Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11
foreign Gossip.

-Soyer, the cook of the London Re
form Club, asserts that person living to
| the age Of fifty years and conforming TO
the ordinary diet of well-to-do English
people consumes no less than $500 eggs
The French Academy of Inscriptions
has couple Of army officers in Palestine
who have made map Of Galilee. An
| other party is at work investigating Tyre,
mainly with reference to the time Of the
| Crusades.
| The JewiM World records the com
plete dissolution Of the Jewish congrega-
ton in the city of Rome, and says that the
| synagogues are seldom vicited, while there
| is an entire apathy as to schools and
church organization.
The Rev. Naryan Sheshadri pro-
poses to establish model Christian vii
iage in India, to be called Bethel, and
which will have wellventilated houses, a
church, manse, industrial schools, etc.
1t will cost about $4,000.
The Congregational Quarterly for April
gives the following summary of students
in the Congregational theological semi
naries for 1874: Andover, rs; Bangor,
40; Chicago, AZ; Hartford, II; New
Haven, 90; Oakland, s.; Oberlin, 46-
total, 327.
May IA, about 1000 Catholics from
Washington and Baltimore visited a
shrine Of the Virgin Mary at White
marsh, about twenty-five miles from
Washington, in Prince Georges County,
Md. 1t is the first pilgrimage to an
American shrine.
The manufacture of a rified gun
weighing eighty.one tons has been begun
at the Woolwich Arsenal, England. 1t
will throw a shot of about 1900 pounds
weight, and is intended for the iron-clad
Infiexlble, which will carry four guns Of
this kind in is turret. They will be the
largest pieces of ordnance in the world.
The Inflexible is building at Portsmouth,
and will have twenty -four inches of solid
iron plating, and be constructed so as to
| carry guns weighing $50 tons. She is
meant tor sea going vessel.
1T is related of the Duke Of Yelling
ton that once, when he remained TO take
the sacrament in his parish church, a very
poor old man had gone up the opposite
aisle, and, reaching the communion table,
knelt down close by the side ofthe Duke;
some one Ia pew-owner, probably came
and touched the poor man on the shoulder,
whispered to him to move farther away
or to rise and wait until the Duke had
received the bread and wine. But the
eagle eye and quick ear of the great com
mander caught the meaning Of that touch
and that whisper. He clasped the old
mans hand and held him to prevent his
rising, and in reverental undertone, but
most distinctly, said: Do not moye-we
are all equals here"
Early in the month of April the
Portuguese sailors go through with the
ceremony of "flogging Judas Iscarito."
The London Times gives an account of
| this years performance Of the ceremony
| by them in the London docks. 1t con-
sists in belaboring wooden image of the
faithless apostle, roughly carved and
clothed in an ordinary sailors suit and
red worsted cap. This is first hauled in
to the ore.rigging, after which the sailors
90 to mass. On their return IL is ducked
| three times in water hoisted on board,
kicked round the deck and dashed to the
! capstan, when the crew in high state of
excitement belabor it with knotted ropes
till every vestige of clothing is ripped off
the wooden back, and then the efigy is
burnt. During this process the ships
bell keeps up an lncessant changing and
the officers of the ship serve out grog to
the men. Those not engaged in the fog
cling keep up sort of rude chant in
teTmixed with denuaciations OF the be-
traver