Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-19
Foreign Gossip.

unwieldy as these may seem, he can travel
rapidly with them. Hs#ks
Foreign Gossip.
The total rateable value of London is
SIS, 367, sl4; last year it was 81, 1850.
AT Aberdeen, Scotland, one of the
leading, papers is under the control OF
At the battle Of Gravelotte, a trum-
peter was killed by ball which went In
at the mouth of his instrument
The French balloons, with fair wind,
60 about as fast as the express trains on
American railroads. ~
The British Museum library contains
1 600, 900 volumes, and is doubling itself
every fifteen years.
One thousand five hundred and seven
ty-five divorces have been granted IN Eng
land during the last twelve years.
Rain is annually becoming more ire
quent in Egypt, in consequence OF an
extensive increase in the cultivation OF the
palm there. ss.
One hundred and f,fty-two persons are
stricken down with trichin0sis, from eat
ing diseased pork, IN one little village near
Erfurt Prussia.
| AT Birmington, England, : man found
| that the corpse Of his grandm0ther had
I become petrfed, and he ffied to sell heI
to 3 taveling Snowman for se3.
| Among the sstlonomsrs who went
from England to Sicily TO observe the late
eclipse We're two women, appointed te
| take observations With the spectroscope.
The pulpit in which John Calvin
preached, and the chair in which he sat
are preserved to this day in the Cathedra
/ of ST. Pierre, in, Geneva. This great re
former died in the year 1854 iisA
The two most unfortunate cripples o.
the war, are atrthe Berlin Hospital. They
are couple 81 soldiers, one Of whom has
lost both arms and legs. and the other ont
arm and both legs. Artificial limbs are
being prepared for them YtSBzkh
in the investigation of railroad dis
aster in England, it was discovered that al
employee knownas q pointsman received
as wages about IS per week, and worked
from twelve to fifteen hours every day.
The discoveries of the German Arctic
expedition make It probable that Green
land is cut into two parts, by an immens'
ford, or narrow arm Of the sea. The
newly discovered ford has been named
after the Emperor Francis Joseph, 0
/ Austria 1t is proposed to name the i'm
mense island, discovered right east o
Spitzbergen, Emperor William Land.
A London man, who withholds hi
name, keeps annoying charitable institu
ton 10y sending 10, 600 donations unde
cover OF darkness, in violation Of law
Detectives are working the case up, ant
he can't go unpublished. There are severa
benevolent, concerns in this country tina
would like to be annoyed the same way.
After the war is over, war museum
is to be established in Berlin. in which
among other curiosities, the effects OF dit
ferent projectiles on the human body ar
to. be, demonstrated. Injured bones ar
being prepared for it, and the balls an
bullets that have caused the injury hay
1, been added as far as this is possible. III
Il officers of the anatomical museum in Bel
lin are at present busily engaged in pre-
= pairing these horrible specimens whic
demonstrate the ingenuity which Inc
display in destroying their fellow crea
lures. g. E....t ,..,,,rl ,,,tt
+, Religious and Educational.
The Catholic schools of st. Louis hav
about eight thousand scholars.
Two Boston ladies, have contribute
Thousand dollars each 10 the YouD
Mems Christian Union Of tint city. ! {
Among the Christmas presents to b
mentioned is that of pulpit-a Catholi
!. church in Newark, N. j., got one from
\ Official reports, show that in Swede
! J. NJ az ri
between 5 and Is attend school, large
percentage than anywhere else.
4 There are but sixteen church edifce
in the State Of Nevada: OF these six ar
Methodist, four Roman Catholic, tire
Presbyterian, and three Episcopalian.
-During the lastten years the Methc
dists in Rhode Island have increased !
!. per cent, the Eniseapaltiasns 4 tie Cor o.,
gregationalists TIA, and y the Baptist
The late Iexas Conference of tn
Methodist EpiscOpal Church, South, Gale
two of its melhbers 70 account for attene
ing a circus.
"A school s1eacher in Sche0ectady, \
Y, has, dunKg the past summer, inficte
573 punishments on the children of he
school. 10 ygur89 N N eft
There are about two hundred and sc,
enty Ave Thousand children educated In til
fpublic SCHOOLS Off MASSACHUSETTS,, at IN an
nual cost, Of Ave million dollars.
II Watts composed 697 hymns, and We'
ley 600. About tenth of them live, an
are sung In every Christian church wher
the English Language is usedA
4 AT burlington, Iowa on recen
Sunday, Ia the Congregational Church
some one, unknown, placed in the plate
one hundreat dollar bill; accompanied b
no name or other mark Indicating fron
whose hand it came.
| 81 q Incidents and Accidents. q y
On Christmas a man named Georg
Fletcher was frozen to death in Fernandina
Florida. gg1g9CgkyT 2 III DIM
AZ During the week between Christina
and New Years the losses by fire in tn
Unitsds States eEesedsd $500, go. I'll Ri
| A infant was }notheeed. III bed i
/ CINCINNATI lie otser ni6ht&by beinl
wrapped too closely in bed clothes.
Miss Emma Sampson of dMilwsukee
was burned to death lin New York tn
other night from the use Of, camphene p
q fire. " ~ ~f Till
IA fndY'H chiQn0n aayod her, life At