Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A maa coach drawn By six mu1es
that had been drives without relays
by Count De FontAlva- Portuguese
nobleuan. an The way from Lisbon 70
Paris through the mounfains of north
eastern Spain and the Pyrenees, . dis
lance of $50 miles. recently. made .
sensation ON the boulesardA
The death rate Of Berlin for 1894
Was I7.2 in . thousand. that OF Lon
don 1T, Brussels and Hamburg ID !,
Amsterdam 1a3, Copenhagen 1917.
Turin Is 9, Rome 1ao, Glasgow $40,
Paris so.e, Manchester 9a4, Vienna
e2s, Liverpool 2as. Dublin eA7. St
Petersburg sI-4, and Moscow al
BY recent decree of chancery only
chartreuse made at the monastery OF
La Grande Chartreuse may be sold
under that name in England A firm
1T voiron pretends to have the recipe
used by the monks and to make the
same liquor, but il has been enjoined
by the French courts from using the
name.
Rev. John Jenkins, Of Charleston.
the colered minister who took four
teen little negro orphans to Europe
to raise money for his orphan
age. has come to grief The Lon
don police viii not allow the boys
to sing either in halls or in the
streets, as they are under eleven years
of age, and the party is destitute
Madagascar has improved on the
Chinese treatment OF defeated gem
erals. Ramasonbaya, governor OF
Boneni. ran away from Marovosy
without resisting the French. and was
burned alive for his cowardice In the
outskirts of Antananarivo- Some
other Malagasy generals are to be
treated in the same way when they
are caught
The italian naval committee Is
said to have examined and reported
favorably upon q new type of armor-
clad of the first class The plans, by
Signor Brin, are said to be entirely diff
ferent from any existing, either in
Italy or abroad The chief character
istics are very high speed and the sub
mersion of very nearly the whole body
of the vessel
The Snaefel1 electric line, which
extends from Laxey. in the Isle Of
Man, to the summit of Snaefell, over
1000 feet above the sea level. has been
completed There is q continuous
gradient of 1 in IL on the entire line.
which is ~ miles In length As a
measure of safety. center rail has
been laid. on which specially designed
emergency brakes act
"A sect calling itself The Peculiar
People" is attracting attention in En-
f<ox. x.$ n he
among the children, due to its trusting
entirely to the Lord and refusing to
call in doctors One mother testified
before the coroner's jury that she had
allowed five children ont of six to die
of bronchitis in this way. They call
in the doctor when an animal is sick,
for the Bible says nothing against that
Admiral Avelan and the officers OF
the Russian feet that visited France
last year have presented to the town
of Toulon a compound silver statue OF
sailor in the Russian uniform of the
time of the Crimean war. On his
breasti is map OF France on which the
names Of the towns where the Rus
slams stopped are marked BY double
headed eagle holding bunch of laurel
in his claws and ON a mast behind the
figure are enameled the arms OF Cron-
srad and Toulan-
-Fac-similes of the first newspaper
ever printed were distributed to the
members of the press congress at Hei.
delberg. It is sheet published II
Strasburg in 1909 by Johann Carolus.
In letter from Venice, dated Septem-
Der 4, in the first number Galileo's dis
covery of the telescope is announced
1.-THE government has added one hum.
dred crowns to the pension OF Master
Calico Galilel. of Florence, professor
at Padua, because he has invented an
instrument which enables one to see
distant places as if they were quite
near"