Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Up to 1854 the English post office
had issued 81. 3oa, 000, 900 postage stamps
mat would cover 3,762 square miles
and would reach to the moon and back
if placed end to eud.
In Dresden there is a Widowers'
association, the members of which
succeed remarkably well IN cheering
each other. They comprise forty of
the iolllest fellows in the capital OF
Saxony.
ALI authorities agree in stating
that the ancient Inhabitants of Ireland
must have been very familiar with gold
and we'll accustomed to it's use. Ma
tive gold appears in geological deposits
in many parts of Ireland.
The valley of the Amazon is larger
than that of the Mississippi, the for
mer river draining 2,330,000 square
miles, the Mississippi 1,244,600 square
miles. The Amazon drains a greater
area than any other river on the globe.
"A big bouquet of Australian cut
flowers, which had been frozen, was
recently sent to Queen Victoria by Lady
Duff After the ice had been thawed
the blossoms are said to have presented
as fresh an appearance as though just
gathered.
SO broad is the scope of modern
charity that in many cases, particular
ly in Europe, it has taken forms fanci-
full if not absurd. London has three or
four refugees for lost dogs. These estab-
lishments are kept up by requests and
donations.
AS showing how easily London
shopkeepers are taken in, Miss Halli-
day. young lady of twenty-five, of no
occupation, and with no visible means
of subsistence, has just passed her ex-
animation in bankruptcy with $40, 900
liza bilities, and mo assets"
The charita BILE endowments of the
European countries have not kept pace
with the increase of wealth. In 1887
the endowments of Great Britain were
s42, 900, 900; the wealth was "a. loo. OOO,-
900. In 1876 the wealth had risen to
sS. O5O, coo, 900; the endowments to e51,-
OO0, 900.
1t is proposed to erect new build
ing for the chamber of deputies in
Paris to cost four and half million
francs. The present hall is so small
that members are much crowded. There
are to be great many comforts and
conveniences in the new chamber which
are lacking in the present one, and are
badly needed.
The government of South Austria
liza some years ago caused its explorers
to plant seeds of date palms at their
camps. The palms from those seeds
have grown to tall, productive trees;
rI I'm lot h,r
ceived at Adelaide. The Queensland
government is planting cocoanut palms
on the islands along its coast.
The Hotel des Invalides IN Paris is
a royal charity. Before the esta blish-
ment of this institution. retired vet
Grams of the French army received no
pensions. but were granted permission
to beg in the highways. At the hotel,
all veterans who have served their term
in the army are supported in style of
simple elegance difficult to describe.
Experiments in the fertilization of
tobacco lands have been made in pur-
suance of plans adopted at a general
convention of tobacco producers held
at Carlsruhe in 1891. The results, so
far, are not very definite, but in a gen.
eral way they show that potash ma
nures greatly improve the quality with
out greatly increasing the quantity of
the leaf.
1t is a matter of sincere regret that
Mr.. Chanler, the last and youngest of
African explorers, should have been
compelled to turn back from Gala and
Somali Lands, that vast region of nine
ty thousand square miles, bounded on
the north by Cape Guardafui and the
Abyssinian highlands. and on the south
by the River Tana. Though for CEN
turtles trading ships have touched along
the Somali coast. yet we have next to
no knowledge about the interior up
lands.