Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-17

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iron, shaped like large pincers and
provided with groves or teeth to hold
the plants, are used by farmers for
pulling thistles out of tillage and pasture
land.
Foreign Gossip.
of 1,78S dissenting ministers in Eng
land, 450 had no specific education for
their work.
There are between 500 and 600 gla-
ciers among the Alps, covering an area of
nearly 1900 square miles.
TO own yacht in England is GER
tificate that the possessor thereof enjoys
an annual income Of $4,000 to $4,000.
There are nearly $4,000 skilled work
men out Of employment in England. &C.
cording to late speech Of the Lord May
or Of London.
The fact that a Zurich defaulting
cashier stole 30 high as $6500O0 did not
prevent his sentence to eleven years i'm
prisonment.
Between thirty and forty large ships
have passed through the Suez Canal since
its opening. The amount Of tolls received
from them was about 100000.
There is said to be 100000 sterling
lying in the Bank Of England, deposited
there by some jealous botanist, as a re-
ward for any one who shall produce q
blue dahlia
The increase of converts in Belgium
is beginning to attract attention. In 1880
there were 251 in 1856, 993; and in 1864,
over 1900 Every village has one, and
several towns possess from twenty to
thirty.
The oonfagration which, a few
weeks since, destroyed part of the town OF
TIavelburg, in Prussia, reduced to ashes
80 houses out of 298, so that 173 families,
forming total of 700 persons were left
without homes.
"A London medical journal reports
number Of cures in East Indian hospitals
by the application Of petroleum in COM
bination with other materials, TO form
consistent ointment. Petroleum is four d
to take the place of carbolic acid as local
disinfectant
I'm Scotland information was recently
obtained in relation to the number Of
houses, the number of rooms in each
house, and whether the houses had win.
dows. Out of 666, 1856 houses GAG, SOL had
only two rooms and 226,72 but one
room; while 1864 had no windows
"A romantic suicide recently took
place at Cwmavon village, near
Meath, Glamorganshire. A respectable
young woman named Barry, while suffer-
ing from the effect Of disappointed love,
took poison, and, with her remaining
strength, made her way to the house of
her old lover, and died in his arms.
The Food Journal, published in Lon
don, states that sample of tea sold in that
city as fine green gunpowder tea, on the
examination proved to be nothing but
common "caper" leaves, ingeniously ma
nipulated. The manufacture of this
spurious tea, it is stated, is carried on in
England.
An Englishmah in Paris had narrow
escape, not long since, from frightful
death. TRANQUILITY contemplating the city
cid not notice a man, seemingly peaceable
enough, standing close behind him. Sud-
denly the fellow started forward, clasped
the Engishman round the waist. and ex-
claimed, 81 bet throw you down, as sure
as one and one make two" The English
man locking at him, and finding out that
he had to deal with mailman, with ad-
mirable presence Of mind, replied, at the
same time tightening his grasp on the
balustrade, eff you come below with me,
bet | can throw you up here as sure as one
and one make two" Tempted by the
difficulty of the proposition, the man let
go his hold, and accompanied the English
man down stairs, where he was immedi-
ately secured and handed over to the
proper authorities.
In the East Indian rebellion, Colonel
Franks, after an engagement near the
village OF Chamba, took many prisoners,
one OF whom, a Bangalee, aged "a, was
conducted before the authorities to under.
go certain interrogations The changes
which the mans appearance underwent
are recorded by Surgeon Major Fanny.
The prisoner, for the first time, seemed to
realize the danger Of the situation, when
he found himself stripped and surrounded
with soldiers. He tremhled violently,
terror and despair being depicted ON his
countcnance; and when replying To
questions addressed to him, he appeared
absolutely stupefed by fear. "Then, un.
der our eyes" continues the narrator,
Mr.. Fanny. and In the space Of some
half an hour, his hair, which we had seen
TO be OF OF brilliant black, became gray
on every part Of his head. The Sergeant
Who had charge of the prisoner cried out
he ID turning gray and called our at
tention TO this singular phenomenon, of
which I thus, with many other persons,
was enabled to observe the completion
through all it, phases