Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 4
COMMON SUERs-Lawyers.
OPERArIc REFREsHMENr - High
screams. H&
A SIGNAL FAnuRE-A railway acci-
dent. 4
FANCY Work "-Imaginative poetry.
"THE PACIFIC MAILS Quiet hus
bands.
THE Canadian Dominion has forty
three daily newspapers.
How to get the exact weight of . fish
Weigh him in his own scales.
WEST POINT cadets receive $500 q year
and one ration q day.
THE number of poems composed in
German, on the war, is said to be about
5000.
THERE were 1872 divorces in Rhode
Island last year, or 1 divorce to every IA
marriages.
A PENNSYLVANIA man has taken the
Norristown Register regularly for fifty
seven years.
THERE are six hundred and eighteen
quack doctors, mediums, aud fortune-tel-
lers in New York city.
THE charter of the Washington Life
secures all the profits TO the insured. More
than this cannot be done.
THE wind blows with such force In Col
orado, that when man loses his hat he
has to telegraph to the next station to
have some one stop ii.
Nuxv Vnnv rnarchonf ot,oopf ind
edly copied love letter to his hearts
idol" in the letter.book of the Arm, be-
fore sending it.
AN advertisement of cod liver oil winds
up: Patients who have once taken it can
take no other" A candid confession.
The coal miners of Great Britain pro.
duced, last year, 107, 900 900 tons, worth
E27, 010, 900, and the furnaces made $780,
900 tons Of pig iron.
THE assets of the Mutual Life, of Chi.
cage, are of the most solid character--cash,
governments securities, real estate securi-
ties.
THE total expenditures Of the French
Government for the last year were four
hundred and eleven millions of dollars in
gold.
IT is estimated that 225,OOO,0OO cubic
feet of earthly matter are deposited annu-
ally by the Mississippi, at the Southwest
Pass, in the Gulf.
MAMMA.--Look here, George. Here's
nice pudding. Win you be a good boy
now, and come and have someg" George
(whO has been put in the corner for misbe
havior) ~" What sort O puddin' is it, mar
GREELEY wrote something about "Su-
J,,r
compositor thought 1t was one of his agri-
cultural articles, and launched out wildly
on Superb Jerusalem Artichokes."
OLD LADY Cat railway station) .-"When
does the next train stop here?" Porter
(explaining).-"Well. IN, we see the next
train don't stop ere at all, aud the next
train as stops here don't go no further;
and the next is through express etc,
ETC. (Old lady is much better for the ex-
planauon.)
THE Petersburg linden reads long lee.
ture in q leading article on the subject Of
shoe strings, with the purpose Of proving
that ladies waste in the aggregate few
million hours every day in lacng their
boots-time which might be saved by
wearing CATERS with elastics.
THE amount of deposits in the various
savings banks of the State of New York
is $20,OO9, 1898, and the number of de-
pOsitors about 10000 The securities and
investments amount TO $40, ia, 0S3 AZ,
while there is cash surplus of $685.
522.O2 p = = ,5#
THERE are 5,244 newspapers published
in the United States, distributed as fol-
lows New York, G78; Pennsylvania, AS /;
Ohio, 377; Massachusetts, 2l9 Making
an average OF 285 to the State The re.
mainder Of the States and Territories
average eighty -four each.
IT is estimated that the new debt con-
tracted by France in the late war, and in
its settlement, will compel the people to
raise eighty millions more per annum than
they have ever done before Moreover, by
the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, there will
be shrinkage in revenue TO the amount
Of eighteen millions.
A GOOD story is told 1T the expense OF q
young lawyer In ST. Jose, Cal. He was
very anxious to defend Chinaman In the
police court against the charge of petty
thicving. Having assumed that position,
what was his astonishment to find his
client using handkerchief with his own
name marked upon it. y ma 4tfh
Mr.. SHOCKS was asked the other day
how he could account for natures forming
him SO ugly. Nature was not to blame"
said he When was two months old I
was considered the handsomest child in
the neighborhood, but my nurse snapped
me away for another boy, just to please
friend Of hers, whose child was rather
A YOUNG man Is Oswego, who started
to attend a masquerade party the other
other evening, attired and accoutcred as
he supposes Satan usually is, unhappily
entered the wrong house, 70 the conster-
nation of the inmates. The old gentle
man, father Of the family, especially, was
greatly alarmed, and, with wild shrek, |
Maria, save the children" he made his
exit through the rear door, closely fol.
bwed by Maria and all their little ones
PARIS on the day of the capitulation had
meat and bread for eight more days. In |
these eight days 500 horses out of the |
%, 500 would have been slaughtered. The |
Of ~ 800, at the rate Of 1850 |
per day, would have been just enough for |
another week In other words, Paris |
might have held out fifteen days longer, If |