Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-18

ten Oh ulb IOOt ny CoiuuOu gray SpIuCI,
and in few days modification took
place, and large pieces of flesh dropped
out, SO that his foot had to be amputated.
A MAN was drowned in the North
Branch at Chicago the other day, and the
police sergeant wrote to the captain
have the honor 20 report that the coroner
is desired tomorrow TO hold an inquest
ON the North Branch of dead body"
No bull of Irish extraction can excel
this of Corbett's. In one of his "Rural
Rides" he says: Il saw no corn standing
in ricks; a thing never saw before, and
would not have believed it had | not
seen it,"
A SCHOOL committeeman, not over a
thousand miles from Newark, in making
some remarks at the close of an examina-
ton of a school, thus complimented and
criticized the scholars: "Iou read we'll
and you spell well, but you hsin't so,
STILL"
MoTTo FOR A WATCH
Onward
Perpetually moving,
There faith al hands are proving
How swift the hours steal by
The monitory puse-like beating
Is oftentimes me links repeating
"Swift, swift the hours do hyl "
Ready, ready, perhaps before
These hands have made
One revolution more,
L.fe'srpring Is snapt,
You die.
A CLERK In an Erie hotel has q mag
nificent scheme in view. II is circular
hotel, to rest on pivot like locomotive
turn table. The object is to give every
guest front room," (that being an al
most invarisble r.quesO by assigning
guests to the places then in front, and
turning them to the rear upon the advent
Of others.
"PARsoN, would much rather hear
you preach" said bsflled, swindling
horse jockey, ethan to see you interfere
in bargains between man and man"
well" replied the parson, "if you had
been where you ought to have been, last
Sunday, you would have heard me
preach "Where was thats" inquired
the jockey. In the State Prison." re-.
turned the clergyman.
AN organ grinders monkey came near
creating tremendous contiagration In
Baltimore recently, just as the careless act
of child caused the late awful destruc-
ton by fire In Constantinople. The
monkey found box OF friction matches
in the house, took them TO bedroom and
set fire to bed. He was found dancing
in great glec around the flames he had
kindled.
AN insurance company in Philadelphia
refused to pay insurance on property de.
stroyed by recent fire in that city, tax
ing the ground that the fire which de.
stroyed the property, was the result OF q
riot, and the city Is responsible for all de-
struction of property within its limits,
that is caused by riots. The riot was
created and conducted by the flremen.
AyRw weeks ago, as an omnibus dashed
up to one of the Long Branch hotels, Q
lady's hat blew under the wheels, and
was crushed. Her display Of good. nature
over the accident 30 struck ar English
lord that he sought an introduction, and
they were shortly engaged TO be married.
II is now stated that not bus drives up
to Long Branch hotel but that the
ground Is 30 covered with hats that the
driver can't get down until small boy
shovels them into handcart.
THK "nearIy illegible" condition of the
signatures 10 the Declaration of Indepen-
dence is said TO be due To the experiment
of an artist made In President MOnrOe's
time He applied to John Quincy Adams,
Secretary of State, to be allowed 10 take
a fac-simile Of the signatures from the
original parchment, by applying q
dampened sheet Of paper, which he rep
resented would be an entirely harmless
operation. Mr.. Adams objected to the
experiment, experimenting damage to the
document; but the President thought
there was no DANCER, and 80 the transfer
was made and the result has been - Mr..
Adams feared--the original signatures
have been nearly ruined, only the stronger
ones being at ali legible.
A MICROSCOPE has recently been con.
structed in New York which magnifes oh.
iects 1000 COO 900 times. At this rate OF
enlargement an ordinary fly could cover
4 space equal TO New York City below
Wall street; q man would appear more
than hundred miles high, and hair OF
the ordinary length from lady's head
v ould reach half way from New York TO
New Haven. Yet, under this enormous
ma0nifying power, the creations Of the
Lord only display new beauties: A mi.
croscOpic shell called m 0ngn1GsnS, OF
which about one hundred and forty placed
end TO end will reach an inch, and which,
when examined under ordinary powerful
microscopes, is simply marked with lines
Of exquisite delicacy, exhibits under the
new instrument half globes Of white slick,
whose diameters appear 70 be an Inch
and three-QuartefS, and OF which only
1fteen can be seen ct once. In reality the
nOint of cambria needle n larger than
The circle upon which these fifteen hall
globes exist. and yet that circle eppeATl
Ike dessert plate covered with lady-sp.