Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE Music OF THE UNION The
Wedding March.
RICHMOND has a watch two hundred
years old, and it still keeps time.
THE DEAREST SPor ON EARTH
The store where they don't advertise.
Why are policemen when wanted like
electricity. Because they are an tnrtssde
force.
ALBANY papers predict severe winter
this year, because the sheep that come to
the market there have unusually close and
heavy wool.
THE Pail MAI Gazette Uondon) re-
Gently stated that the Republicans of Penn
sylvania, America, had elected sixteen
members of Congress, and the Democrats
eighty.
A GENTLEMAN Of Toledo has expended
81 200 in the building of fairy palace"
1t is twenty-five inches high, and rests
upon stone foundation three inches above
the ground
MRS DAVID CAIN, Of San Francisco,
ratified off a $4,000 set of diamonds to aid
the French cause, and her husband drew
the prize, though there were three thou
sand other ticket holders.
THE Schenectady IN. W Star says that
Mordecai Myers, of that city, voted at the
recent election, and cast his seventy NTH
ballot That is, he has never missed vo-
ting at the State election for seventy-five
years
The Ne,o England Farmer says in 100
towns in New Hampshire the population
of the rural towns has decreased in the
last ten years-the Inhabitants of the hill
and mountain farms gradually leaving
them.
THE bell of the Episcopal Church in
Michigan City, Ind, has quite record.
1t was captured during the Mexican war
and brought to this country. Its fine tone
is supposed to be due to the presence Of
silver in its composition.
j. j. MCELHoNE, short hand reporter
Of the Washington Globe, can write with
both hands at the same time-the left TAX
ing notes and the right transcribing
he is said to be the only man in the world
who can do it.
LONDON numbers among its population
a class of habitual paupers, ranging from
10000 to 10000. OF these, more than
1000 are Migrants. A return of the va
grants relieved on the 1st of January, 1865,
throughout England and Wales, gave
total of 1880; in the metropolitan district,
$50. A similar report for 1869 placed the
corresponding total at 1929 and 1882.
THERE is an elegant brick house in
Portsmouth, N. H., which cost 100000.
1t is surrounded by an iron fence, but the
owner, who died some time since, never
would make up his mind as to the design
of his gate. For several years the stone
posts have been hung with pieces of rope
holding an old ladder, and the widow, who
desires to follow out her late husbands
wishes, renews the ladders as they get
broken, and keeps up the plan of the de-
parted.
A LITTLE girl had beautiful head of
hair, which hung in clustering curls ="
down on her neck. One hot summer day,
she went up stairs and cut all the curls off.
Coming down she met her mother, who
exclaimed, with surprise, Mary! what
have you been doing to your hair" To
which she responded that she had cut it
off and laid it away in her box, but that
she intended to put it on again tomorrow,
as aunt Nancy did!
THE LORD WILL PROVIDE
In some way or other the Lord will provide
1t may not be my way,
1t may not be khy way;
And yet In His 0aOn way
The Lord will provide"
At some time or other the Lord will provide;
1t may not be tuy time,
1t may not be thy time
And yet in His OaCn time
"The Lord will provide"
The Oldest man in Mississippi is John
Owens, of Itawamba County. He reached
III in October, and never in his life has he
taken dose of calomel or blue mass, or
had to do with law suit. He is native
of North Carolina, from which State he
went to Tennessee For the last forty
years he has resided in North Mississippi,
and previously spent fifty years in Jackson
County, Alabama. His second marriage
took place when he was "a, and he has
been "pious and consistent Baptist" for
seventy-fve years.
THE Detroit Post says: wooden water
pipes were recently taken out in Wood
ward avenue, laid there forty-three years
ago. This wood is apparently as sound as
ever, showing no sign of decay, even re-
tanning the bark, and on cutting through it
into the wood the timber was found as
bright and as sound as ever The pipes
were made of tamarack logs, about sixteen
feet in length and eight or ten inches in
diameter; bore Of log, three inches in di-
ameter, The pipes were disconnected
from the distribution pipes several years
ago. They were imbedded in clay at a
depth Of four or five feet"
A DISTINGUISHED American artist was
once visited in his studio by little party
of ladies, all strangers to him. At last
they went away. but one Of the women
soon returned alone. Getting the atten-
ton of the artist, she began in the most
confidential and winning manner: "Mr
-, don't you think that in some future
group you may introduce the figure of a
widow" "Of course, it is possible, yet
not likely. Why do you ask p Because
/ have picture Of myself, taken only a
month after my husband died, which has
just the right expression, and will lend it
to you. il you really think you will ever
use it."
THE way in which sugar is made per-
fectly white was found out in a curious
way. A hen that had gone through clay
mud puddle, went with her muddy feet
into the sugar-house. 1t was observed by
some one that wherever the tracks were
the sugar was whitened. This led to some
experiments. The result was that the clay
came to be used in refining sugar. 1t is in
this way: The sugar is put in earthen
jars, shaped as you see the sugar is. The