Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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ToPsFIELD, Mass, has q goose 30 years
old. ,.s.3 go. 81 I'D
lacing IS @assf.} a{
Dome HEAVY BUSINESS iron
dealers. 4ai.oa Is t,.us..
THE Aldermen to their dinner Gorge
NEW. Yoax has about $4,000 Preach in
habitants. .gxa
There are 1874 vessels ii the United
States navy.
A girl who has lost her last beau may
as well hang up her fiddle.
THE average salary of the clergynen
in New Hampshire is $3.50.
TEACHER-"T-h spells what"
Bright Scholar" Does it! l thought It
spelt ttdt!"
NEW ZEALAND has 1000 inhabitants,
and public debt Of $150O00.0o0.
IT takes fourteen million gallons of wa
ter day to supply Cincinnati
The Mormons have invented machine
for the destruction of grasshoppers.
The st. Louis police poisoned very
nearly six thousand dogs the past sum-
mer.
THE production of whisky in Kentucky
this year is only about 1ve-eighth, Of
what it was last year. UL
SINNERS signature on the greenbaCks,
translated into English, is SSSXAAO7G2-
Z&C. Et8t.t..
A PUHsTER asks whether if Titisn's vile
had been named Polly that fact would
have made her politician
THE youth who cried Excelsior" didn't
know that he was naming five out Of
every six saloons in the country.
THIS season has been one Of the poor
est for cheese making known in Vermont
for thirty years, owing to the drought.
Boy: "Have psperi" Man, "No,
SIR Boy, Cloud, to JIM: "say, Jim,
don't you pity those fellers as can't read ?"
A FARMER at West Eaton, N. Y, de-
tected in the act of watering the milk
which he sold at q cheese factory, has
been fined 500
METHUsALEH," the largest of new
Tuolumne County, Cal, is eighty -four feet
in circumference at the roots.
A YOUNG man charged with being lazy
was asked If he took it from his father.
IL think not" was the reply fathers
got all the laziness he ever mad"
THE census taker has found quite an in
telligent man in the Quincy, III. district.
who has been married flve years, and did
not know, and never has asked, his wife's
Chris name.
WILLIE, little FIVE year old, was play
ing with honey bee when the angry bee
stung him. ooh, grandma" cried Willie,
81 did not know bees had splinters in
their feet"
WHEN is a traveller from New York to
Liverpool like John G. Whittier, When
he gets seasick and becomes contributor
to the atlantic. Friends of the family are
invited TO attend.
THE Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
has decided that the privilege which is
given to the widow 10 waive the pro-
visions Of the husbands will cannot be
exercised by an insane person or by her
guardian. .... s
THx population of London exceeds that
of Scotland, is four times that of New
York, and is larger than the combined
populations of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
St. Petersburg.
A GOOD deal of the cancellations offered
in the world is about as solacing rs the
assurance of the man TO his wife when she
fell into the river you'll find ground at
The bottom, my dear"
The Boston Transcript says that ait
was once said Of a Boston money-lender
that he kept the trunk containing his Sc
curities near the head Of his bed, and lay
awake to hear them draw interest"
A BARRIsTER, blind of one eye, plead.
ing with his spectacles on, said, Gentle
men, in my argument snail use nothing
but what Is necessary" "Then," whis-
pered wag, take one OF the glasses out
OF your spectacles."
A PHENOMENAL Sunday school scholar,
aged fifteen, lately won a prize In Tonnes
see by committing TO memory 1850
verses Of Scripture in two months, with
out interruptlng his daily agricultural
labors. H..
THE following Is q verbatim copy Of the
remarks" accompanying the return OF n
postmaster out West: II here by certify
that the four going A count Is AZ near rite
az I no how to make il. Ii there is emmy
Mistake 1t is not dun on Purpose"
THE London Nesss says: "During the
last eight years the odious practices OF
painting the face has been steadily grow
lug, nutlt1 III tuC nlooI Ct1h5Cs
of society, the practice has ceased TO be
the exception and has become the rule"
ONE HALF Of the lame horses through
out the country, rays an exchange, are
made so on account Of had shoeing, and
the loss Of the labor of horse makes up
a considerable item in the sum tota. Of the
wealth OF u nation. HafI
FULLY one half the inventive genius of
the world belongs 10 the United States.
During 100 years France and England
have each granted about $4,000 patents;
but within the last 40 years the United
States alone has granted more than 100,
coo.
THR Janesville, Wis, Gazetts says that
"a young lady who had been rendered
position in our city schools for the coming
term, wrote note declining the appoint
ment on the ground that she had received
a better offer. She was married last Tues
day" ffea
SoME idea of the magnitude of the
work of taking the census may be gained
from the fact that from twelve to fifteen
hundred volumes of one thousand pages
each will be required in which 10 enter
the names Of the individuals returned by
the Assistant Marshals.