Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-30

Foreign Gossip.
Count de Chambord was fifty.three on
September %.
Both CASTELAR, and Gambetta are Jews.
The widow of Thalberg, the pianist,
keeps her husbands embalmed BODY In
her salon :.
A London man has twenty-seven lions
and eighteen tigers on hand to ship TO
American circusowners.
The Egyptian cotton crop for the past
wear is estimated at 100000 pounds.
The Government is encouraging the in
dustry.
sir Garnet Woolsey, who "over-,
,brewn Riel's rebellion in Manitoba, Is to
lead the English expedition against the
Ashantees.
The London Times states that there
have been more than 100000 worth of
notatoes imported into England during
The first seven months OF 1873.
The turning of the first sod for rail-
way in Persia took place recently at
Reshd. in the presence of leading Persian
officials and foreign Consuls.
Princess Louise. the wife of the Mar
ou;s of Lorne, is sculptor of considera-
HE merit, and is now engaged in design
inc busts for the adornment of her Lon
don home.
George w. Childs, of the Philadel-
mia Ledger, has placed memorial win
dow in the chapel of Westminster Abbey,
in memory of George Herbert and Will
liam Cowpsr.
The new Hertz torpedo, recently in
vented and subjected to trial by the Gov
eminent in Germany, is said to be the
most powerful and destructive weapon
ever constructed.
The cake has been ordered for the
wedding of the Duke of Edinburgh and
that Russian girl. 1t will be seven feet
and six inches high, and will weigh $50
pounds.
Hans Christian Anderson has returned
To Copenhagen with recruited strength
after summering in Switzerland, and it is
hoped that the effect of his dangerous i'll
ness has nearly passed away.
Discontinued husbands and wives in
Paris are in high glee over the discovery
that the Commune, during their posses
sion of Paris, destroyed, amcng other
things, all the official records of births
and marriages.
The fact that thousand trains pass
along parts of the Underground Railway
of London in twenty three hours, daily,
exclusive of trains run by three large COM
panies having running power over the
line, will give some idea of the immensely
ofthe traffic of that city.
John Stuart Mill left a BEG uest of
$4,000, to be paid to the first university in
Great Britain that should admit women.
But the length, breadth and thickness of
English prejudices is such that as yet not
one of the universities has offered to &C
cept the money on the condition named.
"A Select Committee of the House of
Commons have come to the conclusion
that Imprisonment for small debts ought
to be abolished. Seven thousand persons
were imprisoned in 1872 for debt, and
more than half of them for default in
payment of sums between five and forty
shillings.
The fastest train on the English rail
ways is the Great Western express be-
tween the Paddington Depot, in London,
and Exeter. Its average rate of speed is
As 641O0 miles per hour; but between
Paddington and Swindon it travels at the
rate of So 62-100 miles per hour, includ-
ing the stopping.
The production of tea in Japan for
1871 was 36,O0O,O00 of pounds, one-half
used in that country and the other half
exported. The best produced is in the
Province of Yamashiro, and In some
parts of the province there are trees 400
and even 500 years old which produce tea
worth IS per pound.
Among the treasures of the late Duke
of Brunswick, and concealed with O.
cover of base metal, has been found the
celebrated "Vase of Mantua." 1t is onyx,
and true masterpiece of artistic work
manship. Its fame is great among anti
quarians, who think ii is of Semitic pro-
duction and the phial used at the cOnse-
Grafton of the Hebrew kings.
The state of education in France is
discouraging. There has been no inn
provement of late years. Over 100000
children, from seven to thirteen of age,
receive no instruction whatever. Twenty
three per cent. of the young soldiers can
not read or write, and thirty-four per
cent. OF the married faen and women can
not sign their marriage act. The most
ignorant departments are Brittany, some
OF the central ones, and those adjoining
Spain and the Mediterranean.
"A series of caricatures now popular
in Vienna represents the Austrian idea of
the besetting sins Of the great powers.
Prussia, a naughty dame resting upon
sword, represents Pride; England is a
scrawny female seated on a cotton bale,
and is called Avarice; Russia goes skat-
ing and bowling by under the name of
Envy; Turkey lois on sofa, a fat oda.
lisque, as Luxury; France, with a mans
hat in one hand and glass of cham
payne in the other, dances dec0llete can
can, and is called Immodesty; Spain is
wild Petroleuse, and represents Anger;
Scotland is bonny lass, dropping to
sleep on mountain side, as Lazlncss;
America sits on pile of Pub. Docs,
scribbling furiously, and the iniquity she
represents bears the uncanny name of
"Zeitungscrieberei."
Industrial.
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