Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-24
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
"A Dead Set-Those killed in battle.
An Attractive Table of Contents The
dinner table.
"A Dangerous Point-The "point of
Death"
"A Dangerous Character-A man who
takes life cheerfully.
The First Lesson in Drawing-Draw-
ing your breath.
The Depth Of Cowardice-Fearing to
strike a balance-sheet.
How in the world can floating debt
be paid out Of a sinking fund.
The Best Marriage Gift--A policy in
the Washington Life.
"A Boston engagement" has fallen
through because the bride ate salt pork
There will be fifty-three Sundays in
1871, the year beginning and ending on
Sunday.
1t is no part of wisdom to be miserable
to-day because we fear We may be SO to-
morrow.
The latest hair restorer is thief who
stole a quantity of wigs, and afterwards
returned them to the owner.
Mrs. Digby says the main stay of her
husband is at the Club Room Stays pretty
near every night till H.
Well executed counterfeit twenty dol
lar bills on the Oneida National Bank of
Utica. n. T.. are in circulation.
Thirteen hundred and fifteen waits
have been left during the past year at the
New York Founding Asylum.
"A lazy fellow, lying down on the grass.
said OH how do wish this was called
work and well paid p
Provide for your own household, and
do so by insuring in the Mutual Life In
surance Company, of Chicago.
"A vain female party in New Mexico
endeavored to pass herself off on the cen
sus-taker as only 1913, in face of the fact
that she had grand daughter aged 80.
The business men at Davenport are
poetical geniuses. One of them has out
the following literary gem as sign:
% Here lives man who never refuses,
To mend all sorts OF boots and shooses.'
Devotion to Science -Mamma-" All.
you cruel, cruel boy, how could you
brighten your dear little sister sos" The
Incorrigible-"I-Io only wanted to see if
her hair would turn white"
Rather Mixed.-British Swell" You
must think US young Englishmen wawther
wapid fellows" American Friend
Well-yes-rather vapid." b. ST
didn't say wapid-I said wapid wather
fast, you know"
DIR. Wilson, an English authority,
finds that one person in IL has what is
called color blindness, and one i'm 50 con-
POUNDS red with green. Others mistake
red for yellow, yellow for green, pale
green for cloudy white, and blue for
black.
Counterfeit fifty cent bills are reported
in circulation. They differ frem the gen.
uine by the Treasury seal not covering the
signature, and have the red, but not the
blue fiber in them.
There may be some who have been
drawing pensions who do not know that
the children under sixteen years of age
are entitled 10 pension on the remarriage
Of the widow. All such should secure the
pension due the little ones.
How beautifully wife's consistency is
illustrated in the case Of the woman in
Newport, r. l., who, having had her hus-
band put in the watch house for brutality
toward herself, carried him his pipe and
tobacco, saying that she wanted him to
take as much comfort as possible during
his confinement.
AT one time while John Thompson
was Justice Of the Peace in Sugar Grove,
it became necessary, in the final settlement
of an estate, to have a certain woman
identified, and certificate Of the same
made out by the Justice. He did the
work as follows: II certify that Mary
Jones is Mary Jones. John Thompson,
j. p"
An Indianapolis editor recently dis
covered that there was an acre and half
of government land in one Of the counties |
on the Ohio. River. He paid |
$318a4, and that land was his. Going |
down to see what he had purchased, the |
County Surveyor showed him an elegant |
sand bar in bend on. the Ohio River. just |
below low-water mark.
A wealthy hypochondriac of New
Orleans, who believed that his earthly |
house was as brittle as glass, and that he |
ran in constant danger OF breaking ii, was
cured Of the conceit, few
days since, by the kindness of two medical |
students who followed him about from |
place to place, and when questioned as to /
their motives stated that they were waiting |
for him TO "break himself" 20 that they
might have a chance to pick up the pieces
for dissection. 3
GoDEy's LADY's BOoK.-Thc December
number Is rich in embellishments First Time
II Asking " h ans steel plats; thsn No havs the
asual stsel plate tikis-pags; two elegant Christ
mas pictures: "Eomember the Poor" ard |
!. Chsiatmas Morning;'' splendid Berlin woea- /
work pattern, printed in > variety % colon; . |
N. azure colored fashion-plats; large extern /
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