Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous.
Columbus, Ga, has 1850 taxable
dogs.
The fastest city in the world-Electri-
city.
when, is . penny like hermiti When
it's loan talone).
Chickens in the shell do not always
zee when they "peep."
No matter how low gold may get, i
viii never want friends. al 4
The greatest scene of disaster on rec
ord is said to be kerosene.
The next great Astronomical Congress
viii take place in 1871, at Stuttgart.
If you want to be ''up with the times"
It won't do to be a-stern man.
Boston has now forty first class gram
mar schools, exclusive of Dorchester.
"A Philadelphia Alderman has fined a
citizen for profane swearing in public
street. r.
Management Is better than stupidity.
A policy in the Washington is better than
the promise of relatives.
"A young lady in Monson, Mass, re-
Gently refused an offer of $1,000 for her
hair, which lacks but an inch of being six
feet long. ffE
1T is said that sudden prosperity and
starch will stiffen q man nightly. Per-
haps they may, but strychnine will do it
quicker.
"A. F. Wilmarth, Vice President of the
Home, Of New York, Is policy holder,
stock holder, and director of the Wash
ington Life.
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has
decided that when wife goes into bust
ness without her husbands consent, he is
not responsible for her debts
"A little Connecticut boy, asking a
mate who Good Friday was, received the
whitening reply: Well, you 60 home
and read your Robinson Crusoe.'"
Judge Paxson, of Cincinnati, declares
that the law enabling party in the suit
to testify in his own case has produced a
friehtful increase of perjury.
Wyoming nurses calm the rising gen.
Grafton by singing:
mice little baby don't get in fury,
Cause mamma's gone to sit on jury"
To Cure Dyspepsia. -Close all the
outer doors of a four story house, open
the inner doors, and then take long
switch, and chase cat up and down
stairs till she sweats
-"Gerty, my dear" said a Sabbath
school teacher to one of her class, you
were very good little girl today,
"Yes'm-I couldn't help being good l
seriousness.
"A president of one Of our popular
railroads once wrote to an old farmer, re-
questing him to remove some shedding
along the line. The old farmer could not
make 1t out, and believing it to be free
pass, used it as such for year, none of
construction he had put upon the scrawl.
"A man of property, whose health
happened to give way under long-con-
tinued incompetence, consulted DR.. s.,
who said, II can cure you, If you will
do as bid you" His patient promised
obedience. "Now," said the doctor,
"you must steal horse. You will be
arrested. convicted, and placed in situa-
ton where your diet and regimen will be
such that in a short time your health will
be perfectly restored"
One of the swindling firms in New
York city has gotten up new circular
since 1t has been decided that letters in
answer to such circulars may be withheld
at the Postoffice. 1t reads as follows !:
"Be sure and send by express. If you
send us letter by mail we will positively
refuse to receive it. 1t is secure from all
eyes in the express, and business of this
nature fully warrants this precaution."
The Normal Musical Academy Of the
Northwest holds an Institute course of
two weeks in the Lecture Hall of Cros-
by's Opera House, Chicago, commencing
Aug. 23d, 1870, with the following pow
erful combination of teachers: II. r..
Palmer, Carlo Bassini, Hans Balatka, Rob
ert Goldbeck Dudley Buck, and E. e..
Whittemore. A very interesting pro-
gramme of each days exercises sent to
any one addressing II. r, Palmer, Princi.
pal, Is Crosby's Opera House, Chicago.
Incidents and Accidents.
"A Chinaman died of grief on a
friends grave at San Francisco, few
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