Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-05
BREyITIEs.

can live on!-Warfare.
WHY is the crow a brave b;.,
cause he never shows the White fsss
THE new postal rates conn.,
England October s. A letter vs;ts
one ounce goes for one penny
A LETTER was received at the r.,
Post Office recently from Iowa .Ss.
ITO Env Holesale Book Murchsn,
A HARTFORD man suggests IN
the Couraat, that the Deaf and y
Asylum ought, for the benefit Of ~
mates, to be removed to a NOR
place.
In the Court of Spe cial Session. !,
York, Q few DAYS ago, Justice n.
found the conductor and driver ~ NV
car guilty of cruelty 10 animsls !,
ing an excessive lead of passenger
JOSH BILLINGS says: "Don't v0s
fore breakfast. If it is necesssrv W. =
before breakfast, eat your breakfss
Now, if he could fix it 60 that We N.Y.
work after breakfast!
The Junlata county Jail, in Penn,
MIA, has fallen into state of di],n;S.
through want of use. Recently A nav
confined in it for some trifline offln~
he found his situation so lonesms
he made use Of his curved foresn.s,
key, unlocked the door and left Tie
in disgust.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, now that IN.
of state trouble him no more, is dss.
ing into g numerous old gent. o,
cent visit to Holly Lodge College n.
met to cheer him as he left, when Il
dressed them, saying that he coup !
understand how Englisf men coull
the climate of Great Britain yrl
when it rains all the time.
A SINGULAR illustration of the u.|
ity of human affairs is mentioned i
Massachusetts, papers. A gentlensn,
| years ago, in his prosperous dsu
his town q tract of land frs
square. The square still bears hi.
while he, penniiess and friendlai
inmate of the town almshouse.
A CURIOUS medical experims
tried in Russia no. long since, VIII,
trates the influence Of the n ind
body. Some murderers were plaa
out knowing it, in four beds VIII
persons had died of the cholera
did not take the d sease. Afterwar
were told that they were to sleep il
where some persons hal died Of
nant cholera; but the beds were, 3
new, and had not been used at all
ertheless, three of them died Of Tie
ease within four hours.
SCENE IN A PRINTING OFFICE
what are you doing there on the d
"Why, sir, I've had shock" "A sh
eyes, sir" what kind of 8 sho
"Why, sir, one of your subscribers !
in during your absence and offered ID
a years subscription, which produced
an effect upon me that have been petI
helpless ever since" "No wonder, /
but cheer up; if you survive this ya|
safe, as there is little prospect Of and
such a catastrophe in this Office"
A WEDDING GIFT
| All that have this day is thine,
| A heart whose faith has yer faltefd
| A love that knew no other shrine.
And through all changes lived unalgiI
| Had l thousand hearts t. give,
| Thine all their love and faith should h
| Had I thousand years TO live
I'd gladly spend them all with tss
There's not JOY in all the world
Like that of love beyond dece wing
Though bolt on. bolt be at 1t hu led
The heart will triumph hen beeVl|
| This day my Joy hath sovereign sway
| A Joy which but with thu know,
| The rapture of q first fond love
Which, welded, makes heaven belq
THE French have story th
Walter Scott once offered bis I'd
daughter her choice between dO1
100000 francs or "Quentin Dur
She asked to read the MS took
leptitiously to a publisher, found
would give her 10000 francs, an
fully and meekly told her father d
would rath r have the Ms. thu /
money. Sir Walter was deeply b,
by this mark of filial devotion !
Paris journal which tells the sto!
that a French girl would never haN
such a thing as that. She would .
have taken the 100000 francs, slt-
would have found some way to haE /
ten the romance also.
A NAN named David R. Spence
his family, consisting of a wife and
children, arrived in Putnam County
few days ago, having moved all
earthly goods and family from East
nessee, q distance of five hundred d
in q wheelbarrow. He was just twsnq1
days on the way. One of the childI1j
youngest, he wheeled the whole Olsa
while his wife and the other two cnD1
walked every step Of it. The whaJ]
row was built according to his own n
the wheels being four feet high, Ss
body of the concern standing thll!ij
inches from the ground. He says
Tennessee because he could only can
cents per day there, and having Isa.]
living in Putnam County, lie just lhs
he would strike out for there, Whu
dii in the above novel manner.
"MURDER will out /" is aud old y
and with rare exceptions has proseo !.
Often it is a very little thing, sn
most unlikely to be thought OF, sn sa
fords q clew to the crime, ana ~
upon the guilty party. The faes ~, n'
Gently certain dentistry WORK IT,
teeth of young woman found deso a, r9l
prove the identity of the body SUE -.
case which many years ago greatly g D..
the public mind. A professor o. ~
literary institution murdered W ~
man, q practicing physician. IN a. m
ways, by knife and fire, the mula s
lieved he had destroyed all us" Ds.s
victim. But the ashes OF the lI a N
the building were examined oy a as.n
tives, and there appeared the ,ss zen
identity and guilt-a set OF falsa y. s 4
the gold Of which Yves imprinseu wv
"Pafkmsn." A city dentist E W.
his own work, and this, with o.u'
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