Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21


Miscellaneous.
jail yards are called hanging gar
Shocking Electric sparks and earth
quafes.
The Crate" Tribulation-A SMOKY
chimney.
Wrecks Of Departed Joys-A pile of
old oyster-shells.
Much of the hair now worn BY iadses
h cut from the heads Of convtcts.
-Pohcles become self sustaining IN the
Washington Life Insurance Company OF
New York.
There were recently ninety-four con-
victs IN the Vermont State Prison-she
largest number for ten years.
Doctors of Law and Medicine insure
In the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany.
A curious Western visitor inquired Il
the State prison was reckoned among orL
institutions of charitye Certainly.
was the Ieply-"it covers multitude q
sims"
1T has been scientifically discovered
that we have no further use for the little
busy bee" as honey can be made pesser
and cheaper by . new process. Docs
must 70 into some other business.
Some one was informing . German OF
= brewer who had married young lazy
related to q peer, when the German re-
marked :" All, yes, avery proper mascn;
OF course brewer ought to be connecseo
with the beersge."
"A Lynchburg man, arrested % Va
~,ert. protestedtha me had regular trade,
and that was smoking glass LOT totai
ocfiDses of the sun. He remarked that a.
these occur SC seldom it was nota 70 De
wondered at that he seemed out OF EN-
plcyment q good deal.
This is the pure, unadulterated Eng.
lish for "Jordan's hard read to travel $"
Perambulatory progression, in the pedes.
tYianary excursion along that TAI. famed
thoroughfare Of fortune, cast up by the
banks Of the sparkling river OF Palestine,
is,indeed attended with heterogeneous
conglomerasion Of unforeseen difficulties.
"A lazy dyspeptic WAS bewailing his
own misfO-tuDes, and speaking with
friend on the latter's hearty appearance.
"What do you do to make you 80 strong
and healthy ~ inc uired dyspeptic. "lave
on fruit Alone" answered the friend
"What kind of fruit ?" 1.-THE fruit of in
dustry, and am never troubled with In
digestion"
"A New Hampshire farmer wanted a
farm hand, and was applied to by an
Iriehman who wanted to work. The
farmer objected to engaging Pat on the
ground that two Iriehmen previously In
his employ had died on his hands. "Then
YOU object to hiring me for that, do ye?"
sale Pat. Faith and / can bring you
Recommendations from many a place
where I've worked that never played
such a trick !"
The Paris Journal reports the follow
ing conversation between two young
girk: of you only knew how badly
pape treats mamma and me lndeeda
Yee, indeed. You canjrdge for your
self. When was ready to be brought
out in society, he might have gone with
me, might he nots Well, instead OF that,
when mamma and ] went to his room TO
find him, we discovered that he had been
absent from the house whole year"
A delegation Of prominent Delaware
politicians once called upon Preside mt
Lincoln, and with a due sense OF their
own position, took occasion to inform
him, in the course of the visit, that they
were all influential citizens and among
the heavy men" of the upper end OF
the State. $50 you all belong to the
upper end Of the State 7" reflected DIR.
Lincoln, with roguish twinkle in his
eve, and then with look of earnest So
licitude inquired, "Is there no danger OF
the State fitting while you are aways"'
II one of these "heevy men" Is asked
now, when about departing from home,
if he is not afraid the State viii tilt, he
docs not seem to like it.
"A yyell-known Newark detective in
the gov eminent service suspected one
Johnny Shook Of dealing Ia the "Queer. "
To catch Shook the detective employed
a Broad street saloon-keeper to win his
confidence and purchase some OF the
queer. The detective furnished his man
With x75 in greenbacks with which to
nav for the " timber" Shook had learn
ed in somew.,y of the trap, and resolved
to beat his M en-. He had quantity of
brown paper cut up in slips the size OF
bank bills, and tied with q genuine u
and Sc note on the top and bottom. He
made the saloon keeper promise that he
would NOT expose him, and then handed
the package to l,im. The greenbacks
we're paid over to Shook, and the two
separated. The detective did some lofty
swearing when the saloon keeper opened
the package.
Incidents and Accidents.
AT Chicago, on the 4th, Prof. Wise
made his 444th successful balloon sscen-
sion.