Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


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MISCELLAN EOUS ITEMS.
MYsTERioUs JoURHEY-eoIng down
In the worid. ~ ta4 sa Sta -
Sixty newspapers on the Pacific coast
have failed during 1870. 1Sa3g tstj E
PfrrsBuRsH, it is said, has more news
papers than any other city in the United
States, New York alone excepted.
AN Irish PAINTER declares. in an adyer.
tisement, that among other portraits, he
has representation Of Death as large as
life" ~ tttftt55 t3iA
A FOND DU LAC, Wis., husband cele-
brated his wooden wedding the other day
by saving and splitting cordwood for
household consumption. f'.
THE Presidents late Message contains
nine thousand three hundred and twenty
seven words, as reported by telegraph
operator who made the count.
THERE are at Manistee, Mich, eight
lawyers and Judge, and not man OF
them ever uses liquor in any form, or
chews tobacco, and only one OF them ever
smokes. cas- So aEa Pc E5a T
AYANKEE inventor claims to have de-
vised car in which an invalid can ride up
or down stairway or elevator way, with
no more exertion than to lifta one pound
weight n sd 49, a3IREt
| PLAYING AT DocToRs-"M Ma, dear, Ada
won't take her physic< have mixed her
dose Of vinegar and sand, and she says
must take some first. Doctors never do
40 they, mar By lag9 Hl4. =.
/ AN Old LADY, not remarkanie LOT she
clearness OF her IDEAS, descrping me
summer evening, said: Z" 1t was Deautl'
full bright night; the moon made every
thing as light as feather|
THE Mothers Friend says: "Never re-
prove child harshly for chewing, or
! smoking, or swearing. No, never reprove
him harshly. The only way to cure him
is to thrash him within an inch OF his life
| Louisville Journal. a.Atfb
| ONE of the Hutchinsons lately called at
the Danvers Mass Pottery for wagon
seat that had been forgotten by him thirty
years ago. 1t was found to be still in a
tolerable state of preservation. =.
/ A MAN was Boosting to Lord Palmer
4 ston: "I spend half my income in charity,
! I assure you; l do, indeed / give
thousands of pounds away Generosity
covers everything" Including modesty,
sometimes added His Lordship. a-Ag
Tn the Antarctic seas there are sea weeds
which have stems about twenty feet high,
| and with diameter SO great that they
have been collected by mariners in thosc.
! regions for fuel, under the belief that they
| were drift-wood. They are as thick as
mans thigh. 7g8e Faa2! Isfss
Az ;rd;v;dra, who claims IN have given
voars 70 inyest;oat;ng the lottery policv
In sin .o in the ffm;ted States saws there
are 20. 900 policy shops in the country,
submitted NV al Oh, nlayers. who afford the
1 nrppr;etors a at q minimum estimate, Sis,
200 900 of profits yearly
~ o,dl arr;c,,iturai 1aborer in Emo.
an oiu asiio o,,,a 49, 81 avonns7
ianu triea ihuscq,ai dnosaou -, t tod ,s;,h
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Joy "a. as NC s"l - -, - +o ,,ra,
ow US, sili 'e a Gil mh ~ No, ~ - ~
nls,s anu illol a d,nt, isnd got tbay
80 uv"n ~ :, 0A'1 VIZ - 49, =
"in sov. rr-. -
Eldr;doe.. who kent $4,000 worth of
I1,;tad Sto+as honds and other tsecurities
Cll:eu osa.os uou h au u b ho 'ria"aJ
AZ Ias ~ ~ ia =. ,,;nbt Loot Nv and oil q
a ei W: w 49, =, t,3 i fr,,nd tho who,e
o" .v.n nl I ~. rv;tl, tho nyoert;nn
a CO "hn,,s et'4nn cash n On ad;o;n;ng
ala o"' ~-'~N~ s-7T-JT'e
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the German ciotnlng ueae.s ~ .iia. S cy
recently SOLO man pail Oh o Doo.s "A ,H%
Gays aiIerwa var III. tne h o ,o n,,t IN the
.holla, aalu COW y.'"s ~ ,tnas Tt+Ie u,ot
a 4. go como off aTear me mine
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MI. n.a,d =. 7o,r. rsror4s the FIJI.
LIE ~ ;,s4o ~, =" "f .oan s.o;d in the midst
l4"i dasans s at tba ' haft,e If Orleans A
VI uan Wnh;1e bad asIeJ his officer for a