Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

=. "A game OF Chess
THERE are thirty postmistresses il ,
as. ~ leg
THE years revenue from tho =,
post-office was $40. -Aiass-
To AUTHoRs-It is not WRONG =
if you right wrong. W WI
THERE arc now 1900 Dakots T,n
under missionary influence Auial
WHY is Bill Tweed like the R,.o, :
Because he's not the Boss-for,us~HHyS ga z
Standard lA'l
ONE of the Chicago sufferers VIII.
come before the fire was SIS GOO n noe u
mum, is now salesman in a Gin Cir, az
house. o'nla'
THE Parliament of Great Rr;,o;.
averaged $3.50, 600 annually annr r@.n Ia
for science and art, during the I a", I.
years. ' t'
A YOUNG lady, residing in Eusu, i,
Maine, recently rowed boat from H H..
to Bar Harbor, eight miles, with ann,
lady in her boat, in one hour and ss,I
minutes.
AN astronomer of ST. Etienne in r,.,
has made the alarming discovery TO-, iaa
| fall of the moon on the earth may bo , a~.:
pated. But this event will not occr,.
nearly 592 years. -"
POSTED upon the gate LEADING to al
ground upon which is to rise the newc;t.
Hall of San Francisco, is the FOLLOWING y
tice, verbatim ct literatim POSITIVE y
admition Except on Buiseniss." =,
"SUsIE, darling" said mother n !,
little daughter of five summers awbl
would you do without your mamma =" d
put on just such dress as | pleased era-|
day." was the atfectionate reply.
To show the growth of the petroe,
| trade, in 1860 a market could not he forn
for 10, 900, 900 gallons, and thus far in H.
the demand.fo export alone has re1cbsI
al 100000.
MARK TWAIN, IN his lecture in h,
ford, the other evening, took from
pocket a dilapidated piece Of linen /
stead of a handkerchief The audiqns
Uttered, and Mark probably curtair.n
tured Mrs. Clemens when he got home
AN unsophisticated parent in PrI
mouth, n. H., observed with pain thai
first-born had no teeth, and hastea
remedy the "deformity" by purchaa,,
fifteen dollar set of mOlars, wha
| handed to the nurse with the remahh
the baby shouldn't suffer if he I
wear only one shirt week.
THE last census Of Japan gives
number Of inhabitants at 3, ,S552l.
these 1872, $50 are engaged in litprs1d
and the military service, and 5l,9A@
belong to the trading and working clase
The number of priests Of Buddha amount
to pa 500, and that of the priests Of Sid
to 1853, 140. The receipts of the goyen
ment are estimated at $500, 000,000
KING CHALEs H., paying visit 0h
Busby, the doctor is said to have strure
through the room with his hat on. Will
his majesty walked complacently benin
him, with his hat under his arm b
when he was taking his leave at the doO
the doctor thus addressed the King: "IhgS
your majesty will excuse my want Of Il
spect hitherto; but if my boys were
imagine there was a greater man in ID
kingdom than myself, | should never
able to rule them"
SQUIRRELS are so great nuisance
California that bounty of ten cents
head is paid for their destruction Aslg
hunter has killed and trapped ten thoua
in one season, for which he got slg
bounty. He sent the skins to Paris TNa
they sold at fifteen cents each, swelling
receipts to So, 800 for his captures.
skins are said to be more valuable hI
those of the rat or kid in the manufadr
of gloves.
w. II. CHILD, of Madison, is the posse
of one of the first issues Of copperd
ever made in the United States. On
side is the sun shining on sundial, q
base of which are the words, ~
Your Business" the date "11S7, > and
word "Fugio" On the reverse side
the words, "We Are One surround
by chain of thirteen links. Thb
very rare coin not more than hall So
en- are known to be in existence II
country.
CONSUL SEVERN, in a report supplied
him from Rome, and recently laid BEL
the English Parliament by the foreinTI
flee, notices the very fine qualities o.
man voices, and states that it is attraud
TO the mothers swaddling their G1a
When mother is employed out-oiQpf
the baby is suspended from its bach
nail in the wall, and allowed to cry io'S
eral hours together, switch conll1a
act of crying exercises and forms TIE
two VI no
LONGEVITY OF FARMERS. In Iate
dress before the Farmers Club OF Pfll
ton, Mass, DR.. Nathan Allen SAID U
according to the registration repG9'
deaths in Massachusetts, published
for about thirty years, and pre,e,
with more accuracy and comple'sl
than anywhere else in the county,
greatest longevity is found to OBTAIN
agricultural life. In the ten diifefeD'
equations as given in these reports, Ihe,
tivatOrs of the earth stand as cas- :.
head, reaching, on an average, Inc y
nearly sixty-five years, while tllal y
next class, merchants, is only aDou W.
nine years; that of mechanics "
kinds, about forty-eight years, anu
of shoemakers about forty-touf y.
Thus there is an advantage OF aoou'
teen years on the side of farmers a.
pared with merchants, and they reTl
average age but little short OF inc p u
score years and ten allotted By the -
its for human life.
New STYLE OF VAcCINATinH.-
November number of Harper ha.a
gives the details of an improved W.
of vaccination, which, in Vie" -
ravages of smallpox in PhiladeiP..biS,
other cities, may perhaps deserve l|
tention of our medical practltioheI"