Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-26

There afe $500 dogs in Bosom. Il =
ss-Wyoming Territory has bpt 700 wo-
The State of Missouri has $1,000
6pititus1ists. s .sg@ 49, t',s $40.
II Capital Letter-The property hold
er who lets his houses at reduced rents.
'n,,--Preminms received in lash. and poll
cies paid in cash, BY the Warrington
'.'-Fifty- divorces we're. granted during
the Aprik torn OF the Worcester county,
Nass, Supreme Court. ss &C. -. g, ,, -
DIR. johnson used to say, He who
waits to do great deal of good st once,
win never do any" =, 3 49,, ~ 9
Maine brags Of one Of its citizens who
has grown beard eighteen inches long
in twelve months. Z !s,h - q so II
~. IL small leak to-day. may be Z great
one tomorrow the first you may stop,
the second may stop you, ADA zroon
The police force of Buffalo number
one hundred and sixty, and they made
1919 arrests last year.
The man who got wise By eadng sage
cheese hasa brother who proposes % be-
come skillful in the fashionable dances by
dieting ON hops ~ .T3ktstegf q
81 in the height of prosperity expect ad-
yersity. and fortlfy yourself agalnst its
evils by1a policy on your hfe IN the wash
Eff young lady has ! thousand acres
of valuable land, the young men are apt
to conclude that there !, sre 1u11ciept
grounds for attachments ''3ss ~ I'.l'sI, I'D
- Louisville burglar tied corkscrew
to the end Of pole and pulled through q
broken window the clothes Of the sleep
ing occupant of the room. u ss-tr 3 .ssa*a
The philadelphia 1nqstirT says Il Is
proposed that the members of City Coun-
ellis hay; their heads together sand turnlsh
wooden pavements for our streets" Saaf
q -AWhy do YOU. call ne 'Airdie,' my
dear ?" inquired wife of her husband.
" Because" was the answer, I" you are al.
ways associated in my mind with q blu
The Chicago Fire Department cost
last year S342,66a. The estimate for this
wear is S427,375. The Pslice Department
last year cost $399,O73, and the estimate
for thisyear Is t644.870.l ON o
They have seventy five bachelors at
Independence. Missouri, over % years
old, who have all been "jilted" at least
three times. They have formed them
selves into club for mutual protection.
The most CHASTITY announcement of
the season is made by the Tarrytown IN.
Y.1 Argus, which says that ~ Il. Van
darbilt o0mes outswith card Announcing
his grand opening of spring styles OF
collins"
The, Secretary of the. Massachusetts,
State Board of Health reports that in the
ten wears from 1850 to 1881 the average
death rate in Boston was 1858 in 1000,
and that the average from 1860 to 1870
was "a in 1000
General Walker decides that women
are not competent TO take the census
The Detroit Tribune thinks this is a non
sensical declaration, for a woman could
ask more questions in five minutes than
man could put in all day s.Eat.ayr
Life insurance agents now bride gro
cerymen to paste slips upon the oil cans
of their customers, which bear such in
scriptions as "Are you prepared to diey"
els your family provided fOr?" Insure
in the .Bereaved Orphans Consolation
Company" etc. tls3 bga .7!t
There is lady in New York city who
goes to Paris every year to have her face
enamelled, for which process she has to
pay the sum of two hundred and fifty dol.
lars. She cannot indulge in the luxury Of
washing her face in the meanwhile, and
has q mortal horror of rain. RI 2 g "a
"A rang of incendiaries lately arrested
In North Adams, Mass, had for leader
one Clark, married man /; and so revenge
full was he that only the slightest provoca-
ton was needed BY him TO pc the cause for
firing mans property. One building was
set on fire because the owner would not
trust him for some cigars. Four fires
were stated bythe gang during the month
Of April. 81 tss As "a y ssa s&l
The North Scituate. Mass, stage over
turned recently, having three passengers
inside, none of whom were injured. An
old hdy, who does not come tOtOwn often,
and who seemed to think that it was all in
the play, put her head out Of the window
after the coach had upset, and called to
the driver, saying that she guessed she
would get out and walk up the hill if the
pesky thing was going TO ride 30 on
1T should be more generally under.
stood that the law providing that prepaid
and franked letters shall be forwarded
from one postofbcs 70 another. At the re-
Quest of the party addressed, without ad-
ditional postage, applies only to- undtlip-
cred letters, A, letter that has been de-
livered to an authorized person, and by
him re-directed to another post office, can
not be forwarded to It's new address with
out prepaHuient sofs additional postage
Such re-directe3 and unpaid letters are
daily dropped into the street letter and
Office drop-boxes, and are, under instruc'
.io Ps,, fSgT Sssa,d = Letter os's'
Little Cha riley had long wanted to 60
to Sunday schoplwith his elder sister One
day his mother Consented that he should
20. Accordingly, after his arrival there,
he was assignee 20 place IN the infant
school, where he sat among his comrades,
feeling the dignity Of bis position very
much. One OF the exercises OF the school
was recjting verses As each little one
arose snd Repeated son1e .lttles text or
motto, Charley was asked If he could say
. verse. "Yes ma atm, was the answer.
"Very well, let me hear It," Whereupon,
to.ths asrrthsnt ot.al pseaeat,s he re-
Here stand stiff a. . stake,
~, :. Come and kiss me. or I'll break 80
n Though this might Nave Answered very
well under other circumstances, it wasn't
Just the thing for Sunday school.-Scho@-