Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-06
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"queues"
i TIE CHEAPEST AND Longest r,
AScE-A train of thought.
/ OTHELLo was not a lawyer al,b,.
was tawny- general of Venice
| A GENTLEMAN of Medford. M.,.
repairing his house, which was T..
years ago.
FIVE hundred and twenty.fvs,h
six hundred trains leave Londo-
course Of one year.
A GRAVEYARD inscription in n
bunk, Me-, reads thus: Poor T.
head is level now, if it never was
JAKE BLrFFKINs says: INV vi,
most poetical woman alive: le.s
she's always cerse to me, you bttr
"SALT' is the subject Of The
boys latest composition: "The s.s
spice which spoils the potatoes
forget to put it on"
THE Governor of the District ar
bia received one thousand applicstS'
one hun dred and thirty-siz Offices
disposal in Washington.
WHENEVER a preacher haz press,
sermon that pleazes the whole =,
gashun, he probably has preached M.
the Lord won't indorse -BiUinqs
A CURIOUS fact about book.mhEI
in the kingdom of Greece is, that If
book published at Athens, nearly
times as many copies are sold out d
country as in Greece itself.
A CLEVELAND merchant lately ma
a package labeled, Il box Tom. ca
took him some time to decipher d.
that the inscription meant box Of i.
catsup."
No less than two hundred and NJ
four life insurance companies have
wound up in Great Britain within u
twenty-siX years. This is twice a
as now exist there.
In New York, a boarding house
lady recently claimed $75 damages 1,
the property of an ex-boarder bee
his dying in her house, and THEREBY
ing her business. The jury woua
grant the claim.
A YOUNG gentleman of Pittsfeld
has recently involved himself in did
by stealing empty bottles from tie
door Of drug store, and then ca
them round to the front door and
them to the owner.
THE appearance of Mr.. Darwin's
on 1.-THE Descent of Man" has bee
lowed, the London papers say, by a
increase in the numb of visitors t0|
monkey. house in the Geological Gard
Regents Park.
A SHOEMAKER in Fond du Lac,
whose wife recently presented him '
an heir, has run wire from his be
and attached it to the cradle in the ]
room, and, when the baby cries, the fs
keeps step with his foot to the mus
the lap stone.
IT is said that the salary Of Presi
Eliot, of Harvard College, Is 1920,
Of the chief cook of the Parker III
$4,000. There is nothing very alar,
in this statement" says the Boston Ii
Ter; at only suggests that there are
men fitted for the presidential Cha
colleges than are capable of taking CD
of the kitchen of first-class hOtel'
MANY tenement houses in New
are built now with stairways reachh
the roof, so that tenants have only to 0
door, instead of raising a scuttle, "
they want to visit the house-top The
rious triangular coverings of these 81
are visible on many rows of city bu
ings.
SOME queer answers are ELECTED at
examination Of government clerks
Washington. One young gentleman ID
asked, What is the plural of ity ,"
piled, 'Its." Another to the quest
where do the northern lakes empty thD
selves? ?" answered, "Into the Gulf of N
ico." Yet another to the question,
what direction is the North Pole a
Londons" answered. NORTHWEST"
A FUNNY limb of the law had an d
next door to doctors shop. One dsI|
elderly gentleman of the fogy school d
dered into the shop. Is the doctor
Don't live here" said the lawyer,
was in full scribble over some old 4
documents. ooh, I thought this w&l
office" "Next door," "Pray, sir 1
you tell me has the doctor many patielt
Not living" The old gentleman told l
story in the vicinity, and the doctor thu
ened the lawyer with libel.
AN enthusiastic lady who takes pail
the religious exercises in the St. Id
Central Police Stations, Sunday morninl
told one of the parties she found there
recent Sabbath, that she was glad toi
him sober once, as she could see by1
looks that he was then 80; and after
had spent some little time in urging b
to reform and lead different life. clo3
her discourse on being informed that
subject of her solicitude was a minister VI
had been invited to assist in the exerc
of the day.
A WRITER in Appleton's Journal coIs1
the proverbs, superstitions and cu1
facts about cats. This extract may y
some mothers worry: A common sup
stltion charges cats with sucking
breath of infants, thereby causing III
death by strangulation. This is fals1
cusation. as pussys mouth is so formed
atomically that she would not be able
do 30 sanguinary a deed did she wish
Instances are on record where cats b]
crawled into a cradle or bed, and laid dc1
on an infants face, not probably with Z
criminal intent-though children b|
been found dead under such circumstand
but purely for the sake of tie wars
of the infants body and clothing.
PROFESSOR MORSE tells an anecdotsl
his early struggles. When he was
Washington, employing all his energla]
obtain an appropriation from the Cove
ment to erect line from Bal,imor
Washington, he had his instruments /