Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-16
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/ MOuutaineen g,s A
for bu1slihg il setting ! boy's broken leg
4 MIX Who frequent drinking saloons an
most Of their time in . tight place, So, i
i To YOU'VE LADIEa--Keep your, eyes
wide open before marriage, but half shut
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| AvERMoSr paper ays stages run Cd
slow in that State that chickens roost on
! the axles. ...........,...... ..., &
A NAN has been sent to prison for nine
months in Vermont for sending threaten.
ONE member Of the Maine Legislature
recently told another that y there waa
nothing robust about him except his
| A CANADIAN hotel once had q sign il
learning to spell will please take yester.
i Mrs. SAHAH II. VANDERwERKER,. Of
Titusville, Pa, has been confined TO her
bed BY . disease Of the spine since January
383-thirty-eight yearA s;sia ssi sil TEA
|. A, POULTRY fancier lately procured q
picture Of favorite hen, which was so
natural that IL laid on his table every day
Tor several weeks. 10 t13@ et91t531isA
I Tar present wife Of Bufal0nian OBJ
jects to his keeping the memories of her
five predecessors green by wearing i've
bands Of Grape on his hat. saiiF' ~ q aisti
4 A HosTLER, who had been working at
Lyons, Iowa, for eight years on salary of
$15 per month and fees, died the other
day, when II appeared that he had laid by
about AOOOssH x8a@gia ~ lsg49iass al
1 THB hoor of one Of the Litchfeld
! (Conn.) churches is so uneven that in
passing up one OF the aisles person goes
iOut of sight thirteen times So says Q
! THE average salary Of clergymen is
800 year, while that Of skillful mechan.
les is s 1853, according To the late report
Iof Commissioner Wells. .e..,,,g,, ,t,t,,.
A YOUNG lady wrote some, verses for a
newspaper about her birthday, and headed
them May lS0thi' 1t almost made her
hair gray when il appeared in print " My
Goth" :.
A BosroN woman advertises for hus-
band, aud says, among her other qualifica-
lions, that she can. from six CLANS. make
soup enough for dinner, and have. clam
fry for breakfast.
AN ingenious young woman, having
heard that Mr.. Jefferson had made, a. for,
tune by playing Rip Van Wrinkle, wonder,
ed, when she saw him IN the character,
why he didn't wear better clothes. i5a1ol
I A.RRcESTLY married lady lately con-
sulttd her lawyer on the following ques-
ton: CAS- welded Mr.. Smith for his
wealth, and that wealth is now spent, am
I not, to all intents and purposes. q widow,
and at liberty to marry again %
THERE il, in a Western State, a woman
90 Clearly that she rubs the dirt off the
fire-wood before she puts 1t in the stove.
Another woman tries to beat this by pull
ing tn egrowing beets out every morning
and washing the dirt of them. ieH Z
/. Or all sad words Of tongue or pen, the
saddest are, these, from the Norwich
Conn. Bulletin =" A sailors life is made
unnecessarily perilous at Noank, where
they send vessels to sea with Noankers on
THE wife Of a ,sernteu- thinks 1t very
nice TO have an author for q husband
Whenever she feels restless hei reads, her
something he has written, and in a few
minutes she Is in profound and refresh
ing sleep rss'.,stsstss Ms'sE =
THE LONDON Gcsmopolitan proposes the
following marriage vow for its lady read
ers, when occasion requires: VIII con-
'tinue to love my husband so long as ne 10
lovable. honor him SO long as he remains
honorable, and obey him SO long as his
commands are just and reasonable"
THE New York Tribune has this on
Cincinnati iourna lism g z Of the pr ominsnt
and prosperous newspaper publishers in
Cincinnati, two were boiler makers, one q
carpenter, IA fourth a shoemaker, a fifth q
country choOl master, but not one q
practical printer. .. ae.,t. aoIti,,i
BY a deed lately executed in New
Hampshire village, the buyer bound him
self to give suitable rnaintenance to the.
seller through his natural life, to pay him
$3.50 annually on. the list day Of Septem-
Der, to keep him In tobacco and the other
neoessaries of. life, and to give him .
decent burial at hja death. 81 s.s...,,
IT is .said that, working Christian
nreacher shou]d die IN the rich city Of
Nav York from cold and starvation vet 1t
Is said that the Rev Mr., Walsh, q city
missionary. who preached In the hall cor
ner Of Eighth avenue and Eighteenth
street, died 4 few nights ago ct his lodging,