Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-07

found she was trying 10 eat mouse by
mistake for a doughnut.
One vote recently elected Bishop in
Pennsylvania. and another defeated a
judge in Massachusetts.
1t is estimated that $50. 000. 900 feet of
lumber were burned by the recent fires on
the east shores of Michigan.
Secure. Washington Life Insur-
anco Company has CASH ASSETS more than
sufficient to reinsure every risk.
1T is estimated that 1900 pianos were
des royed in the Chicago fire, beside
81. 100, 900 worth of other instruments.
The number of persons in Iowa sub
jeG to military duty, as shown by returns
msde 10 the Adjutant Generals office, is
II, 992
A New York gentleman lately sent
around invitations TO his silver wedding
on silver-edged paper, printed in silver
letters.
An exchange pithily remarks: You
cart eat enough in a week TO last you a
yer, and you can't advertise on that plan
ether"
--Brisko advertises as follows: "Will
the fellow who stole my hat at college
sodable oblige me by wearing the same in
broad daylight y
A grief-stricken Connecticut widow
tekgraphed to the friends of her late hus-
band: Dear John is dead. Loss fully
covered by insurance.
One hundred and fifty-eight women
voted at the late election in Vineland, n.
J. Their ballots were deposited in box
specially appropriated to them.
The old Pennington Congregational
Church, in Connecticut, built in I'LL, is
nov in its centennial year. 1t is said the
original shingles are now on the roof.
A New Mexico telegraph operator,
whose wires blew down, fixed matters by
scilping the first squaw that came along
of her hoopskirt, and using that for wire.
"A bride received, among other we'd
ding presents recently, two sewing ma
ciines, three pianos, twelve ice pitchers,
and eight family Bibles, large size.
A young man advertises for place
az salesman, and says he has had great
deal of experience, having been dis
charged from seven different situations
within the year.
In suit recently tried in Coldwater,
Mich, Mary J. Miller, girl Of nineteen
years, who was permanently injured by a
railroad train on the Lake Shore d Michi-
gan Southern Railway, recovered $500
damages.
"A countryman bargained with a Cali
fornia photographer for a half-length pic
ture Of himself at half price, and when
the artist delivered a fine view of his sub
ject from the waistband down, the victim
lied sitter INDUCED in remarks more forci-
bic than polite.
The Lake Michigan Gable Committee
of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
have made their report, favoring hem
pen cable, the cost of which has been
figured down to $24 600 for single wire,
Swhile the cost of the other kind would
foot up $4,000. The committee also
recommend a preliminary survey.
The State Capitol at Sacrament, Cal.
has lately been formally completed by
placing on the summit of the lantern on
the cupola copper globe, gold plated.
This ornament is IA conspicuous object foI
many miles around, as it is FURNISHED
and stands 225 feet above the ground
The gold on the globe was made from
$500 in coin.
"A counterfeit champagne factory was
recently seized in New York city by the
Internal Revenue officers Among the
articles seized were imported champagne
bottles and branded corks, gas-generating
machines, bottling machines, etc. From
papers found on the premises, it seems
that a great number of the pretentious
barrooms of the city were furnished with
wines by the bogus establishment.
An action was recently decided in
Philadelphia, by Judge Thayer, in favor
of husband who had been sued by a
dry goods firm for the amount of bill
run up by his wife. Defense set up that
defendant furnished his wife with an
ample supply of necessaries. In the
course Of his charge Judge Thayer said
at is false and foolish notion for trades
people to entertain that u husband is
bound to pay all bills contracted by his
wife. No such monstrous doctrine is al
lowed in the law. Tradesmen must as
certain the facts and the true relations OF
man and wife before allowing the latter
to run up bills which he is to be looked to
to pay"
Some amusement, and not a little
CONSERVATION, have been caused by the
discovery of an unintentional but troub
lesome error in the first section of the
act Of February IA, 1871, granting pen
sions to the survivors of the war of 1912
The act most explicitly requires each vet
eran of sixty days service in the war
who applies for pension, to support the
Constitution of the United States, and
the surviving widows of such officers,
and enlisted men, and drafted men, as
took part in that war; kindly provided
however, that such widows have not re.
married" General Skinner, late Assist
ant Postmaster General, one Of the New
York veterans, was the first to apply for
and obtain the pension granted by the
act, but declines to draw any further in
stalments of it until he knows the extent
of the obligations he has unwittingly as
sumed. The act will be taken up for
amendment by Congress.
Industrial.
New England's fish trade amounts to
$40, 0O0, 900 for the past year.
"A free supply of water, it is said,