Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-25

Forsixn 0ossip.

IcvRRENT PARAGRAPHS.
i Foreign Gsssip.
| Metz Il ITO miles from Paris
4 Great Britain ID TO take her census
inm year.
| The King of Belgium sent al his
pate to England - soon - war was de-
chred
| Things of DR.. Livingstone are said
4 70 hxve been received by d.. Kirk at
Zanzibar, announcing the explorer'a
Afety.
/ Great Britain has .lt6 cotton, wool.
"a and other closhing manufactures
which employ 81, 00e opeEativeA
"A market boat wAs sunk recently .:
Toronto, by . schooner, and twelve wo-
men and children were drowned.
| IT 10 but 100 years ince there were
| ITO capital offences in the criminal code
| Of Great Britain To-day there are but
two.
The emigration from Bremen from
1881 TO 1858 comprised 611 ,416 passengers.
and from 1854 70 1859. 3S6. 106 passengers,
making total Of !, l40,5S2.
The extreme prices wanted at the
| sale, at Gad's Hill, Of the personal effects
of Charles Dickens, caused the withdraw
al Of large portion Of them.
| An American, now travelling in
| Europe, reports that Sweden IL the only
country be has visited where the sleeping
apartments are lighted with gas.
An English life insurance company
has paid the insurance for the death of .
man 103 years old, Who took out his pol
icy in'1780. II Is said to be the first in.
stance in which an insurance has ever
been paid on the life Of . centenarian.
Several OF the leading medical men
in Paris, prominent among whom Is the
famous DR.. Nelaton, are agitating for the
establishment Of medical college exclu-
sively for women, and have asked the En-
press TO take the scheme under her es.
pecial patronage.
The first daily paper ever issued was
the Frankfort Journal, which originated
with Egenoh Emmel, and appeared in
after the event, the city Is now about to
erect q monument in honor of Egenolf
EmmeI the father of newspapers.
An American lady in Paris, ambitious
Of notoriety, Is said to attract attention by
appearing at the Grand Open without
Jewels OF flowers, her only ornament be-
| ing live snake coiled around her wrist.
The snake is constantly climbing up and
down her arm or nesting in her hand, en-
loving her fan and words Of endearment
Every opera glass is fixed on her and the
snake.
twenty-five Europeans, thirty OF
forty Chinese children and nine Sisters Of
Charity were victims in the recent mas
sacre Of Christians at Tientsin, China
Their bodies were horribly mutilated
Eight Protestant churches, from which
| the Missionaries retreated, were Quilted
Sixteen places Of worship were destroyed
Several days previous TO the attack the
Chinese parents removed their children
some $50, from the Catholic schools
| Among the murdered were three Rus
slams. The remainder were French and
Chinese children.
Sir John Duke Coleridge, the Eng
lish solicitor.general, lately cross-exam
ined lady witness who fatty refused tc
state her age, and in reply to the question
"Are you seventy" said, "You may pu,
me down at one hundred, If you like.
Expostulation and persuasion had no eff
feet. Sir John even offered to tell his own
age, but the lady was obdurate; she would
not tell her age TO any man alive, she
would not write it down for the informa
ton of the jury, and concluded with the
assertion that the English law did not force
her TO answer such question. Sir John
Duke Colerijge was entirely baAed IN the
contest, and in despair gave up the At
tempt to obtain an answer.
There have been extensive fires in
the woods in Canada, and in one OF them
a few days ago, . woman and two chill
dren were burned to death. It appears
that the premises of French Canadian,
Rousseau, residing near CRANKY, having
become nearly surrounded with the
flames, he placed portion of his furniture
also his family, consisting OF his wife and
three children, in his wagon, and started
them OF to their neighbor. The flames,
however, followed the fugitives 30 fast
that the horse wheeled round and upset
the wagon, yielding the woman and two
of the children prey to the fire, which
consumed them on the spot. The third
child, daughter, Of only seven years Of
age, scrambled away from the flames, and
with her screams brought assistance. She
was rescued, but it was feared she could
not survive.
/ Incidents and Accidents.