Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The principal grain crop of Prussia
is rye. Over 1900, 600 hectares were
raised last year, being twice as much as
of oats and four times as much as of
wheat. Prussia makes over 1,000, 900
tons OF beet sugar, and yields one-half
the worlds supply of zine.
Turkey sends out tobacco, the ce-
reals. nuts, almonds, olives, all sorts OF
dried fruits, coffee, madden, opium and
an enormous amount of wine, the last
named article to France to be rebottled
and exported. A very important trade
is also carried on in fish, sponges and
coral.
Mexico produces anything that can
be raised in any other country. So
varied is the climate that in the same
state can be raised any product of the
tropics and of the polar regions. Cot
ton, wheat, rye, silver, silk. cocoanuts,
bananas, rice, cocoa, vanilla, logwood,
mahogany, hides and wine are the prin-
cipal products.
The appointment of a minister of
physical education was seriously sug-
gested at a meeting Exeter hall, Lon
don, recently. The marquis of Car
marthen, NJ. P, said at the meeting
that he considered gymnasiums should
receive substantial aid from the
state, the prope: physical culture Of the
people being matter of greatest Ia
tional Importance.
The marriage rate in England and
Wales during the last quarter of last
-,
like period. There were 121, Sls mar
riages, which was in the annual pro-
portion of 1868 persons per 1000 of pop
ulation. The mean rate for the CORE
spending quarter in the preceding ten
years was 1913. It is also noted that
the average of the last ten years is far
below that of any preceding decennium.
DIR. Schneider writes to the French
Journal de agriculture that he has
successfully employed bisulfid of car
bon for the purpose of clearing hen
roosts of vermin. He ties q few small,
uncorked bottles of the insecticide
beneath the perches, and vapor arising
from them does the rest. This lasts
about twelve days, when the bisulfid is
evaporated. If there is any recurrence
of the vermin on parts of the perches
not thoroughly fumigated by the vapor,
the operation is repeated. Great care
must be used not to bring flame in
contact with the vapor, as it is highly
inflammable and explosive.
"A German pathological journal re-
cords a recent experiment of Doctors
Sawtschenko and Sobolotny which
seems to border on the heroic. They
ton made from cultures of the cholera
bacillus, and afteward swallowed viru-
lent cholera germs with entire inn
punity. Then, with serum from their
own blood, they inoculated guinea pigs,
and found that those animals could
be protected against cholera. Usually
it is the guinea pig who has first to
face the chances of life or death in ex-
periments of that kind, but in this case
the doctors We're SO sure they were
right that they shouldered the risk
themselves.
PAUPERiSM IN ENGLAND.
The Great Percenta ge of Old People who
Receive Government Relief.
Some remarkable facts as to the
amount of pauperisn in old age which
exists in England and Wales have been
brought out in the general search for
information bearing on the project to
pension old people, which is now
actively engaging the attention
of the British parliament and be-
ing earnestly discussed by the Brit
ish public. A royal commission has
been appointed to investigate thor
= o
is researches will reveal much of inter-
tis.ical returns.
relieved by the government
have yielded remarkable returns to ex-
pert Investigators, and some of these
were given to the royal statistical So
ciety recently by its president, Mr..
Charles Booth.
It is shown that there is an astonish-
ing and pitiful increase in the percent
age of pauperis1n from the age of 65 to
IS. OF people between the ages of 60
and IS years about 10 per cent. are
paupers, that is, are in recei pit of some
measure of government relief. OF peo-
pie between IS and 20, 20 per cent. are
paupers. and there is an increase of
10 per cent. for each additional
years of age up to the age of so years.
Thirty per cent. of the people between
20 and IS years of age are paupers,
while of people more than IS years old
the percentage is not much under 40.
The term '.old age" is understood as
applying to people IS years old or over.
The census of 1891 shows COG, sos men
and 765,917 women as coming under
this definition. Of these no less than
$50, 202 men and 455,2s3 women lived in
where from 20 to 35 per cent.
of the Old people were receiving some
measure of government relief. Of
the remainder 112,005 men and
144,233 women lived under bet
ter and 135. 29S men and 166, 401 women
under worse conditions of percentage
of pauperism. The highest rate of
in old age is in the district
ST. Saviours, Southwark, London,
where 81 per cent. of the old people are
receiving public charity.
The total number of old people |
England and Wales who
were in receipt of some measure of gov
eminent relief during the year ending |
on Lady Day. 1892, was 401 ,904, and
ia, IA of these were in the poorhouses. /
The proportion of pauperism among I
the aged is greatest in the eastern
counties and smallest in the north. It /
is not shown whether old-age pauper-
ism has increased or decreased of late
years, but, except in London, there was
some improvement as to the total
amount of pauperism throughout tie