Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10

Alaska has 200 legal voters.

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Alaska has 200 legal voters.
The poorest Of disguises-One in
liquor.
"A light business-The candle-makers,
"A poor way to get thing-Waiting
for 1t to turn up.
Improbable industry Spinning yarns
ct the street corners.
of all convictions, no doubt "sober -
ones are the best. Apt to be the most
steady.
There are four hundred and forty
patients ct the Indiana Insane Asylum.
-Eycxy Director Is interested in the
success OF the Warrington Life Of New
York.
The Boston Psse thinks It very i'm
prudent in man TO promise his doctor q
A Texas paper chronicles tie hanging
Of horse-thief under the heading, The
Health Lift"
Which letter in the alphabet is most
useful to deaf old lady? Alt will make
her hear.
The Washington Life-its growth has
been steady, its success marked, its sys-
ten of business pre- .eminently adapted to
benefit the policy holders.
The Denver (Colorado) Herald prints
announcements Of births, marriages,
divorces and deaths under the headings
Arrivals -Cspartnersh:ps-D issolutions--
Departures.
The New York Ntpress gives this rule
for testing q Christian: -"Set him to
putting up an old ..mis.matched stove-pipe,
and keep him at it an hour. If he don't
swear, he's seasoned"
"A Richmond sage says that saw-dust
pills would effectually cure many of those
diseases with which mankind is afflicted,
If every individual would make his own
aaw-dust
They say that a member of one of the
Eastern Legislatures recently wrote
gion was, and that she wrote back that he
had better call it Protestant, and let it 60
at that.
The mean temperature of Florida for
twenty years has been SO degrees 80 min
utes. The thermometer rarely falls below
40 degrees, or rises above 80 degrees |;
degrees in August is the average.
Both witty and sharp was that woman
Of Baltimore who sent to her grocer these
lines: :" Mr.. Tuttle, this here thing has
got two much hemp in it for mulssses and
not quite enough for close line, SO beg
you will exchange it for purer article"
"A Philadelphia cemetery contains
seven graves, side by side, in which re-
pose the ifeless remains of man and his
six wives. When the nrsr wire uieu Jnc
third was three years old and the fifth an
infant of twelve months; while the last
wife was not born until the year follow
ng the the death of the first.
Nat M was queer genius. A
neighbor found him one day at work at
an enormous wood pile, saving away for
dear life with an intolerably dull saw
"Why don't you sharpen your saw, Nat?"
asked the neighbor. Looking up with an
inimitably droll expression, II should
think l had work enough to do to saw up
this woodpile, without stopping to
sharpen saws"
-Twenty.nine years ago, six brothers,
of whom j. F. Richardson, now Superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati
railroad, was one, separated, each going
his own way to seek his fortune. On a
recent Saturday the six brothers all met
for the first time since parting in Indian
apolis. What renders the circumstance
particularly noteworthy lie, that the meet
ing was purely accidental On the follow
ing Tuesday they eat reunion dinnor at
Indianapolis, after which they went their
several ways again.
"A Pennsylvania merchant agreed to
take farmers oats at 40 cents bushel If
the latter would let him tramp the meas
ure when filled. The farmer agreed to
it. The buyer paid for 60 bushels and
next day went after them. The farmer
filed the bushel, and the merchant got in
and tramped them down. Whereupon
the farmer poured the oats 80 compressed
into the bag. The merchant protested,
and demanded that the measure should be
filed up after tramping. The farmer in
formed him that there was no agreement
Of that sort, but that he might tramp
down the oats to his hearts content after
they were measured.
An enthusiastic friend Of the Elgin
Watch, = dealer in Usage, Iowa, thus de-
.livers himself in blank verse. The Poem(?)
is quite literary curiosity:
OF all the Watches
like the Eigin Watch the best.
For that has stood
The Railroad mems
Most rigid test.
In freezing North,
Or burning South,
It's always Just the same;
Or in the pocket OF
Some engineer
Upon the lightning train.
All Europe stand amazed
To work how