Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-11
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign UOsslp'
A ladies' journals announced In Lon.
don. its contents to consist solely OF
births, deaths, and marriages.
French dressmakers say that an
American customer is worth more TO
them than three of their own countrymen.
There is but one Enelishman in
German State-prison. Three American
men and one American woman are con-
fined in German penitentlarles-
The British Government in India pays
rewards far the killing of venomous
serpents. OF 1913 snakes, for the
destruction of which rewards were paid
in one month at Bangalore, only one hun
dred and twenty-three were found to be
poisonous by tie examining medical Of
ficer
The immense business of the English
railways is illustrated by single little
paragraph of statistics just published
There are sixteen railway companies which
own eight thousand four hundred loco
motives. One company, the Northeast
ern has 935 engines; the Great Western
has 925: the Midland, $50, and the Lon
don & Northwestern, 1851.
London must be place full OF un-
employed talent The other day trades
man advertised for clerk at eighteen
sbilings a week Qess than $500 year,
He received three hundred applications
for the place. and among them were two
Masters of Arts, over twenty graduates
of colleges. and about the same number
who had familiarity with several foreign
languages.
Great Britain has afloat 122 9-ton
guns, 11S 121a-ton guns, 26 lS-ton guns,
and / 25-ton gun, in broadside ships.
There are also17 121aton guns in the turret
ships Prince Albert, Wyvern, Surprise,
and Royal Sovereign, and there are, or
will be, % 1S-ton guns, 8 25-ton guns, and
8 35-ton guns on board II turret ships,
either built or building.
Recent advices from Geneva, Switzer-
land. state that the police there recently
captured the firm of Berthey & Co., who
were running a so-called National Bank,
but really had counterfeiting concern
on large scale Among the property
seized were two thousand well-eXecuted
certificates of Erie Railway shares, one
thousand shares of the city of Lyons, to-
gether with large number of photographic
plates.
The Honolulu advertiser, of Novem-
Der 25th, gives the particulars of the muir
der of Bishop Patterson, of Melanesia,
and the Rev. Mr. Atkin-both mission
aries-together with three natives, at MI
capu, in the Swallow group of the South
Pacific Islands. 1t seems that some YES
sci had landed at the island and had mis-
used the natives and sailed away ; where
upon the enraged natives wreaked their
vengeance upon the unhappy mission
aries.
The new Postmaster-Gene of Great
Britain has been for some time trying the
system of making lettercarriers OF small
BOYS. who can be employed for about
$3.50 per week, while the department has
been paying the men S.. 1t is said to be
no uncommon thing to find these youth
full officials playing marbles on the side
walk, or riding surreptitiously on the
back springs of cabs, while the public are
waiting for their letters at home.
An English paper says "The actual
saving of time by the Mont Gems Tunnel
has been ascertained and the various
routes compared at recent conference OF
representatives of Continental railways.
The journey from London to Alexandra
| by the present routes, via Brindisi and
the Bremen Pass, is timed to occupy 15C
hours. If the mail left London as now
at $3.50 on Friday, it would, according to
the service proposed via the tunnel, reach
Paris at 7:2O on the morning of Saturday
leave Paris at 8 a. M, and reach Mon
| dane at 11:45 p. M, the same day,
Bologna, at 1890 a. m, on Sunday, and
Alexandria at 1910 on the morning OF
Thursday, the entire journey occupying
1884 hours"