Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-29
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.


There are $4,000, 900 acres fit for ag-
ricultuIe and $4,000, goo for pasturage in
New Zealand.
An epitaph at Ramsgate, England,
concludes: He bore tn acute pains of ye
govt for forty yrs with thankfulness."
in England it is proposed to do away
altogether with switches on railroads by
providing apparatus for lifting trains
from one track to another.
The introduction of sewing machines
into China is creating riot on the ground
that they cheaper labor Hong Kong
tailors have been mobbed for attempting
to use them.
An English physician, during lect-
ure to female audience, on the use of
alcoholic beverages, asserted that "the
babies of London are never sober from
their birth until they are weaned."
-Pere Hyacinthe seems to agree with
Mr.. Disraeli as to the coming of great
war. In a speech he delivered at Geneva
lately he said he " saw in the horizon war
raising its hideous head-internationa
war, civil war, religious war"
The London Pest learns that the PEN
sion granted to the father of Don Carlos
by the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, was
stopped by the Emperor Alexander di-
rectly the present Don Carlos entered
Spain as pretender.
The death of Dr. Anstie, the London
physician, so widely known from his re-
searches into the nature and causes OF
neuralgia, was said TO have been caused
by exposure to sewer gas, when eXamin-
ing the defects OF sewerage at a school
in Wandsworth. Two prominent ply
sicians, however, now say that his death
was primarily caused by a needle punct-
ure received while he was making a
post norton examination, but that the
exposure to sewer gas was predisposing
cause.
"A strange exhibition is about to be
given at Paris, in the person of man
tattooed all over his body He is a
Greek by birth. AT present aged forty
seven, he was when young made pris-
oner by horde of Manchoux Tartars,
who amused themselves by tattooing
every part of his body in various colors.
The torture he endured from the con-
tinued puncture of so many needles was
lndescribable. He often prayed for
death, but he survived the trial, and he
is now about to show the effect pro-
duced.
There is in the island of Syke min
lister of one of the parish churches who
occupies the pulpit which his father,
grandfather and eat-grandfather have
filled in succession, and who is training
up son TO be his successor. Besides
discharging the duties of the ministry of
his parish he is Chairman of the School
and parochial Boards road cont ractar
for the district, noted breeder of set
tiers, which he supplies to the Southern
markets, a knowing Judge of cattle and
occupant of three large sheep farms in
addition TO his glebe. He is verging on
three score, and yet he continues to dis
charge these multifarious duties and
preach two sermons every Sunday--one
in Gaelic and the other in English.
The captain of the British steam
ship Victoria was recently murdered by
a Greek sailor while his vessel was lying
at Barcelona. The murderer had de-
serted from the Victoria and his request
to be permitted to reioin. the ship had
been refused. He entered the captains
cabin about midnight, awoke him and
repeated his former request. The cap
tain informed him that he could not toll
crate such neglect of duty, whereupon
he drew knife and, exclaiming: Gap
tain, / will kill you!" stabbed him in four
places before he could resist. The muir
derer effected his escape and up to the
date of the latest advices had eluded the
vigilance of the authorities. The unfor-
tunate victim, who only survived short
time, was inferred in the Protestant Gem.
etery at Barcelona.