Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-13

i STEADY WoRx-Walking on the tight
rope.
i TEE man who works with . will-The
Probate Judge.
! MEATS are high, but COWS low-when
they are hungry.
i IN 1774 New York employed sixteen
persons - watchmen and lamplighters.
i THnvEs don't have . very quiet life oil
It, Notwithstanding they take things %
Nxw YoRx has about $50 miles of pipe
for the reception and distribution Of Gro.
tom water.
| A NAN should think little Of the evil
that IL said Of him, unless he thinks much
Of him who saysit
THE wise men are considering the qnes-
ton, show It feels to be under dre." The
verdict will probably be that It feels hot.
OVER 100000 small trees, mostly noun
tain cottonwoods, have been set out at
Denver, Col, within the past three years.
REV. w. h. MILBuRN, the blind preach.
or, has declined an offer Of $4,000 in gold
. year to take charge Of church In San
Francisco.
ARGENT New York wedding was dis.
tinguished by the gift TO the bride Of q
100000 diamond necklace and $4,000
worth of silverwsre.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Erie (Pa.)
Dispatch says that the income of j. 8.
McGray, Of Petroleum Center, from his
"old Homestead" is IS minute, night
and day.
MANY ladies who do not like to have
their ears pierced wear small gold wire
behind the ear, which clasps 1t in front,
and holds the earring.
PUNCH has the following: A Capital
Answer-Self-made man examining q
school, of which he Is manager-"Now,
boy, what's tie capital OF 'Olland!" Boy
An H. sir"
TIE tallest tree yet measured is an Aus
tralian, Of the myrtle family, and of the
genus Euclyptus tits 480 feet long or high,
but in diameter inferior to the larger CAL
ifo-nians.
THE State of Maine has lake to each
twenty square miles Of territory, and one
square mile of lake to each fourteen and
three-tenths square miles of territory.
THE Rev. James Patterson, of blessed
memory, who died in the autumn of 1887,
on one occasion said Brethren, if the
trust you to keep me poor"
SOME men seem to delight in wanton
destruction. An exchange says that two
men were lately seen tearing up the
streets in neighboring city and on the
same day several persons were observed
in the very act of pulling up the river.
A BRAKEMAN on q coal train on the
New Jersey Railroad has fallen heir to
$4,000 worth Of property, which is in
Virginia, and was coDfiscated during the
war, but has since been returned to the
heirs.
SMITH (who had forgetfully left his
peck ct book on the piano, the night before)
--"Have you found anything this morning,
Angelina?" "Oh, yes, dear, thanks and
I've ordered new piano stool, some lace
curtains, and-such love of bennett"
ILLINOIS is the leading State in the
money-order system, and New York the
second. Illinois has sent during the past
year over three millions of dollars through
the Money Order Bureau of the Postoface
| Department, while the amount transmit.
ted throughout the country reaches the
sum Of $34,054,14.
THE Independent Order of Odd Eel.
| lows has made considerable progress DUR
| ing the past year. The membership has
| increased to total of 298,O63, gain of
BOATS. It's revenue for the year amount
| ed to $2,7i4288, an increase OF nearly
| $500 900, while the amount expended for
| purposes of relief reached total Of
| 1858. 1905.
THE business of the money-order
bureau during the past fiscal year 10 one.
| Ari.I c~cav than fhot pf thu y,rnrndi N -
| wear. Over one million six hundred
! thousand dollars have been issued, trans.
ferring $34,O54 1874, for which $225, 1856
was paid in tees. The cost to the pur.
chaser was therefore seven-tenths of one
| per cent, while the cost to the govern
| ment was only half that.
A GENTLEMAN in Albany has drinking
Gun which was presented to the Archduke
Macmillan by the city of Nuremburg,
and which was made in the year 1927.
The cup stands 10 inches high, Is covered
with bas.reliefs of grace and beauty, all
having allegorical meaning, and has .
cover on which originally stood the figure
of knight In solid gold.
THE Davenport Gazette says that James
Thompson, OF that place, owns twenty.
nine 100 acre farms In Iowa. He has them
sllrented, receiving an average Of one-third
Of the yield and $3.50 per acre. Mr..
Thompson's share of the crop will be, 1t
il estimated, 10000 bushels Of barley, T.
600 bushels OF wheat, and 10000 bushels
Of corn, footing up, at present prices,
about $4,000.
| THB registrar. general places the area
of London at "a, 997 acres, which exceeds
the area of Philadelphia by less than q
600 acres. Paris has only $500 acres,
Vienna 3,728 acres, and Berlin 1858 acres.
Birmingham is in excess Of the average
of Paris, having 1902 acres Birming-
ham must be healthy, for its rate of NOR
tslity is is per 1000 the lowest Of
all cities; the highest 10 Leeds-24 in
1,0C0
On the receipt of the news Of the sur
render Of Louis Napoleon and his army
tn the Germans, after the battle of Sedan,
James Saxten, Sr., editor Of the Canton
(O.) Repository, published the announce
ment In parallel columns with that Of the