty-one new cruisers will be
launched by 1896. Sixty-two torpedo
boats are to be built. and the bank of
France has LAT. 900. 900 francs in gold
in its vaults; more than any other Eu-
ropean nation
In the winter in Norway all the
vehicles are sledges-the carriages.
cabs, carts and even the perambu lators
are on runners. Outside the town.
where the road is not trOdden hard. it
is impossible to walk without the snow
shoes of the country. These are called
tski," and are long wooden planks,
measuring nearly nine feet for a full
grown man. The wood for ski is not
sawn, but split with the grain. so that
they never break and can bear a ire
mendouS strain.
A notion said to be prevalent in
London is that of temporarily ex-
changing cooiSs-a sort of progressive
housekeeping, as it We're. Just what
benefit accrues is not stated. unless it is
to indulge for a month in delicious en-
trees at the expense of poor sauces,
while your friend with your treasure is
rrn1nrrninr y-inn
Naturally such exchanges must be car
ricd on between establishments con-
Quoted on the same plan. or trouble will
promptly begin on reinstatement.
Women are not permitted to sit in
the body of the Temple church of Lon
don, because many hundreds of years
ago the seats were reserved for the
monlIish knights, for whom the church
was erected. Another story. illustrat-
mig the tenacity of custom in European
communities, is that of the sentinel at
a certain point in a public garden in
London. Nobody knew why he was
stationed at that particular point until
some one, delving in old records. dis
covered that generations before a sem
tinel had been placed there to warn
people of a newly-painted bench.
An interesting discovery has been
made in a deep railway cutting at An
dresy. near Paris, France. where the
workmen ran upon huge Merovingian
cemetery of the sixteenth century. As
many as six hundred tombs have already
been uncovered, yielding hitherto I'M
heard of mass of carved sarcophagi,
knives, spears, vases, ornaments and
pottery of unique shapeS and STYLES of
decoration. 1t is recalled now that the
tiny hamlet of Andresy, in the genera
ton succeeding the introduction of
Christianity. was an important mis-
sionary center.-Philadelph Ledger.