Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-21
BREvITIEs.
INDIAN REsERvATIoNs-Scalps.
THE CRATE GAME Now-Poker.

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How TO MAKE A SLOW HORSE FAST
Don't feed him.
IT is found profitable in Canada to cul-
tivate rabbits for food and fur.
THE singer who brought down the
house has refused to rebuild it.
WHEN is small baby like a big bankers
When he is wroth-child.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman made $500
last wear by the cultivation of lilies
THE latest style of wedding cards have
the ages of the contracting parties en-
graved in one corner.
THE boot and shoe trade is the safest
to engage in. Every pair made are soled
before they are finished.
WHAT is a conundrums Something to
guess at. What is clearinghouse hash?
A conundrum! Ergo.
THE annual profits of this country
arising from all its industries are estimated
at about 81 900, 100000.
IF the National Bank currency of Hi
nois were equally distributed among the
obtain four dollars.
A CLERGYMAN, named Fiddle, respect
fully declined" the degrees of d. d., be-
cause, as he said he did not wish to be
known as Rev. Fiddle, d. d.
A JUDGE sentencing a prisoner to be
hung, said he hoped ii would prove a
warning to him. 1t did-the chap hasn't
committed crime since.
THE TWO DECLARATIoNs-The Declare
ton of Independence, whereby we gained
our liberty, and the Declaration of Love,
whereby we lost it.
WHAT is the difference between rail-
way train and suspending bank In
one case the brake causes the stoppage;
in the other the stoppage causes the
break
MANY young girls are suffering with dis
ease and curvature of the spine, produced,
the doctors affirm, from no other cause
than the wearing of the high French-heeled
boots.
PARTON is ungracious enough to remark
that many American ladies, were they SEN
fenced to be hanged tomorrow, would
ask as their first question, "Have l a
hanging dress ?"
THE New York Post says that Smart
young school ma Jams, entirely without the
aid of sewing machine, frequently collar
and cuff small boy in less than thirty
seconds"
THE largest peach orchard in the United
States is near Chestertown, Md. 1t covers
thirteen hundred and fifty acres, and con-
tains one hundred and thirty-six thousand
trees. It belongs to Col. Edward Will
kins He markets his entire crop in Bal
timore to one canning establishment, and
finds it more profitable than to grow corn
at sixty cents per bushel.
If long hair be the glory Of women,
then there is a glorious young lady in
Boston. She was persuaded the othe
day to give a private exhibition of her
beautiful head of long and heavy black
hair. Her height is five feet three inches,
and when she is standing erect her hair
falls to her feet, and trails quarter of a
yard on the floor. 1t is seventy-five
inches in length. a.
THE experiments of a company Operat-
ing at Meridian, Conn.,, are said to prove
that peat is fully equal, ton for ton, to
coal, for raising steam, and possesses the
advantages that it yields but a small per
cent. of smoke and ashes, produces no
clinkers, and does not "eat' the boiler
iron while burning. These experiments
may lead to the utilizing of the vast peat
beds in different parts of the country.
A PENNILEss young lawyer asked mill
ionaire for his daughters hand. II shall
give my child hundred thousand dollars
on her wedding day." answered the
merchant. g 1t is a pretty little sum;
enough to provide breakfasts for the fam
lily. Now, will you have the kindness to
tell me how you propose to furnish the
dnners?" "Oh, for that matter" re-
turned the unabashed youth. "those who
have breakfasted so well will not need any
dinner at ALL"
THE following estimate of the supply
of cotton from all the ports of the world,
for the year ending September 80, 1871
is said to be from the most Trustworthy
source Crop of the United States, 3, 225,-
600 bales; supply from the East Indies,
l 500, 600 bales; Brazil, $50, 600; Egypt,
$3.50, 900; from other countries, 25O, 900,
Add to the above the excess of stock in
European ports, 254, 600 bales; excess in
United States ports, As, 900 bales in spin
ners' hands 100000 bales, making the
total supply for the year of 6,479,OOO
bales. Allowing that the entire consump-
ton for the entire year will be at the rate
of $50, 600 bales per week. there would be
on hand at the end of the year 1886, 600
bales.
CONTRARY to the popular opinion that
London is vast sink of iniquity, stats
tics show it to be the most moral town in
Great Britain, its habitual and suspected
criminals being as one in 1884, while in
such towns as Bath, bennington, Scar
borough and Ramsgate, the proportion is
one to 227, and in what are classed as
agricultural towns, it is one in 433. In
the eastern midland and southern counties,
the number Of criminals is usually twice.
and occasionally four times as great as in
London. The rural villages are usually
considered the homes of ideal purity and
piety, yet in comparison with them, Lon
don is twice as innocent, twice as healthy.
and about four hundred times as charita.
BILE. This superiority in alms-giving seems
to indicate a corresponding extent of
pauperism, but benevolence, it is to be re-
membered, is more thoroughly system.
atized in London, while in the country
there may be great deal of want and
suffering with very inadequate relief.
THE sounds proceeding from telegraph
wires in the open air have generally been
attributed to the influence of the wind