Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-03

circulars from lawyers, announcing terms
for divorce. $50 absurd, you know. ma,
before our honeymoon liz over" Irue,
DEAR replied ma, who had been twice I
divorced, "but I'd put them In 2 safe
place you may find them very usefni IN
q year or two."io n 4gffs' get
ADovn.EAsr paper says that persuasive
and humbugginG agents are about IN tnat
region selling lightning rods. One Old
| ladv told an agent she had no fear OF
lightning, but she had always bcen afraid
Of thunder. "Just 60" he replied, we
4 can meet your case exactly. The square
rods are IieAsning rods and the round
| opes tAw~dv-rodA OF course she - now
REV NOAH scHxrcx, D. D., rector Of
st. AIMS. Brooklyn, advises people 70
slsen an hour or two later on Sunday than
! anv other day in the week, and thus be the
better prepared for the services and the
! dnties Of the Sabbath. Then let the sum
| day School meet at 10 o'clock, giving pa
rents. az well as children, the opportunity
\ | of attending, followed by public preaching
= At "a. The afternoon TO be devoted to re-
) lipious instruction, in the family and the
. churches and pews thrown open to all IN
= the evening, for the dispensation OF the
. word. aa. 8..
THE Newark Advertiser suggests new
business for the blind 1t says that IN
u Newark two or three of these unfortunates
q sell teas from house to house, having ap
e. parently been directed to take that par
ticular article by their keen sense OF smel
81 and taste. One Of them is escorted Dy
y, borrowed boy from the Orphan Asylum
10 make change and act as guide. Thei
la teas Are procured at the lowest wholesai
be prices through the aid of gentleman VIII
I'D acts as capitalist for the concern. me
have thus raised themselves above Tn
We level of mendicancy, do not claim to o
he objects of charity, and only ask for ial
be share Of business.
TAKEN AT HER WoRp.-The late Re
70 Dr Wiphtman was q simple minded SEQ
ba fish divine of the old school. When
m Young man he paid his addresses to
Young lady in the parish, and his SUIT WI
- accepted on the condition that 1t met tn
We approval of the lady's mother. Accor'
III III ingly the doctor waited upon the matron
~ and, stating his case, the good woman
w. lighted at the proposal, passed the usn
re- Scottish compliment, Deed, DOCTOR yt
tut she,s No ouid emo for We" "Weel, weel
zen was the reioinder, aye ken best 30 We
saw nae MAR about it." No more W
!, is said. and the social intercourse OF the pa
nd. ties continued on the same footing as Q
nut fore. About forty years after Dr. Wigt
hat man died bachelor and the lady an O
maid
to- A GENTLEMAN in Alabama, In exertil
by himself one day felta sudden pain, a.
his tearing his internal machinery had be
thrown, out of gear, sent for negro
his plantation, who made some prete
sions to medical skill, to prescribe
has him. The negro having investigated
.rly case, prepared and administered dose
cen his patient with the utmost commence
/ it speedy cure. No relief being experien
ed, however, the gentleman sent ioi
God physician, who, on arriving, inquired
nest the negro what medicine he had gwen
as master. Bob promptly responded, "Ko
|, he and alum, sir" "What did you give tn
fory" continued the doctor, "Why,'
plied Bob, "the alum to draw the pa
ese, togedder, and de rosin to solder 'el
lens The patient eventually recovered.
! roe The London Athsn0um tells the tollt
ing story: Mr.. Brown let as call d
:. the proprietor of, shall we say, the Astc
! - Sumner. was dissatisfied with his novel
luch Mr. Jones, and told him 80. Jones
,s on ~. ,c -, ~ ro,cb ROMANCE wh
dear .non 10" -, aakl,, ar;hhlets lint Rre
Sucn rave him notice TO quit at once, ana al
that he had engaged Mr.. Robinson "a
nors ON with and complete the story. 10
luon accepted the warning, but remarked u
u IN as he had sufficient manuscript copy
out supply the chapters for the next mum
was they had better be set up after which
Robinson might take up the thread OF
ty of story and get TO the end OF it. Brc
hun consented, and went down to his sui
,eing han retreat whittier was forwarded
I III. him the next number of the sumner,
ngly Jones' chapters, from which Robinson
to continue the narrative. II Brown
It in sessed true critical faculty, he must
sites admired the inventive power OF his
,eted hired writer, and have doubted whe
zeria, Robinson would be equal to the pre-
His emergency. In short, Jones, having
mary lected every living parsonage and an
he had named in the novel, put them
rtnre on board Of ship bound for Anne
v.led and sent the whole Of them--ship, ire
y told and passengers down to the very bo
b = n of the Atlantic, never to be brough
> that again. The words To be continued
III the close of the chapter, formed chall
to the ingenuity OF Robinson, which
y and was too iii qualified to accept, and acf
J; on inply the story remains somewhat u
:, on ished, and as forgotten as the author
ables stopped and the writer who could nc
bread, Il rninr again. sH Iuail rI s5
lump ----> d,
A Story with IOraI.