Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| The six cites in Japan having more
than 100000 inhabitants are: Tokyo,
| LET'S, Isl; Osaka, 4s5. 331; Kioto. BIG, 2g2;
| Nagoya, Iss.s61; Kobe, 153, $50; Yolo-
hama, 152, 1896 The population of these
| cities has increased 140, 900 in three
| years.
The wealth which George Peabody
| left for the poor of London in the
shape of model tenements now amounts
| to 8, SOC, 600. Twenty thousand people
now live comfortably in the 11,s0o
rooms he reconstructed. The average
rental OF the rooms is but 81 cents ,
week.
Near Belgrade recently the custom
house officers seized large quantity
of human bones consigned to bone
boiling establishment near Vienna
They turned out to be the bones of Rus
sian and Turkish soldiers who died in
the war of IT'S. The importers were
heavily fined.
La Gazette Geographique says that
the Andes are slowly sinking. Ecua-
doris capital has sunk seventy-six feet
in 122 years. Antisana's farm, the
highest inhabited spot of the Andes
"a, 900 feet higher than Quitot. he high
est city on the globe is 21s feet lower
than it was in 1745.
-Achmed Wotelegel, the merchant
who helped Slatin Pasha TO csc ape, on
returned to Omdurman, was hanged by
order of the kalipha- He was betrayed
by Slatin's servants. who were tortured
till they confessed that he was the last
person in communication with their
master before his flight.
Greek coins brought high prices at
Lord Ashburnham's sale in the early
part of May. A Sicilian silver tetra-
drachm of AIS B. C. was sold for 81, ESQ;
a tetradrachm of Segesta, $50 b. c., for
1855: silver slater of Stymphalus, 400
B. c.. for 1855; n gold slater of Taren-
tum for 1915, and one of Philip II. of
Macedon for $40.
Some interesting data have been
obtained recently concerning accidents
to road traffic in the busiest thorough
fare of London. In single day, from
a. m. to p. M, some IL, 800 horses
and vehicles passed along Cheapside
and $3.50 along Cannon street. During
fifty days observation it was found
that $40 accidents took place on wood
pavement, 719 on granite and ,O66 on
asphalt.
The result of meteorological tests
with balloons at immense heights is
announced from Bremen. One balloon,
carrying self-registering instruments,
reached height of twelve miles. The
thermometer could not register the
temperature, 81 deg. below zero being
marked at a lower height. Many tests
show that the temperature sinks grad
ualiy up to two and a half miles. Above
that the fall is much more rapid.
The ruins on the shores of Lake
Titicaca were in the same condition
when visited by Pizarro as they are to-
day. They consist of immense earth
pyramids, faced with stone and sur
rounded by Cyclopean walls There
are many monoliths, strikingly sug-
gestive of Stonehenge in England, some
of these giant stones being fourteen
feet high by four feet broad and three
feet thick. The stone cutting and
polishing are said to equal the best
work of modern times The antiquity
of these works is merely conjeetural.
1t is believed they were in the ruins
when the Incas conquered Peru. and
some antiguarians assign a possible
date that would make them the rivals
in age of the oldest monuments of
Egypt.