Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25
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three pints of this mixture to each twelve
quart can Of milk"
LONG ago Spallanzani discovered that
bats which had their eyes put out were
able, nevertheless, when allowed to fly
about in room, to avoid threads stretched
across it. This faculty he attributed to
some highly developed sense of touch pos
sessed by the wing. DIR. Scholl has re-
peated these experiments; but for the put
ting out of the eyes he has substituted the
less painful method Of covering them with
sticking plaster. He has kept bats, thus
treated, for year alive in his room, and
has confirmed Spellanzani's results.
A CURIOUS and beautiful effect was pro.
duced by one of the ice-making machines
built lately in Philadelphia. This was q
cake of manufactured ice, in the center Of
which, completely enclosed by the trans
lucent material, was a bouquet Of fresh
flowers. Every leaf and flower was per-
fectly visible, while the brilliancy of the
colors was enhanced by the refraction
through the ice. This specimen of sum-
mer entombed by winter was produced by
the Care ammonia process, q French in
vention, under which these machines are
operated.
A GOOD story is told in the Hartford
CouTapt, of young couple who wanted
to hear Dickens read; they could hardly
afford it, but screwed up their extrava-
gance to the necessary pitch. AS they had
concluded to invest, they bethought them
selves of poorer family near by, who
were suffering from lack of work. So
they gave up Dickens, and gave the price
of the two tickets to their Impoverished
neighbors. The poor couple took the
money, bought tickets with it, and attend
ed the readings. They had a good time
going. and the others enjoyed an APPROX
ing conscience-until the next day.
ANYBODY can soil the reputation Of any
individual, however pure and chaste, by
uttering a suspicion that his enemies will
believe, and his friends never hear Of A
puff of the idle wind can take a million
| of the seeds of thistle, and do work OF
| mischief which the husbandman must la
| Dor long TO undo, the particles being toe
| fine to he seen, and too light to be stopped
Such are the seeds of SANDER, so early
sown, so difficult to be gathered up, and
yet SO pernicious in their fruits. The SIAN
| derer knows that many wind will catch
| up the plague, and become poisoned by
| his insinuations, without ever seeking the
antidote. No reputation can refute a
sneer, nor any human skill prevent mis-.
chief
A SINGULAR character, Isaac Nye
known as the "IIermit Of Champlain,'
died recently at Burlington, VT Fifty
years ago he was merchant In that
| place, and over thirty years since he
| closed the shutters of his store, which, il
is said, were never opened aterward. In
this store he had lived the life of a hermit
although he possessed sufficient property
| to enable him to exist comfortably. The
goods in the place when closed remained
| and nodded upon the shelves; he woulC
sell none of them. He was laid out, by
| his own request, upon the counter of the
old store. His age is supposed to have
| been nearly eighty years He was unmar
| ried latterly rarely spoke unless spoken
| to; attended no gatherings of his fellow
men except funerals, at which he was
| frequent visitor.
WHEN Ezekiel Webster daniels
| brother) was in full practice at the bar hs
was employed to defend the will Of Roger
Perkins, Of Hopkinton. The physician
| made affidavit that the testator was struck
with death when he signed his will. Mr.
Webster subjected his testimony to most
searching examination, showing, by quot
ing medical authorities, that doctors disa
| gree as to the precise moment when dy
ing man is struck by death, some affirm
| ing that it IL at the commencement OF thu
fatal disease, others at its climax and
| others still affirm that we begin To die al
soon as we are born, I" / should like u
know" said Mr.. Sullivan, the opposing
council, "what doctor maintains thai
theory" "Dr. Watts" said Mr.. Web
ster, with great display:
"Tbe moment we begin TO live,
We all begin TO die"
The reply conyulsed the court and audi
epce with laughter