Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-01
Miscellaneous.

ment OF their accounts.
Miscellaneous.
Advice to Beggars-Begon(e)
A good investment-A policy in the
Washington Life.
in Portsmouth, n. H., they have an
elm tree 200 years old.
The book whose contents rule the
Neutrality-suspicious..
The hardest thing to hold in this world
is an unruly tongue.
What is the best way to double
twenty-dollar bill? With paper-folder
in the tropics, summer is perennial,
but at Niagara they have perpetual
Provide for your creditors, if you have
any anyway increase your estate by insur-
inc in the Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny, of Chicago
A benevolent lady of Lafayette, Ind,
hearing that a failure to subdue late flre
was caused by defective hose, sent the
Chief Engineer pair OF her own manu-
Fur and leather clothing is used by
about half of the inhabitable globe, Tor
these materials prevail in Siberia, North
ern Europe two-thirds of North America,
and the southern extremity OF South
| America.
Father" Who's the pitcher in the
Red Stocking baseball club?' Son--"Why
| Brainard." Father" In the White Stock
| ing club?" Son" Pinkham," Father
"Who was the second President of the
United States?" Son-"I don't remem-
Der"
The Biddeford (Me,) woman who ad-
vertised for and married man last July,
to have some one to control her property,
has succeeded beyond all reasonable ex-
pectations, as the fellow has run off with
ten thousand dollars of it, and she finds
has two wives beside herself.
A Colorado editor, who has been max
ing an Eastern tour, announces to his
readers, as the most remarkable piece OF
intelligence CLEANED in his travels, that
there are actually newspaper men on the
Atlantic coast who have not been called
on to kill any one for several years
&C. V. Valery, of the Huxley school of
specialists, thinks the planets will ulti-
mately fall into the sun, and the suns into
each other, until the excessive heat will re-
dstill matter over space, in gaseous form.
Creation will then recommence.
A man in Terre Haute Ind, tells
story of a barber who was shaving him
some time since The barber stopped
few moments and procured box on which
he mounted to continue his work The
| customer asked, "What did you get that
box for?" to which the barber replied.
"The snakes are all over the floor, sir, and
wanted to get out of their way" The
customer insisted on finishing the job him
self.
An old gentleman, arraigned for some
trivial offence before the New Orleans Re-
corder, begged earnestly that the fine might
be low, as he didn't have much money.
The Court, in consideration of the old
mans evident embarrassment, fined him
only dollar "A dollar, your HOnor?"
eyes; only dollar" "But, your Honor,
haven't that much but if the matter of
ten cents would do you any good" 1t is
needless to say that he was suffered to go
in peace.
A gentleman residing on Mound
street, says the Cincinnati Gazette, while
eating breakfast, heard his bell ring, and
fastening to open the door, no servant
being present, found near neighbor, who
very feelingly inquired what was the mat.
ter within. "Nothing. Why do you ask p
responded the friend while passing by
noticed Grape on the door bell, and fear
; ing that some member of your family was
dead, l stopped to inquire" was the
reionder Sure enough, there hung a
bunch eff Grape on the doorbell, greatly to
the establishment of the gentleman, who,
on returning to his repast, met his little
daughter only seven years old, who in
formed him that she had placed the Grape
there in hopes that carriages would come
in front of her house as they did before a
house across the street the day before to
take them all out riding and that she
thought that if the Grape was tied to their
bell she should get ride too.
The following figures are given as the
latest measurements of the great lakes,
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and On
tario: The greatest length of Lake Superb
or is 1876 miles; greatest breadth, 100
miles, mean depth, 6S8 feet elevation
above the level of the sea, 627 feet; area,
$4,000 square miles, The greatest length
of Lake Michigan is 800 miles; greatest
breadth, 1OS miles; mean depth, 900 feet I;
elevation, 500 feet area, $4,000 square
miles. The greatest length of Lake Huron
is 200 miles; greatest breadth, 100 miles
mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, $40 feet !;
area, 10000 square miles. The greatest
length of Lake Erie is $50 miles; greatest
breadth, miles; mean depth, "a feet ele-
walton, sos feet; area, 5000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Ontario is 1870
miles; greatest breadth, 65 miles; mean
depth, 500 feet; elevation, 260 feet area,
600 square miles. The length of all the
five lakes is ,5S4 miles, and they cover an
area of upwards of 10000 square miles.