Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-05
PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.

The Russian Government expends
about $24,O00,O0O year in educational
projects.
-Brahainism is professed by 10000
600 souls Here is grand field for mis-
sionary effort.
The Canadian Parliament is investi-
eating those institutions knewn as mer-
camille agencies"
During the year 1878, two persons
we're killed in England by the sting of a
wasp, and two by the bite of a rat.
Victor Hugo compliments the Count
De Chambord for his manliness in re
fusing to sell his convictions even for the
crown of France.
The London Court Jonrnal says?
"The Americans are displaying their own
cuteness and our shame by wearing En-
glish Alabama sovereigns in their ears"
Some Jewish ladies have received
permission to open schools in Rome.
This permission has not before been
accorded since the commencement of the
Christian Era.
john Entwistle, of Blackburn, Eng
land, having died directly after drinking
four gills Of sherry, a chemist investigat-
ed the liquor, and proved that it had been
adulterated to the extent of eighty per
cent.
The heroines Of the prize-ring in En-
gland are Kate Dowell and Ann Morgan
Their latest mill was made up of twenty
five CORY rounds, occupying nearly an
hour, ind the husbands of the pugilists
acted as bottle-holders.
The Turkish Government must be
sadly in need of money when it is willing
to pay twenty-five per cent interest and
two per cent commission for a loan of
S25,0O0,000. Such loan has recently
been negotiated in France.
About seventy thousand tons of grain
have been stored by the Government in
Bengal in order to avert the threatened
famine. Even though the famine be
checked there will be distress in many
districts of India on account of the high
prices of grain.
The Italian Minister of Justice has
lately introduced bill in the Parla-
ment of that country providing that no
priest sh all perform the marriage cere-
mony in church except on production
of a certificate that it has already been
performed by a civil magistrate. This re-
verses the ancient order of things.
Prince Bismarck's inconsistencies do
not go unchallenged. During discus
sion on the Civil Marriage bill he was
twitted with having formerly held differ
ent views i'm regard to the subject before
the House. He replied that he was no
longer the member of party, but Min
lister of the Crown, and must subordinate
his personal views to the idea which
guides the policy of the State.
The two negro girls whose bodies are
naturally united at the hips, and who
were until lately shown in this country,
are now on exhibition in Paris. They are
called the Two Headed Nightingale, and
their manager, Francont, is getting rich
with them. He brooks no artificial
rivalry, and has sued the proprietor Of a
concert saloon who shows two girls whose
jointure is effected by fastening them to-
gether tightly in a single bodice. The
complaint is that the bogus curiosity in
lures the business of the genuine.
The London Court Journal says: "a
novel species of drink has been imported
from America, which is somewhat serious
in its effects. Active inquiries have been
set on foot, and it has been ascertained
that in several places this terrible chem
lCdl COInDlDdllOU 10 bOlc dt d low
This liquid compound has the effect of
producing the most fearful and rapid
brain excitement. 1t has the effect of not
only making those who drink it demented,
but also of producing temporary paralysis
of the limbs and frequently utter uncon.
seriousness" This is making a great ado
over the grade of whisky usually consum-
ed by good Americans.
"A correspondent of the Pail Nal
Gazette thus describe the ceremony OF
degradation" from which President
Mac Mahon has saved his old companion.
in.arms, Bazaine. Before being shot, a
prisoner sentenced to degradation" is
marched into the center of square OF
soldiers and all his insignia are success
sively stripped off him, and his epaulettes
are torn away and trampled under foot by
adrummer; his buttons are cut off with
scissors, his star If he have one, is pulled
roughly from his breast, and, as a crown
ing disgrace, his sword IL broken by q
sergeant, who shouts, Soldiers, this il
the sword of coward and felon." Nc
more painful and horrible ceremony
could be conceived.
Industrial.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Cartridge
Company is working sixteen hours 8