Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-17
Taking people-Thieves.

-dAuuy UOOA-usi ACi n"hS"'
Men of means are sometimes the
meanest of men.
To avoid the blues, insure in the
Washington Life of New York
There were 33o applications for d.
vorces in Philadelphia last year.
Why are umbrellas like good Catho-
lies They keep lent 80 well.
Cincinnati has twelve hundred poor
who receive daily soup tickets.
The time to buy another umbrella is
Just after you have lent one.
: When is an old man like q place in
the West Indiss, Why, when he's Hayti,
of course.
The largest diamond pin in the coun-
try is worn by fashionable Philadelphia
barber.
I'm game of cards . good deal de-
ponds on good playing, and good playing
on good deal.
What's the difference between turn
key and q jeweler! One watches cells and
the other sells watches.
An Irishman who did not know the
post-oftice Of friend proposes TO write TO
him and find out.
"A Nevada paper says that some Of the
streams Of that State have "brook trout
over four feet long"
1T is stated that two-thirds of the ex-
pert pickpockets in New York city are fe-
males under twenty years OF age.
The butcher who, on hearing that the
price of meat was going down, became
chop fallon, 10 progressing favorably.
An Augusta man, after advertising for
his lost watch and looking for it all day,
found it at night hanging down his back
In a breach of promise case ut Nash
vile, Tenn, the plaintiff exhibits two
hundred letters written her in three years
by the defendant.
The New York papers estimate that
there were 420, 1884 pounds OF human flesh
on the floor at one time at recent tat
mems ball in that city.
"A sick man was told that nothing
could cure him but quart Of catnip tea.
"Then must die" said he, for l don't
hold but . pint"
-"Shall cut this loin of mutton saddle
wise ?" said gentleman. NO." said one
of his guests, "cut it bridlewise, for then
l may chance to get bit in my mouth
Those are the best husbands and faith
ers who prove their devotion by actions
which continue to bless even after death.
By insuring your life in the Washington
MIL r~iAV IS sccuica.
According to the eminent French
physician, DR.. Levy, the average duration
of life among the Jews is thirty seven
years, while among the Gentiles it is only
twenty six years.
"A minstrel troupe organized in Indi
annapolis on recent Monday, played
Tuesday night, "busted" Wednesday
morning, and Thursday afternoon the
leader went to saving wood at four shil
lings cord.
"A petition, 1875 yards long, and con-
tanning $4,000 signatures, praying for the
enforcement of the Sunday laws in regard
to tipping houses, was recently presented
to the Mayor of Chicago.
1T is related of a centenarian who
died the other day that he learned to use
tobacco at the age of so, but abandoned it
at 81, having discovered that it made his
hand little unsteady. His nerves i'm
proved, he said, very much after that.
One Of the Piute Indians predicts
another food speedily, like the one
eighteen hundred and seventy years ago,
when it rained forty days and forty
nights, and all the people got into the big
boat built by Columbus"
The total amount of merchandise and
specie imported into the United States
for the six months ending January / 1870,
was $213,G93, 1876; total exports of mer.
chandise, specie, and bullion during the
same time, $l99,124,111. OF the exports
and imports, American ships carried 1885,
O35,2l0.
Rather Awkward Eligible Young
Fred, you don't know +. no l am" Too
Candid Young Hopeful" Oh, but 1 do,
though. You're the chap ma says would
be such good catch for our Mary"
ITahleau.