Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-11
Foreign Gossip.

"A London journal recently an
nounced "a Sunday evening discourse
for advanced tinkers."
I'm one of the Paris courts a mother
recently sought to invalidate q certain
stipulation of her deceased sons will
He had directed that he should be buried
without religious ceremonies, and the
mother sought to avoid this clause, but
the decision was against her.
The branch of the Russian Imperial
Bank at Tomsk, in Siberia, has been
robbed of 200 roubles. The thieves
excavated an underground passage to
the vaults of the bank, effected an open
ing in spite of the strength of the mason
ry, and carried off all the cash. No clew
has yet been found to the perpetrators
of the deed.
"A wealthy Chinese silk merchant in
Shanghai recently took a young woman
to wife whose personal attractions were
of high character, and spent upward of
1000 in providing her with jewelry,
silks and satins in profusion. After
about ten days of bliss the faithless
creature ran away, carrying with her all
the worldly wealth with which she had
been endowed by her loving spouse.
observations have been made in
London on the liability of horses to fall
on different kinds Of pavement. The
minutes taken extend over period of
couple of months and distance of 478,-
SOB miles over granite, asphalt and wood
pavement. The number of horses that
fell during the period of observation was
1897, Of which 1,066 fell on asphalt, TO
on granite and 542 ON wood. On wood
pavements the greatest number of falls
were on the knees, and on asphalt the
greatest number on the launches.
"A letter from Kovno (Lithuania), in
the German st. Petersburg Gazette, says
that, notwithstanding the severe meas
ures taken by the Russian Government
against the Poles in that province, the
peasantry are still as Polish in spirit as
ever, and that if the Government, after
completely recognizing the administra-
ton on the Russian model, were to re-
lax any Of it's restrictions on the Polish
element the Poles would, in a twelve
month, recover the position in the coun-
try of which they were deprived after the
last instruction.
One night recently the gas suddenly
went out in Marseilles and left the whole
city In darkness. At the moment gym
mast was performing on the flying ira
peze in the theater. He was even in the
air at that very instant, having made the
leap from one trapeze to catch the other.
He caught the other successfully, but
In such nervous condition that he re-
msined in a conclusive or cataleptic
state. He could not relax his grasp to
change his position; his muscles held
rigidly as steel. and his whole body was
fixed swinging like stone. He was
taken down in that condition and recov-
cred next day.
"A correspondent of the London
Times describes very simple little con.
trivance which he recommends every
skater to carry with him as a precaution
in case of accident: Having myself
been immersed" he writes, "and know
ing, therefore, how exceedingly difficult
1t Is to get out unaided, but what very
slight assistance is sufficient, / can con-
fidently venture to assert that many
fatal accidents might be prevented If
every skater carried in his pocket piece
of stout string or blind cord about four
yards long and provided with small
cross-pieces of wood at each end" In
the event of any person falling through
the ice his companion, If SO provided,
could lie down on the sound ice and
throw his piece of cord to the man in the
water, who might manage by its aid to
support himself until further help ar
rived.