Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-05

per cent do So The ministers furnished
from different colleges in proportion TO the
alumni of Harvard is eleven per cent,
BOwdoin twenty one per cent, Yale TWEEN
ty per cent.
As to compulsory education in Ger
many, the police officers of the commune
keeps list of all the children who have
arrived at school age This list is put into
the hands of the school board, which now
become responsible for the attendance of
all those marked in the register The
master of the school prepares, periodically
list of absentees who are unexcused,"
and it then becomes the duty of the board
to call upon the parents or guardians of the
child and admonish them. If the offense
is repeated, the name of the child is com
municathd to the police, and the offending
parent is mulcted in small fine for each
days absence, nOn-payment being followed
towns where the School Board has more
real control over the school, committee
of the board assesses and collects the fine,
subject to the right of appeal by the delin-
quent to the magistrate. In Nuremberg,
the unexcused absences are rare, and in
Saxony hardly child, we are told, is over
looked. Here, the days the child is absent
from school are recorded, and have to be
made good under pain of the refusal of the
rite of confirmation at the expiration Of
the eight years term of schooling.
Foreign Gossip. ..
A strong earthen barricade has been
erected before the cages of the lions,
tigers, and panthers in the Jar
din des Plantes, at Paris, to prevent their
escape in the event of projectiie destroy
ing the bars of their prison.
A number of French peasants were
tried at q military court at Halle, in Prus
STA, the other day, for an attempt to poison
Prussian soldiers by mixing verdigris with
the food they gave them. They were
found guilty, and sentenced to twelve, fiji.
teen and twenty years imprisonment at
hard labor.
"A five year old boy was murdered by
boy eleven years of age, who had been
adopted by the parents of the little victim,
in Trebbin, Prussia. The boys were play
ing together, when the young murderer
threw down the little one and stamped on
his head with his heel till the poor child
was dead.
"A Paris letter says that in case the
city is taken, the guns in the forts and on
the ramparts shall never be of use to the
Prussians. The old method Of spiking
a cannon to render it temporarily useless
will not be employed in this case, as it has
been found that the explosion of peculiar
torpedo inside the bore will prevent the
piece from ever being used again.
"A new surgical instrument has been in
vented in Berlin for the discovery of hid
den bullets in the human body. 1t con-
ssts of two metal probes into which has
been led a stream Of electricity. This
stream is broken at the poles, but passing
it over the suspected part of the body
where the bullet is supposed to lit is at
once connected when it comes near a me-
tallic body. s-s s ~
The following is given as literal |
translation of bill of fare as recently |
at gentleman's table in Paris |
Horse soup with millet
Minced cat, Mayonnaise sauce.
Shoulder of dog, tomato sauce.
jagged cat, with mushrooms.
Dog chops, with peas.
Salmis of rat, sauce Robert
Joint of dog, served with young rats, and pepper
Begonia, with gravy.
reF Salad, etc. Etff
English plum pudding, with horse-marrow.
The German Arctic Expedition, which
returned from the Polar Sea this fall, has
published the result of its researches. The
most important results of its explorations
was the discovery of new land, about
thirty-six nautical miles east of SpitZber-
gen, and situated north of the seventy
seventh degree Of latitude north. This
new territory is larger than Spitzbergen,
md presents very wild and. rugged ap-
being filled with almost perpendic-
liar mountains and cliffs. This is one Of
he most important Arctic discoveries
made for many years. The expedition also
explored the eastern shores of Greenland
Up to the seventy seventh degree of north
,rn latitude, discovering an immense ford.
,r arm of the sea, which extended deep
nto the interior of the country, and several
whose height exceeded that of
Mont Blanc. The geological, geological,
md botanical collections brought home are
# rare and valuable character.