Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


CURRENT PARA0NbAP 10.
i. Miscellaneoas. T.
-@Tirea nature"-A yswning gulf !.
The Mutual Life, Of Chicago, makes
all its policies non foneitabie.
A dog beat locomotive in half-mile
nee. ON the Oregon & California road, the
other day.
Counterfeit eos on the Merchants
National Bank Of New York have mace
their appearance in Milwaukee.
The city government of Memphis has
decided to furnish the poor OF that place
with five thousand bushels Of coal
. The percentage Of the increase OF pol
icies in the Washington Life for the last
three years have been greater than IN any
other company In the world.
--Adelaide-"How do you like your
new piano, Fanny Fanny-"Well, dear,
the legs are not carved so as to agree with
the other furniture"
Who can blame men for not wanting
to hold babies, when they read that at
Prescott, Massachusetts, the other night,
J.C. Smith, while holding baby, fell
dead from his chair? uE
"A lady lecturer in Newark, N. j.,
stated that the largest theatre, the largest
circus and the largest distillefy IN the
United States were owned by women
1T may be laid down as a universal
principle, says the New York Worh, that
men dislike to be kicked down stairs, es-
pecially when the stairs are long and tor
tuous. fl9s
New York devours nearly thousand
barrels of eggs day. Each barrel con-
tains eighty dozen, or more--so that the
actual daily consumption is not far from
million eggs, and the cost to the consum-
ers about $10, 900, 900 year.
A citizen Of Valparaiso, Ind, has
brought suit for the recovery OF 500,
wager on certain election return, he hav-
ing discovered that the man with whom
he was betting knew the exact figures, and
therefore had "sure thing"
The Newport R L. NeDs says that
there is q clergyman, and doctor or
divinity at that, in Rhode Island who has
officiated five times at the marriage OF one
man, and all five of the women to whom
the man was married are still living.
"A man with one eye laid wager with
another person that he (the one-eyed per-
SOM saw more than the other. The wager
was accepted. You have lost" says the
first ;'I can see two eyes in your face, and
you can only see one in mine."
Some horsemen say that bleeding will
sometimes restore the sight to horse
partially blind. Not being well up in
equine matters we cannot endorse the as
sertion, but we do know that to open a
mans eyes you have only to bleed his
pockets.
The Detroit Tribune says girl in st.
Paul used arsenic to improve her complex
ion, Notwithstanding her friends told her
It was dangerous. They had to use crow
bars to break the crust of the ground for
the grave. on account Of the cold weather.
"A Paris paper gives the following:
The Surgeon General is reviewing the
Garde Mobile. A young garde steps for
ward. And on what ground doyou claim
an exempti0ns' Il have palpitation of
the heart SO much the better says the
Surgeon, turning to the next, If your heart
palpitates for your country"
"A bereaved widower, while receiving
with due Acknowledgements the coincidence
of fricnds--that it was indeed great loss,
q sad bereavement that he had suffered
added: And just think! Only few
days ago ! bought her a whole box of
pills, and she hadn't time to eat half Of
them before she died"
I'm the case of Cobb, Christy & Co. os.
the Illinois Central Railroad, recently on
trial at Bloomington, a verdict has been
rendered for damages at 100000 for the
plaintiffs This was a case OF delay In
shipments of corn from different points
on the Illinois Central Railroad, whereby
the compliments were damaged, and a
verdict was rendered accordingly. Many
more cases of like character will now be
brought on by parties who were waiting
judgment in this.