Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-28

Foreign Gossip.
Paris has nineteen comic papers, and
London six.
-Bird-catching has been made penal
offence in Prussia.
There were 14s cases Of suicide in the
Prussian army last year.
Paris ladies now wear the same
style of hat as was worn one hundred
years ago.
AT a concert in st. Pete rsburg re-
Gently, the orchestra was composed OF
six hundred trumpets and 80 drums
"A Russian millionaire recently died in
| Paris who was famous for having once
given banquet to select party Of eight,
and fed them with parrots tongues
stewed with trufflea
France has 119 fortresses, of which
eight are of the first rank: Paris, Stras-
Cherbourg. The Notifications of Paris
are stated to have cost $40 ,000, 900, and up
to 1858 there had been expended on Cher
bourg $34,0O0,000.
"A law has just been published in
Sweden which permits female physicians
to practice medicine IN all it's branches,
but they must submit to the same rigOr-
GUS examination as the men. All the
Swedish colleges have been instructed to
admit female students to their course OF
study.
The census lately taken in Il lngsry
shows the population Of that country to
amount to 15,429,238 souls. OF these,
Z 696,947 are males, and 7,732,291 are fe-
males. The census taken in 1857 gave
population of ID, 768,513 souls, so that the
population of Hungary has increased
since that time by 1,666,725 souls.
"A proposal 70 buy and preserve the
Gad's Hill house and grounds as ma
tional memento to Dickens has been set
on foot in English literary circles. 1t lis sug-
gested that the house shall be retained by
the family of the deceased for term Of
years, at the expiration Of which, with
their consent, the place will be held in
trusteeship as national memorial.
The bones of about 1900 Chinese
lately reached San Francisco on their re-
turn to the Celestial Empire. They had
teen gathered up along the line of the
Central Pacific Railroad, and were all
there was left of regiment of laborers on
that great work. They are taken home
in pursuance of the contract by which
they were originally brought into the
country.
The editor of satirical journal, the
Liverpool Porcupine, was recently SEN
fenced to one months imprisonment for
libel upon local shipowner, and on his
release was escorted by an immense con-
course Of people through the gaily decked
streets to the Office Of the paper. The
citizens have subscribed for him nearly
5000 over the cost of the trial.
Another curious case of conscience
has recently benefited the directors of a
bank at Brussels A few months ago they
received a package accompanied by let
ter requesting that the former should not
be opened until three months had elapsed.
When opened at the proper time, the in
closure was found to contain 81 600 francs
restored to the bank by defaulter.
After sermon preached by Paris
priest in favor of Ireland, woman passed
through the assembly with an aims bag.
The sermon had been very eloquent, the
emotions excited by it were universal, and
gifts rained into the bag. A workman
present cast in his watch, saying aloud,
Zone need not know the time of day,
when people is dying of hunger"
There is An old man of 112 at Warsaw
who still does duty as sexton Of a syna-
gogue. 1t is only three years since his
hair turned gray. He walks daily from
his village to Warsaw, distance Of some
miles. His own father lived TO be 1875,
and could tell all about the appearance of
John Sobieski, the famous Polish leader.
I'm various parts of England the sur
face Of the country has undergone great
changes in the last hundred years. A new
country 10 being reclaimed from the sea
on the coast of Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
One consequence of driving away the
water Is, that the land shrinks. In Lynn
many Of the houses are settling" the
bridges are weakened, and the Corn Elk
change is sliding away from its 'front.'"
An English lady travelling in France
was stopping ct the Grand Hotel du Lou
vre, where English ID spoken fluently. &C
cording to the advertisement, by all the
walters. Hearing Of the prevalence of the
smallpox in the city, she rushed frantical-
| ~ TO the of1ce and demanded of the clerk:
:" II the smallpox here - Not yet, mi
ladi," was the reply; as soon as 1t arrive,
I send II up to miladi."
The method Of "baby farming" in
England is this: The parents who desire
to farm out their children, and thus get
rid of the care Of them, pay the matron Of
private infant hospital twenty dollars,
or about that, to take charge Of their babe.
| It ia undoubtedly understood that the in
human parents do not care ever TO see
their offspring again, and the mercenary
nurse puts 1t ont Of the way by III treat
ment or downright violence as soon a.
possible.
M. GARNER, member Of the French
CambodiAn expedition, asserts that In
! China the taste for opium IL by no means