Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-22

U2O pear the h0CESter AIDING, how.
sver, by way Of caution, But not out of
the best boxm
a GIANT by the name of F. Sheridan, re-
6Atly died at Haw,ck, England. He was
tie landlord Of an inn there, and only 80
years OF age. "Big Frank" as he was
oiled, was feet 8 inches in height, meas
ubed 5S inches round the chest, and
wsighed % stone avoirdupois. He was .
nstivc of Ireland. 80 =
THINK, SPEAK, LIVE Truly
Thou must be true thyseR.
t II thou the truth woudst teach sfi
Thy soul must overflow, II thou
~ Another eoul woudst reach;
II needs the overnowing heart
To give the lips full speech.
ThiSktruly, and thy thought
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, and thy word
Shall be q fruitful seed:
Live truly, and thy life shall be
great and noble creed.
A YOUNG lady, writing from Saratoga
to the New York Express, says: The
heated term actually doubled our laundry
bills. None of my white dresses have
less thaa eighty yards Of ruffiog, and my
laundress charges 81 each for doing them
up. Mr. laundry bill last week WAS ex.
actly $l03, and that was moderate COM
pared with some Of the ladies in the hotel,
who ars very dressy, and always look as
If they were quite smothered in rufies
and pinking."
DURNa the trial of case in Louis
vile recently, witness persisted in testi-
tying to what his wife told him. To this,
of course, the attorney objected, and 1t
was ruled out by the Judge. He would
proceed again to tell "shust how il vas"
when the attorney would sing out, "How
do you know that ?" "My wife told me-"
was the answer. This WAS repeated sew
eral times Presently the Judge, becom-
ing unable to contain himself longer, said,
"Suppose your wife were to tell you the
heavens had fallen, what would you
think r "Vell, den, l dinks dey vos
down."
A YOUNG sport, gifted with melodious
voice, became acquainted with lovely
female in country town, and the
evening following the introduction
went to her residence, where his
voice was aired in serensding the
house, for the lady CHANGED to be absent.
He sang until he was hoarse, patiently
awaiting the long looked for face at the
window. Disheartencd, he went home,
but returned the next, and renewed the
serenade, commencing with the song otis
Years Since Last We Met" He had just
uttered these words when window was
raised snd d sruf voice shouted. "Hold
on, young man; think there's some mis-
take. 1t isn't long since last We met
for you were here last night. Now git I"
and the ole man fastened the serenader's
departure by q shower of old boots and
crockery. The young man mas not since
attempted to utter his musical notes in
That neighborhood. .fl
THE following is from the Franco
Americdin: When, in 1892, William OF
Prussia entered Frankfort, he saw
French grenadier who fought alone on
the bridge of the city against large mum.
Der Of Prussian soldiers A number OF
corpses attcsted the vigor Of his defense
but, covered with wounds, he was on the
point of falling, when the King ordered
him to be taken alive. The Prussians
obeyed with great difficulty, and took him
before their master. What is your
name 2 asked the King. What matters
a name? am Frenchman,' You are
a hero! have saved your life; and now
I give you your liberty unconditionaily.
/ only regret that man like you should
serve such bad cause Citizen William,
thank you, but let us not talk politics;
we would not agree So saying, the sol
der gave the military salute, turned on
his heels, and, covered with blood. went
back ~ his regiment singing the Marseil-
laise." .... ..
A CONCERTED fop, whose good looks
made him silly, as he evinced by his FIRE.
quent admiration Of his fair proportions in
any mirror which CHANGED TO be where he
was visiting, was taken down peg by
young lady whom he was counting, with a
view TO matrmony. Ralph Burton-ior
by this name shall the flop be kIown--wss
short OF stature; what he lacked in height
he possessed in the length of his feet. He
wore No. II boots. One day, while at
the house OF the girl he adoyed, but who
did lot reciprocate his passion, he had
Just ittered some expression indirectly
comp ,menting his symmetrical form,
when the lady, turning TO another young
man who was present, pointedly said
"Ralph Possesses a shapely body and
rather handsome face. But he lacks stat
ure. He would be splendid looking fell
low"-and here she spoke louder, and
glanced at Ralph's No. II boots-"if ma
ture had not turned up so much Of him
for his feet" This silenced the fop, and
he was soon after heard inquiring for his
hat.
THE Newark On. j. Courier says: "a
man NAMED Hotchkiss over in New Mar
ket, the other night, thought he would
have some fun soaring his wife by drop
ping loose brick down the chimney into
the fire place in her room. So he 9ept
softly out Of bed, and, with nothing on
but his night-sbirt, sneaked up stairs and
got out on the roof Mr.. Hotchkiss drop
ped nineteen bricks down the chimney,
each one with vigorous slam; but his
wife never screamed solitary time. 30
then Mr. Hotchkiss gave 1t up, and
thought he would go down stairs; but he
founf that Mrs. Hotchkiss had had her
head out Of the trap door watching him
all the time, and when he had finished che
had ,hut the trap door and fastened it on
the inside. II may be as well to state that
Mr.. Hotchkiss spent the balance OF the
night sitting on the sharp peak OF the
roof, with his trailing garments Of the
night fluttcring in the evening breeze,
singing, I'm lonely tonight Mrs.
Ho.chkiss minated 10 her confidential
friends that she thought che had him."
ARTEMUs WARD, in one of his letters,
thus gave his idea Of reorganization
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