Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06
Miscellaneous.

Vegetable broth is soup herb diet.
Canoes are again coming into fash
ion.
Every young doctor must get on If ne
only has patients.
-Philadelphia has one policeman for
every 1900 inhabitants.
-Elihu Burritt reads the Bible in
twenty different languages.
"A mans name passes around much
more freely If it has handle to 1t.
An enraged man tears his hair an
enraged woman tears her husbands.
Why is a tall man in hurry like civ
ilizationi Because he progresses with
rapid strides.
Six miles were made in five minutes
by a train on the South Side Nong Is.
land) Railroad the other dsy.
An amature naturalist offers reward
to the man who will furnish him with q
live specimen of the "brick bat"
John Paul says that nothing Is raised
in the vicinity Of Long Branch but the
visitors Indignation at finding himself
there.
A perfect petrified seal was recently
exhumed from mine near Wadsworth,
Nevada, at point 5000 feet above the
level Of the Pacific.
Three hundred fat men, every one of
whom came up to the regulation weight
Of 200 pounds, had dance few days
ago, at Cedar Grove, r. /.
The number of cities in Massachu-
setts is fifteen, the same as in 1865, the in
corporation of Haverhill compromising
for the annexation of Roxbury.
Among rules for baggage. men, given
hy Punshinello, is this: 'If you see a
trunk marked, glass, with care, smash 1t
at once, or it will bother you all day."
"A Milwaukee tobacconist has placed
In front Of his store Q blackboard on
which he bulletins the namee Of persons
who have neglected to pay him sundry
small accounts.
During the fiscal year ending June
81, 1870, there was received at the Treas.
ury Department, Washington, the sum Of
1858, S97St, to be placed to account of the
conscience" fund.
Stamps on receipts for money will not
be required after October 1. Those on
checks remain as they are. They will
not be required on promissory notes for
less sums than $1GO.
1T has been decided that the provis-
ions Of the law furnishing artificial limbs
to soldiers, or money for them, are per
sonal to the soldier, aud do not extend to
his heirs in case of death before receiving
The benefit thereof
Two gentlemen were lately examin-
ing portion Of plov in market place.
ON bet guinea" said one, "you do not
know what this il for /" "DOne," said
the other; "it is for sale" The bet was
won and the wager paid.
DIR. Peters, Of the Litchfeld Observa.
tory, Hamilton College, N. T., has dis
covered another asteriod, the one hun
dred and twelfth. It is named Iphigenis.
The planet discovered on the 18th of Au-
gust has been named Ate.
"A Masonic Insurance Company has
been organized in Troy, N. T., for the
especial use of Masons. There are three
classes, A, B and @. A comprises mem
bers between 81 and 35 years Of age; b.
between IS and 50 years. and q, 80 and 65
years.
"A healthy old Texan says that, " from
6rst to last, he has received by discharges
Of guns and pistols into his body, 175
shot; had both legs, collar bone and sew
en- ribs broken, and his skull cracked Is
the father Of twenty children; raised this
year, with his own hands, 1,109 head of
fine cabbage. 1000 large beets, besides
other craps,' and can now run pretty
good quarter race"
lin Embarrassing, the tendency ID TO
simpler and more natural styleA The
hair is worn In large loose braids, or
crimped waterfalls, and II not drawn back
10 tightly from the face. Young girls
wear their own hair In long braids tied
with ribbons TO match the dress, or
merely flowing, with . ribbon TO CON.
| flne It, away from the face. One very
broad braid II preferred 70 two for the
! chiGuOu.