Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The British government, after .
year or two of hesitation. has finally
decided to raise Uganda and the re
gion lying between Victoria Nyanza
and the east coast to the estate of a
protectorate, has voted snug sum for
season Is likely to construct a railroad.
Montenegro is to have standing
army. Hitherto, though every man is
liable to serve in time of war, the
princes body guard of one hundred
men has been the only organized force
kept up during peace. Now the whole
population will gradually be drilled in
the use of the new arms provided by
Russia. one section following another
in continuous service for three months
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has
been elected a trustee of the British
museum. The museum is governed by
a board of City members, only fifteen
of whom are elective. Nine, called
family trustees, are hereditary; one,
the royal trustee, is nominated by the
crown. and twenty-five are official
trustees These thirty-five fill fifteen
Juliet PldCCS, Do SoSohSAOo OSSuAs ~
election for life.
Italy will issue a new postage stamp
to commemorate the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the taking of Rome. In
the upper half is figure of Italy. with
the iron crown; below Victor Eman-
uers saying. "In Rome we are and in
Rome we stay" and Umberto's, Rome
is intang ible." There are lso num-
Der of symbols-the she wolf of Rome,
the eagle of Savoy. profiles of King
Victor and King Humbert, the Italian
crown, and the dates Is70-1s95.
The Western railroad of France
has adopted plan by which person
notifies the st. Lazare station in Paris
of his intention to take train to any
station on the line. the company will
send to his address for his trunk. take
it to the station. register it for its des-
tination. inclose the receipt answer
ing precisely to our cheeky in an en-
velope with the ticket for destination.
and hold it at the station till the pas
senger applies and pays for it.
The railroad from Beyrout to
Damascus, 90 miles, was opened for
traffic early last June. There .are 25
miles of it with grades as steep as $40
feet per mile. and curves as sharp as
400 feet radius. on which the Abt cob
wheel system is used. The line passes
the crest of the Lebanon mountains in
the Near pass at height of 4, 900 feet
above sea level only 90 miles from
Beyrout It then descends about 1900
feet to the plateau, and again climbs
the opposite chain of Ante-Lebanon
and descends to the plain of Damascus.
Defects in development of the body
of English city children are more com
mon among the boys than girls, ae-
cording to DR.. Warmers report to the
British association. the proportion be-
ing 81 of boys to 6.s of girls. Girls
normally small. especially in the neigh
borhood of large buildings Thirty
six per cent. of the boys and Is per
cent. of the girls were dull. Defective
skulls are much more frequent among
Irish children than among any of the
other nationaIities found in English
towns.
The Chateau of Amboiso has been
bought from the executors of the
-Comte de Paris by the Due d'Aumale.
who intends making it home for the
soldiers that fought under him in
Africa, after which it will become a
state museum like Chantilly. Charles
VIII. was born and died in the
chateau; it was the scene of the bloody
massacre following the Conjuration
d'Amboise in 1860; Leonardo la Vinci
is buried in the chapel, and Add ell
Kader was imprisoned there for two
years In 1s4s the chateau was con-
fscated, but it was given back to the
Comte de Paris in 1872 by the national
assembly with the other domain lands
that had belonged to Louis Philippe.
The restoration of the chateau was be-
gun twenty years ago by Violet lie
Due