Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-25

/ A 6roRn LAKE. correspondent Of the
Fort Dodge Times says: I'VE had . Wis
itOr here from tho East, . few weeks ago,
looking for . section Of land he had pur.
chased. Said he paid $3.50 per acre
Upon inquiry, II was ascertained that he
had bought al Of Section 10, which lies
in tie centre At TIE lake"
| A TOLL GATE keeper was recently
brought before magistrate on the charge
Of cruelty treating his daughter. He had
discovered that the girl, who was fire.
quently left in charge Of the gate, used to
allow her sweetheart, young butcher, to
drive his cart through free. She never
tolled her love.
| A SARATOGA tombstone bears this in.
scription: Emma, dau'r Of Abraham
and Matilda Cox, and wife Of Theodore
6challehn, died August 10, 1883, aged %
years, leaving i've children-msrried too
young, against her fathers will Single
women take warning"
A GENTLEMAN in conversation with DR..
johnson, having, to some of the usual ar
guments for drinking, added this, "You
know, sir, drinking drives away care, and
makes US forget whatever is disagreeable.
Would you not allow man to drink for
that reason?" ayes, sir, If he sat next
you," replied DR.. johnson.
AT LIE Roy, Mimi, one hot day, q switch
had been opened for the purpose of letting
in freight train, and when it became
necessary to change the switch back to the
main track the rails had expanded so
much by the action of the suns rays that
it could not be done. Cold water was
poured upon several sections Of the track,
cooling off the iron and allowing the
switch to be shut
A CLERGYMAN in Washington county,
| Me-, driving along q lonely road, overlook
countryman on foot, whom he invited
| to ride. After the crops had been dis
cussed, the clerical gentleman asked his
companion IF he was prepared to die !"
| whereupon the countryman leaped from
the wagon and fled to q place of safety,
doubtless considering this question
synonymous with Your money or your
life?"
MEDICAL statisticians of England and
France have discovered that laborers in
copper works almost always escape chol-
era and diarrhea, only one out of 1910
being attacked during the epidemic in
1868 in France, while among workers
in iron and steel one out of every 200 was
metals than copper and iron one out OF
178.
A ROCHESTER, paper tells q romantic
story of young drcssmaker who became
Infatuated with q young man without his
knowledge. To make herself worthy of
him she took to study, and, after severe
course Of French, Italian, and piano, dur
ing which she worked at her occupation,
and only slept three hours out of the
twenty four, the young man married
another girl. The blow was too much
for the young lady's reason, and che Is
now an inmate Of an insane asylum.
THE Dubuque Times says that George
Ade, of that city, was the owner Of dog
that had actually saved four human be-
ings from drowning, in consideration OF
which distinguished service the Mayors
proclamation during the dog days, warn
ing all ours, Of high or low degree, to
wear muzzles on gain of instant death,
never applied to him, and he was granted
the freedom Of the city," notwithstand.
ing which, he was shot by somebody who
could not resist the temptation to make
fifty cents.
THE Keokuk Gate CITY says "One of
our well known grocers bought q nice lot
of honey and had it in his store for sale.
He noticed all day Saturday that the bees
were flying in and out rather lively, and
making tree with his honey. He shoe
flied them in mild way with q brush.
That was all. He left the honey there
over Sunday. He went down Monday to
find every drop Of that honey gone, and q
small swarm there trying to carry off the
wax. There is some beeswax for sale
cheap at that store"
A CoLoRKD man recently applied to .
prominent gentleman residing on Fifth
avenue, New York, for letter Of recon-
dation, by means Of which he hoped to
obtain situation. The man, being well
known to the gentleman in question, the
testimonial was readily given. It was
even more complimentary than ScipiO
himself had expected, and that worthy, on
| recovering from his astonishment, ex-
claimed: "Say, MI. -, won't you give
me something to do yourself on that rec
ommendationw
| A FIFTH Avenue Hotel waiter was dis.
charged the other day, and vented his
spite by advertising in the New York pa
pers for 500 Irishmen to 60 to France |;
application to be made at Room GO, Fifth
| Avenue Hotel Result, the halls and cor
ridors Of the hotel were filled, by 10
o'clock, with hundreds of applicants-so
crowding the guests and visitors Of the
house, that there was necessity of clear
ing the intruders out; and it was not un-
til they we're put out, that the proprietors
knew 70 what circumstance they were in.
debted for such visitation.
AN eccentric Partisan recently died,
who had travelled all over the world and
spent fifty years to secure materials for
work on humpbacks, which he left in
2,000 sheets, with numerous drawings and
curious observations. He discovered that
humpbacks are most numerous In the
temperate zone In Europe, and that the
bumps have some connection with the
formation Of the country where they are
found, those in the Pyrenees showing the
angular, jagged shape of the mountains,
| while those on the sea coast have gentle
descent on one side.
An old man, of very respectable appear
ance, has of late been swindling the store.
keepers Of New York city IN . novel
manner. II u his custom to ask to be &C
commodated with s. bill for that amount
In currency, - he wishes bill to send in
Q letter to his son, who II ct school In the