Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-08


covered that the alarming increase OF
emotional insanity is due To the increased
consumption Of oysters.
-R. g. Melville, Of the East Indian
Civi, Service, has become a Nickname
dan and married a native girl, although
he has already Christian wife.
The free pass system Of railroad trav-
cling for members of the Legislature now
i'm vogue in the United States, has re-
Gently been introduced in Germany.
Mime. Benedek, the wife Of Marshal
Bepedek of the Austrian army, lately
drew prize Of $4,000 in the Roumelian
Railway lottery; small consolation for
SadOwa.
During the past thirty years the an
nual German consumption OF iron per
head of population has increased about
300 per cent, and may now be estimated
ut 81 pounds.
Kaiser William could sit his horse
under shower OF bullets, but when 1t
came to having an aching tooth drawn he
took chloroform, and was as nervous as
m old woman.
Nearly 1000 different forms are
printed for the British war office, and the
cost of the stationery and printing for the
whole Of the Government Office is about
$500, 900 per annum.
"A new Swedish nightingale has been
discoyered-this time at Stockholm. The
Young lady, who is Of very humble ori-
gin, and is said TO possess marvellous
voice, is named Martha Ericsson.
Japan continues to grow civilized.
Tn the barbarous era, official thieves com
4. -. 1.A, t.fffh la lty.ru
they shot their heads off; now they sim
ply demand searching investigation. !"
Bengal is again threatened with fam
inc. The Viceroy is providing abundant
relief works wherever the people are
likely to need employment, and is gcncr
ally paying for the labor in food and
grain.
"A Russian naturalist claims to have
found living mammoths in Siberia. He
has seen five small ones, IL feet high, lS
feet long, and having tusks eight to ten
feet in length. The brute haunts great
caves, and feeds on grass, etc.
-Agrarian outrages seem to be reviv-
ing in Ireland. A country gentleman
named Lepoy was recently shot at through
n window Of his house and wounded, it
is said, MORALLY. He had eyicted few
tenants. The assassin has not been ar.
rested.
Over 1000 women applied for eleven
places in the London postoflice. The
building and yard and the street were
filled with girls applying for examination
by the civil service commissioners Some
OF them were young ladies of the highest
responsibility.
The eminent physicians, Sir James
Paget and Sir William Gull, daily visit
Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who Is seri-
ously i'll at his country seat, and receive
100 guineas ($525) each for every visit.
The doctors think that the Baron will get
well in the course OF year or so.
"A Berlin dispatch of Nov. II states
that orders have been received by Herr
Werndl from the War Minister for the
delivery Of 100000 Manser rifles at the
rate of 5000 per week. English gun.
makers are to manufacture 100000 more.
A stock of 100000 in all will be provid-
cd. In eighteen months the entire Ger.
man army will be furnished with the new
weapon.
"A well-nigh fatal accident happened
TO the Empress of Japan on the It'll Of
November. The pole.strap Of her majes.
ty's carriage gave way, and the horses,
Becoming frightened, ran away. The
coachmaD, a japanese, lost his selfcom-
mand, and the horses and carriage were
thrown over an embankment into deep
pool OF water. The carriage being closed,
its occupants were extricated with only
very slight injuries. A native groom was
killed and one of the horses was drowned.
The new Hungarian Archbishop of
Erlau, Monsignor Samassa, made re.
markable speech on the occasion of his
installation. He openly declared himself
an adherent of constitutional principles,
and admitted that the Roman Catholic
Church had brought upon herself the
measures which have been taken Of late
years for limiting her power. " prom
ise," he concluded, "that | will persist
in loving my country, in being faithful to
my king, and In respecting and obeying
the constitutional laws"
In Italy an invalid lady was appar-
emily dying in long iainting fit. Upper
ceived, the people of the household had
placed ut her feet two stone bottles con
tanning hot water. She first awoke TO the
agony OF her burning. Having no power
to speak or move, she could give no sign
She ascribes her preservation 10 this fear.
full restorative. Lameness ensued, and
ItHihlu III HtI lctt. Inc ulS
tinguished DIR. Dantorth once recovered
patient by rushing to a kitchen where he
had noticed heated flatirons. These he
hastily applied, raising Immediately a
blister, which was supposed to have saved
life.
"A correspondent of the London Lam
oct, the most important medical journal
published in England, relates the follow
ing curious fact: "a man in his neigh.
borhood had three daughters Wishing
for son, he made solemn vow that, If
his next child should be girl, he would
never speak to her. The next child
proved 10 be son, as he wished, but,
curiously enough, he never would speak
to his father, although he lived thirty five
years with him. He always talked freely
with his mother and sisters. but with no
one else until after the death of his father,
when he talked readily with every one.
He was called Dumb Eli.'n
"A cattle disease, of so disagreeable a
nature that II causes the animals affected
by II to commit suicide, has broken out
on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus
and has been officially reported at Con.
stantinople Ii is characterized bv frotb.