Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| The Army Temperance society OF
tie British army IN India has grown
| from 1909 members in 1899 to over
| <=.000 members to-day. Out of 1,1oe
regimental courts-martial for 1898. only
thirty-nine sat to try members of the
Temperance association, and of 1850
courts-martial of all classes for that
year. only seventy-three concerned tenn
perance men.
When the act was passed relieving
the queen of the necessity OF signing
death warrants by a curious oversight
10 mention was made of the Isle OF
Man, and the execution of a criminal
who committed murder in that part of
her ma jesty's dominion is the only one
| which the queen has sanctioned with
her own hand since the beginning of
her reign.
-Berghem was lazy and his wife was
industrious. His studio was a room
over the kitchen. and from time to time
during the day she pounded the ceiling
with long pole she kept for the pur-
pose, and Berghem patted the floor
with his foot to satisfy her that he was
awake and attending to business If
he did not answer she dropped every
thing and went upstairs to look after
him.
French journalists are not now al
lowed 10 say anything about anarch-
lists which may displease the authori-
ties. and are put to strange shifts
Henri Rochefort lately expressed his
ideas on the subject in his journal in
the deaf and dumb language. His
leading article consisted OF column
of miniature hands with the fingers
arranged to represent the letters. with
his name printed al the bottom
The vice-chairman of the Scarbor-
ough board of guardians, in opposing
an increase in the number of nurses in
their infirmary. informed his colleagues
that people in a worlhouse lnfirmary
didn't require SO much nursing as is
given in hospital: they came-and he
was sorry to say ito die and to rest.
not to be nursed." But his colleagues
thought that even dying paupers should
receive proper care. and voted to hire
another nurse.
A Hungarian chemist. DIR. Johann
Antal. recently reported to the Hunga-
rian Society of Physicians that he has
discovered a new chemical compound.
the nitrate of cobalt. which, he says, is
most eficacious antidote to poisoning
by cyanide of potassium or prussic
acid. He tried the antidote first Oh
animals, and afterward on forty living
persons who had been accidentally
poisoned with prussic acid. In not
single case did the antiiote prove a
failure.
The incompetence of the interpre
ter in the Caescrio trial attracted gen
eral notice. 1t was due to the rule in
France no foreigner can serve the state.
except as street sweeper in Paris. and
even there the number of foreigners
must not exceed one-tenth of all the
sweepers. As a result an Englishman
can not teach English in a public
school. nor can An Italian interpret be-
fore a tribunal. Amusement was
caused by the fact that Caeserio under
stood the French of the judge better
than he did the Italian of the interpre-
ter
A writer in the Central Africa
Gazette. from Tete. says that at the
rate at which elephants of all sizes are
at present being killed off in south and
central Africa there is little doubt that
in a few years they will be practically
extermina ted in those regions From
Tete and Jumbo alone the traders an
uually send three thousand hunters to
the countries north of the Rambesi.
who shoot indiscriminat ely, regardless
of an elephants age or the size of its
tusks. The writer recommends all the
powers having territories in Africa to
form union and prohibit the exporta-
ton of tusks under ten pounds in
weight