Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-30

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Boston Merchants living tscaiy miles
wasf Of Boston rode 10 the depot n sleighs
on the morning Of November IL
The latest agony among fashionable
New York youth i 70 wear small tAeE-
mgne.er on the side Of the hat.
IT j. estimated that the number Of
mysterious disappearance IN this ooun-
TRY NJ. average tfty every year.
The funded debt Of the State Of ',er-
mont has been reduced the past year
$50. 0Jo Y TOW amounts 10 $4,000.
When Horace Greeley is asked what
: kind Of music ne prefers, he answers
=. Tie song Of the Harvest; three beats
I to the measure
One Of Danburys prominent ciii-
gems objects 70 the 8sth for thanksgiving.
+ He ,ays Il Is the last day in November lie
would think OF for that purpose
"A man who had read about con
/. verti1g United States fiye-twenties, SAYS
he longs TO be missionary IN that field,
and knows that he should cleaye TO his
flock.
The Washington Life Insurance Com
pany saved lis books and papers IN the
F recent fire in Chicago. Is policies prove
equally safe in the hour Of trial.
4 Over the door of cobbleT's shop in
+ Savannah. Georgia, appears this legend
+ Boots and shoes is made hear-ladies
and shentlemens repaired Kun in hear
! The national census shows that, for
/ the one person who dies in Tennessee and
/ Georgia OF consumption, thirteen die in
/ Massachusetts, and two in Minnesota.
Miss Parkinson, a, one time patient
Z in p San Francisco hospital, has sued
physician for damages in publishing
+ history Of her disease and Its treatment
[ in a medical magazine, and has lost her
+ case.
/ An amusing iSunder happened at the
/ late election in West Virginia, in the
/ town of Martinsburg. Both parties sup
/ posed only two magistrates were TO be
/ chosen. and voted accordingly. 1t now
/ turn. ont that four were required, so that
| the candidates on each ticket are elected.
/ Recently woman was arraigned be-
/ fore a magistrate for some misdemeanor.
1 The usual questions were put to her.
"What is your occupations" . / have
/ none, sir" was the reply. Well, how
! do YOU live?" Il live On priyations."
, She was allowed to go unfned.
-" May it please your honor" said a
/ LAWYER. addressing one of the Judges, II
! brought the prisoner from Jail on habeas
| CORPUS" We'll" said a farmer in an
IndcrtOne. who stood at the back OF the
| court. "these lawyers will say anything.
| ! saw the man get out Of cab at the
! court door,
At q social party where humorous
I definitions was one OF the games OF the
evening the question was put, " W hat IS
! relgiong' Religion replied one of
4 the party, more famous as man OF bust
/ ness than Of wit, IS a. insurance against
! fire in the next world, for which honesty
/ is the best policy.
! AT Colts armory, in Hartford. Conn,
| they arc making ticket punch for par
/ ties in Buffalo, designed as a detector to
I be used on horse and steam cars. When
! ever ticket is punched, a spring bell is
! rung, IA number is registered on hidden
! dial in a small stout case like that of a
| watch, and the piece of card or number
punched falls into a receptacle prepared
| for It, where it is kept until removed by
7 the proper authorities.
-Bequog, Mass, puts in her claim for
! the champion snoreT. The young wife
! OF an elderly resident, awaking from IA
| sound sleep began TO shake her siumber-
! Ing lord smartly to make him stop snor-
/ ing Just then came several very loud
rolls OF thunder, and desisting from her
attempt she resigned herself quietly TO
4 slcep, remarking: sit is only thunder
! ing, after all | thought you were snor-
/ ingl
A correspondent who witnessed the
/ sorting and counting, at the Treasury
! Department, OF the burnt money from
! the Chicago ruins, gives this word OF
warning: Anybody is liable TO be burned
! out any fireproOf safe is subject to be-
/ ing brought under the test Of extreme heat
! and its contents roasted, SO that all persons
! having notes, bonds or postage stamps
! put away for safe keeping should take
/ the precaution to keep them spread out
/ their full size, one placed neatly over
! the other, and in case of an accident or u
! calamity, such as that st Chicago, very
! little win be lost in the process of redemp-
/ ton. All notes, whose value can be made
| out. are redeemed at full value. There is
no discount on burned money, as there is
on mutilated currency.
The nayy-yard al Philadelphia was the
1 scene Of considerable commotion few
DAYS ago, occasioncd by the removal of q
veritablc sarcophagus from the hold of the
! United States steamer Richmond, just ar
rived from MADEIRA The receptacle is
said 10 contain the dust and bones Of the
| Apostle ST. Paul Its weight is about six
tons; Il il eight feet in length, two in
width, and four feet high. The lidweighs
two tons. On the front tablet is a repre-
| sentation of trio of angels extending
wreath of laurels and flowers to a figure
/ whose general outline is indistinct. The
chiseling and carving are generally excel
lent The foot o. the tomb contains no
! inscription or device. In fact there is
nothing about il calculated to lead to the
supposition that it is sanctified by holding
the dust and bones of the Apostle. The
sarcophagus is said to have been discov-
cred at Mycen9 and was purchased by
one of our United States Consuls for the
Metropolitan Antiquarian Society of New
York city, whence ii would be sent in u
few days,
Foreign Gossip.
The Crown Prince of Prussia de-
clined, las; year. the dedication of ninety
two books and fifteen works of art,