Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

/ lHE FAITH OF DUTY-A policeman
beat.
A SPORT ALWAYS IN SEAsoN-Fortune
hunting.
THE MAGIC MIRRoR-A beautiful fac
Lit up with smiles.
| A COOP STAND FOR A REGIMENT tt
TAKE-A stand of colors.
THE best recipe for clear complexion
| "A clear conscience.
| ADDING INSULT TO INJURY-Trusting
man, and then asking him to pay you.
SUGGESTION FOR HoRTIcULTURIsTs-
The easiest way to make hot bed is Il
| set the mattress OF fire.
THERE is many man whose tongue
! might govern multitudes if he could only
govern his tongue.
A coRoNER's jury in Dodge County
Wis, lately returned the verdict of "deatt
from hanging around a tavern"
THE number of indoor paupers in Lon
don, st last accounts, was 36, 98S; out dooI
paupers, 1880; total, 162,378.
AT Chicago it is fashionable to say
How well Mrs. is dressed! The
first time she has been out since her di
vorce, too"
A BENNINGTON (Vt) paper reports that
prisoner in the county Jail fell out while
leaning against the wall, and that the insti
tuition is to be papered for better security
FRUGAL LANDLADY OF BOARDING
House." Coming home to dinner, Mr.
Brown" Hearty Boarder-" Well, per.
haps, if / don't feel hungry"
"WHY don't you give us little Greek
and Latin occasionally" asked country
deacon Of new minister. "Why, do you
understand those languages 2" was asked
No, but we pay for the best, and ought
to have it.
A JEwELRY establishment in Indian
apolis was closed the other day, and the
following placard III large printed letters
explained the cause of the suspension of
business: "On jury. Will be back
when we hang the cuss."
A MAINE father has sued son-in law
for lunches, horse feed, and things furnish
ed while he was counting his girl. He has
brought in counter claim, charging his
father law with meals furnished since
the wedding, while the old man was
visiting.
THERE is a man in Northampton, Mass,
eighty four years old, who has never been
sick day in his life, nor paid cent for a
doctors nor lawyers bill, nor dime for
preaching, asd he is said to be worth at
least 100000.
A NEW and dangerous fifty cent coun-
terfeit of the last issue of postal currency
has been produced. The ink and color of
the paper gives it the exact appearance of
the' enuine after it has been wet, or worn
considerably.
SOME man living on the line of the
Southwestern Railroad, near Drakesville,
Iowa, who had taken spite against the
company, amused himself the other day
covering the rails for distance of quar-
ter Of mile with soap. A single train
was three hours in crossing the creased
stretch.
SEVEN girls in Cincinnati have associ-
ated themselves into society having for
its object the investigation of the antece-
dents of wife-hunters Any girl having
an offer may apply to the society, and
in less than week she will receive his
tory of her lover, from his youth upward.
EASILY SUITED.-A bachelor says that
ali he should ask for in a wife would be a
good temper, sound health, good under
standing, agreeable physiognomy, pretty
figure, good connection, domestic habits,
resources of amusement, good spirits, con-
versational talents, elegant manners,
money.
at is settled principle, your honor"
said a lawyer, that causes always pro-
duce Effects" "They always do for the at
torney," blandly responded the Judge
"but I've sometimes known q single case
to depriue client of all his effects"
THERE is man in Florida, who, since
the war, has walked all over Europe, Cen
trail America, Mexico and every State and
Territory in these United States-in all
q, 28S miles. He proposes to continue his
perambulations until he has walked $4,000
miles.
THERE is graveyard in Massachusetts,
in which are buried nine brothers, all of
whom had arrived at mans estate, the ED
est being seventy-nine, and the youngest
twenty eight years old, all but one leaving
a family. What renders it more remarka-
BILE is that they are all buried within forty
rods of the spot where they were born.
A WORKMAN in England, having to mend
q broken lead pipe through which cur
rent of water was passing with a pressure
of fifty feet head, plugged the two ends,
and put salt and water around them. In
five minutes the water was frozen, the plugs
taken out, new piece soldered in, the ice
thawed out again, and the pipe in perfect
order.
ACCORDING to Mr. Dudley Baxter, the
statistician, only three of the fifty-two
States and principal colonies of the civil
lied world are free from debt-Servia, in
Europe; Bolivia, in America and Liberia,
in Africa. The fifty-two States together
have population of SOC, O0O, 900, and the
annual charge of the debts of the civilized
world is $1.25 per head, and absorbs q
quarter of the whole proceeds Of taxation.
THERE is lady residing In Brooklyn
who loves the little chirping sparrows SO
much that she never neglects to feed them.
In frosty weather tin Of water Is always
placed with the crumbs that are strewn for
them, and she has gone to some little ex-
pense IN having miniature cemented res
ervoir made at the foot of sapling oppo-
site her house, where they battle and fut-
ter to their hearts delight.
THE Cuban cable was examined for re-
pairs, recently, because of the frequent in
terruptions during the past year, and
found crushed in numerous places In the
depths where the great loggerhcad turtles