Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-14
MISCELLANEOUS HE'S
NATURES TAILoRINs.-A potato r.

~ tcHC 1uAoAcuS P3pcIc are putlsl
and all Of them are well supporlsd
A MAN and his wife, who had M,
for eight years, recently found escS ~
in Chicago police court, both cbs,.
with drunkenness.
THE boys are advised to get q
smoked glass ready for the next cell,
II will come off in June, 1854, and NH
total through large part of the Uris
States.
A MAN in Galveston, the other day ',
complained Of being over heated, sfs.
permanent cure by drinking six dr.
of ice water, without the aid of H..
clan. He was cool when the Con-,
came.
RELATED BY MARRIAGE
"a As my wife at the window one day,
Stood watching man with monkey.
A cart came along with broth of boy,
Who was drviDg q stout little DONKEY"
To my wife then spoke, by way Of ioss
There's q relation Of yours In that carris,,r
To which she replied, as the donkey she ma
sAh, yes-a relation by marrisger"
In driving q London underground y
road tunnel, we are told that in one ~
of the line the cuttings were made thJor.
| a mass Of skulls and bones, sixteen fsss
the ground. In another place forgus
secret passage, twenty feet vice, WI Il
covered, supposing to date from the su
teenth century.
A WOMAN with three lighted candles
each hand, traversed the streets Of M
Bedford on her knees the other evenia
not in payment of an election bet, as mi.
be readily supposed, but as religa
penance in fulfillment Of q VOW for
safe return of her husband from sea-
PUNCH gives the following IS q cas-
reasoning by analogy: Cecil ( who is Ia
habit of surreptitiously dissecting bis
ter's dolls). "Oh, aunty! / declare il
isn't great big 'normous heap Of ~
dust! How very, very dreadful!' An
Dreadful, why, darling! Why's" Cal
"Why, the lots of men and women
must have been killed here, you know
A scHooLMAsTER in Bridgeport Con
who asked = small pupil of what hes
face of the earth consists, and was pcs
ly answered, "Land and water" va
the question slightly, that the fact j
be impressed on the boys mind
asked, What, then, do land andx
make?' to which came the immeds
Spouse. mud"
Ok the 22d of July Miss Wake
English lady, together with her i'd
who is sixty-five years old, and and
gentlemen, assembled Mont Cervin, a d
Of the Alps in the Swiss canton of WI
| 1850 feet above the level Of the sea
few years ago she assembled Monte h
which is IA, 272 feet above the level Of
sea.
SOME curious genius has been inm
eating beer, and among the ingredia
used in making up that beverage, he q
he found sugar, honey, molasses, liqu0r1
alum, opium, gentian, quassia, aloes coed
lus indicus, amora, tobacco, nux, saltpa4
jalsp, salt, maranta, green copperas md
BILE dust, oyster shells, sulphate Of Gnl
hartshorn, shavings, NUT gall, potash N
soda
As specimen of Berkshire old age, "
Pittsfield Mass Eagle says that one a
recently, Mr. Cecil Spring, of Worthild
ton, aged ninety-six, went into the'fead
Horace Spring, in Hinsdale, with hi;aI
grandson and great grandson, and assisa
in moving field of grass that yields !El
tons to the acre. The old gentleman tool
the lead of the four, and the way the gna
went down before these four generaanl
was caution.
AN aged woman in North Adsn|
Mass, relates that many years ago, wy
attending a social dance, a young mecha
asked her hand for one OF the dances :
Indignantly refused, feeling very nj
mortified that he should make such
offer. Years have passed, and she
filled an honorable but humble position
life, while the young man whom she b
scorned has been Governor of Masss
sets.
THE ex-Empress Carlotta has recetI
in her insanity, caused her guardians
relatives a good deal of trouble. She (
sists in remaining in the open air all
time, and any attempt to take her back
her apartments brings on frightful psn|
ysms of rage, in which she refuses to q
food for several days In succession.
Queen Of Belgium passes every day slI 4
seven hours in the company of the unlf|
tunste lady. Carlotta's favorite langg|
is Spanish, and, to crafty her, both Y
king and queen have learned to speak NJ
tongue since her return from Mexico
MIRTHFULNEss.-It is q real blessing
have one in the family who is sensitiNs
the ludicrous. There are enough to reid
the sad side of life, and its irritable aSl
and its sober side We need one or nos|
to show the mirth that often tremblesJs
below the surface of painful things : q
real, impetuous laugh dissipates many lf
sions, sweeps the twilight out of oui ID
aginations, and brings honest dsyllgh
But it must be real. No dry, hackt
laugh. Il should be spontaneous, op|
bursting, irresistible, infectious. Wensa|
seen men fall to laughing who had pol
heard the cause of mirth, but only o.
caught the contagion ofother mems aug
ing. 1t is hard not to laugh with na|
who are in earnest about it.-Erchdn@
A WOMAN living in Portland, Me-, kesp
a brood of ducks, and of one of them ~
Press tells the following: Lately sne =. y
ticed that the largest and finest enc Of y
brood appeared TO be ailing She doco%
1t to the best of her knowledge, bus
vain. The duck finally died. The wonS
being anxious to ascertain the cause o.
fowls death, cut it open, when sngas.
sight presented itself In the crop o. =
duck was large frog, like any other "
sept that it was covered with very =.
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