Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The keeper of the lighthouse at
Bonaxacio, named Donzella, who has
just died, was commissioned by Gam
petta to carry instructions to Bazaine
while shut up in Metz. He swan the
Moselle under heavy fire from the
German outposts, and returned in the
same way he went, for which service
he was appointed lighthouse keeper.
The Gaulois laments a crisis in the
culinary art of France. One of the
two chief reasons for this is the cor
rupting influence of foreigners that
makes too much for simplicity and for
the abandonment of the more compli-
Gated elegancies of the chefs profess
sion. The second cause is the decline
In practical knowledge displayed by
the young French menagere.
1t is probably not generally known
that there are gold fields in Scotland.
There are however, some old workings
known as the Kildonan gold fields, in
the county of Sutherland. in the north
of Scotland. The county council of
this shire have recently approached the
owner of the ground and asked him to
allow the fields to be worked by the
resident population for fair surface
rent.
Roman tribunes had both a civil
and a military function. Tribunes of
the people were invested with the pow
er of vetoing the proceedings of the
senate and even of the courts. Mill
tary tribunes were officers elected in
place of the consuls. The legionary
tribunes were the colonies of the le-
gion. There were six, and each in
turn commanded the legion. In bat
tie each led a cohort, or 1000 men.
AT an inquest held the other day in
England the evidence brought to light
the queer fact that the dead mans life
had been insured for one hundred dol
lars by the liquor dealer whose bar he
chiefly patronized. No secret was made
about the matter, it being perfectly
fair and above board, the liquor dealer
only wishing to insure himself against
the loss of business consequent on the
death of n valuable customer. The
practice is stated to be quite frequent
The French governments monop-
oily of cigarette selling has produced an
interesting question. 1t has been a
common industry in Paris to roll and
sell cigarettes, the tobacco being
bought from the state. Recently the
small fry were prosecuted on the ground
that they were defrauding the govern
ment, and high court has sustained
the claim that although a man may
buy his tobacco from the government,
he has not, therefore, the right to do
with it afterward as he likes.
ty has recently completed some curious
tabulations on the average size of fam
lilies in the various countries of Eu-
rope. According to these statistics the
average number of persons in families
in the different European countries
are as follows: France. 3.03; Denmark,
3.61; Hungary, $40; Switzerland, 394;
Austria and Belgium, 4.O5; England.
4-OS; Germany, 40; Sweden and Nor
way. 4.12; Holland, 4.22; Scotland,
q. &c; Italy, 4.54; Spain, 4.65; Russia,
ASS, and Ireland, $50.
The protection given the Hungarian
coal operators does not seem to have
worked for the benefit of consumers in
that country, since complaint is made
that the best coal is exported, and is
moreover sold to foreign consumers ut
a lower price than is charged for in
ferior coal consumed at home. The
Hungarian coal is not of very good
quality, and it is only the best which
can compete with foreign coal in the
general market r government is
urged to permit the importation of
cpah fro- Gerp1any and to decrease the
railroad rates, in order tn break down
the present combination and give con-
sumers reasona BILE prices.
1t would seem that la grippe should
have completed its travels long before
this, but news comes from Onnalaski,
one of the largest and most important
of the Aleutian islands, that the
strange disease only reached there a
few weeks ago. Two-thirds of the
population have been down with it,
but the epidemic was not of a virulent
type. and the only deaths from it Were
of old, feeble people. More than half
of the crew of the United States rev
enue cutter Bear were Frustrated by
the grip while she was at the island,
and she had barely enough we'll men
to work the ship when she was started
on her last visit of the season to the
islands of st Paul and st. George