Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

the same as other good companies
WHY are Cashmere shawls like a..
people: Because you can't make tbss
here.
THE best estimates give Nebraska 40.
Al 900 children between five and tveo.s
one years old.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends ..
paid in cash in the Mutual Life, of CHI
cago.
THE young lady singer who thouob
she could make her voice clearer by st.si,
ing it made great mistake.
FIVE hundred and twenty five thousa,,
six hundred trains leave London in II.
course of one year.
In 1881 five suits for divorce were e
tered in Middlesex, Mass. in 1841, IA: i
1851, Al; in 1861, rs; and in 1871, POI
WHY is the first chicken of brood In.
the mainmast of vessel? Because it il,
little forward of the main hatch.
A WESTERN editor, who doesn't kno,
much about farming any way, sugpes,
that for gardening, cast-iron back, with
a hinge on it, would DE an Improvement,
the spinal column now in use.-Boaa
Post.
A SAILOR, whose sweetheart had VEN
handsome set of teeth, attempted to kin
her but she eluded him and gave him
box on the ear. "Just my luck" said tn
good -natured sailor; I'm always gettiu
wrecked on the coral reefs.
A YOUNG married lady being applied
for situation by servant girl, she asks
"Why did you leave your last place
why, you see, mann" replied the gs
II was too good looking, and when
opened the door the gentlemen alnn
took me for the missis."
Yo CEMETERIEs-A lady was looking
at the beautiful chrome of "The BirS
place of Whittier" when bystands
remarked that it was painted by Thomas
Hill. "Oh, yes" replied she; 81 think
he must be great artist. He painted the
Yo Cemeteries"
THE Turkish Ambassador was at pub
lie dinner in London recently, in company
with some of the magnates of the land;
the president gave as toast, in compi.
ment to his excellency, "The Sublime
Porte and the Turkish Ambassador The
waiter echoed it down the table, "A sup
ply of port for the Turkish Ambassador"
THE Prussian authorities state officially
that the assertions of the French news.
papers about the large number of French.
men who were said to have been fogged
by order Of the German officers are un.
founded. That mode of punishment was
only to twenty-three persons.
Nine civilians were shot after trial by mil.
itary commissions.
THE Scranton (Pa) RepubIican states
that it knows of mule that has been
brought up in the coal mines, that under
stands so well what it is expected to DO
that, when pulling loaded car up slope,
and finding its strength is not holding out
it will catch hold of sill with it's teeth,
and thus keep the car in position until
the driver succeeds in blockading the
wheel.
IT is we'll known that icebergs cool tn,
water around them to very considerable
distance. An American gentleman named
Dion, has made this fact the foundation Of
an invention to protect vessels against
collisions with icebergs. He proposes to
place on the bottom of steamers or other
vessels an apparatus SO arranged as to
sound an alarm the instant the ships keel
enters stratum of cold water.
THE Van Vert (O.) Bulletin chronicles
two cases Of injury by falling down Stain
both the result of wearing high heelA
slippers. The first case was that of Miss
Florence Baker, who fell while carrying
lamp and some glass tumblers down
stairs. She broke her collar-bone and
sustained other injuries. The other was
that Of Mrs. Davis johnson, who fell
down stairs with a child in her arms, and
was severely bruised, though the child was
not injured.
CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives this illustra.
ton of the power of India-rubber to
deaden sounds: eve once visited fac.
tory where some forty or fifty copper.
smiths were at work in a shop above our
heads; but, what was remarkable, scarce
sound of their noisy hammering could be
heard. On going upstairs we saw the
explanation. Each leg of every bench
rested on a cushion made of India-rubber
cuttings. This completely deadened the
sound.
WE'LL" said an old gentleman, the
other day, / have been forty seven years
IN the business, and can say what very
few can after such experience; in all that
time, my friend, never disappointed but
one single creditor" "Bless me, what an
example for our young mercantile com.
munity!' replied the person addressed
" What pity that one time occurred: how
was TT" "Why," responded the old gen.
tleman, II paid the debt when it became
due, and never, in all my life, saw man
80 much astonished."
CALIFORNIA papers tell of man who,
having lost considerable portion of bis
nose in fight. picked up the severed part
and put it in his pocket, and subsequent
~, having gone home and bandaged what
was left, put on his best suit and started
Tor surgeon. When the doctor was ready
70 reunite the separated parts, he called
Tor the piece, and the mutilated man, to
his horror, found that he had left it at
home, and after searching vainly in all his
pockets, Said: II beg pardon, doctor; 1t
s rough joke on me, but left my nose
1t home in the other vest"
ONE of the latest uses for paper is to
'mploy 1t for the manufacture of railroad
,ar-wheels. The paper is cut into discs
,he diameter of the wheel, less the thick
1ess OF the tire, and subject to a pressure
IL one and half tone to the square inch,
md then secured by iron flanges held by
ooits passing through them and the paper.
ne wheel then receives steel or iron
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