Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-15
Foreign GOSSin.

Foreign Gossip.
Prussia has nearly thousand apricu,
tural societies.
"A single hair from Louis Napoleon.
head is said to have been sold for S1oO o.
a recent fair in London.
The Director of the Official Journo,
Paris, published under the control of tbs
Commune, has been sentenced to trans
portation.
The Vienna Presse pretends to have An.
thentic information that the Grand Dixie
Alexis is engaged to be married to young
American lady.
-Bismark has given notice that in the
future all communications which the Ger.
man Government may have to make IL
other governments will be written in Ger.
man, not, as heretofore, in French.
lie Monde, a leading newspaper nj
Paris, has come to the conclusion thath
cannot conscientiously continue 70 en-.
ploy printers on Sunday, and Therefor,
notifies its patrons that they will receive
no paper on Mondays.
After duel in Russia, which resulted
in the death of one of the CONTESTANTS
and, during the funeral services. the sur.
vivor entered the church, advanced
through the crowd of mOurners, knelt be.
side the coffin and prayed to the soul Of
the departed for forgiveness.
Some idea of the straits to which
many of the French refugees are reduced
may be derived from the fact that we'll
known military officer is now performing
the humble functions of porter in Lon
don, and that an drtiste of reputation is
selling flowers in the public streets of that
city.
"A man has been fined $50 in Eng.
land for using crest to which he was
not entitled. Being out of envelopes, he
had borrowed two of neighbor, a solc
itor, who rejoiced in armorial bearings
and, the envelopes being stamped with
his crest, this was the illegal use for which
the fine was imposed No one can dis
play coat of arms in England without
a license.
"A Scottish lady student, Miss Jessie
Macgregor, has carried off the highest
honor at the Royal Academy this year.
The gold medal and books for the best
iAiiiSS ttoTiicai f painting, "An Act of Mercy
has been accorded to Miss Macgregor,
who is the second female recipient of the
honor. Another lady, Miss J. G. Smith,
got the silver medal for the best drawing
from the antique.
An unambltious gentleman by the
name of George Richardson, wine-mer.
chant, of Salisbury, England, has been
fined one-hundred pounds, by the local
magistrates, for refusing to serve in the
office of Mayor, to which he was elected
on the 9th of November last. MIR. Rich
ardson would never do for an American
Mayor A well-brought-up American
Mayor would rather die than not stick 10
his post.
king Amadeus of Spain has recently
begun to suspect that several at
tempts to poison him were made
after his return from the provinces
to the capital. He was taken qulle
seriously sick on one occasion, in eonSe'
quence Of having partaken OF CAKE
which was presented to him. lie taxes
now no food until it has been previously,
tasted IN his presence by the steward Oh
the royal table
"A distinguished geologist has found
among the Pyrenees, in the south o.
France, the remains of prehistoric cities
only slight distance below the SOIL;
These discoveries disclose habitatlons 0,
the same general character as those fouhu
beneath the Swiss lakes about the yeai
1854. In all the western part OF the r 1,..
enees the remains are numerous. nv
Archaeological Society of that distrlcl
endeavoring to develop these discovers
into history of the people who dwel'm
those cities.