Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-03
PARAGRAPHS.

Young lady physicians are multi
plying throughout the country, and
consequently the young men are de-
cidedly more sickly than they used
to be.
Fields, the Pennsylvania murderer,
took dose of vinegar and molasses
to cure sore throat, half an hour
before he was hanged.
Eighteen ladies are announced as
public lecturers this year. The num-
Der who give private lectures is not
estimated.
Paper is entering into nearly ev-
erything we use. The Yankees now
make it into pals, washtubs, and
spittoons.
Annie Wagner, according to an in
telligent San Francisco jury, died of
a ''gun-shot wound discharged from
a pistol"
The number of Mormon emigrants
who have gone over the Pacific Rail-
road to Utah in the last ten months
is 1923, mostly proselytes from Eng
land and Wales.
A Wisconsin man says: 81 came
to this State twenty years ago with
out red cent, and'by hard work and
honest dealing have held my own
to this day."
The man who had his intention
first turned to matrimOny by the
beautiful manner i'm which girl
handled broom, now says it was
nothing to the way she handled it in
a little while after he married her.
Said u little fellow, Indignantly,
when called boy: "Don't call me
a boy; I've chewed tobacco this six
years"
A tyrannicaI Massachusetts wife
has been sentenced to ten months
imprisonment for habitual ill-usage
of her husband.
The Liverpool Financial Reform
Association has recently published a
statement, showing that the Kings
and Queens of Europe cost, for their
personal expenses alone, upwards OF
fS,0OO,O 900 year.
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., the champion
story grinder of America, Is Ia a
Boston Inebriate Asylum.
The largest farm in England con-
tains 5000 acres. S. 7. Alexander's
famous farm near Homer, Illinois,
consists of 5000 acres; is nearly in a
square, and is girded and intcrsected
with hedges of Usage orange of two
years growth. There are hundred
miles of hedge and eighty-fve miles
of board fence upon the premises.
Six thousand four hundred acres are
under cultivation.
1t is now nine years since the
Evangelical Alliance issued the first
invitation to Christians throughout
the world to set apart the first week
of the year for united prayer on
agreed subjects.
Homemade candy.-To one cup of
sugar New Orleans is best, add one
cup of cider vinegar. If the vinegar
be very sour, put in One-third water.
Boil fifteen to twenty minutes, then
work till white. This is very nice;
and then when thus made at home
YOU know that it contains no poison
Gus substance.
Mr.. M. w. Lovett, Of Clayton
County-next to the northeast Coun-
ty of the State--has an apple-orchard
of 900 bearing trees, and 5000 more
set out. This is on 45 deg. north
latitude. How does this dove-tail
with the well-worn wall of "You
can't raise fruit in Iowa?"
An unfortunate cigar dealer In
Newark has been for some time past
relentlessly prosecuted with reiter-
ated twins by hismerciless wife, who
has recently inflicted on him the
fourth pair. He insists that the Gov
ernor shall appoint no Thanksgiving
Day for him next year.
To make an excellent door mat,
take an inch plank OF size desired,
and bore three quarter-inch holes
through it with their centers two
inches apart; into these draw damp
ened corn husks, and trim OF about
two inches long on each side.