Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-10
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much all which can think of about neckss
A MAN in Learenworth evidently th;ns.
it is not well for man to be alone. His
wife lay very sick, not expected TO live
and, while in that condition, she heard him
make proposals of marriage to the servant
girl. That night the wife died, and was
buried the following day The widower
Of day renewed his proposals to the serv.
ant-girL, was accepted, and she Is now en-.
gagged in making her wedding garments.
ASPARAGUS beds should be cleaned, by
having the old stems cut off and the soils
from the alley ways dug out and thrown
over beds. 1t keeps the frost from the
roots, and thus permits them to grow and
lay up matter all winter for next springs
| growth. Very early in spring the soil
should be raked back into the alleys, SO
der the soil, as the nearer they are to the
SUMS rays the earlier will the crop be-
| Exchange.
AN Eastern banker, whose name is very
familiar to the public, in early life resolved
to take the Patriarch Jacobs pledge, "Of
all thou shalt give me. will surely give
the tenth unto Thee" He directed his
clerk to open an account with O. P. j.
| (Old Patriarch jacob, and to credit it one
tenth ofall the commissions that came into
the Office. For years this banker has been
one of the largest operators in the country
| o. p J.. have been faithfully applied to be-
| nevolent and charitable objects.
THE murderer Wilson, who tried min.
| days of selfstafvatiCn in the Connecticut
State Prison, thus describes his feelings:
On the fourth and fifth days the trial was
/ terrible the rawlings of hungerw were fearful !;
could hardly stand it. After that hunger
ceased. On the sixth day, my thirst was
SO intense that involuntarily brought the
wash-dish to my lips and drank several
swallows of water; the dish came invol-
| UNFAIRLY to my lips; could not help it !;
this was the only time drank during the
nine and q half days" He claims to have
been engaged in over one hundred bur
glaries besides having broken Jail several
| times.
A CERTAIN Judge, while attending court
in shire town. was passing along road
when boy was just letting down the bars
to drive some cattle in. His father stood
in the door of his house, on the opposite
side Of the road, and seeing what his hope
full was doing, shouted out: John, don't
you drive them cattle in there; | told you
to put them in the pasture behind the
house" The boy took no notice whatever
Of the remonstrance, and his father repeat
ed the order in louder tone without the
least effect, and the third time gave positive
orders not to drive the cattle in there. The
son didn't deign to look up, and disobeyed
the parental Injunction with GOODNESS
which positively shocked the Judge, who,
looking at the culprit, said, in tone OF
official dignity Boy, don't you hear your
father speaking to your" "Oh, ,y-a-a-s,
replied the boy, looking at the Judge, "but
| don't mind What he SAYS. Mother don't
neither, and tween she and / we've about
got the dog so he don't"
THE incumbent Of an English church
being anxious to raise funds for some re
| pairs to the church, and having but a
modest opinion Of his own powers as a
preacher, thought he would write his ap-
peal, get it printed, and have it placed in
the pews on the following Sunday. He ac-
cordingly sent his copy to the printers,
and told the sexton to get the bills on Sat
urday night and place them in the pews
On Saturday night the sexton sent his son
"deyil of the establishment was present
This youth handed bundle Of bills to the
sections son, by whom they were duly dis
tributed in the pews. The establishment Of
the congregation and the horror of the
clergyman next morning may be imagined
on finding every pew in the church con-
tanned copies Of an announcement of the
entertainment at the local Assembly Rooms
of clever SambO singer, and the fun dur
ing the ensuing week may be "better inn
agined than described"
A HARRISBURG Sunday School Superin-
tendent last spring distributed to each
member Of the school four kernels of corn,
with the request that all plant the grains
given them, attend the growing stalks and
bring the product to the Sabbath School
on day in autumn, to be designated some
time during the corn husking season. The
time was fixed one week ago, and yester-
day named as the day. The result was the
bringing in of several bushels of the finest
and largest specimen ears of corn raised in
this country this year; and notification
that nearly all the balance Of the corn
raised by the members would be forth
coming by next Sabbath. The corn is to
be sold at an early day, and the proceeds
set apart for missionary purposes One OF
the beneficial effects Of this corn enterprise
has been to practically instruct the members
ofthe school in the pleasures and blessings of
giving to charitable and religious objects
from means raised through their own per
sonal exertiols.- Exchange. a
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