The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-18


in his bed.
Foreign Gossip.
The Duchess of Sutherland is danger
ously i'll. She was the most magnificent
looking woman in Europe.
The British army in England is 4O, 900
strong, in every regiment Of which arrests
for Fenianism have been made.
-Lohsters are getting scarce in England
Mr.. auckland attributes the scarcity to the
practice Of selling Holsters eggs in the mar
kets.
Fashionable young lady, detaching her
hair before retiring: "What dreams may
come when we have shufled off this mortal
COLL
| The Governor Of New Brunswick has
approved the confederation scheme. This
event has so surprised the Government
| party that Cabinet rupture is imminent.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is at Cannes,
France. Her health has greatly improved.
The local papers announce concert to be
| given BY her for the benefit Of the Cannes
hospital.
-Mazzini, the italian republican, sees
hope in the sky abroad. He writes hither :
An energetic conduct Of the United States
in the question Of Mexico would hasten the
fall of Louis Napoleon.
Parliament has voted a monument to
Lord Palmerston. So they did 10 the Duke
of Wellington, thirteen years ago, and not
one store of it is laid yet; while the lions
for Nelson's monument have been in the
hands u Sir Edwin Laudseer for something
like quarter of century.
M. Emile de Girardn has adopted
novel method Of forcing the growth Of wit.
He intends to give a series of dinners, to
which the witty alone will be invi ed, and
such Of them as fail to come up to the pro-
per standard Of humor will thereafter be
dropped from the list.
DR.. Mackay, poet and Times especial
has compiled dictionary Of obsolete terms
and phrases, and of such as are still in use
in out-oftheway sections of England, Ame-
RIGA and the Colonies. which Messrs Turner
Go. of London have just puhii-he ed under
the title of . Lost aud Perishing Beauties of
the English Language"
The Egyptian government has published
an announcement that Prince Ismal Bey has
been made an infant" and that none of his
debts, contracted without the written con
sent of his guardian, will be paid This
infant is about forty years old; it Was he
who, last summer. lost twenty Thousand
dollars day at the Imperial Club. Paris.
Louis Bomber died recently at Nieuel-
IA Dolent, La Vendee, France, a. the age of
one hundred and six years. He served in
the armies of the first Republic for many
years, was subsequently married and be-
came the father of seventeen children, aud
to the last retained all his faculties, being
remarkable for the correctness Of his mem
ory.
The tycoon Of Japan has sent a valua-
BILE present to Napoleon. consisting of
! $4,000 cases Of silkworms, more priced, in
/ asmuch as it has been clearly proved that
Japanese silkworms produce a superior
quality of silk. and are less liable to the
disease which has of late years caused SO
much distress to the silk growers Of the
| south Of France.
Nj. Liddet, President of the Civil Tri-
bunal Of Loches, France, while on a deer
stalking party, had the n misfortune to shoot
his friend and host dead, installing him in
thick wood for deer. At the court of Or
leans, where the case was tried, the Jury
found the presiding Judge Of the court Of
Loches guilty Of homicide by imprudence,
and sentenced him to pay fine of six hun
dred francs.
The Suez Canal is partially completed.
schooner having actually navigated the
canal from Port Laid to Suez. direct COM
munication between the Mediterranean and
Red Sea may be regarded as an accomplish
ed fact. Nothing now remains but to give
to the canal all the width and depth neces-
sary to insure o free passage for large
| ships; to finish the dykes, ports, basins,
and dockyards.
A hand-organ player in Paris has re-
vived interest in that antiquated style of
| musical entertainment by gravely turning
over the leaves of music book with his left
hand, while he worked the handle with his
right hand, as if he was really playing by
the notes. This ingenious proceeding ex-
cited considerable amusement, and was on
the whole favorably received by the public,
and rewarded with q liberal supply Of sous.
Mrs. Brooke publishes the last words
Of her late husband, Mr.. G. Y. Brooke, who
was one Of the passengers in the London.
They were found in bottle on the Brighton
beach, and have been forwarded TO Mrs
Broke by Mr.. C. A Elliott, of Trinity Col
| lege, Cambridge The note is written in
pencil on torn envelope, and read as fol-
lows: 1lth Of January, on board the Lon
don. We are just going down. No chance
OF safety. Please give this to Avonia Jones,
Survey Theatre. - Gustavus Vaughan
Brooke
-Gustave Dore, it seems, is not to illus
trate Shakespeare, after ALL A publisher
offered h3sn four hundred thousand francs,
but he Z handed the round sum of mil
liun. Fe.. the fables of La Fontaine. upon
the illu- rations Of which he is now en-
ployed, he receives five hundred francs for
each one. and it is said that after making
his studies he draws two day, for which
he receives cash on delivery. He may be
seen almost every day now at the Jsrdin
DIES Plantes, studying the movements aud
peculiarities of the animals which will oc
cupy places in this great work
According to official statements, the
Republic of Liberia has brought under its
control 100000 of the aborigines, beside
5000 recaptured from slave ships 1t has
turned more tnan 500 miles of coast from
being slave mart to the peaceful and hon
est pursuits Of agriculture and commerce.
More than $50 churches have been erected.
About 200 schools are in operation; 10000
children have been taught in English. and
20. O0n persons have united with the church
es There are between sixty and seventy
settlements. and their commerce annually
amounts to between fifteen and twenty mil
lions Of dollars.
Several stories have lately been hpating
about with regard TO Leopold Meyer, the
celebrated pianist and his adventures with