Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-01

Government party regards this as unsea-
sonable, and will vote indirectly against
it. The Radicals will probably sustain II.
The great clock of The House of Par
lament, London, has been misbehavnig
itself. 1t lost nearly one second last
month, and consequently has been stop
ped for cleaning The average variation
| Of this clock does not amount to quarter
of a second in year.
The sap of the papaya (pawpaw) tree
| is used in India TO make meat tender, and
even the exhalations from the tree have
the same effect Assistant Surgeon Gopal
Chandler Roy compares the action to that
Of ferment, and suggests the administra-
ton OF a few grains of the dried juice
after meals in cases OF indigestion, caused
by deficient secretion of gastric juice.
Thomas Baring's principal heir is
Lord Northbrook, GovernorGeneral OF
India, who comes at once into fortune
of 81 10000, or $3.50, 900 Of our money.
The deceased banker has left, altogether,
over f2 600, 900 $50, 0OO, 600, to say moth
ing of collection of pictures and objects
of art. The legacy duty on Lord North
brooks share alone will amount TO q tribe
over 100000.
A New York merchant, writing from
Honolulu, says. 1.-TWO weeks ago we had
a ball at the palace Of our King, Lunalilo
| I. He is our friend. When he was still
merely Crown Prince loaned him 81
only for day. he said. When / met
him year after reminded him OF the
loan, but he told me to wait till he should
have become King, of which the pros
poets were then very slight. But now he
| Is King, and have silently made him
a present of the 81. Cheap friendship,
considering he Is King"
"A man in Hindostan was accused of
| stealing sheep and was confronted with
the reputed owner in presence of the
Judge. Not being able TO decide the
ownership, and knowing the custom Of
the shepherds and the habits of the sheep,
the Judge sent one Of the men into an
other room, ordered In the sheep, and
asked the accuser to call it to him; the
animal would not go, but the man in the
other room gave peculiar "cluck," at
which the sheep bounded to him ut once,
and the ownership was decided
Professor Palmieri, Of Naples, has
recently completed very ingenious and
elaborate registering thermometer for the
private use Of the Empress of Russia.
The instrument is Of metal and is provi-
dcd with bells, which give signal when
ever apyrconsiderable change OF the sur
rounding temperature occurs. It's said to
be so sensitive thatthe indicator is in state
of almost perpetual motion. Suitable de.
vices show the extreme range of tempera.
ture during given periods of time. The
apparatus Is placed in the imperial travel
ing carriage.
Serious complaints are made by for
eign spinners about the decline In quality
of American Sea Island cotton. Since the
close of the war the finer grades have been
sent to market in lots of varying quality,
and in condition very unsatisfactory TO
spinners who desire to secure uniformity
OF yarn. American planters lose heavily
by carelessness and want OF fidelity in
packing. A comparatively slight mixture
of inferior with the choicer grades deter.
iorates the value Of the whole, and causes
IL TO be sold at rates much below the real
value. English manufacturers complain
that Texas and Florida cotton is no longer
equal to the former standard, and that
there is constant deterioration in the re-
ceipts from these States. From state
ment of the quantity of long-staple cotton
sold In Liverpool during the year ending
October 2, 1878, ii appears that American
Sea Island constitutes only about one
third Of the long-stapled cotton now con
sumed in England, Egypt furnishing half
as much again.