Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-15
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Mise l,sneous.

Mise lssnecus.
Eleven white girls married colored
men in Boston last year.
! The entire i myth of the Hoosac Tun-
mel, b tween portals, will be 20, 1856 feet.
A rvcrnt breach Of promise suit led TO
the production OF 763 love letters by the
lady.
Premiums, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Mutual Life, of Chi
cage.
: John Wise, the aeronaut, has written
an article In favor OF the construction oil
copper balloons.
Foresight is the right eye of Provi-
dence, and Providence dictates life insur-
ance. Insure in the Washington.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
| passed law fning person five dollars
| for attempting TO dead beat !" railroads
The Baltimore City Council has unan-
! imously voted $1,000 to the widow of
policeman who was murdered while en-
| deavoriug to arrest an offender against the
| laws
For fifteen years. daily, almost with
out exception, Stamford, Conn man has
sat on a fence near the depot, and watched
every railroad train as 1t passed.
| AT Topeka, Kansas, recently, Associ.
ate Justice Miller decided that suicide did
| not vitiate life policy If the insured was
| insane when he committed the act.
The recent census shows that Prince
Edward Island has population of 90, 500,
| Of whom $4,000 are Roman Catholics.
The increase since 1851 is 20 per cent.
| Henpeck-" My love, I'm happy to in
form you I've insured my life Mrs. d.
Then you ought TO be ashamed OF SUCH
q selfish action. insure your oacp lie, In
deed lit doesn't matter about mine, ! sup
pose"
New Haven boasts of horse-chest
| mt tree that blossoms on one side only
one " ar, on the other side the next year,
for SIX successive years, and then Inter
rupts the regularity by blossoming all over
on the seventh year.
| The fall Of rain at Cincinnati for the
wear ending may 81 has been 1914 inches,
over Lime inches less than the yearly ave-
rage. The fall for six months beginning
July last was less than one-fourth the
usual yearly quantity.
Are those people all INDECENT" asked
an elegant young lady who was passing
through the wards of the poor house in
|
of the kind answered the matron, who
misapplied the term, they are'only poor"
| The lines Of simultaneous Towering
Of plants lie from five TO ten degrees OF
latitude further south in America than in
Europe So We learn from paper read
not long since before the Imperial Acad-
envy of Science at Vienna.
All Waterbury, Conn, is laughing at
the greatness OF two policemen, who
suppose that the antiquated Peter Jen-
kius who has tumbled into the ring at
every circus p rformance for the last hun
dred Years WAS genuine drunken coun-
| tryman. They made noble al temp. to ar
rest him for disturbing the show, but were
finally made to STE the joke.
An ingenious German has gained
great repuia ion in New York by bis sue
c. IS in training coach horses to grand
gait. He us d no burr tit or other cruel
continuance and the people couldn't see
how he did it, until it WAS found that he
put magnify ing goggles upon his horses,
4 " hich made Cobble-stones look like boul-,
d.rs, and TIM y acquired grand tread by
trying To step over them.
There il said to be merchant In New
York, wealthy, talented, and q high go
cial position. who for the last fifteen years
has regularly, at the end of every six
months, gone to some hotel In the city and
had a weeks debauch shutting himself in
room ana never leaving it till his drunk
en- madness is over. Then he is overw helm
ed with shame and remorse, and Is man
again till another Six months rollsaround,
and the same unnatural paroxy SIN again
coLquers him.
AT the RI cent annual meeting Of the
New York Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals the President present.
ed the following report of it's doings OF
the past year: Convictions in CASES OF
cruelty to animals, 3l2; injured horses
removed by ambulance for veterinary
treatm mt, 12D diseased horses killed, 600;
receipts, l4,O95.68, including 80 $50 for
building fuId; expenditures, IS 100 SO.
The ,cietv has also prOst cuted the own
ers of the Bro klyn cattle-pens, and sew
eral swill-miik dealers.
"A machine has recently been perfected
In London, with which q writer, using a
pen ia the usual manner, can at the same
time produce duplicate 80 smei. as 20 he
invisible to the naked eye, yet SO ditinct
that microscope will rev, al every line
aud dot. A most useful application of the
apparatus will be for the prevention of
forgery, as private marks can be made on
no,es and securities, legible under micros
copic power, but which 10 imitator could
Zee or even suspect the presence Of The
inventor, u Mr., Peters, states that the en-
tire contents Of the Bible can, with the
h, In this machine be written twenty.