Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-08
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| HISCXLLAHBOUS ITEMS
A-NRw.6MG "A cat serensde.
ATuRHIno PomT-The hayonet
PRE@ED 1o1 Tnn-Egyptian mum
mica
Norzs OF SunnR TRAvz1-Green-
backG is
DsKP REvRHas-Throwing your rival
down the well
THE "Rushing Thunderbolt" II the
name Of an Erie Canal boat
THE SwRRrRsT OF 6TRAMs-Trying TO
lift pretty girl on horse.
are fourteen miles long.
Ann. JONES, aged 1O6 years, recently
eloped in Canada with widow.
DESIRABLE STATE OF Distribution,
Having nothing 70 reproach ones self
with. A e
PuNcHrNRLLo says that after q Turkish
bath man can walk clean home.
A MAN who has tried il says that all the
short cuts to wealth are overcrowded.
WHEN is lover justified in calling his
sweetheart "honeyi" When she is bee
loved.
"WHo will care for mother now :" has
been translated into both French and
Prussian. tit
CRIM1NAL-Why is prisoners time
like an abOminable joke? Because it's
past in durance.
A SCHENECTADY man kennels his black.
and-tan in q cigar box and muzzles him
with thimble.
! CALIFORNIA is shipping much fruit
east, in cars with revolving fans in the
roof, driven by the motion.
A GRAVEYARD inscription II Kenne-
bunk, Me-. reads thus: "Poor 10! his
head is level now If it never was before. !"
Two men, father and son, have held the
Office of Clerk OF Grayson county, KY,
ever since it was organized, in 1915.
A STUDENT in the Michigan Agricul-
tural College has invented q gate. latch
for which he has received ten thousand
dollars.
| RRvRRDY JOHNSON is threatened with
blindness, and has been to Boston in or
der to have an operation performed on
his eyes.
A NEW YORK policeman, while making
an arrest, recently, was assaulted by
three women, one of whom bit of his
right ear. &
A MuD-TuRTLE captured near Bangor,
in 1887, the date stamped on his back,
and set free, has just been re captured.
Troy boasts of woman sharp-shooter
who can hit the bulls eye of target
every shot, at distance OF forty rods.
| A SMALL miniature Photographic APP
| paratus has been invented which gentle
men can carry around In their pockets,
and take the likenesses of their lady
friends at moments warning.
AT Troy, New York, the Other day, q
carpenter fell from the roof of school.
house, a distance of sixty feet, and was
unipiured. He astenished the spectators
by getting up and walking away.
TIE Commissioner of Pensions decides
that, when women clerks are deputixed to
perform the duties of Pension Agents,
their sex does not disGualify them from
davits.
CREDroR-" How often must I climb
three pair of stairs before get the
amount Of this little account?" Debtor
-"Do you think am going to rent q
place on the first floor to accommodate
my creditOrsf"
Youxo- Grrr1nMAr-Awl Miss Caven-
dish, do you know they've had juvenile
party before the ball! Miss Cob,
then suppose your mamma is letting you
stop little later this evening
APPLE trees in Orrington, Me-, which
were stripped by serious tornado Of q
few weeks ago, have again blossomed and
commenced spring business anew. Locust
trees have also blossomed.
A MOTHER at Schenectady, N. T., was
alarmed, few nights ago., by finding a
large black cat sucking the breath Of her
child. The little one was quite feeble
when it was awakened, and may not re.
cover.
A HUSBAND and wife at Cincinnati were
recently discovered in a beastly state OF
intoxics ten, at their own home, with
three children lying close to them upon
pallets OF straw, but 30 weak from long
fasting as to be unable to move hand or
foot.
A DIVORCED female meeting her late
husband in the streets of KeOkuk, Iowa,
the other day, dashed bottle of acid in
his face, the bottle breaking, and the acid
flying in every direction; but she had
made q. mistake, and used carboiic acid in
stead of nitric acid.
Mr.. HIBBARD, of Tacoma, n. H., re-
Gently picked from tree in his garden q
good-sized apple, inclined to be red all
over, with the exception of perfect pic
ture of Q rooster on one side, which was
green. The beak, tail, comb, feathers,
legs, and every part OF 1t, were perfect
ARTIsr- Well, so you've sold my pic
ture. What did 1t 60 fort Dealer
Thirty shillings. Artist Thirty shil-
lings Why, the frame cost me more
than that. Picture dealer-Ahi That
was before the picture was in it.
THE Nev England Hossesteod says lad
| living in South Deerfield, Mass, sixteen
years Of age, raised in 1869. on his own
account, 1900 tobacco plants, which he
fitted for market and sold for the comfort
able little sum Of sos, and has that
amount safely invested in the savings'
| bank. 1k ki3iE
A DOCTOR living near Boston Is 10 pc.
nurious that when he goes to make visit
in the country he takes hen In his gig
1 to eat up the oats his horse scatters when
L H. hes