Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.


The Khcdiye Of Egypt wears patent
leather boots.
i'm Naples barber will shave, cut
hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give
you cigar, and call it square for ten
cents.
Personally, says Roman correspond
ent, the Pope is q jolly old gentleman,
entirely free from austerity.
The Prince Of Wales is said to be one
of the most invcterate clubmen in London.
"Mrs. Wales" they say, has 10 sit up night
after night 10 let Edward in
Count Wrangel, "the grandfather Of
the Prussian army" still rides ont on
stcady-going hack, although he IS over
ninety years old. "Papachen" Wrangcl
finds it necessary, however, 10 be carefully
strapped to the saddle
The Emperor Of China has COM
manded a collection Of Chinese poems
from the earliest times To be made. The
collection will be published in 200
volumes. The Emperor, 1t IS said pos
scsses library Of more than 100000
volumes.
The population of Sweden (says the
Cologne Gdeette), which has been for several
years considerably weakened by the great
emigration which has gone on, has since
1871 again begun TO increase. At the end
of 1867 it was 4195000, in 1869 only
4,15S,0O0, 1870, 4,l6S,00o, and 1872 again
1850, ZOO.
AT distance Of 300 yards from a
recent fire in the district adjacent 10 the
Faubourg st. Antoine, Paris, people were
seen throwing their furniture out Of the
upper windows OF the houses 10 save IL
from the approaching flames. The fire
never got so far, but the furniture was
broken TO spiinters.
One Of the Pope's nieces is reported
to have offended the Pontilf by declining
the hand of Signor Asquini, nephew 10
the Cardinal Of that name. She declares
that she proposes TO have voice in the
selection OF her future husband and not
to abide by the choice even OF her uncle
himself.
The trademark law In France is very
strict, the penalty for infringement being
fine OF from so TO 800 francs and impris-
onmcnt from one month TO u year, or
either OF these penalties, against any one
who Knowingly sells an article bearing q
fraudulent trademark, either an Imitation
or of such an appearance AZ TO be calcu-
lated TO mislead the purchaser.
Regarding the famine in Asia Minor
the most distressing accounts (the Levant
HoraM says are received, and mortality,
especially among children, is assuming
alarming proportions. A private letter
from recent traveller on the Angorab
road says. "The distress is immense,
and all along the road we met poor
wretches positively dying from starvation,
~ bod n
ConstantnOple, where they hope TO find
work and bread In Angorah you could
find a thousand men to-day willing 10
work at anything for their daily bread
without any other pay. Hundreds are
coming in from the surrounding villages
daily, and cases OF death from starvation
are frequent"
The Messenger du MIDI relates the fol.
loving dreadful story: "a young mar
ried woman residing at Salon tBouches
du Rhonc) died few months ago. The
medical man, who WINS hastily summoned
when her illness assumed dangerous
form, certified her death and recommend
ed immediate burial, aud six hours after
ward the body was inferred. A few days
since, the husband having resolved to re-
marry, the mother Of his late wife desired
to have her daughters remains removed
to her native town, Marseilles. When the
vault was opened horrible sight pre-.
scented itself The corpse lay in the mid
die of the vault, with dishevelcd hair and
the linen torn 10 pieces. 1t evidently had
been gnawed in her agony by the unior
tunate victim. The shock which the
dreadful spectacle caused TO the mother
has been so great that fears are entertained
for her reason, IL not for her life"