Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-21
BREyITIES.


AN English lady has been sued for
breach of promise by farmer.
THE Lowell Courier asks its exchanges
to quit calling 1t the Low. Cour."
A HOTEL KEEPER in Penn Yam, N. Y,
has sued the Board of Excise of the village
for $4,000 damages for refusing him Ii
cense.
A CALIFORNIA politician says the path
OF rectitude has been travelled SO little IN
that State OF late years, that it has all run
to grass.
A DRUGGIST has been sued for damages
in Waverly, n Y, for selling laudannm to
a mans wife, and the jury have awarded
damages to the husband.
A HELPING word to one in trouble is
often like switch on a railroad track
but one inch between wreck and smooth
rolling prosperity.
THE Rev A. Folsom, Methodist cler-
gyman in Raymond, N. H., now seventy
seven years old, walked to North Salem,
on recent Sunday, distance of seven
teen miles, and preached three times.
ONE of the largest hotels in Philadel-
phia is owned and managed by a woman,
and in one store, among several large ones
owned by women, business Of over $780,
600 year is done.
Mrs. BARTON and Mrs Eldret, two sis
tiers, at Baldwinsville, n. Y, who had al
ways lived near each other, died the same
day recently, at the ages respectively of
ninety.five and eighty seven, and nere both
buried at one time and place.
AN awkward young man, while rowing
lady on lrondequoit Bay few days ago,
fa11 arl ha I'D ha
skiff by the hair, put him ashore, and then
beach to dry and to lament the results of
his stupidity.
JOHN KING, known as the first teeto-
taller in Great Britain, has reached an old
age Of helplessness and poverty, and TO
alleviate his position all the teetotalers in
the three kingdoms are to contribute
penny each for his benefit He is now in
his 72d year, living with his fourth wife.
VERY TRUE How much would neigh
bors rise in value, and how much would
neighbors rise in beauty, if all should lay
aside habits of criticism, and neighbor-
hood scandal, and petty feuds, and ridi-
Guile! And If men should study the things
that make for peace. and the things that
make for happiness, everybody trying TO
make everybody else happy, what revo
| luton there would be!
| RECENTLY, at an evening service IN one
of the churches in New Haven, the pastor
observed a man in the back part Of the
church hitching about in his scat, and,
thinking he was suffering from con
science that would not be quoted, he said,
"Does the brother want to speak, The
man rising said, mo, sir, the brother
wants drink of water" and then he walk.
ed to the altar and took drink Of water,
and resumed his seat, after which the ser
vices were proceeded with.
"a THERMOMETER should be placed in
an open space, out Of the vicinity of high
buildings or any object that impedes the
! free circulation of air 1t should face the
north, to be always in the shade, should
be twelve inches from every neighboring
object, should be about fifteen feet from
the ground, and should be protected
against its own radiation 10 the sky, and
against the light reflected from neghbor-
ing objects, or the ground itself" So says
Signal Officer Singleton, of st. Louis.
ONE OF the oldest if not the oldest
church in the Middle States Is an old Pres
byterian pile in Derry Township, Dauphin
Count, Pennsylvania. The backs of the
pews reach past the top Of the sitter's
head; the communion service was a pres.
ent from the house of Hanover, and the
small window panes are fastened to the
sash by lead instead OF putty. At an ad.
joining church in Dutch quarter, the
collection is taken up in little black bag
tied at the end of a pole, with bells at
tached to wake the sleepers.
IT is stated that the damage inflicted by
the grasshoppers in Maine this year, must
be measured by millions of dollars. An
exchange says: "In some places, both on
the Ambrose ggin and Kennebec, the
farmers are turning their starving cattle
into their grain fields to pick up what their
arch enemy has left. There are many
square miles of territory where not a
bushel of grain will be raised, though be.
| fore the desceDt Of the destroyer there
was unusual promise Of a crop Hun
dreds OF farmers who, two weeks ago,
were expecting at least a good crop of
corn, will hardly get an ear.
THE Worcester (Msss.) Spy has the fol-
| lowing account Of one OF its carriers: "a
novel and most faithful Spy carrier, it ap-
pe ars, has been put upon one Of the nor
| them routes OF this city, in the person OF
an intelligent spaniel dog. This animal
belon2ing TO farmer near BARRIERS Cross
ing, comes to the regularly appointed place
near the eros ing every morning before
the passing of the Nashua train, and, tax
ing the paper in his mouta as it is thrown
out by the expressman, diligently conveys
it to the residence Of his master. The
faithful canine, after rtceivins his charge,
wat ches the train with mucn apparent in.
terest till it is nearly out OF sight,
and then, giving significant wsg of
his tail, darts for home with telegraphic
speed"
L. MARIA CHILD, in writing upN1 the
alb ,urdities of female fashions, says:
Seven or eight years ago bonnets were
hung on the back OF the head, and slipped
down on the shoulders, instead Of being
perched on the forehead and tipping over
the nose, as they now are. At that lime
bride in the vicinity of Boston left her
fathers house soon sfter the marriage cere-
mony, and rode seven or eight miles In
winter evening to the dwelling OF her
husband She became 80 silent curing the
latter part of the ride that the bride room
was al4rmed, and, there being no house In
light, he drove as rapidly AS possible.
A rri we'd at his own door he lifted n cOTDse