Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


HOUSE observation-disclosures
LAUNDRY Wr.-Flat-iron-ry.
SUBJxcTs OF THE DEY.-Algefians
THE QUIErEsT THINGI III Wells Nuns
THE PRETTlKsr THING IN BRArDs.-
Hair.
A WoMAN's BEAU IDKAL--The marriage
tie.
THE artists adieu to his pictures-Yo
be hanged
WmAT State is round on both ends and
high in the middle. Ohio.
PAKADox1cAL.-Th best time to catch
soft water is when it is raining hard.
A POLICY issued by the Washington in
1861, for $4,000. in 1865 had increased to
$1l.152.70., ,s.
THE RuLR OF ADDITIoE.-The man
who viii sigh for q woman is likely to
have I to carry. 2 sF
II A GOOD housewives affairs are like mo
ton to adjourn" always in order" ,S
WHEN mans business is rapidly run
ming down it is time for him to think of
winding it up. 49, 81
PHILADELPHIA, the census marshals
say, has 1904 libraries, with an aggregate
of 2,90G, 779 volumes.
If your house is mortgaged, insure your
life in the Mutual Life Of Chicago for
sufficient amount TO cover the mortgage.
AN obituary notice of Maine man says
that he killed forty-seven bears within
the limits of the town in which he lived
and died. m fgB1 ua W So,
".ToM," said a man to his friend, Il
think it highly dangerous to keep the bills
of small banks on hand nowadays"
Tim" answered the other, II find it
more difficult than dangerous"
A CHICAGO hackman made . stranger,
from whom he had taken seven-dollar
fare, believe that a policeman who stood
near was the boss" and he would be
mad if he heard about carrying passengers
80 cheap N @ s4ii
TIE deaths in New York last year num-
bered 81 1876, showing an increase over the
previous year of 1853, apd over 1866,
when the mortality was very great, OF 3o1.
SoME one describing ball said it was
a vas assemblage of peopl 9 who had never
met before, and who nevered cared to meet
again, and that they talked and danced a
little, and then they went home cross and
tired out. Il. g
AN ice bridge was very ingeniously
formed over one Of the most rapid parts
Of the ST. Maurice, in Canada, by suspend
ing rope from bank to bank, attached to
which were number of branches inn
mersed in the water.
A MAN, stopping his paper, wrote to the
editor: st think folks ottent to spend
ther mummy for payper, mi dadda diddant
and everybody sed he was the intelligentes
man in the country and had the smartest
family Of boiz that ever plugged taters."
"SKINFLINT-who "gives nothing to
street beggars "-buttoned his pockets on
being approached by soldier and said
Ny dear fellow, never can repay the
debt owe you-the debt we all owe you
for your noble selfsacrifice! Money can't
do i'll 1t is of no use tryingp'
A CORRESPONDENT who has read much
about women as ethereal creatures"
wants somebody to throw lively girl
over his shoulder and attempt to elope
with her He adds !" You will think she
is made of pig iron. 1t would take at
least three men to elope with one girl, if
she was anything of kickist."
THEY have sharp lawyers in San Fran
cisco. A city ordinance, lately passed,
prohibits the carrying of baskets upon
any street or alley suspended from pole.
An Wong was arrested for violating this
ordinance, and his lawyer promptly called
the magistrates attention to the fact that
the street upon which All Wong carried
his basket is not, and never was, suspend
ed from POLE" His Honor adjourned
the court for the purpose of making per-
sonal examination OF the street through q
smoked glass, and All Wong went home.
A CERTAIN Senator is noted for taking
two cocktails in succession, before break
fast. One morning, while the Senator was
practising at the Metropolitan bar, a friend
put to him the pertinent question: Sen
ator, why do you take two cocktails as
custom? Won't one do your" The SEN
ator drew himself up: II will tell you
why take two cocktails. When l have
taken one it makes me feel like another
man. Well, you see, I'm bound by COM
man courtesy to treat that man, SO take
second s8
A GENTLEMAN Of Halifax, being at
lady's fair not long since, and being solic-
tied to buy something by a fair creature
who kept one of the tables said he wanted
to buy what he feared was not for sale-a
lock of her hair To his surprise and de-
light she promptly cut off the coveted
curl, and received the price ofered-ten
dollars. The happy purchaser was exhib-
ting the trophy to one of his friends, who
very suddenly blasted his JOY by saying:
"She rather outfanked you, for, to my
certain knowledge, she only paid three
dollars for the whole wig"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gasetts says that he has used sulphur for
more than twenty years, with benefit, to
prevent rot in grapes. Rotis not caused
by a fungus, as some suppose, but by an
insect, which punctures the grapes proba-
bly, for the purpose of depositing its eggs
Upon this discovery is based the sulphur
remedy for the rot, as sulphur is distaste-
full to all the insect tribe. Fumigation
with sulphur in the evening 10 better than
dust, as the insects work at night.
1T is not the great matters, the supreme
Joys, which fasten upon the human heart
with such force, but the small interests
and pleasures-the unnoticeable violets-
from which the departure il 30 painful.
When some pitiless fate has grasped with
iron hand the fortune of whole life, q
heroic will stands mn in a mans breast.