Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-16
Miscellaneous,

The Best Frontispiece-An honest
face
"A Tax no One Likes-Attacks on
ones pocket
What is it you can take without
hands? A hint
The Latest Thing in Dresses-Night
dresses.
The Cup after the Cup that Cheers
The hic-cup.
What the Teamster told His Horses
| "A tale Of whoa.
Many young men are so improvident
they cannot keep anything but late
hours.
The quickest way for a man to for
get all common miseries is to wear tight
boots.
Drinking water neither makes man
sick, nor in debt, nor his wife widow.
=" Clara" asked Tom "what animal
dropped from the clouds:" "The rain,
dear" was the reply.
Somebody wants a capital article for
something. Well, capital article is A.
No extra charge
"A barber, Of statistical turn of mind.
asserts that there are $50 different hair
dyes in circulation.
Boston people who are in doubt as to
the best watering places" have got in
the habit Of asking the mlkmen.
They have negro in Jail at Hous-
ton, Texas, who has committed seventeen
murders in five years. He is 80 years
age.
The matrons of Leavenworth, Kan
sas, have erected an illuminated clock,
in order that their husbands may have
no excuse for mot thinking it was so
late"
A boy of five summers in New Eng
land recently, while at his devotions. sur
prised the family by praying that he
might have sixty brothers and one hun
dred sisters
"A Chicago merchant who has lost all
his books in chiled-iron" safe, re-
marked that it was due, he supposed,
| from the fact that the fire took the chill
all out.
The Crosby Opera House in Chicago,
now "A mass of ruins, was the highest
prize in that gigantic rattle. We trcmbc
to think that we might have drawn it
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In view of the luXuriance of the
castor bean crop in Kansas, Horace
Greeley is of the opinion that furniture
dealers need have no fears regarding the
future supply of castors.
"A Hartford editor having twitted an
editor in Il ncighboring city of being
bald, subsequently apologized and eN-
planned that, las long rs - can fold
his ears over the top of his head, he
doesn't need any hair anyhow"
The handsome house of the late
Benjamin Nathan, in New York city, has
remained tcnantleSs since the murder Of
tMr. Nathan. 1t is said no good tenant
can be found, and that the dwelling,
which was worth $4,000 IA year, could
not be rented to-day for half that sum.
The following lines are copied from
an English life insurance pamphlet, en-
titled Thinks for the Thoughtful :"
When poor pa died, and went to heaven,
What grief mamma endured /;
But, all that grief was soon assuaged,
For pa, he was insured:
And when ma went there, oh, how funny.
The office paid her all the money"
"A good story Is told Of a popular
railroad conductor, recently chosen dea-
con Of a church in MiddlcseX County,
Massachusetts 4 few Sundays ago it be-
came his duty TO assist in taking up
collection. He surprised the congrega-
ton by starting out with the character
istic ejaculation, tickets, gentlemen"
The contribution that day was unusually
large.
,nAA comical passage appears in let
ter from the Rev. J. i. Newman to the
Methodist, describing the voyage of the
United States steamer Congress to and
from Greenland DR.. Newman says
ION our homcward voyage two seamen
were reproachcd for fighting, and they
were sentenced to hug each other for
four hours, with sentry over them, to
see that they did afiectonately."
in 1853 drought as severe as that
of the present season, although not at
tended with such disastrous results, pre-
vailed in Michigan. Farmers came from
miles around to the Detroit River Tor
water In October of that year large
fires ragged in the woods near Detroit,
destroying houses and stock in some IN
stances, and smoke was created so dense
as to almost entirely prevent business,
causing general alarm. No RAIN iell for
more than sixty days, and many fires oc-
Cured in Detroit, destroying some val
liable buildings.
A travelling agent for New YORK
firm has recovered $4,000 from the CHAR
lotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, Tor
eiectment from the cars OF that ROAD;
lie had through or coupon ticket, ana
had the coupon belonging to the Char
lotte road taken by the conductor, re.
ceiyinc from the latter check. lie got
off at a way station, and when he went
ON another train the next morning the
new conductor refused to recognize the
check, and elected him from the car.
The case was decided in the Augusta
(Ga.) Court of Common Pleas.
To show how the earth moves at the
slightest touch. it is said that in the fitts-
burgh Observatory, for instance, the
equatorial instrument rests upon an I'M.
mense granite pier that stands IN turn
mon the solid rock Of the hill below, ana
with no part Of the building touching IL,
and vet. when the eye of the observer
looks through the telescope at constei. !.
lation so far of, for instance, as that o,
Cygnus, finger touch upon the soiia
granite so light that it would not Drush
the down from a buttcrfly's wing causes
the instrument to vibrate and the star 10
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