Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HSCELLAHEOCS ITEMS.
KANSAS paid, last year, $342,2i7.27 in.
ternal revenue tax.
ST. LOUIS prides herself on thirty-foul
charitable institutions.
WOULD man be much tired If he pass
ed restless (k)night on horseback.
THE Philadelphia Pres says: 1.-THE
weather is as cool as rich relation"
JusTIFIABLE Grudging q
friend the right to laugh at our expense
A RxcEsT old folks party in Connect
cut aggregated LAO years, divided up
among Is people.
TIE man who sfaked his reputation
was probably preparing for general sur
vey.
TIE beer drank in the United States
in one year costs the drinkers twenty-one
millions.
A NEWPORT couple have just celebrated
their pearl wedding, having been married
for seventy years.
ACCORDING to the State law of Mary
land, potatoes must be sold by weight in
stead Of measure.
AN accurate estimate shows that each
Indian in the United States costs the gov
eminent $3.50 annually.
Horace Greeley's farm in Hamcen,
Conn, which cost him $500. was sold,
the other day, by auction, for $3.50.
TIE young lady who fell dead-in love
with young geDtleman-immediately
revived on being asked to name the day.
MRS PARrINeToN says that since the
invention Of the needle-gun there is no
reason why women shouldn't fight as well
as men.
THE waves brought intelligence to Bos.
ton OF recent terrible storm at sea, four
days before 1t was heard Of from any
other quarter.
"EHK isn't all that fancy painted her."
bitterly exclaimed a rejected lover "and
worse than that, she isn't all she paints
herself"
In q private dwelling in Y6sk, Pa,
twelve hundred mosquitoes were killed in
q week. OF this number 628 were caught
in room In one hour.
A LITTLE boy having broken his rock
ing -horse the day it was bought, his
mother began to seold him, when he 81.
fenced her by inquiring, What is the
use Of good horse till it's broker"
NEXT year completes thousand years
since Alfred the Great, founder Of the
University Of Oxford, ascended the Eng.
lish throne. The English are proposing
to celebrate the occasion.
SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON says that it is
as certain as it Is that the weights Of
clock will run down, that planet after
planet, age by age, will creep into the
sun, and not one escape its fiery end.
THE Patrons of Husbandry, in Missouri,
have side degree into which they init
ate horse thieves. After the ceremony,
nothing can be seen of the candidate, and
the ground is all nicely sodded over.
THE Rev. E. J. Fish, of Adrian, Mich,
writes from San Francisco that California
has over 1000 insane in her asylum, and
believes this great number is to be attribut.
ed to the exciting life of the Pacific coast.
THE New Jersey State Prison contains
575 prisoners, including 28 females.
Three hundred and seventy are engaged
IN the manufacture of shoes, turning out
daily 1000 pairs.
A BAsHFUL youth was lamenting to his
the question. "Pooh r said the patri-
You" responded the hopeful; "you
married mother, and I've got to marry q
strange girl?"
THE directors of q fair at San Antonio,
Texas, October 9Th, propose that every
lady in the State shall send photograph
of herself to the fair, and committee
will select the most beautiful and have
picture painted of the lady, according to
the photograph, and present it to her as
. prize.
II don't care much for quiet baby
but l d0te on squalling one" said an old
"Why, how strange" admir- |
ingly chorused all the mothers in the |
room. "Not at ALL" responded the bach. |
elor, because, you see, as soon as brat |
begins to squall it's always taken from the
roOml"
A MAN much addicted to drinking, be-
ing extremely i'll with fever, consulta- |
lion was held in his bed chamber by three |
how to "cure the fever and |
abate the thirst" Gentlemen" said he,
g will take half the trouble off your |
hands; you cure the fever, and I will |
abate the thirst myself"
THE San Francisco butchers use no ice |
for their meat, and need none. In that |
dry climate meat keeps long time with. |
out ice, and improves rapidly as long as
it remains sweet. The consequence is,
The butchers can keep their meat several
days before exposing it for sale, and it is
then tender and in the best possible con-
dition for the table.
A PHYSICIAN being summoned to yes.
try to reprimand q sexton for drunken
ness, dwelt 80 long on the sections mis- |
conduct, that the latter indignantly re-
piled: "Sir! was in hopes you would |
have treated my failinas with more gen.
tleness, or that you would have been the |
last man alive to appear against me, as
have covered so manv blunders of YOURS! !"
AT the depot in Carlsruhe woman
was seen most sffectionately bidding two