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


-Khiva has been annexed" to Russia
by stroke of the pen.
-Rimmel sold 100000 worth of per-
fumes at the Vienna Fair.
Passports are to be abolished in Rus.
STA in the course of the next year.
Two branches of the English Presby-
terians have resolved upon union.
Eugene severely condemns the idea
of an alliance between the Bonapartists
and the Radicals.
The English people imported eggs to
the amount of almost $10,000,000 during
the past nine months.
Without reckoning exports, the En-
glish consumption of coal amounts to
10O,OOO,O0O tons per annum.
On Oct Goth London was visited by
one of its unrivaled fogs, which stopped
all traffic and caused numerous accidents.
The German Gazette, of Vienna, esti-
mates the deficit of the Vienna Exposi-
ton at from 12,000,000 TO II, 100000 flor
ms.
"A French astronomer thinks he will
be able to find out during the coming
transit of Venus whether the planet is in
habited.
In England, last year, the number of
deaths attributed by coroners' iuries to ex-
cessive drinking was 379-253 men, and
121 women.
Prof Tyndall has been elected to pre-
side over the next meeting Of the British
Association, to be held at Belfast, begin
ming Aug 8. 1874.
"A blind young man, Mr.. Frederick
Marsh, has recently been matriculated at
Durham University in England, and
gained scholarship worth $3.50 a year.
"A cup and saucer made of Bristol
china, and belonging to set especially
made for Edmund Burke, were sold in
Bristol the other day for the large sum of
$780,
The Queen Dowager of Prussia loses
100000 thalers by the failure of the famous
banking house of Quistorp, at Berlin, and
a Prince of the royal family will suffer to
a greater extent.
An Italian girl of twenty has been
sentenced to thirty years Imprisonment
for highway robbery. One of the victims
offered to marry her if the judge would
suspend sentence.
"A million dollars worth Of ostrich
feathers is imported into England every
year from the Cape of Good Hope. Every
pound of these feathers is said to be worth
fifty guineas in the London market.
The Duke of Meiningen has married
an actress, Fraulein Ellen Franz, and his
lat ho h Oh
have discarded her. She would make,
they think, a good enough morganatic
wife.
The GOLFERS in England appear to be
in prosperous condition. At Bryn, in
the Wigan coal fields, the other day, a
miner paid G37 for dog. A Wigan
jeweler sold a watch and guard to another
collier for ESQ.
An unrestrained possible increase of
population in England and Wales since
1881 would have made the present figure
fifty millions from sixteen and half mil
lions. 1t is, in fact, or was, In 1871, TWEEN
ty-one and half millions.
Not long ago two gentlemen started
from London on bicycle trip to Land $
End, a distance of 300 miles. Their trip
occupied them just one week. They were
forty.two hours and twenty-five minutes
actually upon their vehicles.
The consumption of alcoholic bever-
ages used to average ten gallons per head
Of the population in Sweden, but under
judicious excise laws has been reduced to
exactly that of Scotland, which is two gal.
Ions each for every man, woman and
child.
Bishop Holden (Episcopalian), of
Moonsonee, Hudson Bay Territory, says
his diocese il fifteen times the size of En-
gland, and in the whole of it there are
only three missionaries. The Bishop is
1000 miles away from any railroad, and
can hear from England only three times
year.
Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern was
expected in Vienna a few days ago, on
his way to Bucharest. A command in
the Roumanian army is to be given him.
The present ruler Of Roumania, Prince
Charles of Hohenzollern, is without male
heirs, and it is probable that Prince
Frederick will be his successor.
"A Paris journal publishes the follow
ing curious paragraph: 1.-THE Oldest
journal in the world is published at Pekin.
1t lie printed on large sheet Of yellow
silk, and appears in the same form, with
the same characters, and on the same kind
of stuff as took place thousand years
ago. The only thing changed is the
writer's"
We learn, says the London Court
Journal, that Hindoo widow has been
married in Madras. The gay widow was
but thirteen, and those who are fond OF
names may be pleased TO learn that hers
was Poongavana Ummall, and that she
was daughter of G. Angoo Moodeliar, OF
Chintaudrepettab, and married Viohoor
Soobramania Moodeliar.
I'm the parish of Hampstead, near
London, there have been only 49j deaths
in the last year--about IA in 1000. This
low death rate and freedom from disease
ia the district is attributed by DIR. Lord,
the health officer, TO the enforcement OF
the vaccination law, to the general use OF
disinfectants, and TO the attention paid TO
the water supply, drainage, and to sewer
construction.
Personal and Literary.
Gail Hamilton has her life insured
for 425 900.