Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-08

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acts Of the case.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous. d
Detroit census re turns foot up 79, $40
High Words-Dialogue In . balloon.
IA Fruitful Dissppointment.-Sour
grapes.
Pleasant Checks in Life--Bank
checks.
--Wide.Awake Hats.-Those without
napI
"A good word is as soon said as an i'll
one.
You can't marry miss If you marry
widow.
"A Bad Policy.-One that has run out,
of course.
"A man who drinks drains seldom has
many scruples.
-Singular.-It generally requires .
round sum to make things square.
Great singers are often in debt-they
get into the way Of running up hign
scores.
A Java grandee is coming to this
country with his eighty-one children, and
wants to secure board in SONIC quiet
family.
!, Honest industry has brought that
man to the scaffold," said wag, as he
saw q carpenter upon the staging.
The losses by FIRE In the United States
asst July were more than 81. 600, 900 larger
than in the same month Of 1869.
! The Washington lie as good compa-
nyas there Is in existence for the policy
hoder. p. H. McGRAw, Senator.
"A Troy hod carrier has inherited fifty
th,usand dollars. He was half way up q
ladder when he heard of it. and he just
let 90 OF the hod and said he'd have to be
1 oAahsnd.
AL men need insurance that are Of
vaue to anybody. Insure IN the Wash.
inGOn Life Insurance Company, Of New
Yoik. a
by 0 curious coincidence five names
on the page in the Norwich City Direc-
tory for 1870 read, Slack Thomas, Slow
George, Sly John, Small Nathan, and
Smart Mary.
The New York E1prsss says that one
OF the best ways of decreasing crime Will
b, 10 destroy the belief 30 unfortunately
PREVALENT that it is vulgar to work for Q
living.
The Alta California tells the story of
sven desert Indians" who ate large
horse In nineteen hours, leaving abso.
htely nothing but the bones, hoofs, and
lair.
"A crusty old bachelor says that
vomen's hearts are ~ brittle % glass, and
Il 90
on them must use diamonds, or he will
mot be successful.
Y "A green academy student, being re-
quired to write composition In his reg
ular course of study, commenced thus :
ut Is rather difficult and pretty near Inn
possible to communicate 70 Others those
Ideas whereof we ourselves are not pos
lsessed."
--Pottawatomie City, Kansas. claims
he largest percentage of increase yet de-
yeloped under the census Of 1870. The
} population Of "the city" in June, 1850,
consisted of the proprietor, Josephus
Esegood. In the fall OF 1860 he got mar
RED, and the population Of "the city"
now consists of Elsegood, his wife, and
eight children-ten In allan increase Of
nine hundred per cent
i "A bachelor on Twenty-sevcnth street,
New York, had the blues, and applied to
doctor for some medicine. The doctor
inquired into his case and wrote . pre-
scription In Latin, which the bachelor
toox to drug store. Translated, the
prescription read, Seventeen yards of
silk, with woman In It." The bachelor
proposed to q lady that evening, and was
married in two weeks
Having been notified by the officers Of
the WssAoe Typographical Union, No. IS.
that the Union had reduced the price Of
composition to 70 cents per 1000 ems, the
proprietor of the Virginia NEW Enter
prize makes this striking announcement 1:
I'VE do not recognise the right Of our
employees 10 strike for lower wages, and
shall probably send East for printers who
will agree to accept such rates above the
typographical schedule - We feel dis
posed TO give a
Along the Sierra Nevads, close to the
line of snow, plant grows Of size vary.
ing from an inch 70 two inches in thick.
ness, and height 70 the dimensions of the
largest cabbages. It is known a. the snow
cactus, and depends for moisture upon the
melting snow. II has been recently pro-
posed TO treat the plant az table vege-
table, and it Is said that boiled and served
up like asparagus, this cactus Is found
EedsAlly suoculmt md sA&isaActoey.
i "A human skdlseon was uneaxthed by
lAhDrers, : lev days ago, nsar Janssville,
| WIZ, which measures thirteen 1oet IN
length. The skull measures thirty.two
and . half inches In ciycumlerencs, and
the thigh bones are fourty.lou5 and :
halt inches In length. One OF the teeth
9 an inch and : half long. The caSioeity
vas purchased BY Mr.. TOundr0W. og Ne.
J 0aho. Dodge county, tof $4,000.