Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITFss

"A QUESTION OF TINE-Asking a. la
her age. 4l
UNIVERSAL PRoFEssIoS-Tba, re
chaser. s0lI
THE Best TOBACCO srAMp-stsnn ;.
under foot.
MAY turkey be said to be a .,
when it is a goblin? suOs1
PAPER CALLERs-People who /.
their cards:
WHEN is smile behind time VII, j
is little laughter.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have
tune of $35 900, 900. vi
THE lady who took everybody. b..
must have had quite lot of them. ~
WHY are lawyers like ivy. Rao,,.
the greater the ruin, the more they cl;1s
1t is estimated that one BURNING -
Jet will consume as much air as five ~.
sons.
WHAT kind of drum is that which :,
always best when it cannot be bea;ens /,
conun-drum. :
AN OLD "SETTLER"-The old lady wbo
sent farmer ten cents that had been d,o
Twenty-Five years.
A BARBER of statistical turn of mind
asserts that there are $50 different hal,
dyes in circulation.
A MERCHANT of our acquaintance WIN
ders why he is obliged to 60 so often afte,
money that is coming to him.
IT is said that many of the fire. engine,
in San Francisco won't work. No wopde,.
they were made to play.
In BAD REPAR-We know man
moving in good society, who has laughed
so much in his sleeve that it is quite WON
out.
THE "Pilgrim's Progress" has been
translated into Chinese, and one Of the
| Illustrations represents Christian with
pig-tail.
AN exchange says the grapes on Long
Island are so large that their skins ore
used to cover old umbrella frames. We
don't believe it.
A CUTE fellow, who is just beginning
/ his pathological studies, says that TIE
cause of the potato rot is the rotatoTy mo-
/ ton of the earth
A SENIOR at Harvard, in answer TOT
professors question, the other day, cGY
answered; Il don't understand that ar
self"
A CERTAIN attorney, who was renys
/ able for coming into court with div
/ hands, observed THAT he had beep tui
I ing over Coke" Cooke :" exclaimed a
waggish brother II should think il vas
coal by the looks of your hands.
! TwINE becomes an important item af
! expense, when we consider that TO- j6j 600
yards were required to do up the Letters
sent from the London Post Office to Coln
try places last year.
| THE question '.Who was Richard III
before he was himself AGAIN." has beer
I going the rounds of our contemporaries To-
I some time The answer is plain. Ht
was somebody beside himself.
THE editor of the New York Journal 0
! Commerce received the following note
3" Please find enclosed So for the Chlcag
| sufferers from a newborn baby, th
mother wishing to mark its entry INT
this world by this little act OF charity
A NEW definition of the word "ciyil'
| ton " reaches us from Japan. Lately,
! Japanese visitor to the English Club WI
| induced to take some champagne, and
putting away his third tumbler, exclaimed
with great fervor: :" / like civilization
! | like civilization ~
A GENTLEMAN in Philadelphia latel
gave a vaccination party. Instead OF 81
gazing cooks and walters, he secured II
services of two or three capable physical!
and, in place of ice cream and cake, va
cine-virus of the finest quality was pr
vided When the hour for refreshmen
arrived the guests seated themselye
and the doctors went around the roo
supplying their wants.
AN ALARMING Academia YOU
gentleman of prepossessing exterio
at picnic few weeks ag
| had the misfortune to fall into
mistake. When extricated by friG
he was found to be senseless but as tn
is his natural condition, no fears are ente
tanned for his recovery. The mistake
fell into was that Of making an offer to
married lady, whom he supposed to
single, so that his may be described as
singular escape.
DURING the fiscal year ending June )
| 1871, the mail matter transported betWee
the United States and Europe, exclisl'
| of France with whom we have no posi-
connection, amounted to l 1893, $50 pound
or 64915 ons, divided as follows Gre
Britain, 994, 1888 pounds; Germany, 23a
1865; Belgium, 10,S17 Netherlands. :
$50; Switzerland, Is, 1858 Italy, l2,5JV.
IT is not perhaps generally known th
what is now favorite resort for citlzei
of New York was once sold for barr
of cider Yet it is fact that in 1879 u
tract of country including what now a
Long Branch, Shrewsbury and EatontoWl
was in the possession of the Indians, Dl
was purchased of them by one Lewis NO
ris for that consideration. Millions coui
not purchase the land now.
A COMMUNIST woman was sentenced
! be shot in Paris, and stationed against u
wall for execution. Just as the soioiei
were about to fire, she raised her nan
with the words, Tn instant" Inc -
diers paused. The woman had on goo
outer garment this she took OF, ana 30
ing woman in the crowd in rags, Hel
up to her and said, "Take this; II =
pity to spoil good clothes" Then she J
turned to her place and was shot.
ARTIFICIAL diamonds are made OF ?
culiar glass called strass. This glass has
property of refracting light in the sal.
way as the diamond, and its manuiac.u'
has been carried to such perfection ,has
ordinary observer cannot distinguish sen
made of it from real diamonds. AI'e -
few years these diamonds tend TO q, 80 -
hot 10 av