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

Vice. President Wilson is testing the
virtues of water-cure establishment In
| Western New York.
Ex-Governor Hoffman is accOmpa-
MED in his visit TO Egypt by Generals In
gals and Kiddoo. His family remain in
Paris.
When Boss Tweed took his seat in
the Senate, in 1868, he weighed BOA
| pounds; when weighed at Blackwelis
Island the figure was 1853.
Jay Cooke and family are intending
TO give up their residence at German
town, and propose boarding in Philadel-
phia during the winter.
The secret Of John G.. Saxe's poetry
has been detected He draws his in
| SEPARATION from the pure, pearly onion.
He has already laid in forty bushels for
the winter.
Edmund Yates, when asked what ma
| terials he wanted to write the account OF
the Inauguration for the Herald, replied :
"Nothing but brandy and water and
| few facts"
Girls, learn to swim, al ofyou. The
| Misses Mixter, Of Boston, who were saved
| from the Vile du Havre, were excellent
swimmers. They went down with the
ship, and then Struck out"
1t is said that Professor Proctor, the
| English astronomer, is so pleased with
| the educational advantages 10 be obtained
| in the United States, that he proposes to
| educate his children in this country.
james r. Fields well says Of Agassiz:
"a grapder soul never came to us from
the Old World, but never can America
sufficiently honor the memory Of one Of
the greatest bcnefactors Of his race"
DIR. Van Buren,, an eminent physician
Of New York, died recently, and it was
publicly stated that his death was hast
encd by chagrn at the treatment TO which
his son, Gen. Van Buren,, was subjected
in the matter of the Vienna Exhibition.
The London Bookselter records the
fact that what it naively terms "the
nuisance Of street newsboys" was intro
duced into London in 1912 by an Amer
lean, Mr.. Isaac G. Pray, who started a
cheap newspaper CThe Evensng Sta7) in
that year.
The charge that A. r. Stewart, the
merchant lionaire, never gives away
ANYTHING, even the utmost malevOlence
can no longer report. He has given away
"A poor niece in marriage, and she is
now no longer dependent upon him for
support.--Ercltange.
The Boston Adgertiser remarks that
Professor Agassiz died on the seventy
fourth anniversary Of the death of Wash
ingtOn, and almost at the same hour Of
the day, Washington dying between
eleven and twelve o'clock on the night Of
the 18th Of December, and Professor
Agassiz between ten and eleven O'Clock
on the night of December IA, 1878.
Professor Agassiz's illness was of so
obscure a nature and so puzzling to his
physicians, Drs. Brown-Sequard and
Wyman, that his friends readily consent
ed to pOstmortcm examination, and
one was held, seven of the most eminent
physicians of Boston and Cambridge
being present All the organs were mi
nutely examined The stomach and liver
were free from disease, but the heart
showed traces Of the trouble with which
the professor suffered, a few years ago.
Special attention was paid to the brain,
which was very large and heavy. II was
not unusually full of blood, but careful
examination of the base of the organ led
TO the belief that there was the seat Of the
disease. The physicians determined to
submit the brain to close microscopic
examination, which will defer the yer.
dict some time, but will give it much
greater value.
Hugh Miller, whose fame is world
wide, was first brought to the notice of
scientific men by Prof. Agassiz. AT Il
meeting of the British Scientific Society,"
Miller, who was then common day la
borer, approached Agassiz with a speci-
men of rock in his Land, and began to
make certain inquiries concerning it,
During the conversation that ensued
Agassiz discovered that this common day
laborer was possessed of large fund Of
geological information, which he had &C
CURED by personal investigations, induced
solely by his innate love for the science
Agassiz was delighted at meeting him,
and introduced Miller to the members OF
the Society, explaining the manner in
which he had become acquainted with
him. The. friendships thus formed con
tinued through their lives, and Agassiz
wrote the introduction to Hugh Miller's
first published work