Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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THE COMING Mantle juvenile.
RELATIVE BEAUTY-A pretty cousin.
How TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR NOTHING
Use free-stone.
s,CoAT-oF-ARNs FOR REPORTERS "A
pump handle in motion
THE census of 1870 will cost the Gov
eminent 81, $50 900.
LONDON averages 1900 births and !, 200
deaths week. SIS 5A
How TO DEVELOP THE IxAGINArIoN--
Ca the delirium tremens 80 .
CLEVELAND has fewer marriages than
any other city Of its size in the Union.
! Why are horses in cold weather like
meddlesome gossips! Because they are
bearers Of idle tails.
| DURING 1869 there were sold by twelve
manufacturing companies in this country
$50 500 sewing machines. 8a
| Mr. David Holt, of Madison, Wis, Is
the possessor Of Bible printed in 1908,
three years before the appearance of the
King James version. 983
| THE difference between country" and
| "city" greenhorn is, that one would like
to know everything, and the other thinks
he can tell him. ffifH
THE deepest excavation in the United
States is a copper mine near Lake Superior
II is thirteen hundred f ct deep.
| Iris claimed that the smallest voter in
the world is John McKibben, Of Winter
set Iowa, thirty-six inches high, and
weighing thirty-six pounds.
FIFTY years ago the Universalist Society
| Of Providence bought six lots for $4,000,
and now they have just sold them for
| $100,500. Il.
MASSACHUSETTS, has 303 newspapers, and
| Illinois has 435, while the six New Eng
| land States have altogether 449-but four
teen more than the State Of Illinois.
I A WITNESS was called to the stand to
| give his testimony. Having taken his
place, he turned to the bar and earnestly
asked: (Which side am ony"
LADY YARMOUTH asked Garrick one
| day why love was always represented as a
child. He replied, Because love never
| reaches the age of wisdom and expert
ence"
AN old, dilapidated bank note is going
round with piece Of yellow paper pasted
on the back Of it on which is written, in a
bold free hand, go it Bill, I'll back
you!"
A FRIEND having met Sheridan, asked
him how he was getting alorg. Oh
answered Sheridan 1T have turned over a
new leaf, and now go on like clOck-wOrk."
Yes" replied his friend, tick! tick!
tick" s.s
| IT is said that q smart woman has been
engaged, at Nashua, N. H., for some time
past, in selling several hundred dollars
| worth Of molasscs and water as valuable
chemical mixture for the removal of warts
pimples, corns, and moles.
A MARRIAGE in high life was broken off
in Tcrre Haute, Ind, the other day, simply
because the prospective bridegroom, in ex-
! aiming the family Bible, found the would
be bride nine years older than the endorse
ment of her mother called for.
THE editor of paper in Nebraska who
offered premium for the largest water
melon left at his Office, has been supplying
the Omaha market with those vegetables
all summer besides boarding his hands on
the fruit
AT Columbus Georgia. marble yard
there is solid block of marble which is
| to be dug out, metallic coffin placed
therein, and the whole, after a corpse is
deposited within it, to be Theoretically seal
| ed above ground. 1t has been ordered by
a gentleman in Barbour County, Alabama.
WHEN circumstances rendered 1t i'm
possible for him to attend the stated preach
ing of the Gospel, he made it a sacred rule
| to kill an Indian every Sabbath" is the in
scription affectionately engraved upon the
| tomb of a Colorado. deacon, by the be-,
reaved members Of the congregation. 1bf
THERE is an old lady in St. joe, Mo-,
who has kept house over twenty years,
and who has had only one paper of pins
in that time, and yet has part Of the
paper left. She has money in the bank.
Economy Is the road to wealth"
In drug store in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
they have book, printed in 1856, called
the New London Dispensatory" 1t gives
the following ague cure: "The fat Of the
crocodile is good, as are also the ashes OF
the cuckoo. Perhaps the best is plaster
made out of spiders and bound to the
wrists" A
Do you believe in the rod as an instru-
ment Of disciplined asked a mother Of a
school-teacher in Nevada, TO whom she
had taken her unruly son. NO, madam"
oh, I'm so glad What do you substi,,
tute for it?" "The revolver, madam"
Exit mother and unruly son.
A BRIEF market report Pens, ink and
| phpCI 6ic DtosioASAy AS" min 20 VAL
changed; brogans are heavy, but dealers
generally are firm; wheat is grain better
| than oats; wines and liquors generally
have a downward tendency; yeast cakes
are rising.
AT the recent term of court at Lancaster,
| Wis, a man named Ladd was convicted of
| stealing horse. A short time after.
another man named Sprague came into
court and voluntarily confessed himself
guilty of the crime of which Ladd had
been pronounced guilty.
| THE Chinese of California have bury
ing place in San Francisco where they 60
! twice a year to distribute food upon the
graves oftheir deceased friends, and throw
pieces of charmed paper to the winds.
with the view of exercising evil spirits
Nearly $500 Celestials recently partici-
patcd in ceremony Of this kind.
A FARMER few days since purchased
in Bangor, Me-, some. barrels in which to
preserve cider Upon rinsing them out he
found ia whisky barrel seventeen large
plugs of tobacco all soaked in whisky,
which had evidently been placed there TO
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