Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10

a has 200 legal voters.

MISCELLANEOUS
Alaska has 200 legal voters.
The poorest of disguises-One in
liquor.
"A light business-The candle.makers,
"A poor way to get thing-Waiting
for it to turn up.
Improbable industry Spinning yarns
ct the street corners.
-Of all convictions, no doubt "sober
ones are the best. Apt to be the most
steady.
There are four hundred and forty
patients ct the Indiana Insane Asylum.
Every Director 10 interested IN the
success of the Warrington Life Of New
York.
The Boston Post thinks it very i'm
prudent in man to promise his doctor q
A Texas paper chroniclestlse hanging
of horse-thief under the heading, The
Health Lift"
Which letter in the alphabet is most
useful to deaf old lady? Alt will make
her hear.
The Washington Life-its growth has
been steady, its success marked, its sys-
tenn Of business pre- eminently adapted to
benefit the policy holders.
The Denver (Colorado) Herald prints
announcements Of births, marriages,
divorces and deaths under the headings :
Arrivals Cspartnerships- Dissolutions--
Departures.
The New York Nspress gives this rule
for testing q Christian: ."Set him to
putting up an old mis-matched stove-pipe,
and keep him at it an hour. If he don't
swear, he's seasoned"
"A Richmond sage says that saw-dust
pills would effectualIy cure many of those
diseases with which mankind is afflicted,
if every individual would make his own
saw-dust
They say that a member of one of the
Eastern Legislatures recently wrote
home to his wife to know what his reli-
gion was, and that she wrote back that he
had better call it Protestant, and let it 60
at that.
The mean temperature of Florida for
twenty years has been SO degrees SO min
utes. The thermometer rarely falls below
40 degrees, or rises above 80 degrees !;
while from Al degrees in January to "a
degrees in August is the average.
Both witty and sharp was that woman
of Baltimore who sent to her grocer these
lines: Mr.. Tuttle, this here thing has
got two much hemp in it for mulasses and
not quite enough for a close line, so l beg
you will exchange it for purer article"
"A Philadelphia cemetery contains
seven graves, side by side, in which re-
pose the ifeless remains of man and his
six wives. When the nrsr wire uIeu Jnc
third was three years old and the fifth an
infant of twelve months; while the last
wife was not born until the year follow
ng the the death of the first.
Mat M was queer genius. A
neighbor found him one day at work at
an enormous wood pile, saving away for
dear life with an intolerably dull saw.
"Why don't you sharpen your saw, Nat'"
asked the neighbor. Looking up with an
inimitably droll expression, II should
think / had work enough to do to saw up
this wood-pile, without stopping to
sharpen saws"
-Twenty-nine years ago, six brothers,
of whom j. F. Richardson, now Superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati
railroad, was one, separated, each going
his own way to seek his fortune. On a
recent Saturday the six brothers all met
for the first time since parting in Indian
apolis. What renders the circumstance
particularly noteworthy is, that the meet
ing was purely accidental. On the follow
ing Tuesday they eat reunion dinner at
indianapolis, after which they went their
several ways again.
"A Pennsylvania merchant agreed to
take farmers oats at 40 cents bushel if
the latter would let him tramp the meas
ure when filled. The farmer agreed to
it. The buyer paid for go bushels and
| next day went after them. The farmer
| filled the bushel, and the merchant got in
and tramped them down. Whereupon
the farmer poured the oats 30 compressed
into the bag. The merchant protested,
and demanded that the measure should be
filed up after tramping. The farmer in
formed him that there was no agreement
down the oats to his hearts content after
they were measured.
An enthusiastic friend of the Elgin
Watch, dealer in Usage, Iowa, thus de-
livers himself In blank verse. The Poem(!)
is quite literary curiosity:
OF ell the Watches
like the Eigin Watch the best.
For that has stood
The Railroad mems
Most rigid test.
In freezing North,
Or burning South,
It's always just the same;
Or in the pocket Of
Some engineer
Upon the lightning train.
All Europe stand amazed
To see our work, how
Noble, true, and grand;
And say farewell,
Old Switzerland,
And all our works by hand.
Now when you have read
These verses over and don't think
This IL q spsaer,
Just give J. C. Moreland
An early call,
And see hve-ounce--G. N. Wheeler.
Mr. Rmrlin9nmA.