Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-10

" TO Make a Hit-Strike.


How to Make Hit-Strikc.
The Best Music Oyertures Of Peace
An art Union-A cockney's marriage
"A Man Of Letters-The penny post
man.
A prudent man fbrseeth the evil, and
insures his life-in the Washington.
Why is screw in tight like screw in
loose because it is insecure.
The Sweetest Of Strains Trying to
(ift pretty heavy girl on horse.
The advantage of being chimney
sweep il that his calling scots him.
1T il estimated that there were 100000
visitors at Ave watering places during the
past summer
"A good protection against misfortune
is policy in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Chicago. sa
Punch says that in some parts Of Eng
land the water ID 80 hard that skating on
ii is kept up all through the summer.
1T is 30 hilly in some parts Of New
Hampshire that the people look up the
chimney 10 see when the COWS are coming
home. F
--' Is molasses good for q cough - in
quired youth with q slight cold 1t
ought to be- was the reply, - it is sold for
consumption"
thine hangs heavy on my hands" as
the son said when he became the possessor
q his fathers large old-fashioned silver
watch.
"A youth in Harrison county, Ind,
voted . half-sheet of note-paper, with .
lock Of vinegar colored hair curled within,
instead Of the regular ticket, at the last
election.
"A medical student says he has never
been able 70 discover the bone Of conten-
tion, and desires to know whether it is not
situated very near the iaw-bone.
A physician died at Dryfeld, Conn.,,
from taking medicine accidentally which he
had prepared for . charity patient Ply
scsns cannot be too careful about the
ne Of such deadly weapons.
The New Haven Register, relating the
suicide Of Alven Bronson, says: mo
cause can be assigned for the act unless il
be that he was TO have been married next
week."
-" You haven't got such thing as
pair Of old trowsers, have your" No,
my man" said the merchant; ~ don't
keep my wardrobe in my counting house
Where do you live ?" rejoined Pat, land
I'll call in the morning for the ould pair
you've got on"
Beware Of counterfeit 80 cent pieces
Of the new fractional currency, and two
dollar bills on the Westchester County
National Bank, Of Peekskill, N. Y. The
engraving is poorly executed, and they
can be easily detected.
There is man in Buffalo who has
registered vow never to make a (" humane
society" Of himself again. He took off
his coat and leaped into the canal to save
q lady from drowning, when pick pocket
stole $40 from his coat, and the rescued
one was mad because he pulled her
ehignon off in getting her out.
-" John said poverty. stricken man
to his son, I've made my will to-day"
"Ah!" replied John. "You were liberal
to me, no doubt" Yes, John; came
down handsome. I've willed you the
whole State of Virginia--to make living
m, with the privilege Of going elsewhere
If you can do better"
in the habit of soaping the dirty clothes
before putting them to soak, on being told
a few DAYS since by her mistress to get
dried Goldfish and put it to soak for dinner,
did SO, after rubbing it over smartly with
good quantity of hard soap.
Mrs. Darlington, on reading an account
of schooner having her jibboom carried
away in Long Island Sound, wondered
why people would leave such things out
O. doors nights, to be stolen, when there
were 80 many buglers about, filtering every
thing they could lay their hands to-"
Professor A. NJ. Kedzie, of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, says that one
hundred and seventy days have passed
this year without frost sufficient to make
its effects visible upon vegetation; and
that, according to the records kept by the
Academy of Science at New Haven, it is
one hundred and eight years since this has
occurred before.
Foreign Gossip.
The last sensation in England is the
selling Of photographs of q skull purport-
ing to be that Of Shakespeare.