Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

I'm India a common way of SNUG
gling opium is to stow it away in one
or two of the hollow joints of bam-
boo pole or walking stick. The drug.
1t is observed, is far more portable and
lends itself more easily to concealment
and disguise than the brandy and to-
baeco which have made fortunes for
British and American smugglers.
The prince of Wales has resumed
ms once of captain-general and col
onei OF the Honorable Artillery COM
pany. This is one of the most distin-
gulshed volunteer regiments in Eng
land and has had an honora BILE existence
since the time of Henry Will 1t con-
slsts OF troop of light cavalry, a field
battery and battalion of six compa-
MES of infantry.
Gazette is the name of an old Vene-
tan coin, worth about three farthings,
the sum charged for reading of the
hrst Venetian newspaper: milliner is
native of Milan, Italy, once famous for
Its manufacture of silks and ribbons:
and our slang term Jimminy is a cor
ruption of 20 Gemini' Uatin for twins
used by the Romans when they called
upon Caster and Pollax to help them.
The japanese divide the day into
SIX day hours, from the rising to the
setting of the sun. and six night hours,
from sunset to sunrise. Accordingly,
although the dials of their clocks are
figured with twelve numerals, the
movement of the hands do not CORE
spond with our own. these movements
flaI 1o%o L.
ism to correspond with the variations
In the length of days and nights
1t is said that St Anthony of Padua
once preached a sermon at Bruges that
was distinctly heard three miles away.
st. Gregory ayers that he heard the
celebrated prayer of Fedimus a like
distance, and st. Honore heard the
chant sung by the monks when they
discovered the burial places of the mar
tyrs Fuscian, Victorius and Gentian,
although separated from them by a
distance (which could have been but
little short of seven miles
japanese gardens are the most
fairy-lil,e of places. You see in them
tiny trees and Towering plants, ponds.
bridges, summer houses. lanterns-here
dwarf pines six or eight inches hi 9Th.
but 125 years old; there others one foot
high, but 500 years old; there others
one foot high. but 500 years old. In the
garden of Yeiju-in-within the temple
grounds-there are many peony plants.
mostly old, but one is 100 years old and
is eight feet high-quite a tree.
The first public test of the air pump
was made in 1864 by its inventor, Otto
s
peror Ferdinand of Germany Guericke
applied the carefully-ground edges of
two metallic hemispheres. two feet in
diameter, toeach other. After exhaust
ing the air by his apparatus he attached
fifteen horses to each hemisphere. In
vain did they attempt to separate them
because of the enormous pressure of the
atmosphere. The experiment was a
great success.
-Dauphiny. like the ancient world
and modern Corea, has it's ''seven won
ders'' The first is the toursans-venin.
that puts all venomous creatures to
flight: Mount Aiguille, known as the
inaccessible mountain, because it has
never yet been scaled; the Ardente, a
fountain which emits an inf1amma bic
gas after each rain: the famous Grot to
of Notre Dame de la Balme: the won
derful fountain of Vineuse: the Trem
bling Pre- in the Lake of Peltotiers, and
lastly La Grande Chartreuse.
The recovered city of Lachish'' in
Palestine is one of the most interest
ing as well as one of the most impor-
tant of archaeological discoveries in the
orient. This ancient city is mentioned
in Joshua, and its site was unknown
until three years ago. when Prof. Petrie
happened upon its ruins while digging
in a vast mound known locally as Tel
elHesy. The great Importance of the
find lies in the fact that there are
eight ancient towns lie beneath the
mound, each Except the firsD built ON
an older abandoned town.