Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Foreign GOssip.

The Spanish court physician, with
faith in simple remedies, presented to AL
phonso dose of castor oil for his bill
iousness, but the young monarch cast a
royal glance of contempt at the medicine
and preferred the bile.
M Muller, member of the Russian
expedition to Siberia, has made tremen-
dous discovery, and has communicated
il forthwith with great circumstance to
the st. Petersburg Geographical Society.
1t is that the f" North Pole is not an iso-
lated point, but territory of certain
extent" And he is going to explore it.
Somebody called French officer a
fool, a half-witted fellow and fop. The
Court of Appeals has decided that the
first two forms of abuse are only gross
insults, for which there is no legal RENE
dy, but that the correctional tribunals
can deal with the third, because it con-
tains "the imputation of special vice"
The Burgomaster of Amsterdam has
been to Paris, where he ordered for him
self six dozen gloves, as to which there
is nothing remarkable except the size of
the gloves. Within the memory OF man,
or woman either, the city of Paris has
never seen such hands. Number ten is
the largest size made in Paris for coach
mems gloves, but the Burgomaster
troubled eleven and quarter.
AT Puteaux, France, party of chill
dren playing in the suburbs discovered
floating In the air and partly entangled
in the branches of tree white parcel
upborne by a number of toy-ballOons.
The police secured the package, which
was found to contain the corpse of new
born babe. Inquiry brought out the fact
that it was the child of poor toy maker,
who had suddenly died just after the
confinement of his wife. The household
and its chattels had been seized for rent,
and, driven mad by this accumulation of
misfortunes, the widowed woman killed
her babe, and then threw herself into the
river. She left letter telling her in
tention, and saying that she "bad gotten
her baby all ready to go up to heaven"
AS showing the uncertainty of
French affairs, the Journal Of Agen, a
little village in the southwest of France,
states that recently the village was dur
ing an entire night filled and excited
with rumors of coup e'etat said to have
occurred at Paris The villagers all
firmly believed that Paris had again got
up on its legs and kicked things over
Whether in the Bonapartist or Repubh-
can favor they could not learn. On the
subsequent morning 300 persons gathered
around the Paris train on its arrival to
snatch the metropolitan newspapers and
read of revolutionary exploits. A hoax
it was, and their delightful dreams as to
a general change vanished. Even French
villagers like novelties, and can't put
up with humdrum all the time.
"A Paris letter says: Here is true
and curious dog story: The other even
ing a reporter for the Gaulois was going
home late at night in the midst of the
most horrible weather, when he over
took drunken man trying to climb the
Rue de Rome. He was followed by a
mongrel cur, who kept at his heels and
seemed to stagger like his master. The
drunken man stopped and the dog began
to bite at his legs. Let me alone, will
your" cried the drunkard. I'm going
on after rest but the dog continued
to tug at his trousers. The reporter
stopped to see the end of this curious
scene. There, therep cried the man at
length, I'm going on. You'll tear the
breeches off me- He started and the
dog trotted at his heels. After few
yards the drunkard again stopped and
the same scene occurred, the dog growl-
ing and swapping until his master began
to 60 forward. The reporter went mile
out Of his way to see this intelligent dog
take his master home and saw him wag
his tail with evident satisfaction as the
drunkard reeled over his threshold