Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SoEe OF THE SEEDS" Put me in nv
little bed"
GERMANY has at present thirty two hu.
morous papers
AN INFALLIBLE PREscRIPTIoN.-Torid
a house of fieas, kill them.
THE son of rich man in New Yorl
has squandered $4,000 in single year
Why are some women like facts, Re.
cause they are stubborn things
THE New York Fire Department EN-
ploys 45 engines, 1865 horses and 72O men
A PHYSICIAN claims that 10000 women
have been squeezed to death by corsets
during the last five years.
WHAT is the difference between an hon.
est and dishonest laundresss One irons
your linen, the other steals it.
IF you wish to keep your enemies from
knowing any harm of you, don't let your
friends know any.
WOMEN should be employed to draw up
mans last testament, because it is no use
ever attempting to dispute their will.
YOU'VE SwELL-"I say, boy, what do
you do with your clothes when you've
worn them out!" Boy" Wears 'em 'ome
aginp
A MASONIC apron, made by Madame
Lafayette, and sent over to this country as
a present to Gen Washington, is now in
Masonic Hall, Philadelphia.
"WHAT are you doing?" said fathero
son, who was tinkering an old watch.
" Improving my time," was the witty re.
joinder.
SOME Cinnamon at the Berlin diggings,
in Australia, have lately struck nugget
of gold weighing 1,717 ounces, and worth
$34,S80.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE lady, Mary
Brockway, recently celebrated her 104th
birthday in East Washington, by splitting
and carrying into the house half cord
of wood.
A DANDY in New York is in fix.
His pants were made SO tight for him that
he can't get his boots on, and if be puts his
boots on first, he can't get his pants on
This is a case Of genuine distress
A GIRL ten years old as been arrested
in London, Eng, for stealing babies. She
made practice, after getting the children,
of stripping and abandoning them, selling
their clothes :" to 60 to the theater with"
THEY have an eccentric Judge in New
York State. He has actually refused TO
accept the sum of So 500 for travelling ex-
penses, on the ground that he cannot help
saving $4,000 or $4,000 year out of hs
present liberal salary.
THE German imperial crown is foot
high, of 81 carat gold, and heavily set with
pearls. The sceptre is of silver gilt, and
two feet long The globe carried in the
hand is of the finest gold, 81 inches in
diameter, and encircled by two rings IN
perpendicular, and half covered with
Jewels, and the other horizontal and en-
tirely crusted with gems On top Is .
cross which fairly blazes with precious
stones.
cit is not Often" says the Nashville,
Tenn, Union, "that we see city Mayors in
States Prison; but we saw q convict, on
Thursday, at work at the Capitol as a car
penter, who is said to nave been formerly
Mayor of Cleveland. He sent many
prisoners to the Penitentiary, but finally
got there himself He was working very
faithfully, yesterday, in making some i'm
provements to the Comptrollers State
apartments"
A GOOD story is told of late college
president near Boston. On one OCCASION
instead Of the Bible, at the morning devO-
tons On opening The book he at once
saw the situation but he said nothing ana
proceeded to the PRAYER, which he pro.
longed for an hour. The students got OUT
of all patience; but they appreciated the
sly remark of the venerable President on
his retiring, that he found all the words
he needed in the volume they had placed
on his desk"
A MONUMENT is being made in Phis'
delphia to the memory of the late Hon.
Edwin NJ. Stanton, by order of his execu'
tors. 1t is to be placed over his grave
The monument will be about eighteen feet
high, and comparatively plain. The base
will be five feet square, and will haves
sub. base, on which will rest the die, Win
this inscription in raised letters:
.EDwIN N. STANTON.
"Born December 10, 1914,
"Died december 81, 1882"
On the top of the die there Will Des
gothic cap, receiving plain and MASSIVE
square. The whole affair will he extreme
ly plain, no ornamentation being attachea
to it.
A MISS CRIPPEN, one year old, recently
celebrated her first birthday at her rea-
dence in Concord, N. H. A local paper
says: cat about three o'clock the car
riages began to arrive, and by g. 45 there
were assembled some thirty ladies ana
gentlemen, aged from II weeks to 3yean
embracing the elite Of our city. Al
o'clock, refreshments were served at TWO
long tables, around which twentyfoI
: high chairs had been placed, and ING
usual viands were most lavishly serveo'
Prominent on the bill Of fare were ginger
bread, elephants and ROSTERS, biscuits, one
inch in'diameter, and choice cakes OF a"
liar dimensions"
A CORRESPONDENT from Brazil OF ms
Boston Adpertiser writes: "The nee'v
totes everything on his head, from
small paper parcel to a grand piano, an,
on this head lady spending the ~
months In Tijuca ordered her piano 80
out from the city, distance OF sDf
twenty miles, supposing it would % ~
by steam But on the day appointed e;sS.
negroes made their appearance at VIM
Hotel In Tijuca, with the said Pls.
riding aloft on their woolly heads-nas;;nne
brought 1t the entire distance, inciuuMs
the mountain road of three miles nessy
up grade without once stopping M
rest on the way Before setting 1t GOV.
these jolly negroes paraded it about
yard with . sing-song march, to show
they were not In the least done up
4 I.oy.