Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Foreign GOssiD.

Since 1S49 the Pope has received
170,000,OOO francs in the way of Peters
pence.
The ordinary cost of procuring pat.
ent in England is about seven hundred
dollars.
The Tribunal Of Justice at Seville
has condemned three more petroleum in
cendaries to death.
1t costs an Englishman Of sixty-three
years $4,000 to trlfe with the affected
affections Of maid of fifty-five winters.
Mr.. James Baird, Scotch iron-mas
ter, has given $4,000, 900 to the Scotch
Kirk, to be used solely for religious pur-
poses.
Statistics prepared by the Italian
Minister Of Commerce show that trade
between Italy and America has greatly
increased since the Franco-German war.
Lady Peterborough is not dead as re-
ported, but is still living in felicity with
her Arab husband.
Few nations, says the London Times,
could have emerged from the ordeal of
public disaster with such unbroken cour-
age as the French have done.
The Duke of Edinburgh is described
by Miss Kate Field in the Tribune as a
bullying London swell, selfish, surly, un-
generous and mean, but with the best Of
cooks, the best of wines, and the best Of
tailors. His complexion is very red.
Poor little Denmark has its internal
troubles too. Pho, Brix and Lclof have
each been sentenced to penal servitudc
for attempting to create revolution by
organizing the laboring classes in order
to overthrow the existing constitution"
The whistle is to be substituted in
the French army for the bugle when the
troops are engaged In skirmishing. Dur
ing the recent war the whistle was found
TO act very well in the free companies,
whilst tile calls on the bugle revealed too
much to the enemy.
The Italians are said to exhibit speci-
mems of dead human bodies--prescrved
according t6 the Brunette method-which
are rs hard as stone, retaining the natural
shape perfectly, and being equal to the
best wax models.
The treasures of the Sultan of Tur-
key, on exhibition in the Weltaussetcl-
lung at Vienna, are worth forty millions
of dollars. The principal piece Is the
throne of Nadir-Shah. 1t Is of gilded
wood, covered all over with garlsnds and
flowers and tracery In pearls, rubies and
emeralds.
The London Spectator thinks that, II
the present majority "will only rule
France for another year, and debate as
| they do once week, monarchy will have
become impossible, and the Due de
Broglie will be In London, representing
with great fidelity and dignity-M. Gam
| BETA"
The spirit Of conquest is once more
aroused In Holland, and the war against
Atcheen is to be resumed with vigor.
General Van Swieten, the Dutch CON-
mander, has force of $4,000 men In the
East Indies, and drafts are leaving Am
sterdam every week Unless the Atcheen
ruler succeeds in obtaining aid from some
powerful quarter, his fate will soon be
that of Khiva.
There is movement on foot in Paris
to do away with the wearing of gloves.
1t IL argued that as q small hand, like q
small foot, 10 generally the sign Of aristo.
cratic descent there Is no reason why It
should be concealed within q vulgar in
tegument, where the fingers Of the Eau.
b0urg are on equal terms with the horny
ones of Belleville and Montmarte.
The Shah was astonished when told
that the honor of the Knighthood Of the
Garter was expected to cost him G2OO,
and he left England without paying. He
| seems to think, ~ the Emperor Napoleon
declared, that to ask money as part re-
turn for suppositious honor is peculiarly
English and extremely shabby.