Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-24

age his geology class to collect specimens
and bring them into the clase for analysis
and clasahcation. So one day . number
tol Specimens ware laid upon the table,
among them One broken bit, which IL
though strsaked and aained to impose on
tie doctor. W. really nothing bat . piece
Of common brick. In dne time the Pro
1sssor came 70 the specimens. Taking up
one, 10 seys q glance: Thisisa piece
q baxyta 1om the Cheshire mines = hold
Ing mp an0ther-" This y piece Of field
par ffom the Portland quarrieg; the next
. piece Of quartz from Haddam; and
thisS coaning 70 the brick, - piece Of
impudsnce from some member Of this
Ine61enfs - Aee16enlss
"A manwas 13cked u dsaah ~ horss
b PittsbaTGh fsw daysACo.
"A man living near Hghtstown, n. J.,
was bled 70 death : few days ego, to anti
cipate the horrors Of death By hydropho-
bia.
Two men working on the bridge ct
81 Paul, MINI, fell from an elevation Of
100 feet, the other morning, and were
killed
The handsomest woman In Norwich
Was burned to Q cinder the other day.
She resided in q millinery shop and was
made Of wax.
"A boy died ct Belyidere, Ill, few
days ago. from the effects of having toe
crushed by car upon. which he was en-
deavoringto climb.
There II circular saw In. New
Hampshire mill that has ripped up i've
men, and II ready for the sixth. Il II
called the champion ripper.
"A Connecticut farmer .recently killed
Ode Of her eleven perfectly formed eges.
with perfect shells, and full size.
"A Connecticut joker had . man muir
dered ct Z certain hotel Just for fun"
and he now offers the landlord farm to
settle the joke.
"A dog lately jumped through plate
glass window In Geneva, New York, and
the owner Of the dog offered to settle by
giving the storekeepef the animal
"A little daughter Of David Clifford, of
St. Joseph county, Mich, recently upset
. kerosene lamp, and was % badly burned
that she died day or two afterward.
"A man in New Hampshire the other
day ate fifteen dozen nav oysters on q
wager. The silver trimmings alone on
his coffin cost twelve dollars and thirty
i've cents.
"A six year old girl in Centerville,
Mich, accidentally tipped over lamp,
which exploded in her lap, burning her 90
terribly that she survived but forty-eight
hours.
"A few days ago . fourteen year old
boy In Springfield, Tenn, accidentally
shot and killed his cousin, q married
woman and has since become q raving
maniac.
"A woman, whose face was being pit
ted with small .pox, lately rode forty miles
on an Eastern road before the passengers
in the car found out what caused "the Pc
culiar 0dor."
The statement is made that during
one of Prince Arthur's receptions in
washington, . well known matron went
among the girls exclAiming: "Blush q
little blush . littlel it viii look more
English."
Matilda Whitman, who, while Queen
Of The Fairies In Midsummer Nights
Dream" at the Brooklyn Theater, was
severely burned by her dress taking fire,
few weeks ago, died recently in great
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, young man
named Veasey, while int0xicated, stepped
into the trough of the great 6y.wheel Of
rolling-mlll, was caught and crushed to
jelly, and thrown forty feet from the
place.
"A woman in New York city the other
day discovered small pimple near her
mouth, which she picked with her nail.
The nail poisoned the flesh, and mortifca-
ton rapidly spread until it struck vital
point causing her death.
"A s0mnambulist walked of an Erie
express train while it was going at the
rate of forty miles an hour. The train
backed down to where his mangled corpse
was supposed to be lying, where he was
found, still q leep and uninjured.
"A workman In Peoria distillery re-
Gently met with horrible death. He was
alop, when the tub exploded, throwing
him into the midst and scalding him 90
severely that he died soon after the : cci-
dent. s
"A brute Of husband In Cincinnati
came home drunk the other day, and when
his wife asked him for money TO buy
bread for supper he became enraged, and
took pot Of boiling coffee and poured It
on the lace and bosom Of his child. Il
lived twelve hOurA
"A young girl on farm IN Jackson
county, Ind, heard noise under her win.
dow, the other night and peeping out,
cav burglar climbing up : ladder.
When he was within one step Of tho win
dow, she daahed him 70 the earth, and the
next day burglar with broken leg was
carried OF TO Jail.
"A little girl In Trenton. Wis, . few
days sinoe, took lighted candle and went
down cellar to draw somc sasoline or
burning fluid which her hthef had
bought cheap" Through some means
the hfe communicated with the oil, caus-
ing terrible explosion, and burning the
child In terrible manner She could not
recover.
AT Grand Rapids, tie other day, .
man was sentenced TO three years tm-
prieoamAnt A NJ eta1e Pen1tsntlayy tx
larceny. When the sentence Was pro-
nounced, one Of the prisoners children,
who he'd little doll "a her ARMS, offered
Il With tears, to one Of the counsel IN the
csss -seekiDg 70 purchase with Il her
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