Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-16
FOREIGN Gossip.

In Denmark one hundred young men
are admitted every year to the bar :;
| about fifty become physicians, and
thirty clergymen.
/ -Carlotta, widow Of Macmillan, has
lost the beauty for which she was once so
| famous, and her appearance is said be
| repulsive. Her physician announces that
she can not live long.
An English journal contains the fol-
| lowing brisk advertisement " Notice
| If my husband, who left Bristol four
wears ago does not return within three
months to his wife from this date, she in
tends to get married"
The commander-in-chicf of the Ger
man troops in France receives thirteen
hundred dollars a month u general Of
division, seven hundred dollars a briga-
der-general, four hundred ; and a colonel
three hundred.
A book publisher in Pesth, Hungary,
was recently sentenced TO nine months
imprisonment for forging IA letter in the
name of Charles Dickens, addressed to
himself, and containing praises of IA Hun
garian translation of his works.
After the great fire in London, in
1866, Parliament enacted that every house
should be built with independent walls,
and all in front raised 10 equal height,
and those walls should be of stone or
brick, and that no man should delay be-
yond seven years.
The hobby of the CrownPriwte Of
Prussia is agriculture. His farm, near
/ Brandcnburg, costs him every year fifty
thousand dollars, but he has, at alleyents'
the pleasure of taling Aiis guests at the
dinner-table that he himself raised all the
vegetables which are placed on the table.
An Austrian surgeon has got into
trouble in singular way. bur9omas-
ter named klym was goreh in the lett
side by IA wild bull, and .the doctor who
was summoned to attend fhc injured
man wore gold ring which slipped OIL
his finger during the operation and re-
NAMED in the wound. The loss was not
noticed until after the wound had been
dressed. and it was not tho6yRt proper
to put the unfortunate in greater danger
by endeavoring to recover the ring.
The burgomaster died and the surgeon
has since been arrested, on the charge
that death had been caused not by the
wounds, but by Inflammation produced
by the ring.
1t appears that Russia has been ter
tibly afflicted by fires during the past
summer. "Confiagrations rage among
us like an epidemic, plague" the Mos
cow Gazette lately remarked. within
the last seven months several great
towns. as PolOsk. Slatoust, and RsheT
have been consumed, while others have
suffered to a great extent. For time
fires were daily occurrences in Moscow
several railroad lost heavily by the burn
ing of carriages. laden especially with
cotton, and by the burning OF stations
Villages beyond count have persisted In
the same way. This, however, seems 10
be the common fate of Russian villages,
as we are told they have all to be re-
built once i'm five years. I'm the PROV,
ince of Wjatka there were five hundred
and forty fires in the first two or three
months Of this year." says the Gazette.
The following notice to guests Is
posted in hotel at Lahore, Hindosstan,
kent by native landlord: Gentle
men who come in hotel not say anything
about their meals they will be charged
f. for. and if they should say beforehand
that they are going out to breakfast or
dinner, etc, are If they say that they
not have anything to eat, they will not
/ he charged, and ii not SO, they will be
charged, or unless they bring 1t to the
notice of the manager of the place, and
should they want to say anything, they