Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-28
Foreign Gossip.

France has seventeen Masonic period
icals, and Germany thirty-nine.
In Germany, five daily and fourteen
weekly papers have female editors.
There is not a single native of Tur
kew in command of Turkish man-of
war.
The President of the German SUI
preme Court is the son of apoor huckster-
woman.
A lady in Quebec was so afflicted at
the sudden death of her husband, that she
wept herself perfectly blind in two weeks
thereafter.
The Bey of Tunis recently paid the
Sultan of Turkey forty five hundred thou
sand dollars in order to secure to his de-
scendants the hereditary right to rule over
Tunis.
Twelve Swiss guides have been lost,
this year, by climbing the Alps, the larg-
est number that has so persisted since 1853
Seven were killed by avalanches, and three
by falling into crevasses.
The Emperor of Germany had no
less than fifteen thousand applications for
the cross of merit from ladies who acted
as nurses during the war. Only three
thousand of them were successful.
There are fifty Greek merchants in
Constantinople, and they are the richest
persons in the city. Their combined
wealth is estimated at $l0O,GO0,OOO, and
they monopoliZe the entire trade of this
metropolis of Turkey.
In order that the daughters of British
postmasters. may be made thoroughly
conversant with the use of Geographic in
struments, apartments have been fitted
up in the general telegraph office, Lon
don, where they will be instructed,
The Quebec Solicitor General has
within few days lost his father and two
sisters and his brother was lying danger
ously ill., The mourning worn at the flu
neral of the father was made in house
where there was scarlet fever, and the dis
ease was thus communicated to the fam
lily with fatal results.
"A weak butfcter of the waves of sor-
row, who kept clearinghouse in Lon
, don, lately hung herself because her hus-
band had scolded her for speaking to the
dodgers in the house. Her farewell mis-
sion to him was Dear Jim-You have
! driven me to do this little affair BE good
to the dog, and ask Mrs. Little to be kind
| to the birds"
Originally it was the intention of the
Emperor Alexander to send the Grand
Duke hereditary, and not Alexis, to the
United States. The repugnancc of the
Grand-Duchess hereditary, who is great
favorite of the Emperor, TO the project,
and the fact that his eldest son is hardly
familiar with English, while Prince
Alexis speaks it fluently, caused the Car
to decide in favor of the latter.
The London papers are authorized to
state that the words imputed to Mr..
Disraeli by DR.. Norman Macleod, with
respect to Her Maiesty's incapacity for
work, were never used by that gentle
man. His expressions were in a directly
contrary sense, viz f: that Her Maicsty's
capacity for business, distinguished from
the first by method and promptness, had
now, by long experience, become so
eminent that it greatly assisted and facili-
tated the conduct of public affairs.
"A very eccentric and famous man
died in howell in the st. Giles quarter. in
London, the other day Thirty years ago
he was one of the most celebrated men i'm
England. He was cbimney.swe and
he, like Fechter in the play, 'loycd the
queen. he became 50 infatuated after
the then young and fascinating ROYAL lady.
that he climbed down the chimney OF 81
James Palace number Of times, but es
capped when chased, save on one occasion
Then he VIA taken az he was about 10 en-.
ter the Queens apartments, and shut into
Tothill street prison. As soon M bis time
was up, he tried repeatedly again 10 see
the Queen, and the police took The matter
In hand. lie was arrested, taken into
Gravesend, embarked ON board The tsDia,
mono, and sent 10 Australia, He lived
Tor many years At Sidney, but vac allowed
70 return ~ England about five years AGO
always desperately enam6rsa ~ DE-
Queen His remaining years were snent
IN miserable poverty. Il few wee.s ~,
=, fafffe . was started II London tl,at 0aANr,
yittbyla was dead. lie heard II inst -
ne was retiring 10 rest, Uttered 4 9snao
sfist eled instantly. TAe anfortanafA
being . name was Edward forces '''