Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-14
miscellaneous.

"A Case OF Pickles-A family jar.
School of Art and Design-Wall
street.
Trials for the human understanding
Long Walks.
Rhode Island has abolished Imprison-
ment for debt.
Elevated railways will be . good field
for highwaymen.
"A lawyers business, as rule, is more
the result Of breach than observance.
The number of Mormons who prac-
tice polygamy is said not to exceed 1900.
Why isn't a fishmonger nice &C.
quaintance? Because he's sure to be
selfish man.
The Texas penitentiary now sustains
itself, even returning a small balance to
the State.
1t is as important to respect your
neighbours privacy as to respect his purse
or person.
Toledo is to have an Opera House, to
cost $4,000, with an auditorium, that will
admit 1900 people ~ 5~
Make friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you.
Remember the Washington Life.
Potter county, in Pennsylvania, has
not granted license to sell liquor for
nineteen years
Horace Greeley will deliver the open
ing address at the next Fair of the st.
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Assoc
citation, October 3.
The Washington is great public IA
vorite The increase of Business last year
was greater than that Of any other cash
company.
81 am afraid you will come to want"
said an old lady to young gentleman
reply; II want your daughter" The old
lady opened her eyes. ua 'att
"A man having snapped horse for a
wife, bachelor friend remarked that
there must have been something wrong
about the horse, or he would not have
fooled it away in that manner.
"Trip Van Winkle," as played at
Washington, shows Schneider chained to
sapling when Rip begins his nap.
When he wakes, the tree is a mighty oak,
and Schneider's skeleton hangs from the
branches. -t...f...
"A lady entered store few days
ago where butter and eggs are sold, and
complained that half the eggs she had
purchased were rotten. The clerks ex.
cuse was, II can't help it. This time of
the year the hens are sick, and often lay
bad eggs"
"A French fair one wrote to her lover,
begging him to send her some money.
She added, by way of postscript, 81 am so
ashamed of the request l have made in
this letter, that sent after the postman to |
get it, back, but the servant could not
overtake him"
An observer of curious things has no.
ticed that in the natural order of events
although it is sometimes perverted |
through disregard Of lava murder is
first committed, then the murderer is com.
mitted, and then the murdered is COM
mitted to the grave. 5r eE
81 never knew a man." says an old |
author, "whO could not bear an6thers |
misfortunes like Christian"-which re.
minds rs of the old lady who thought
every calamity that happened to herself q
trial, and every one that happened to her
friend judgment.
"A mammoth cigar is on exhibition in
manufactured in San Fran
cisco, of pure Havana tobacco, which is to
be forwarded East for presentation to
President Grant. 1t is thirty eight inches
n length, fourteen inches in circumference
m the largest place, and weighs about six
pounds. ,
Growing Old
I'm growing forder Of my staff, i'iiH
I'm growing DINNER in the eyes,
I'm growing fainter in my laugh,
I'm growing deeper In my sighs;
m growing careless OF my dreas,
I'm growing frugal of my gold
$50 I'm growing wise, I'm growing yes
I'm growing old -Slre.
-"That was a severe coughing fit" re-
marked sexton TO an undertaken, when
hey were taking glass together. "Oh,
lis nothing save little ale. which went
Town the wrong way" replied the under
aker. 'iAh, ali! that's just like you,p
aid the sexton you always lay the
Soon after the death Of the poet
q uan met q farmer Of the
and said to him: "You
AVE had great loss. What losss"
: Why, you have lost the great
,oet." 20, ay,r said the farmer, she is
lead but ali hev no doubt T. wife viii
AIRY on the business and max It as profit
bile a liver Il was." ~ ialH 500
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