Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-28
BREvITIES.

| C0Hf0nt VINO mas Octu bdluuS oiope eAe
Massachusetts, coast, wonders WY Glou
cester is spelled the way it ia; and If that
is right. why shouldn't lobster be spelled
Colchester
THE e1-King of Naples lives in the
same palace with his wife, Queen Maria
but he has not exchanged q WI I'd with hel
for several years. The Pope some time
since refused to divorce them.
A SPRING looking exceedingly clear and
tempting, but strongly impregnated with
arsensic, was recently discovered In
Nevada A number Of persons were
poisoned before its dangerous character
was known.
| THE Postmaster of Boston cautions
business men against the practice Of open.
| Jog letters In the area of the Post Office
and throwing the envelopes on the floor.
| Sharpers turn the practice to their advan-
| tage, thus learning the numbers OF the
boxes Of the firms, and demanding their
! letters.
THE following is the inscription on the
| tombstone of Mary Jane, aged II years
months" in the Cape May Cemetery:
| "She was not smart, she was not fair,
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
And empty stands her little chair
VI
An old gentleman took huge volume of
history of thousand pages, with maps and
illustra ions, into bookstore, few days
ago, and, saying he wished another copy,
offered to lend it to them as long as they
needed it to print another by.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania,
| has freshman eighteen years old, who
has secured means, by buying and work
ing with his own hands farm of eighty
acres near Omaha, to take him through
the cour e and have his capital left when
he finishes. After that he will return and
show the world what he knows about
farming.
In 1860 the citizens of st. Anthony ap-
pointed a committe to meet Mr.. Seward
and others who were proposing TO visit
the town BY some chance the commit
tee did not meet the party until they had
reached their hotel, when the spokesman,
by way Of apology, said: "Mr. Seward,
we are sorry indeed that we did not have
the opportunity of esoorting you into
town; but we beg to assure you we shall
take great pleasure in esc0rting you out
Of it,"
A SINGULAR and beautiful incident oc-
Cured at funeral in Cape Ann the other
day. Just at the conclusion of the SER
vices over the remains, a white dove sud-
denly made its appearance, and after max
ing the circuit of the apartment, alighted
upon the head of the rector who had con-
Quoted the exercises. There it quietly re.
NAMED until removed and properly cared
for 1t did not belong to the family, but
was the property of neighbor who re-
sided on the same street.
IT appears from statements made in
| Parliament, short time ago, that the
present system of shilling kilograms adopt
| ed by the British Government, when it
took charge of the telegraph lines of the
| kingdom, is working finely. The lines
are crowded with messages, and from
10000 to $4,000 more are being now
earned than during the corresponding
weeks last year. The question of sixpen-
ny tel grams is under consideration, to be
| tried as soon as there is a sufficient extern
| sion of the lines to accommodate the ex-
pected increase of business.
A FIRM that had agreed to furnish two
| hu adred tons OF coal for the Albany Capt.
tol, after they had finished drawing, pre-
scented their bill to Colonel Cassidy, the
keeper of the building. THAT will be all
right, said the Colonel, "when you deliver
twenty six tons more" "What twenty
Fix toDs?" asked the contractors, in aston
ishment. "Why. it is just that amount
Short" said the Colonel, "for I've taken
the pain, to weigh it." Neither coaxing
nor bullying could change the Colonel's
determination, and after the delivery Of the
twen'y-six additional tons, the receipt was
signed.
THE smallest steam engine In the world
is in possession of John Penn, Greenwich,
England 1t will stand on three penny
piece Its base plate measures three eighths
of an inch by about three-,enths. A few
minutim such as the air-pumps, have been
omitted. 30 small are some of the parts
that they require q powerful magnify ing
glass to see their 70 m. The screws are
one. eigt tn of al inch in diameter, and
furnished with hexagonal nuts, loosened
and frightened with spanner The whole
weight OF the model is less than q three
| penny piece. 1t works admirably, and its
crank shaft performs twenty to thirty
thousand revolutions in minute
THE Peoria (Ill.) Transcript says: "a
young gentl. man, dressed very iashiona
| bly,, and who sports nice cane, had the
| starch taken out of him on last sunday
In this wise: The cane he carries is MUIR
derous sword cane, though it don't appear
to be. The fastening had become loosened,
and as the gentl men entered the church
the two p FITS of the cane became separat-
ed. The gentleman started down the aisle
with a t ruidable looking dagger in his
hand, and he was wholly unconscious of
the figure he was cutting. un il the litter
ing OF some of the beholders informed
him of his warlike appearance in the
house of God. In much confusion be
sought the balance of The cane, ich had
fallen nearthe door, and, losing his FORT
tade, left the church Disguised"
ONE of the most interesting questions
now discuss by astronomers, is that
which concerns the ossibility of The ex.
istence of CENTRAL sun. The vast extent
OF the range Of influence exercised by the
law of gravitation has suggested the great
probability hat in the assemblage of stars
with which our system is come, ted, there
Is centre Of gravity around which they
revolve. As in the solar system such q
priniple is found to exist, the inauiry
natura' ly propounds itself. why it should
not also exis' over the broadest limit of the
universe, and why, too, there should not be
| some point or centre around which axo-,,