Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-25
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uSCEL1AMEOUS ITEXA
Tn DREAMS FOR HuxeRr Mxr-Pro
visions.
i BETHLKHxM, Penn, has . hand nre-en
CINE built In 1893.
| TIE French population Of Vernon
numbers 15,401 persona
Missouri has GET miles of railroad, cost
ing $51, COG, 900.
| CALIFORNIA produces 100000 pound
of quicksilver annually.
DIVIDENDS are applied in the Washing
ton Life to make the policies larger.
Ara late fire in Fitchburg, Mass, F.,
steamer played for thirty-six consecutive
hours.
THERE are twenty-one prisoners in thu
North Indiana State prison who are sen
fenced for Life.
THE stockholders of the Washington
only receive the interest their own money
earns.
| SEVENTY FIVE brides sat down to din
ner on recent Sunday at one hotel al
Niagara Falls.
THE winner OF floating match at Long
Branch lay ON his back three hours and
forty minutes.
WHY are pimples on drunkard's face
like the cuts in London paper? They
are illustrations Of Punch.
THE Romanist population of the
French Empire is $500, 664 the Prot
estant, 1901, $50; the Jewish, 1894.
Why are country girls cheeks like q
good calico dressi Because they are war.
! rsnted to wash and retain their color.
A PANE of glass seventeen feet high
and ten feet wide, lately set up In New
| York, il considered the largest in the
country.
SEVERAL young men Of good families
| in New York have been taken to the
Binghampton Asylum to be cured OF
Drunkenness
ON gate-post in front of q farm house
near Indianapolis, Is sign which says
"No life insurance nor sewing machines
wanted here"
A SERVANT girl, in Toledo, frustrated q
burglars plans by throwing him out of .
garrett window to the sidewalk. He new
er recovered from the shock.
GEN. j. T. PRATT, of Wethersfeld, has
been member OF the Connecticut Legis-
lsture for fourteen sessions, and during
them all has only been absent ten days.
A DISCRIMINATING young lad of our &C
quaintancc says that he likes rainy day
-one that is too rainy to go to school,
and Just rainy enough to go a-fishing.
THE latest style in gold bracelets is in
the shape Of fluted muslin cuff, and is
made Of FURNISHED gold with diamond
button, and ruby button hole.
"How about the small pox excitement
up your wayf" asked one countryman OF
another. "Ohp was the reply, sits dy-
ing out with the patients"
BENJAMIN GRIswoLD, of Cambridge,
VT, now in his 18th year, has just finish.
ed reading his Bible through, by course,
for the one hundred and thirteenth time.
DIR LRwIs SAYRE, of New York city,
has written pamphlet, describing three
cases of lead palsy, resulting to ladies
from the use Of cosmetics containing q
lead poison.
A SMART young lawyers clerk, hearing
It stated by lecturer that IMAM Is mere
" a machine" remarked, II suppose an
attorney may be called q suesng ma
chine"
ArEMALE factory operative Of Water
vile, Me-, died, short time since, from
the use of jute switches. The autopsy
revealed the fact that the skull had been
perforated by vermin, and the brain par
TALLY eaten away.
A WOMAN of Troy was lately brought
before Justice, charged with stealing q
sum Of money from her husband. She
was dismissed on the ground that wife
could not steal from her husband.
EDWIN FORREST, at the age Of sixty.
four, has recently concluded an eight
months season, in which he has Travelled
over six thousand miles, played In hHy-
two towns, and averaged i've perform
ances week.
Or six hundred and twenty-five muir.
ders committed in New York during
the thirteen years ending with 1888, the
perpetrators of one hundred and fifty five,
or one. quarter Ofthe whole number, have
never been discovered.
THE champion shoemakers live at Lynn.
40 far as length of service Is concerned.
Edmund Lewis and James Barney have
worked at the trade seventy one and sew
enty years respectively, and now work
every day.
ALApY recently deceased In New Hamp-
shire has left $300,0O to found college
for young women, wherein they shall be
taught al the higher branches of cduca-
ton enjoyed by male students in other
establishments
THE English papers report that in an
action brought against the proprietors Of
Lloyd's paper for damages for not insert
ing a newspaper advertisement correctly
the verdict was for the defendant, with
costs, on account of the ELIGIBILITY of the
writing.
"WHAr il the chief use Of bread!'
asked an examiner at q school exhibition
"The chief use of bread 2" answered the
urchin, apparently astonished at the sim
plicity of the inquiry. "Why, to spread
| butter and molasses on"
"ARE you not ashamed TO begY said
the philosopher Montague to q strong
| healthy beggar, who was soliciting aims
"you are certainly able to work" 20,
sir" was the knAve's rejoinder, If you
only knew how lazy ami"
A YOUNG Italian, by the nane Of Brado
who 10 q clerk ut indianapolis, has lately
fallen heir to 100000, rich Italian
having left his fortune Of $4,000, 900 In
cold TO his two nephews, who proved Il
r. T2rodo md hia brother