Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-09
Foreign Gossip.


his journal of Travel" TO firm of Lon
don publishers.
The King of Burmah has decided
upon improving his capital and country
by the introduction of gas and railways.
An Irish paper mentions the case of a
Dublin girl who fell in love with her
brother and committed suicide in conse-
quence.
1t is said that the Spanish Govern
ment intends selling all the ecclesiastical
property i'm Rome belonging to Spain. 1t
is valued at $4,000, 900.
of the children born in London more
than twice as many are raised to maturity
new than were raised one hundred years
ago. Then more than onc-half died under
the age of five years; now only about
quarter.
1t is rumored that Count de Cham.
bord has intimated that when his right to
the sovereign rule over France has been
formally recognized and homage paid
him, he will abdicate the throne in favor
of the Count de Paris.
The Carlists at Vera recently re-en-
acted the old legend of Romans carrying
off the Sabine women, but whereas the
Romans wanted wives the Carlists only
wanted seamstresses TO manufacture uni
forms One Of the young women carried
off was the possessor Of a dowry OF $685.
600.
The police magistrates of London
have summoned before them several poor
persons accused of not sending their chill
dren to school, and informed them that
81, hi 10, Ln IN hn inIuC
trial schools, and their parents required
to maintain them there.
"A theatrical manager sent to the
Baroness Coutts to solicit her patronage
and the use Of her name for an entertain
ment in aid Of the widows and orphans
| Of English unknown to fame. The good
lady cheerfully granted his request and
| ordered 100 tickets at 81 each.
Thomas Holloway, the pill Imam, has
commenced in Surrey, England, the cree
| ton of lunatic asylum, which he intends
| to present to the British nation. 1t will
| cost about 100000, and will accommo
date about 400 patients.
-Chekiang, a curious barbarous Gus.
| tom, has been revived ut Shanghai on ac-
| count of the expected famine. Several
| IflcU CdIiC DClOIC tlC uublciitICo dhh
asked permission to pray to God that the
calamity be avcrted. If the prayer is not
answered within certain time they will
suffer themselves to be burned alive. The
applications were rejected.
The Bank Of England covers five
acres of ground, and employs nine hun
dred clerks. There are no windows on
the street. Light is admitted through
open courts No mob can take the bank
therefore, without cannon to batter the i'm
mense walls The clock in the center OF
the bank has fifty dials attached to it
Large cisterns are sunk in the court and
engines i'm perfect order are always ready
in case of fire. The bank was incorpor-
ated in 1904. Capital, $90,OO0,O0O.
The endorsements attending the
importation of Chinese women at San
Francisco are of the gravest description
The other day fourteen bad ones arrived,
and, before the Protestant clergyman who
who undertakes their reclamation could
get access to them, they had been put on
their guard by male confederates. None
of them, therefore, would admit their i'm
moral purpose in immigrating; some said
they came to see their mothers, some to
hunt up sister, some to take in sewing,
etc. Eight Of them consented to go to
the Methodist Chinese mission. They are
also expert smugglers, and these were
completely swathed in silks. Upon the
fourteen women were found eighty -four
gowns and thirty seven pairs of silk
trousers