Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-27

Commodore Vanderbilt pays his con.
fidential clerk, a faithful old fellow, who
has been with him twenty years, a munifi-
cent salary of $500 a year.
The last report concerning DR.. Liv-
ingstone is that he is held a prisoner in
Central Africa by tribe which demands
a heavy ransom for his release.
The Pittsburgh Commercial says SAKE
and Holmes are two of the wittiest of
American poets; but there is one who is
Whittier, puts in the Boston Post.
The facts that the old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good jokes that we
do leads DR.. Hopkins to remark that
Irish bulls were once calves in Greece,
-Ex- Comptroller Connolly is living
very quietly in small town in the in
terror of Ireland on the interest of mis-
cradle pittance of $2000,000 obtained in
New York City by severe and honest toll.
George H. Butler, whose mysterious
disappearance after dismissal from the
diplomatic corps was commented upon,
has turned up at New York in his old po-
ton as assistant editor of Wtltes' Spirit.
The Springfield Republican says that
DIR. Dawson, of Montreal, in his STORY of
the Earth and Man." talks about Adam
and Eve in Paradise as though he had
interviewed them for New York news
paper"
Richard r. Greener, colored gradu-
ate of Harvard in 1860, and since professor
in Howard University in Washington, has
accepted the professorship of moral and
mental philosophy in the State University
of South Carolina.
"A papyrus manuscript found in an
EGYPTIAN tomb has lately been translated
by scholar of Heidelberg. 1t is pro-
nounced by The Heidelberger to be an al
dress of Rameses III. to all the nations
of the earth, in which the king details
infinitely all the causes which led to the
exodus of the Jews from the land of the
Pharaohs.
Prof Max Muller says that there ex-
lists far more ditfused culture and inter
est about science and literature in En-
gland, especially among women, than
even in learned and scientific Germany
the reason being that the English enjoy a
perennial supply of science made easy"
in popular lectures and readable periodi-
Gals.
"A writer in the Chicago Tribune
ports that George Eliot whose maiden
name was Marian Evans, and who is now
the wife of George Henry Lewes, is very
shy by nature, and rendered more so by
the peculiar circumstance of her mar
riage." What is the use of this sort of
covert false statements She is not mar
ried TO George Henry Lewes, but lives
with him without marriage.
Anna Dickinson has returned from
her trip 10 Idaho, and in her letters to the
New York Graphic, describing what she
saw and what she did, occurs an account
of a bath at the warm springs in that re-
gion. She says: "You may laugh as
much as you please, and say | have no
business to gtlsh at my age, but, girls, the
delight of bath in that Idaho water is
very like the rapture you find In your
lovers tenderest clasp. have tried both,
and know"
General Ryan, the victim of Spain in
Cuba, was well known in Washington, ID.
c., as n great ladies' man, and created u
sensation while promenading the avenue,
with his military cape, large Texan braid
hat, long curling hair, etc. He always
carried very heavy cane, and was gener-
ally accompanied by an unusually large
bloodhound, who was terror TO many
pedestrians. He frequently had Difficult
culties in the hotel Hobbies, generally fol-
lowing up discussion on Cuban matters
In that way. He was about % years of
age, and was well educated.