Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous.

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/ Miscellaneous.
Temperance keeps the -four barrel
full.
A Prickly Pair-A hedgehog and q
! porcupine.
| A Newport landlord has three
! thousand dollar watch.
The best band to accompany lady
vocalist-a hus band.
In Turo, Mass, there are one hundred
and FIVE widows whose husbands were lost
at sea.
The man who makes himself liquor
cellar goes long way toward a-casement
A man in Barnet, VT, boasts of hav-
] ing read the New Testament through
ixty-fve times within ten years.
premiums, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Mutua. Lfe Insurance
Company, of Chicago.
Why is q soldier who attempts to
bayonet ghost an unprincipled fellow!
Because he sticks at nothing.
-Forethought and prudence both say,
insure your life. Take their advice and
insure in the Washington.
| A man in Danbury, Conn, recently
offered two cents pound for dead cats,
and now quietness reigns O nights in that
locality.
-Poor-psy Canadians do. not like the
open postal card, and murmur because re-
morseless duns send them frequent de-
mands that all can read.
The mean depth of the North Attain
tic ocean, which is stated by Maury to be
IL 500 feet, has been reduced by more ella.
borate soundings to $500.
1T took three blacksmiths twenty five
hours to open safe In Springfield, Ill,
bank The combination lock had become
mixed from some unknown cause.
There are places in New York where
pet canaries, cats and dogs are boarded
together at the expense Of twenty cents a
week, while the families to whom they be-
long are out of town.
"A party of travellers passed through
cambridge, Ga, the other day, mounted on
four-wheeled velocipedes They were
going to Columbia, Ala, at an average
speed of forty miles day.
A bare headed, bare. footed little boy
astonished worshipping congregation in
Massachusetts town, on recent Sun
day, by rushing into church and exclaim
ing, where's my pa The pigs are
out -
"A young miss, in recitation in geog.
raphy, informed her astonished teacher
that "the mammoth caravan in Kentucky,
is the greatest living curiosity, and has
I been exploded ten miles from its mouth"
I "A correspondent Of an agricultural
paper asks "Where can wool be profit.
ably CROWN" We are of opinion that there
is no place where it can more profit ably
F., be grown than on the back Of a sheep
The first carriage that ever entered
me Yosemite valley went there July "a,
packed on the backs of mules by q livery
finn of Mariposa 1t is intended for the
use of tourists who do not like horseback
riding.
"A Cincinnati man has 80 thoroughly
domesticated humming-b bird that upon
going into his garden the bird will imme-
diately afghtupon shell in his hand and
sip the sugar water within it, no matter
how many persons may be standing around
him at the time.
Punch says any.on who wishes to
study the true dramatic expression Of
tuC tId5IC Lutlsc Ill tuc ACT Vi QTlHklDB
the last bitter cup Of despair to the very
dregs, should watch young mother
teaching the elements of music to her
first born.
"A rustic couple presented themselves
before Detroit justice the other day as
candidates for matrimony. Each was
duly "sworn in" when they Immediately
purchased quart Of peanuts and huge
gingerbread, and, seating themselves on
the curbstone, devoured the whole before
they left.
Every Saturday, Mr.. g. j. Bester, of
Hartford, Conn, pays the postage on all
letters held for non payment in the post
office of that city. They are then for.
warded, with the request that the receiver
will remit the amount paid, request
usually needed, and gratefully acknowl-
edged.