Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
How was Jonah punished? Whaled

How was Jonah punished? Whaled.
DURING the past year 1874 divorces were
granted in st. Louis
GREAT BRITAIN only lost $1,000 letters
out OF $40, 000, 600 posted in 1870.
ACCORDING to the Official report, the
British Museum of London was visited by
427, PAT persons in 1870.
WHILE California wasp and tarantula
were fighting, toad swallowed both and
soon after expired in great pain.
If you want to eat just such pudding
as your mother made when you were a
boy, you must somehow revive a boys
appetite and palate.
JOSH BILLINGS says Adversely has the
same effekt on a man that severe training
duz on the pugilist-it reduces him tew
his lighting weight.
A TITUsvLLE Oil prince ground lame
soldiers hand organ and collected stamps
the other night, realizing $50 for the vet
eran in short time.
Dr.. RUSSELL says the reason why Sun
day is the hottest day Of the week is be-
cause people have nothing else to do but
scrutiniZe the weather.
The pastor of the Baptist Church in
Cambridge, No, baptized two young
ladies' the other day, and then married one
ofthem right there in the church, before
she had time to get dry.
81 FEAR" said country minister to his
flock, when l explained to you in my
last charity sermon that philanthropy
was the love of our species, you must have
misunderstood me to say specie, which may
account for the smallness of the collec-
ton. You will prove, l hope, by your
present contribution that you are no
longer laboring under the same mistake"
A PHILADELPHIA physician writes to
the Post to correct an impression that
blackberries are useful or harmless in
cases where children are convalescing
from diarrh9a or cholera infantum. He
says that from close observation during
several years, meantime enjoying large
practice. he is forced to believe that there
is no other cause SO fatal to life in these
complaints as eating blackberries.
A RELIGIOUS paper prints the following
paragraph: at is asked of all newspa-
pers, desiring the spread of truth and the
destruction of error, that they publish this
request and prayer to Almighty Power,
October, 1871, there shall appear in the
heavens distinct light in the shape of a
great Cross and, furthermore, all good
people are urged to pray earnestly for this
miraculous sign.
A FEW days since gentleman entered
Photographic saloon in Boston, and ask
ed the proprietor if it was good day for
taking pictures. The proprietor looked
carelessly up and replied that it was.
"Well," remarked the visitor, "look at
me and see if you think you could get a
likeness of me-" The artist this time took
good square look, and in a few moments
studied out the features of his father,
whom he had not seen for many years.
A NEW BRITAIN pastor was bit care
less the other day, in his selections of the
tO-be omitted portions of the good old
hymn, in which occur these lines:
'.Shall such a worthless worm asI
Be found att thy right hands"
The next stauza was omitted, and the choir
commenced singing:
prevent 1t, prevent it by Thy grace"
Those who were not using their hymn
books went home with the impression that
there must have been some mistake.
AN English writer has been engaged
in estimating the amount of gold in the
world in bulk. He says it could-melted
in lump-be contained in cellar twenty
four feet square by sixteen feet in depth
Says, too, that all the boosted wealth taken
from the gold mines of California and
Australia could be melted and put into an
iron safe nine feet high and nine feet square.
A small lump, indeed, to Cause as much
labor and sacrifice as il has to obtain it.
THE Montello, (Wis) Express says
Michael Groulkie was walking through
his corn patch one day recently, and found
large overgrown ear, and supposing it to
be false or smut ear, plucked it and
stripped OH the husks, when he found q
perfect ear OF corn, covered with kernels,
OF the size and shape of human hand.
The wrist and palm are almost perfect,
with thumb and fingers in their proper
| places for left hand, all Of appropriate
length, and all properly adjusted, only
there are six fingers instead of four, and
two OF them are grown together.
NOT many miles from Boston certain
farmer owned contrary horse. While
driving home with load of hay some
time since, the horse concluded not to
move any further; whereupon the farmer
pulled out a small quantity of the hay,
placed it under the horse and set fire to
it. The fire had the desired effect, for it
obliged the horse to move. He started for.
ward just enough to clear the flames, and
the entire load, with the wagon, was de-
stroyed, the farmer having as much as he
could 40 to clear the horse from the
wagon in season to save his life.
THE inundation of iii, which swept
away great part of the old Tyne Bridge,
Newcastle, Was long remembered and al,
iuded to with emphasis as "the food"
On one occasion Mr.. Adam Thomson
was put INTO the witness box at the assizes
The counsel, asking his name, received
Tor answer, adam, sir Adam Thomn.
SON" Where do you live" "At Para.
disc, sir" paradise is a village about
mile and half west of Newcastle. "And
now long have you dwelt in ParadiseY"
continued the barrister. "Ever since the
HOOD was the reply, made in all simplici
", and with no intention to raise laugh.
JUS needless to say that the Judge asked
Tor an explanation.
BARON JAMES DE RorHscHILD, during
the Communist period in Paris, was one
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