Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-29

whose name is 30 long that COMPANY Of
engineers have been ordered TO level
down the consonsnts and use it az a pom.
toon-bridge.
A wELL-KNowN old citizen of San.
Canon County, Ill, residing near Loami,
has for many years past been exceedingly
deaf. A short time since, he was struck
by slight streak Of lightning, and now
hears perfectly well.
PRoF. KING, of Poughkeepsie, recently
made q trip to Westport, Conn, in his
balloon. The distance sixty miles-was
passed over in one hour and forty min
utes. The highest point he attained was
half mile.
From the returns made to the United
States Marshal, it would seem that Ten.
nessee is the healthiest country on the face
of the globe, and the most remarkable of
any for longevity.
A BOX containing q black bear was re-
ceived at an express office in San Fran
cisco, the other day, with this inscription:
"Black Bare. Eff yew don't want to get
bit, kepe yer fingers outen the crax."
ONE Of the amusements at Long Branch
is to watch the New Jersey mosquitoes
open CLAIMS with their bills, on the shore.
Several of these useful insects are being
domesticated and taught to punch rivet
holes in steam boilers.
A RURAL Englishwoman had the right
idea when, finding herself unable to whip
her husband, she shouted to her son who
was up stairs in bed: "Bill! come down.
stairs and lick thi feyther, or else he'll be
the maisster O. tn whole house -
THE Bricksburg IN. j. Times counsels
moderation in the use OF fruit. It says:
"Three watermelons and dozen large
punches of grapes form q dessert ample
for any civilized man, and anything be-
You'd that is not to be thought Of if you
care for your health"
A NEWARK merchant got mp lot of
fans with his business card printed there
on, which he gave to deacon to be dis
tributed at camp meeting, but that gentle
man turned an honest penny by hiring
boys to sell them at Eve cents apiece.
AN apprentice, one day, after dinner,
deliberately stepped up to his master, and
asked him what he valued his services at
per day. "About sixpence," said his mas
ter. "Well, them" said the boy, putting
his hand into his pocket and drawing out
some coppers, "here's threepence; I'm
off on the spree"
SURL FOSTER writes the Country Gen.
NenGn that, if each farmer had good
two horse railway power, it would be
better economy to thresh grain in winter
as the straw was wanted for use than to
thresh in the field with the larger ma
chimes.
In the Third District of New Orleans
resides Jules Padre, SO years Of age, who
for more than thirty years has not had q
tooth in his head. Some six weeks ago,
however, his gums began to itch and
swell, and very soon he began to cut some
teeth. He has now q full mouth of young
teeth, which are growing finely.
A WOMAN in Cincinnati raises forty
eight inches of hair on her head every
three years, and then sells it. Surprising
that she lives to be 70 years Of age, she
will raise, allowing her fifty-one years Of
the seventy to do this business in, seven
teen Of these crops of hair, amounting in
all to sixty eight feet of hirsute adorn-
ment.
A BANKER lent q graceless scamp fifty
dollars In the hope Of getting rid OF him;
but, to his surprise, the fellow paid the
money punctuslly on the day agreed
upon, and short time afterward applied
to him for another loan. mo-" said the
banker; "you have deceived me once,
and l am resolved you shan't Go 1t
second time"
THE mortality returns of England for
1853 record the death of 178 men and 1856
women registered as 95 years old and up
ward when they died; II OF these men
had reached 100 or upward, and one at
Cheltenham was iii; 50 Of the women
had also completed century of life, or
more, and one in the district of Monmouth
and South Wales had attained the great
age Of ia years.
If the revolution Of the earth on it's
axis were to be suddenly stopped, the
temperature Of everything would be
raised to such degree as to be incapable
of existing in any other form than vapor
When bullet strikes the target, it be-
comes SO hot that it cannot be held in the
hand. Its velocity is at the rate Of twelve
hundred feet second. But what must be
the heat produced when a body like the
earth, moving at the rate Of ninety
million feeta second, is suddenly arrested
It would soon be converted into sea o
fire, and all life would become extinct.
AwoMAN recently had New Orleans
policeman arraigned before the Board of
Commissioners, on charge of rudely in
sulting her. Being called upon to state
the nature of the insult, she said he had
called her woman" term never be-
fore applied to her. She wanted it under
stood that she was ''lady." 1t turned
out that the officer found her with her
feminine ear st neighbours keyhole, and
informed the people inside that "wo-
man" was eavesdropping at their door.
The "lady" left the court In disgust.
DIR. WIE6AND, Professor at the Uni
versity OF Halle, announces, after investi-
CATION, that trains running northward
have tendency to run of on the east
rail, and those running south likewise so
off On the west This he attributes TO the
combined shape and motion of the earth,
and even calculates the amount of pressure
for given latitude in Germany. For q
thirty-.on locomotive the tendency to fly
the track, from this cause, is exactly six
and twenty-four one hundredth pounds.
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