Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A RUSH LIGHT-The Comet. ;,
A SOFT BLOw-A gentle breeze.

A SOFT BLOw-A gentle breeze
A FIRM FRIEND-An obstinate Quaker.
THE HIRE CLAss-Laborers The Lore
Class-Scholars
AN UNPLEASANT SORT OF ARITHMETIC.
Divisions among families.
MuD-TRKLE soup" was lately adver
tised at Hartford restaurant.
THE nearest an old bachelor gets to mat
rimonial harness-a sir single.
PORTLAND, Me-, on'its forty-six miles of
streets has SAIL dwelling houses.
A MAN who has tried it says that all the
shortcuts to wealth are over crowded.7
TwENTY.FoUR large circusses are an
nounced for the season Of 1871, in the
United States. H' ai
THE Boston Aduertiser insists that the
worst kind of pine to make lumber of is
the porcupine. .u
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES declares, it
is said, that of more than one hundred
lawyers who were opposed to her in her
protracted suits, seven committed suicide
and fifty -six drank themselves to death.
AN old lady, who was sharply question.
ed the other day in court by an angry law
yer, remarked, on leaving the witness
SJ6uQ, IudJ BIG INV uuuClbtOON VAAos 40
meant by cross examination.
PHILADELPHIA has 114,3O3 dwelling
houses, Of which 101 ,688 are Of brick or
stone, and the remainder, 1856 of wood.
With the exception of 6,94Sthese are all
small twO-story and three-s.ory buildings
"BoY," said an ill-tempered old fellow
to noisy lad, "what are you hellerin' for
when l am going by?" " Humph," re-
turned the boy, what are you going by
for when am hollerin'?"
"FoR whom are you concerned 2"
asked Judge of witty lawyer. am
concerned for the defendant, may 1t please
your Honor, but am retained by the
plaintiff" was the reply. oiaa lGa =
The Empress Augusta and the Grown
Princess Victoria, during the war, broke
to nearly one thousand persons the sad
news that relatives Of theirs Mad been
either killed or dangerously wounded in
France.
A YOUNG man wants to know whatbusi,
ness he had better go into that will enable
him to occupy high position in society.
Let him try the roofing business. In that
trade a smart man will soon get up te the
top of the ladder. m alE i9m@F
j. b. WARREN, when clerk in . grocery
store at West Warren, Mass, thirty years
ago, caught rat in trap, and tying bell
to his neck, let him go. Ten years later
he was caught a second time and Gagged
and is still alive, playing around the
house Of his captor like any other pet.
THE following remedies are said TO be
valuable and infallible, For corns, easy
shoes; for bile, exercise; for rheumatism,
new flannel and patience; for govt, toast
and water; for the toothache, dentist;
for debt, industry, and for love. matri-
mony. tJa# e 81
ALAwYER, in addressing the jury, made
use of this phrase speaking of his client !;
" Othellos occupations gone" When his
opponents turn came, he referred to the
matter, and said that "the only resem-
blance there was between his adversary's
client and Othello was this !: they both
had most villainous counsel" DA5a e
THE following highly appreciative
"tribnte" to California strawberries is
from a Western paper: Strawberries
grow in California all the year round. The
strawberries attain an unusual size; it is
not uncommon for an ordinary family, to
subsist on one for week. It must not be
supposed that all the varieties are of this
size; some are much smaller, and it is not
unfrequent for healthy man to finish one
ct q meal"
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, boasts of young
Samson, named Louis Kuckert. One OF
his feats b to lie fiat ON his back on the
floor, and stretch his arms above his head,