Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-21

and married lite. Numerous gifts were
exchanged, and festivities continued sew
eral days - y ASS a. AssI =
tsa 4lsC4LLANEOUS ITEMS
A SAD Am-Miafor-twnl ~
ECONOMY is the easy chair of old age.
The SHADES or N1cHT-Window-cur-
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Il A Dual should never be fought over
two seconds. gst ff-fsstE
WHAT ailment may we look for on an
oakf Acorn.
CAN cast from . marble be described
- stones throwi
wH.r may man properly lead otherss
When he's got ahead
THxRE IL no truer saying than that
"Sweet are the uses. of advertisements r
To Keep odt Of Debt-Acquire the
reputation of rascal, and no one will
trust you.
THs man most likely to leave his mark
upon the times-One who cannot write
his own name.
THz man who ate his dinner with the
fork of river has been trying to spin .
The very Climax of superhuous benev.
olence has been declared to be that of
holding an umbrella over duck in the
rain.
TIE New York Sun learns of . lean
mans association out in Jersey, to which
crawling through key-hole is the first
initiatory step.
THE Cleveland Herald thinks the mar
rage service should be changed to read !:
Who dares take this woman? and the
groom shall answer, I dare.
THE young Duke of Newcastle, who is
now going through bankruptcy, has con-
trived, on an income of 100000, to incur
debts to the amount of f15O,OOO.
THE entire assets of Boston bankrupt
were nine children. The creditors did
the handsome thing and let him keep
every one of them.
A MALICIOUS libel is going the rounds
that vegetation is 30 scarce at Cape Cod
that two mullen stalks and whortleberry
bush are called grove.
NEVADA claims to have brook trout
over four feet long. In some places the
streams are SO narrow that these trout
have to come ashore to turn around
Detroit Tribune.
THERE is this difference between those
two temporal blessings, health and
money: Money is the most envied, but the
least enjoyed health is the most en-.
joyed, but the least envied.
A CORRESPONDENT wrote to news
paper in behalf of ian aged, INDECENT
mother" and was enraged in the morning
that his appeal was made to read in be.
half Of "a one-eyed indignant woman"
"THR NAN who) raised . cabbage head
has done more good than all the meta
physics in the world" said q stump
orator at a meeting. "Then." replied
wag, your mother ought to have the
ONE of the New York railroad ring
says that although his father would not
tell a lie for shilling, he would not hest
tate to tell eight for dollar. That is the
difference between wholesale and retail
fibbing.
THE Evansville Journal says that a
young lady of that city was licensed to
marry two gentlemen, and adds that she
made only one happy. Which that one
was is not stated, but probably it was the
one she did not marry.
A PREMIUM is offered for the most in
genious device whereby newspaper can
be lent to neighborhood Of not less than
twenty families, without being worn out
before its return to the owner.
"BoY, what is your father doing to-
day :" I" Well, / s'pose he's failin'.
heard him tell mother yesterday to go
round to the shops and get trusted all she
could, and do right off too, for he'd got
everything ready to fail, 'ceptin that"
MASTER CHARLIE, aged four years, was
not pleased on being reproved by his
showed his displeasure in his face, when
his mother remarked :" Why, Charlie, I
am astonished to see you making faces at
your motherr' "Why, calculated to
laugh, but mamma, my face slipped"
HERE (says the New York Zinses) is an
opportunity for the assertion of womsn's
rights. A National Bee keepers Conven-
ton is called to be held at Indianapolis on
the 10th and 18th of August, and certainly
there could not possibly be any objection
to allowing woman, the Queen Bee Of
the Convention, to preside over 1t.
A YANKEE one day asked his lawyer
how an heiress might be carried off.
You cannot do it with safety" said the
counselor; "but I'll tell you what you
may do. Let her mount horse and hold
bride whip; do you then mount behind
her, and you are safe, for she runs away
with you" The next day the lawyer
found that 1t was his own daughter who
had run away with his client.
RRsT.-
Rest Ii not quitting
The busy career;
Rest 10 the fitting
OF self TO ones sphere
IT'S the brooks motion,
Clear without strife;
Fleeing to the ocean
After this life.
IT'S loving and serving
The highest and best;
IT'S onward unswerving,
And this II true rest. -GOskh.
THE winter of 1740 Is described in an
old book quoted by . German paper as
very terrible. This work, "Brockes' Con-
tentment in God" thus speaks of 1t An
unheard of frost seized with extraordinary
severity on the world and the elements, 90
that II ID scarcely possible to number or
relate the many strange occurrences that
took place through its violence. Men felt
30 oppressed that days passed by unheed-