Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

DOUBLE you, Oh NAN il woman.
A FLEETING SHow-A travelling cir.
JoHx JACKSON, of Long island, is aged
lis.
TIM Oldest tops in the world-Moun-
tain tops. :.
MINERS are not always unhappy, al.
though their hopes are always in vein.
CALIFORNIA paid $4,000 bounty for
gopher scslps last season.
TIE utter most parts Of the earth must
be that part where there are the most
women.
WHY does pretty girl need no mirror :
Because abe Is 9 good Looking (g)lass her
SELF &A - = Za
MISS KATE FRLp, the lecturer, is ahesd
Of most young ladies-she has one hun.
dred engagements on hand.
WITHIN the past seven years, the saw
iDgs-banks IN Maine have increased from
fifteen to thirty1six. - - =
THE latest fashion at weddings il to
present q box of wedding cake 70 Ill the
departing guests at the door.
TUCSON, the capital of Arizona, with Q
population Of 2, 500, has neither school,
church, nor minister. Eus 1911;
TIE announcement IL made that at the
recent book trade sales In New York
city, the books brought on an average 10
per cent more than last year.
Ar Wamego, q place In the extreme
West, is q shanty which bears the sign !:
"Here's Where You Get . Meal Like
Your Mother Used to Give You"
TWELVE Bridesmaid, twelve grooms.
men. and twelve ushers are to help marry
q couple in New York, In church where
the decorations are to cost over 5000.
"CHLoRoFoRM," says the New York
Ecening Aatl, " 10 the best thing that can
be used to renovate old dresses" II
would naturally give them nap.
In one district in Nebrasks, eighty
voters have to travel from thirty to sixty
miles in order to deposit their ballot, and
they anxiously ask for voting place
nearer home.
SYDNEY SAITH once said, in an aristo.
cratic party, "That man, to know how
bad he is, must become poor to know
how bad other people are, he must be-
come rich"
first MoRNoN-"I wonder who that
blonde is? A nice fgure!" Second
Mormon" Why, don't you know? She's
your wife" First Mormon" SO she is,
thought had seen her before"
"THERE is but one good wife in this
town." said clergyman, in the course OF
his sermon--the congregation looked ex-
pectant-" and every married man thinks
he's got her." added the minister.
A BILL posted on wall in village in
the west OF England announces that
lecture will be delivered IN the open air,
and collection taken at the door TO de-
fray expenses"
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry Gays
q good cement for squariums may be
made Of equal parts OF dry white and red
lead mixed into paste with mastic var
nish, and used Immediately. eGIF
SCENE in the Dayton Police Court
Counsel says: (which side Of the street
do you live on, Mrs Kippei," "On either
side, sir. If We go one way it's on the
left; # ye 60 the other way it's on the
right"
TEACHER here, Johnny, sup.
pose you had twenty sugar plums, and
you wanted to divide them into four
parts You give five to the baby and FIVE
to Gaylord now what would you do
with the other tenf" 6cholar,-"Eat
'em."
A WOMAN travelling on the cars saw .
man in front of her put his head out OF
the window, and asked him. If he wouldn't
please keep his head in, as she had new
silk dress on, and didn't want it all spat-
tered up with brains and such stun.
A FINE brick building, which has just
been erected in New York ct cost Of
about one hundred thousand dollars, has
been condemned on account of the weak
ness of its foundations, and must be taken
down. ttt
THE Osago Mssion Journal Of Kansas
says: 1.-THE wealthiest people In the
world are the Osages The tribe num-
beers 5000, and have, after allexpenses are
paid, 100 acres of choice land per capita,
and 81, 000, 900 In money"
1T Ia said that many Of the French
officers who gave their parole at Sedan
not to fight against Prussia until regular.
ly exchanged, have been sent TO Algeria,
there to exchange with other officers, who
are to come to France and join the army
ct Paris or ia the field.
DR. HuRsr, the Methodist professor in
Germany, writes to the AsthSdist, that IN
Germany "the voluntary contributions
TO the sick and wounded do not amount,
in individual cases, to - large sums a.
occurred in our war, but the number Of
smaller offerings 10 much larger. A
thaler, or half thaler, or even less, 10 the
rule"
The three scientific men who are 70 OBJ
serve the coming winter ON tho top o.
Mount Warrington expect to be showed
in at the Tip. Top House from December
till March, but will maintain daily com
munication with the lower world by tele'
graph. The room which they will occupy
e to be lined with felt, and they ex
pect to use twenty tons Of coal during
the winter.
A CALIFORNIA reporter secured an item
weighing 100 pounds Passing . house
he saw young lady lighting fire will
kerosene, when be rushed in and threw
his coat over her IN time 70 save her life
and she wouldn't let him of without mar
ryiue her. As she Ia worth . million
and & unhealthy, he accepted the situa
ton.
A. SCIENTIFIC French gentleman, Dr.
Labofde, has announced the disoosefy o
an infaliible means Of distinguishing De