Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

I,f TaR BEST TANG IN GLAssKs Water.
A FAST TEAA-A team id the mud.
ADVICE TO DocroRs and let live.
1 SoEG OF THE OYsTER-Put me in nv
| little bed W ASST III s..tyr3 y,
WHAT is the greatest want of the age!
Want Of funds.
| If might makes right did it ever
make q wheel vFritef / - 9s.
The Rev. C. r. Fisher, of Hartford,
Conn, has married 1,112 couples.
WOMEN are like horses-the gayer the
harness they have on the better they feel.
In New York last year there were but
~, 600 births, while the deaths exceeded
$1,000. 9al4sE M st
THE friends of the benevolent Bergh
deny that he is arresting New York cooks
for beating eggs. f, blfaf 8pg3t
AsPiRiTED wag defines syntax, as fol-
lows: Syntax-a tax on whisky. Coral
larry, 1t is sin to tax it, III i8nsie =
The Government has records of the
graves of 315, $50 Union soldiers, of whom
7 l43, 466 remain unknown.
A COLORADO woman recently made
400 mile trip, including horseback
ride of 400 miles, to visit her friends in
Ohio. e0 6g .s,. &C.
THE observant Josh Billings says:
Men seem to me nowadays to be
divided into slow christians and wide
awake sinners"
A SIGN at one Of the improvised hotels
in Springfield, Mass, reads: g Boarding
by the meel, and lodging at awl hours"
CALIFoRF las people use, on an average,
ten gallons Of wine each annually, and
sixteen and three-fif pounds of coffee.
MINNIE WARREN, who travels with the
Tom Thumbses, cannot live long-the
reason is. that she is very short and does
not grow any.
SCIENTIFIC experiments, by Prof. Rood,
of Columbia College, demonstrate the du-
ration of flash Of lightning to be about
1-50Oth part of a second. eiA
| THE last literary sensation is a serial
story in the new periodical, EVERY BoY's
MAGAZINE, founded on the extraordinary
romance Of the Missing Earl of Aberdeen.
| SOUTH NoRwALK, Conn. y has q man
named Morehouse, who walks seventeen
miles in going to and from his work every
day. He is60 years old at that.
MAMMA, can a door speak "" Ger
tainly not, my dear" "Then why did you
tell Anne this morning to answer the
door, at is time for you to go TO
school, my dear" msitl. sl
"WLL you accept millinery shop and
dry goods store on my account?"', is now
the fashionable way Of asking the delicate
and momentous question. ~ ers.t..g,.f
A Persian philosopher being asked by
what method he had acquired so much
knowledge, answered: by not being
prevented by. shame from asking ques
lions when was ignorant. ..,1.
A RICH man who was injured by being
run over, exclaimed wi h great wrath at
isn't the accident that / mind, that isn't
the thing; but the idea of being ruin over
by an old swill cart, that's what makes me
mad" ~!
TIE Cost OF KEEPING DOes.-An
Eastern statistician estimates that what is
yearly fed to the dogs of the United
States would, if given to hogs, produce
$5O,00O,OOO' worth of pork-to say moth
ing of the, 100000 sheep that yearly fall
victims to canine voracity. '@i ~
/ TIE total number of paupers in Lon
don on the last day of the first week in
December was $4,000, Of whom 1858
were in door, and 1O4, 351 outdoor pau
pers. This is lower number than on
the corresponding date in any of the
three preceding years, a,,,st
THERE is tradition that, in its earlier
DAYS, California paper appeared with
this paragraph; "VNe have no w in our
type, as there Is none in the Spanish
| alphabet we have sent to the Sand
witch Islands for this letter; in the mean
time, we must use two VS.. nfe go q
|. TIE income Of the elder Mrs. DR..
Lozier, from her practice, in New York,
is over $4,000 a year; and the income of
Mrs. Dr. Denmore, is as large, while the
income of Mrs. DR.. O. F. Smith, Miss DR..
Mary Green, and Miss DR.. Manning, are
over $4,000 year.
THE New York Times gives an abstract
of the murders, in New York city Tor the
past year, and the means by which they
were effected Among them are these:
BY paving-stone, one by shovel, one;
thrown out Of the window, one thrown
down stairs, one. The grand total is fifty.
six.
THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
decided that, if man puts his head or
arm, through car window, and is in
jured by coming in contact with some
thing which reaches close to the window,
he cannot recover for the injury, the act
being considered negligence on the part
Of the passenger.
TIE following is told Of a young society
gentleman, who graduated from Hazard:
On the examination in physics, he was
asked: "Mr. -, what planets were
known to the ancients ?" swell, SIR
he responded, "there were Venus and
Jupiter, and" after pause-"T think the
earth, but I'm not quite certain"
THE inhabitants Of Florence, Italy,
have been surprised by the appearance OF
of an American Circus company, and
their establishment eliminated when they
saw one of its members drive twenty-sn
horses through their streets, turning 3D.
rnpt angles into ancient, narrow passages
with apparent case.
THE Lincoln monument, at Springfield
Ill, will cost 3152, $50, not includingths
statuary in the corners of the pedestaf
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
have already been raised, and the casting
of the statue of Mr.. Lincoln has been
begun at Chicopee, Massachusetts.
0THE most marvellous stories concerning
the richness of the South African diamond
mines are published in the Pail Md@ da
fkn