Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-22
Foreign Gossip.

Louis Napoleon and Eugene will
make their headquarters at Toronsv VI. sll
the commlng season. 'Oi
Three thousand pounds have h4s,
subscribed in London in aid of an W.
petition to search for Dr. Livingstone W
: Fires arising from "non.eynlos;r.,
kerosene are of daily occurrence n Wa
do. American civilization sweens av = su'
thing before it.
The newly-enrolled policemen of Mn,
treal are very superior class of men
None less than five feet ten inches n
height have been accepted.
The Inspector of Police for the BeD
gal government reports that of 9a9 case.
of snake bites in which ammonia was al
ministered by the police, 7O2 are said 10
have recovered.
London is a wonderful city. Eyev
eight minutes, day and night, one person
dies; every five minutes, one is bonn.
eight hundred thousand have been added
to the population since 1861. lisa
world in itself.
New machines for printing, Commas
ing and distributing type, which hayep.
Gently been perfected in the office Of the
London Times, are to be exhibited at
work in the London international exhM
ton of 1872. The rapidity of productia
is said to be increased threefold by The
combined operations.
The population of the little Kingdom
of Greece, according to the census for
1870, amounted to 1,457, 1874 inhabitants
of whom 754, JIG were males, and 7O5,,l6
females. Comparing the present returns
with those of 1860, an increase is shown
of 1872, SIS souls. Athens has popuA
ton of 44,51O souls.
"A pre- jected Peruvian railway will
cross the Andes at an elevation of l4M
feet higher than the highest point crossed
by the Central Pacific Railroad, and
within 1000 feet of perpetual snow
The American style of cars will be adopt
ed, and United States engineers will N-
perintend its construction.
1t may not be generally understood
that since the commencement OF the great
Tichborne trial, bonds based upon the
claims of the Australian have been reg
ular marketable commodity, 1uctuains
as his chances waned or improved, They
have now fallen so low that what would
have brought fifty pounds Has stHHhieeff
sells for the paltry sum of five shllllnS
Eleven classes are now in active Ope
ration IN as many mining centers in Com
wall teaching chemistry mineralogy ana
geology to more than a hundred miner
Measures are to be taken to bring th
mining agents together at regular perlodS
in order to compare observations, ana 70
discuss the scientific bearings OF suO'eriS
mean mining phenomena.
The Saoiss Times says: "An infantO.g
has been recently baptized at GaurusVno
may possibly live to boast of having IT,
ceived his Christian name in extraoralhs
ry circumstances This young GlarronaS
is the son of a father aged 10. his wv
grandfathers are, the one 80 and the olna
al years of age. His three greatgIa.sSD
fathers are respectively G6, Is, anu :,
while his great great grandfather is j"
more than 50 years old"
The Viceroy of Egypt, upon hearing iS
of the conflagration at Chicago, lnlenutu
to send ten thousand bushels OF WIea. Nv "
that city. He was informed Una. NV
present would not be proper, onltas,
being the shipping-point of great a. ,~"
and corn country. He then sen. arJ
thousand dollars, and contributed seve q
valuable paintings to the collecuoh i, n
French works of art which is TO DC sO'a
for the relief of the Chicago sufferer
"A secret Italian society of sWina l.ai
called 81 Catenati." has been dlsco'e rssn
with ramifications in every EufoI srs
State. ! Catenati are genteei pess"T
furnished by the heads OF the so' ~,
with skillfully-forged papers, slauns rs n
the bearers are the unfortunate ViC e., :asao
some great calamity, such as the Inii I;fs
fire, the Westfield explosion, ana llle " bnt
The beggars receive a regular salary iuto
are bound to pay all moneys receive enc Of
the treasury of the society, so on, to
these swindlers have recently been se nave
prison in Germany. The Catena,ic , na
also branch society in the uniteu s ,rTs.t
where they are said to reap a ficn n''
from charitable persons.
A horrible story is told in a pn s.ia
from the District of Plotsk, IN Dom com.
giving the particulars OF mulu. .ronrie.
mitted last November. A landed ploPihis
tor of the district, while returning " hor.
home with 5000 rubles which ne n lau.On.
rowed of neighbor in his ssmes.sed
was overtaken in forest by , .m
man, who demanded his life or hls man man r..
The money was given up, and the n relate
turned to his creditors house S " 70
the misadventure, and was mum s, mon.
spend the night there. On the nen and,
ing the host entered his son rp ptddsn be
to his CONSERVATION, saw, han li'aJ loaded
meath the pillow of the sleePei, If 800
revolver and the stolen pachas ~ shane,
rubies. In transport OF fary ), a y rrevolvet
the unfortunate father seizea 'h' =
and killed his son.