Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-21
FoREloN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Inc mole plague in the southern
counties OF Scotland, which for = tim,
proved terrible scourge to farmers
mas now all but disappeared, This !,
que 10 the fact that owls were nre
served oy the gamekeepers and became
extraordinarily plentiful.
AN extraordinary infantile PRODIGY
mas oeen discovered in China in a littis
gri Tour years old, who passed sue
cess1ulIy an examination for literary
honors at the Hong Kong university
ana wrote "a concise essay" that made
the examiners marvel, because of tbs
mature thought exhibited in II.
Every deliberative civil BODY in En-.
gland, even down to the town co,nc;Is
is provided with a mace. which Is
orougn1 forth with solemn ceremony
ana placed on the table before the de.
noeratlons begin. In one or two CITY
councils candlestick of silver is added
10 the mace, and acts passed in the alb.
sence OF these objects are supposed to
be illegal
January so and 81 and February 1
are famous at Constantinople, Brescia
and along the Danube and the Rhine
Is the "blackbird days" A curious lie.
gend says that originally all species OF
grackles (black birds) were white, and
that they became black because during
one year in the middle ages the three
Gays mentioned above were so cold
that all the birds in Europe took refuge
in the chimneys.
In Tyrol the mother of a female in
1ant makes during the first year of its
NE q beautiful lace handkerchief.
After it is finished it is laid away to be
brought out and placed over her head
as a bridal veil at her marriage. After
the marriage it is again laid away to
be seen no more until her death, wher.
1T is again produced and laid over her
face in the coffin.
AT Dauphine, on January IL, 1913,
at a place known as the giants field, a
brick tomb 80 feet long, IL feet wide
and 8 feet high was discovered. When
opened it was found to contain hui
man skeleton entire, 255< feet long, 10
feet wide across the shoulders and 8
feet thick from the breastbone to the
back. His teeth were each about the
size OF an ox's foot, and his shinbones
each measured feet in length.
On the stairway landings of almost
every Partisan chateau there are sma IL
tables designed to hold candles. When
guests are saying goodnight this table
presents pretty picture. The candles
are OF varied colors, the candlesticks of
odd designs and the lights are pleas
antly softened by colored shades. A
green candle in a silver candlestick,
with q perfectly formed pond lily for
the shade, is but one of many novelties.
"A sponging-house was a house kept
by the sheriff's officers in London, to
which a person arrested for debt was
taken, and where he was kept for TWEEN
ty-four hours, so that his friends might
have a chance to settle the debt. The
place was called sponging-house be-
cause of the extortionate charges for
any sort of accommodation. When inn
prisonment for debt was finally abol-
ished in 1869 the last sponging-houses
disappeared.
On October %, A. D. 312, Constan-
tine the Great is said to have ''heard a
great and mighty noise above and to
the east of him." and upon turning his
ewes in that direction twas astonished
beyond measure at what he there be-
held" Clearly outlined upon the blue
sky was cross of pure white, and in
the halo which surrounded the top was
the Latin phrase, ''In hoe signo" C''By
this sign"), in letters of deep scarlet.
Mackey, the great historian, says that
there was a second inscription in
Greek, the letters of which in English
would be ..En to nika.'
An English gentleman being at a
ssilliam assembly of the elite of Wen
Aarecentiy, was much annoyed at the
Iconduct of distinguished lady of that
CITY, who amused herself and a small
circle of friends by saying small but
generally uncourteous things to him
and others by the way" added she,
show is it that your countrywomen
speak French so very imperfectly? We
Austrians use it with the same free
dom as if it were our own native
tongue Madame" retorted he, but
with the blandest manner possible, 81
know not, unless it is that the French
armies have not been twice to our CAPT
tai to teach it as they have at yours"