Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS lTEss
How TO GET ALONG Walk.

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COUGHING Hoss" is the Indian nam.
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A ROBIN in Detroit has been taught 1.
whistle Yankee Doodle.
THE Connecticut Legislature has mi.
limiting prayers to forty minutes.
THERE are nine cities in Germany On,
two in Italy which possess Lincoln street.
PHILADELPHIA is to sprinkle her stres.
with salted water.
THE reason we don't hear of girls piyi,,
the mitten now days they don't lean
to knit.
AN attorney observed to a brother !,
court that he thought whiskers very m
professional. "You are right" reniss
his friend; "a lawyer cannot be too bars
faced"
A PROVIDENCE merchant saves his Tim
brellas by clttipg small piece out Of n.
handle, which he carries in his pocks
book ready to prove property at any tims
B. a blunder, the people Of Worcest,
Mass, have been ordered by the CITY an
thorities to reminder their houses vii,
Roman numerals. The Spy shoulders ~
the thought of CCCCXLlX over its own
door.
THE nomenclature of Massachuse,.
towns has improved with time. Dudley,
name in its greener years was Charger
gagoggmanchoggagogg. Marlboro's had
even more liquid melody in those dau
acknowledgements.
BUTTERFLIES have been found flying At
sea, six hundred miles from land. Their
buoyancy is great, and the muscular effort
of flying must BE- small, while the wind
drives them forward rapidly over great
distances.
A CANTON, ILL.,, farmer, says: 81 ww !.
going out past my cOrn-crib the other
morning when observed large rat car.
rying full sized ear of corn in his mouth
with head erect At the same time hs
tail was wrapped around another, and an
extra large ear, which he was dragging be-
hind him"
THERE were recently thirty-nine in
mates of the Illinois State Penitentiay
who are under eighteen years of age
thirty-two white and seven colored. Sill
were sentenced for Burglary and larceny
fifteen for burglary; nine for larceny tw
for rape; two for assault with intent
kill; TIVE for forgery; three for robbery.
A RUSSIAN nobleman, who received bill
degrees from the Universities Of St. Peters
burg and Heidelberg, as thorough student
Of jurisprudence, and who can read, write,
and speak the Russian, German, French,
Italian, English, Latin, and Greek Ian.
guages, advertises in Hartford for a situs.
ton as coachman.
For specimen of logical consecution
of ideas we venture to commend this,
from schoolboys composition: "Tobac.
co was invented by man named Walter
Raleigh. When the people first saw him
smoking they thought he was steam
boat, and, as they had never seen steam
boat, they were frightened"
In the execution of recent deed by q
man and his wife the wife was taken aside,
before the acknowledgment was made, BY
commissioner, who, in the usual form,
asked, "Do you execute this deed freely,
and without any fear or compromise of
your husband?" "Fear of my husband I"
exclaimed the wife, i've had five hus
bands, and never was afraid of any Of
themp
BLACK bass have got into the Connect.
cut river accidentally. Two ponds, with
outlets leading to the river at points wide.
ly apart, which had been stocked with
black bass at private cost, were carried
away by flood some two years ago, and
the fish swept into the Connecticut, where
they have quietly domesticated themselvs.
Last year they Matched large quantity Of
young, and this year have reappeared on
their spawning ground.
John ROUSE. why wilt thou do so?"
said Thomas Hazard, one of New Bed.
ford's substantial Quaker merchants sixty
years ago, to Johnny Rouse, negro in his
employ, whom he found before magis-
trate, not for the first time, charged with
stealing. "Why wilt thou do so, thou fool.
lsh man /? thou always gets caught" "Why
hassa Hazard" says Johnny, Il don't get
caught half the time"
On the streets of Norfolk, Va, on re.
cent Sunday, little girl six or seven years
DID was seen leading her drunken father
lomeward. Resisting the efforts of all
other persons to take him home, he was
perfectly passive in the hands of his child.
After getting her father to the steps, the
little child threw her arms around his
neck and kissed him. All who witnessed
The scene and the action were affected
some to tears.
TIE Bedford NeUs says: "a Lawrence
County man planted tree in front of bis
house and named it after his wife. Soon
The tree died, and the wife lived but day
Or two after. Now you would be surprised
1T the number Of men that are planting
trees IN front of their domiciles and
naming them after their respective. if not
respected, wives-and the sickliest looking
Trees that can be found, too-trees that.
Win the tenderest care cannot possibly
i've more than two weeks. The women
iie!' -SoA'0u no' I"
PARENTS and teachers may learn a valu.
able lesson from remark once made by
me Duke of Gloucester, the third son Of
me Prince of Wales, father of George III
DE was dull child, and his mother used
o cause him great distress at times by
eerlng him on account of his dullness. in
ne presence Of his brothers and sisters
IN one particular occasion she told them
o laugh at the fool. The sensitive child
held down its head and said nothing nnon
Which the Princess changed her tone and
.ccused him of sulkiness. an" he sa;d
was not sulky; ! was only thinking"
And pray what were you thinking of,"
inquired the Princess, with Increasing
corn in her manner. II was tb;nL;noS
aid the poor child, show should faef r.
had q SON oc mn no ~, A~eAu ACSA :. :.