Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-21
Miscellaneous.

Hinder the census returns the State OF
Alabama only lacks eight persons OF an
even million of inhabitants.
BY the payment of annual dividends
the Mutual Life, of Chicago, supplies IN
sursnce at cost. Insure there.
Twenty four persons committed sui
eide in Iowa during the year ending May
81, 1s70-twenty three males and one ie'
male.
The Washington is great publ c favor
tie: the increase of business last year over
the wear previous was greater than that OF
any other cash company.
Some Harrisburg, Pa, wretch wrote
in the taxi BILE list and after the Mayor s
name. and under the head occupation"
"dog irapper."
M. Y.O.B. These initials are painted
on the stern If pleasure boat plying il,
Duxbury Bay, Mass, which translated
reads. mind Your Own Business
III wish had your head" said lady
to her lawyer who had just solved KIN ,t'y
point for her. "And [ wish / had your
heart" n. pended the lawyer. 1t was not
long before The lawyers head and the
lady's heart went into partnership for life
The editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal says there is but one man in Ken
tuckv who does not want to go the Unite d
States Senate, and the editor OF that
paper confesses that he is not the man.
he wishes to be elected on account OF his
modesty
The manufacture of liquor in England
REQUIRES more capital than any other
branch of industry. The capital invested
in four principal articles Of manufacture is
as follows: Liquor, $685. 900, COO: cotton,
1927, SOC, 600; wooden, Sill 100000; iron,
1925 100000
"A remarkable, and probably unpre-
cedented, instance of rapid travelling be-
tween San Francisco and Liverpool has
lust occurred. On the afternoon of the
I'd ult. gentleman left the first named
place by the Union Pacific Railway, ar
rived at New York on the 9th, just in time
to 90 on board the steamer Wisconsin, and
made the passage in her to Liverpool,
which port wa. safely reached on the even
ing of the 10Th, the entire trip by rail and
steamer thus occupying only seventeen
days.
=" What's the matter, Uncle Jerry?'
said Mr. -, as old jeremiah r. was
passing by, growing most furiously.
MATER" said the old man, stopping
short; "why, here I've been Juggling water
all the morning for DR.. C.'s vile to wash
with, and what dye spose l got for it?"
"Why I suppose about ten cents" an
swered Mr. "Ten cents! She told
me the Doctor would pull tooth for me
some time"
Lorenzo Dow was once preaching in
the eastern part of Connecticut to a
crowded house, the season being mid
winter and the weather extremely cold.
During the sermon the members of the
congregation would make frequent visits
to the stove to warm up; the old man
stood the Interruptions until fOrbearance
ceased to be virtue; stopping in the
middle of sentence he said, "ThOse
VINO have holes in their stockings may now
20 to the stove and warm their feet" He
was annoyed no more during the service.
The Panama Star tells the following
story of canine sagacity: "When the dog
wishes to cross river where alligators
abound, he goes up the stream good
ways and barks with all his might the
alligators 60 there and wait for him get.
ting in to swim across. The dog knows
what he is about; when he sees from the
number of shouts above water that his
enemies have all gathered to the feast, he
runs down the bank as fast as he can, and
swims across before the alligators are
aware of the trick that has been played
upon them"
Iowa Railroad Lsnd Company.-No
organized effort has hitherto been made for
the sales of the Iowa lands granted by
Government to the companies building the
e., % nd
Centrals Iowa lines, and the Sioux City
g. Pacific road. This lack of effort has
prevented the occupation and improve
ment of large portion of Iowa. Of the
grant there are now unsold about !, zoo, 900
acres, and to effect this sale and encourage
immigration the Iowa Railroad Land Com
pany has been organized. Mr.. John B.
Calhoun, late Land Commissioner of the
Hin is Central Company, is Land Com
missioner of this Company.
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