Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS IrIHe

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BAD TO. BoRRow-Trouble.
GoLD-DIGeER's EPIrAPH--Dust b dss4
A LEADING ARTIcLK-The blind nam.
dog. -
THE LAND OF CAxE-A sugar plu.sa-
The MAN MOST LOOKED Or To-Ta
man in the moon.
THE TINE TO CLNcH AN ARsUMur-
When The attention of your audience il
riveted. asf
LIGHT is most successful burphr
lit is always breaking in upon some
& A RECENTLY welded pair in New York
received, as presents, four graLd pianos
and talk of renting out three Of them.
In the Middletown, Conn, Poor Hour
is man who is the last Of family Of
thirty, all children Of one mother.
A BosTON lover Of the weed exhibits n
his friends ball of tin-foil weighing l3k
pounds which, he says, he has saved n
two years.
WHEN should woman 20 into thu
lumber business? When she pines 70,
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of whom she thinks great deal.
THE Boston Post tells of man in Trov
"who left boarding house Just because :
rat bit of his ear. When people get to
be that particular about trifles they ought
to quit boarding and 60 to keeping house.
THE ST. Adams Messenger Gays thai
there is in that town horse whose uppe,
lip bears heavy moustache, fully three
inches in length, which parts In the
middle, and gracefully curls out on eitha
side in the most approved fashion.
"WHAT relations are least repardedr
asked professor of mental philosophy q
an idle student. After q desperate effort
to answer the question, the delinquent e.
claimed, Poor relations, sir!-poor sel.-
tons, beyond all question, sir!''
THEY have little girl in Williamstovn.
Mass, who is regular bird and animal
charmer. The birds come to her feet for
crumbs when she sings, and numbers of cats
and dogs are almost constantly besieging
her house for the hospitality they know
she will not refuse.
TIE Mercury, published in Newport r.
l., claims to be the Oldest paper in the
United States. Its first issue was made in
the year 1853, by Benjamin franklin, and
it has been published uninterruptedly ever
since. 1t is now in its 1l2th volume, and
No. 1854 was published on a recent Sat
urday. 51- @
IT is related that when Beecher was in
the country, lat summer, he lost his hat,
and found it, in about a week, in the barn
where he had left it, but with four eggs in
it, This is as it should be. Beecher had
just written eulogy on the hen; why
shouldn't the Hen-re- ward Beecher,
FLETCHER, Bishop of Nismes, was the
son of tallow- chandler. A proud duke
once endeavored to mortify the priest, by
saying at the levee that he smelt tallow;
to which the other replied: Ny lord,
/ am the son of tallOw chandler, It's true,
and if your lOrdship had been the same,
you would have remained tallow chan
dler all the days of your life.
AN eccentric, wealthy gentleman stuck
up board in a field on his estate upon
which was painted the following: II
will give this field to any man who is con-
tented" He soon had an applicant
swell, sir, are you a contented manr
Yes, sir, very" "Then what do you
want with my fieldY" The applicant did
not stop 10 reply.
SOME music teacher once wrote that the
cart of playing the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sense Of
any art in the known world" Upon
which an editor comments: The art Of
publishing newspaper, and making it
pay, and at the same time making it please
everybody, beats fiddlin' higher than .
kite"
AN old lady, slightly blind, while en-.
gagged in futile attempt to sew buttonsOn
young Augustus new jacket, remarked: "Drst
these buttons! cant find the holes, and
they split all TO pieces every time stick
the needle into 'em." To which replied
young Augustus snow, look ere, Granny!
you just let my pepermint-drops alone
You've split NOR n half Of EN- already"
ALTHOUGH it was once customary TO
call every high peak of the Rocky Noun
tains 1870 feet in altitude, but one shows
1900 feet on actual measurement. There
markable how regularly this height is pro
served. So far as measured. there are
twenty peaks above 1900 and ten about
ID, 900 feet above the sea level
A RESIDENT of Salem, Mass, Is very
angry with some young 1rienus Oh nn
who, the other day, for the sake Of joke
caused him to be annoyed by long pro
cession Of callers, including two express
men, man with load Of wood, another
with furniture, third with bundle o.
hay, colored barber, a grocer with can
of OIL and finally hearse with two cs'
riages to attend his funeral.
"WHAr do you do for living'" asked
a farmer, near Poughkeepsie, Of sturdy
vagabond who came begging at his house
Well, nothing much, except travelling
around" said the fellow You look q
though you are good at that" responded
the farmer well, yes. | am pretty good ,
at travelling" Then" said the, farmei
opethng the door, " let's see you travel
A'RIcH but ignorant lady Of Boston
who was ambitious that her conversat'ea
should be up to the transcendental styH
in speaking Of a friend, said: He
por0grdm Of politeness Excuse me
said q wsg sitting next to her; "but 90
you not mean parallelogmms" ~
course meant parallelogran,' replied tes
ambitious lady; how could have nso
such mistake :" Es@& NJ
1--WE been q thinking" said LT1s
Froby, "about this here woman suffrage
business. S'posing," said he, that
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