Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-20
Miscellaneous.

"A Teetotaler's Excess-Water-ti
-Matchless Misery-A cigar with moth
ing to light it.
Three thousand bar.rooms supply
Boston with rum.
Bolloney Sorseg" is served at q
Philadelphia saloon.
is a iolly-boat helped along by four
roars of laughterY
Advice to Persons Meditating Law -
Keep your own counsel.
Why should hare not be called
timid ut always dies game.
1t cost $4,000 to board the jury in the
Foster murder trial of New York.
An Arkansas dressmaker made a
bridal trousseau the other day which con-
tanned 300 yards of calico.
Commencing at the age of thirty, five
cents day will secure policy Of 81 900
in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
The Boston Post has an announce
ment of the death of several citizens
" from throat disease, superinduced by
razors."
"A shark caught off Charleston had a
pair of boots, a scalp, two cannon balls
and a package of Sunday school tickets in
his stomach.
In the height of prosperity expect ad-
versity, and fortify yourself against it's
evils by policy on your life in the Wash
ington.
The descendants of Lord John Booth,
Of England, have put in claim for the
whole of Suffolk County, L. l., amount
ing, principal and interest, to $4,000, 0OO
"A Chicago paper records the follow
ing fact, which may be cited as a wonder
full fulfillment of dreams. A man dreamed
dreadful dream-that his child was
scalded to death. He took every precau-
ton against such catastrophe, but pre-.
cisely in five weeks and two days after the
dream the little boy was run over by a
wagon, and escaped uninjured.
Among the innumerable articles sent
to Captain Hall, to cheer his journey in
the Polar regions, was a tin can, carefully
sealed and labeled, mot to be opened
until the Polaris has reached the Arctic
seas" But on its passage to the NAVY
Yard 1t met with an accident, and the sc.
cret leaked out 1t was q can of patent
axle-grease, with which Captain Hall or
his survivors were affectionately request
ed, by letter, to lubricate the axle of this
venerable planet.
"A young lady Of Louisville, having
received very urgent proposals of mar,
riage from an old gentleman, sent the fol-
lowing answer by mail:
Why thus urge me to compliance?
Why compel me refuseY
Yet though court not your alliance:
Perchance younger may choose.
Nor will war against 1t wage;
do not. cir, object to marriage,
but dislike to marriage"
The North Carolina Ro6esonian is re.
sponsible for the following: Recently in
one of our courts the grand jury, as is now
usually the case, was composed partly of
negroes. After being charged in the
usual way by his honor, the jury retired
TO their room, when one of the white ius
rors ventured to ask colored associate II
he understood the charge of the Judge
Golly," exclaimed the astonished amend.
ment, he don't charge us muffin for dat,
does hes Why, thought We was gwine
10 git pay"
"A lady from the city, stopping with
farmer IN the country, very earnestly in.
lulrea OF her host one morning concern.
ng his bees, remarking that he had MANY
hives. The farmer being minus that arti.
Gle, informed Miss - to that effect. Rut
'he insisted that he was in error, and vol.
inferred to show them to him, and going
tut pointed the wondering ruralite to his
numerous haystacks-they being some.
Tnat the shape, but little larger than the
'lden-time beehive, which we have all
zen represented in our spelling books.
"A Fall River (Mass.l photographer
vas called on recent Sunday to take some
PICTURES OF deceased child. The latter
vas placed in q chair, and over it was a..
anged an arch Of roses, with one spriQ
langing down from the center. It ID re.