Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SKY-LIGHT-Stars
A NOTICE OF PEAI-Lightning.
"CAPlTAL SPoRT-Money- hunting.
THE END OF A ,CASDLE-To give light.
New NAME FOR TIGHT BooTs-Corn
cribs.
THE TEEToTALER's PARADIsE-The
Temperate Zone.
THE average price Of good horse in Los
Angeles, California, is $13.
In what color should secret be kept?
In violet.
HARTFORD, Conn, claims to be the
wealthiest city of its size in the United
States.
In what circumstances is woman
that wears stays? Slaughtered circum-
stances.
If you would lay in supply of old
wine, be sure and make it out of elderber-
ries.
CHOIR singers in New York this year
command high salaries. First-class solo
lists easily get $1,000.
INSURE your life in the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, to the amount your farm is mort
gagged for
In reaping wheat never take it by the
beard. 1t is found to go against the
grain.
A NEW style of ladies' hats is said to
resemble pen.wiper with fringe, said
to be very becoming"
Two of the proofreaders on the Lon
don Times are lawyers, who look out for
anything libelous.
THERE landed in Canada last year
66,019 immigrants, of whom $4,000 after
wards left for the United States.
THE President of the oldest Life Insur-
ance Company in New York is insured in
the Washington Life.
A MAN has got so deep into debt that
not one Of his creditors has been able to
see him for months.
AN advertiser in one of the papers says
he has cottage to let, containing eight
rooms and an acre Of land.
A desk at which Benjamin Franklin is
said to have learned to write, was sold at
auction in Newport, r. l., the other day,
for ten cents.
DON'T let your cattle stray; they often
wander TO the most mysterious places we
once saw a COW hide in shoemaker 3
shop.
A YOUNG lady who was perfectly thun-
derstruck at hearing of her friends en-
gagement, has since been provided with a
lightning-rod.
"GRANDMA," said shrewd child, do
you want some candyg" "Yes, dear, /
should like some" "Then If you'll buy
some, I'll give you half" said Polly.
"WELL, what is it that causes the salt
ness Of the water of the ocean, inquired
teacher of bright little boy. 1.-The
Goldfish" replied the little original.
JOSH BILLINGS says flies have big APP
petight for getting into things; they are
the fust ut the dinner table, and alwuz take
soup, and don't leave until the cloth is re-
moved.
ABOUT the year 1886 the Legislature of
Pennsylvania passed a resolution that no
member thereof should come to the House
barefoot, or eat his bread and cheese on
the steps"
A YOUNG man says that there may have
been such thing as real true love in Cd
times, but that DOW the notion Is entirely
obsolete; and if you ask young lady
nav a days to share your lot, she immedi.
ately wants to know how large that lot
is.
"DoEs the train start this evening at 35
minutes past 6, as usual asked an elderly
lady of railroad employe. !" No; it leaves
at IS minutes to T." was the reply. Dear
me, dear me, how they do change these
trains"
j. A. SToBER, Of Peoria, had some cat
fish in rain water hogshead last fall, and
the cold weather Of the last winter froze
it solid The unfortunate fish could be
seen stark and stiff, scattered about In the
clear ice like raisins in cake, until this
spring, when the water thawed out and
they began active life again where they
left of in December.
The late Deacon Ebenezer Davis, oil
Brookline, was the first who brought a
watermelon to sell in Boston. This was
considered worthy of record on canvas,
and his portrait, with watermelon under
each arm, duly painted by the artist OF the
period was paid for by subscription. 1t
now forms part of q collection in Eng
land
THERE Is story going the rounds that
a boarding house keeper died and left all
her property to young man just because
he never complained about the hash and
things. 1t is evident that the item is pub
lished at the instigation Of boarding house
keepers who think young men will take
warning, and quit complaining in hopes OF
being remembered.
CoSsTANoY.-A young British officer in
India, VINO was shockingly mutila'ed and
disfgured in battle, after mature reflection
requested comrade TO write TO his be.
trothed in England, and release her from
the bridal engagement Her noble reply
was worthy OF true woman :-"Tell him
if there is enough of his body left to con.
tain his soul, shall hold him TO his en-.
gagement"
The agent OF the Central Railroad
Company, at Seneca Falls, has in his pos
session a picture Of the first train Of cars
run in the United States. 1t was an ex-
cursion from Albany to Schenectady, in
1881, and on the Mohawk 81 Hudson Rail
road. The body Of the cars was made Of
the style of the stage coaches in use at that
time, and of those who participated in the
excursion but one Of the number is alive
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