Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-01
Foreign GOssip.

AT ZlnWalQ, In Germany, WIDOW OF
1913 has just married man of sixty. One
of the brides children, aged eighty, was
present at the wedding.
Lady Burdett Coutts wants society
for the prevention of cruelty to hum
ming birds. From personal knowledge
she certifes that one Partisan milliner
uses 10000 of these birds every season,
and reasonably predicts that, slaughtered
at this rate, they will soon be extinct.
The London correspondent of the
Boston Adoertiser says that the report is
well founded that the French Prince I'M
perial is to marry the youngest daughter
of Queen Victoria and that in couse-
quence of this arrangement the Queen
has Endorsed the last loan put in circula-
ton in England by the Empress Eu-
genie.
"A New York paper tells story on
connoisseur among our cousins over the
water. An English picture collector
bought an enormously valuable sold
get it into England under light duty had
modern "daub" painted over the old
master. When they washed off the daub
the old master went with it and left be-
hind portrait of George Ill; SO it
wasn't very old master.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in
China are quite Chinese. Custom and
| law require, on the point of burying, silk
| garments to be burned as well as pieces
of money to be destroyed for the needs
which the defunct are supposed to have
| in the ghost-land At the interment OF
| the late Emperor these ceremonies were
carried out on large scale, seeing that
an Emperor has more need of money
| than anybody else, for dinners, balls,
servants, carriages, etc.
The origin of the Ayrshire breed of
cows is not uninteresting. A poor farm
er in Scotland in 1850, finding it almost
| impossible to subsist, took great pains to
have his children drive his COW where
she could eat the richest and thickest
grass, to house her in winter and feed
her with carefully-housed hay-in fine
| took unheard-of care of his COW. The
grateful animal rewarded her owner
with fine calf and an unusual abun-
dance of milk, and thus the celebrated
| breed of Ayrshire cows was produced,
though it was not till the first Of the
present century that it was brought to
perfection.
A correspondent of Ceylon news
paper says that large apes are now regu-
| larly employed in the Straits settlements
| to pull cocoanuts. These monkeys are
| imported from Acheen in patches, like
| coolies, and are marched round the plan
| tations by their owners, who let them out
on hire. A line is first attached to each
OF these peculiar laborers, and he is then
sent up tree, where he is said to select
| suitable fruit with great discrimination,
and to twist the nut round and round
until il falls to the ground. Each sue
cessive fall of a nut is hailed by the
hairy operator above with jump and
chuckle of satisfaction.
| "A practical joke was played on the
critic OF one Of the Paris papers at the
| last performance of Orphee aux Enters"
at the Gazette. Mdlle. Angelo, who acted
the part of Venus, took offense at some
remarks made by the unfortunate scribe
and vowed revenge. The critic, who
occupied stall, did not for moment
anticipate the vengeance Of Venus, who
at the end of the first act, when the
electric light is turned on the inhabitants
| of Olympus, who are about to visit the
terrestrial globe, adroitly reflected the
powerful rays of light into the very eyes
| Of the journalist by means of the steel
mirror she holds in her hand. The gods
I duu SOuoCoSCo Ou tuC stukC WClC COn-
vulsed with laughter when they saw him
trying to evade the binding rays of light,
shielding his eyes with his hand and
hiding behind the seat in front of him.
Religious and Educational.
| Tennessee has scholastic popula-
ton of 420,384. Number of pupils en-
rolled in 1874, 258,577. Number of
teachers employed, 5.551.
--One of the Baptist papers states
that $4,000 of the members of Baptist
churches have adopted liberal or open
communion ground within the last year.
1t is said that in the State of Della
| ware, in 1904, 1900 persons were added
to the Methodist Church. During the
last conference year 1890 converts were
reported.
The oldest Episcopal minister in
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