Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-21
paris has 36.573 street lamps.

Paris has 36.553 street lamps.
American tourists are swarming like
bees ia Scotland.
The Orleans princes appear 10 have
gone back 10 their Bourbon.
A circulating library has been opened
Rome for the working classes.
i'm the last English census 1871
poets we're recorded as residing in Lon
don.
Rome has q new hotel called the
"Hoiel Philadelphia" II is notyet open,
because the proprietor wants 1000 rent
per apnum.
Some Frcnchmcn have invented an
extraordinary explosive with which TO
blow up the Prussian empire. II is called
'oz0bcnzin.'
Russian intrigues are reported in
GERMANY II is said the feeling against
Prussia in the small German courts
grows stronger, and that Russian family
influence il supporting these intrigues.
When John Bright, the Quaker mem
Der Of the British Cabinet, is presented to
the Qucen, she allows him To dispense
with kneeling and kissing her hand, and
shakes hands with him like a common
Christian.
The Shah has at last reached the
Vienna Exposition. If put into cage for
exhibition as a curiosity, he would prove
one of the chief features of the show. BIZ
firca,ed swine dressed in royal robes are
not TO be seen every day.
They had city election in Rome, the
other Sunday. We don't know which
party beat, and perhaps it doesn't matter
The fact of interest Is, that the great ma
iority ol the solid Roman taxpayers stay
ed away from the polls, quite in the Amer
ican fashion, In consequence, the vote
was ridiculously light
in England, a young man, whose tail.
or had sent him an insolent dun, on q
postal card, brought suit for libel and re-
covered heavy damages, the Judge hold
ing in general terms that no communities
ton, which would injure the standing Of
any person, in whatsoever manner, was
eligible for open correspondence.
Iii is nothing unusual to see peanuts
on the corner, but the rare occurrence Of
corner in peanuts Is among the pr0babili-
ties. The low price Of last year prevent
ed importatioBs, and the stock is now not
fourth Of the usual quantity. Recently
prices have advanced twenty five per
cent and the unusually small planting
this season tends further 10 advance
prices. Speculation is already rife.
lit now passes into the domain Of fact
and history that the good cook is sure 10
become very aged Good victuals and
Aicious life are not compatible. Instance !:
man one hundred and twenty seven has
Just died in Russia, he had been cook TO
the great Empress Catherine H. The
Emperor Nicholas granted him pension
of 700 rubles, which enabled him 10 keep
the pot boiling. He has little boy aged
Dincty-eigbt.
The Marquis Of Lorne was recently
asked by Mrs. Grey, leading woman.
ufiragist, 10 preside at meeting in favor
of the co.education of the sexes, and con
scented 10 do so, provided no woman
should be permitted 10 speak. Mrs. Grey
bowed acquicsceDccsa nd thereby aroused
the ire of Miss Kate Field, who, in her
correspondence, therefore denominates
that lady person false to her SEX" and
the Marquis foolish young man"
An interesting paper, valuable in q
physiological point of view, on the quail
lily Of air taken from certain localities
was lately read by DR.. Sigerson, at Dub
lin, before the Royal Irish Society. IN
air from an iron factory, he found, on cx-
animation, carbon, ash, and iron; the
latter substance was in the form of little
hollow balls, each about twothousandtbs
Of ALI inch in diameter, the iron being SO
thin that the light passed through It, In
shirt factory air were found fllamcnts OF
linen and cotton. Antimony-from the
fypc.meial probably--was discovered in
the air of printing rooms. Stable air was
asceriained 10 contain floating hair and
scales; and in the air through which to-
bacco smoke was passing, nicotine, the
poison Of tobacco, appeared in little glob
ules.