Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
1T cost $500 to guiiiotine criminal
in France.
Locks of Traupmann's hair are freely
circulating among the ladies of Paris.
Mrs. jeff Davis has been banqueted
recently by Liverpool merchant whose
guest she was
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has brought
an action against the Xarscsttdtse for
accusing him of the murder OF shepherd
at Vivario.
There Il not single Protestant mis-
sionary in Portugal, although the Govern.
ment Is tolerant, and shows no disposition
to interfere with the Protestant faith or
worship.
An enthusiastic paterfamilias has pc
toned the French Senate to invest the
father of the greatest number of children
with some new decoration, and to subject
the entire fraternity of bachelors to
special tax, rising In amount according to
their age.
Careful vaccination has resulted In
there having been only one fatal case OF
smallpox in Dublin in the last two years.
Paris has been heavily visited with va
riola and the question Of compulsory
vaccination is being considerably discuss
ed in the latter city.
"A London Coroner, at q recent in
quest, declared that downright intemper-
ance was one Of the common vices Of
English ladies of the highest class. He
knew, he said, numberless cases where
these ladies never sat down to dinner until
they had brought themselves to state of
almost inebriety.
"A Paris dispatch says: According
to reliable accounts, only one fatality oc.
Cured during the recent troubles, and
that was the case of boy who was killed
by bayonet thrust on barricade, from
which upwards Of forty shots from revolt
vers had been fired. Not single shot
was fired by the soldiers and the police.
The late Duke de Brogile was pas
lister of Foreign Affairs, he found the best
place on the river constantly occupied
by young man. One day his rival did
had appointed him Vice Consul in the
East, and ordered him at once to his post.
Says the Toronto Leader Of recent
date: Lake Ontario, strange to say, was
frozen over on Friday night from Canada
to the American shore, and as far east and
west as the eye could reach. This Is the
first time that this great lake has been ice
bound within the memory of the Oldest
inhabitant, and he is q pretty old chap"
Marshall Soult, once showing the pic
lures he stole in Spain, stopped before
one and remarked: AZ value that picture
very much; it saved the lives of two es.
Unable persons" An aid de.camp whis-
pered in the listeners ear: she threat
ened to have them shot Immediately un.
less they gave it up"
BY the present school and military
system of Prussia, all young men who
can prove that they have reached a GER
tain standard of excellence in their stud
les, are furnished with certificates en-
abling them to serve as volunteers for
one year instead of three, on condition
of their maintaining and equipping them
selves while in the army.
An imitator of Traupmann, living in
the South of France, killed q farmer 81
years old with pickaxe, buried him in
grave dug in advance, planted young
walnut tree over it, and sodded it, 80 that
the disturbance of the soil might escape
notice. On discovering That his victims
purse contained but franc, 40 centimes
(about 35 cents), he was seized with
remorsc, delivered himself up to the
police, and made full confession.
One day, when Prince Pierre Bona
parte was driving to the races, some part
of the harness gave way. Fortunately
saddler's shop was near by; and, while
ho hrnE ar, ho xvoc hain
the Prince RECALLED himself with q glass
of water, and discovered how marvelously
pretty was the saddler's daughter. He
decided to marry her, and 80 placed her
at school, from which she emerged with
the necessary acquired graces She was
quick and apt, and SO extremely good
looking that when Prince Pierre pre-.
sented his wife to the Emperor His
Majesty was gracious enough to forget
her origin and receive her cordially. But
Eugene drew her robes about her in
scOrn at the presumption.
The Bristol (Eng.) Post says $500 have
been offered and accepted on the result OF
a scientific investigation rs To whether the
surface of the earth and water is level or
convex. The challenge was made by Mr.
Hampden, of Swindon, and has been ac-
cepted by Fellow Of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society of London. The 1000 have
been lodged at Coutts, and the survey is
to be made before the 18th of March, in
the County Of Cambridge. Much interest
in the decision is felt by the innumerable
advocates of the Newtonian and Coperni-
can theory Of the rotundity and revolution
of the earth, which Mr.. Hampden afirms
to be downright fiction and fraud, in the
face Of all the philosophy and science OF
the United Kingdom. ----------
The strictness of English game laws
and their enforcement is illustrated by the
fact that a young man is now lying in
Exeter Jail on three months sentence
for having five years ago shot pheasant,
either on his fathers farm or on the neigh
boring turnpike. Immediately after he
committed this fearful deed of blood, dread
ing the majesty of the law, he fed from
home, and did not dare return. But his
elder brother died, and his parents longed
for him, and 80, after they had held some
consultation with the authorities, and oh.
tanned a half promise that their son should
be exempted from arrest, he returned,
three years and half after his fight from
home. A year and half he was unmo-
Tested, but at the end of that time he was
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