Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
series Of articles advocating the abandon
m.pt IF cel;hacy nv the priesthOOd

series Of articles advocating the abandon
ment of celibacy by the priesthood.
AT Cerkenwell Police Court in En-
gland, few days since, the manager of
the Newcastle Coiliery Company was con-
victed of having knowingly sold an In
ferior quality Of Goals for good one.
He was fined fl0 and costs, with the al
tentative of one months imprisonment.
The sardine fisheries in France at
present employ 10000 sailors and some
| 1900 men, women and children on land
| TO prepare the fish for market. Ii seems
| that the catch is now diminishing every
year, and the almost complete failure of
the fish may be anticipated at no remote
period.
Sensational reporting is carried to a
fine point in England. A reporter who
saw Gladstone at church says: 1.-The
Premier, who looked careworn and anx-
ious, entered heartily into the service, and
on the singing Of the second hymn, "Jeru-
salem, my happy home appeared to EN-.
phasiZe the words. when shall my labor
have an end.'" This last touch is splen-
did
In England the population is equal TO
one person to every 7,340 square yards; in
Wales one person to 1877 square yards !;
in England and Wales together, one to
1858 square yards; in Scotland one TO
2s,044 square yards; in Ireland one TO 49,
Cpl square yards. In the United King
dom, as whole, the population is one
person to every II ,935 square yards, or
about 2GO persons to the square mile.
George Manley, aged forty one, died
the other day at Bolton, England, Of hy-
drophobia On June he was bitten by a
retriever, the flesh being torn from one
of his wrists The dog was shot the same
day. The wound was dressed, and no
i'll effects were suffered from it until with
in the last few days On Sunday, October
., Manley complained of feeling i'll, and
the physician was sent for on the follow
ing morning. The sight Of water caused
him to gasp, and drinking it brought on
spasms. The symptoms OF hydropEobia
afterward became even more marked, and
he subsequently died of that disease.
"A correspondent from Germany gives
an account of the Lutheran sisterhoods,
and of their work in the great cities. One
Of the most prominent Of their houses is
in Berlin, another in Strasburg. The sis
tcrhood at Bcrin--pledgcd for life-num-
Der seventy, but not more than twenty are
Ia be found at the convent. The absent
ones are busted either in various city hos
pitfalls OF ia private families, where their
services are sought by the sick bed. Seven
are at present in the German hospitals
in London. They take their places, I'M
shrinkingly, in smallpox ward or q
lazar hospital.
"A French paper gives detailed ac-
count Of the manufacture of false eyes in
Paris, from which curious fact appears
that the average sale per week, of eyes in
tended for the human head amounts to
four hundred. One Of the leading deal
ers in this article carries on the business
in "A saloon of great magniGcence. His
servant has but one eye and this peculi-
arity is turned TO good account, for the
effect Of any of the eyes wanted by GUS
toners is conveniently tried in the unfor-
tunate ServitOr's head. The charge is
stated 10 be about f2 per eye. For the
poor there are secondhand visual organs,
which have been worn for time and ex-
changed for new ones. They arc sold at
reduced prices, and quantities are sent of
to India and the Sandwich Islands. The
manufacture has been successfully intro
troduced into England, and forms one of
the curiosties of birmingham industry.