Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS iTsA.
TorLERs OF THE SEg-eptician,

VEGETABLE FHlIOsoPHY-Ssge adj
LIGHT EMrLoYMEN1-Building a.
| in the air.
IT is more difIlult to manage riehs.
than to acquire them.
A HARD CAsE-The house tho
snail is compelled to live in.
A CoFIsH breakfast and an India. mi
coat will keep man dry all day.
IT is suggested that the first n;..
music performed by Adam must
beer /" warblings at Eve"
THE epicurean who made a dess..
the fruits of an enterprise pickeS
teeth with the point of joke.
THE only mandatory of hain;,
the United States turns out fifty i r
those useful articles per month.
AT what time Of life may man b.
to belong to the vegetable kipDd!
When long experience has made
sage.
SCENE IN CHICAGO els Mrs. Sm,
homer" No; but walk in. She bas
stepped out to ct divorce, and win
back in in few moments"
A sHoDDY woman, who returned
Europe with some paintings, was assa
they were landscapes. She said ~
over one -half of them are water-scsne.,
WHY don't you take your seat At
BARI" asked a lawyer of client, the a
day. my father always advised NJ
keep out of bad company" replied
other.
THE family of Mr.. Ansel Gamma
New Vineyard, Me, consis,in. Of tNs
sons and four daughters, weighs I'D
pounds. The boys average Island i,
girls 200 pounds.
"MY dear" said husband to hnv
"Im going to start coffee plantstn
How'll you get the land!" "Oh, than
no trouble about that; / always
plenty of coffee grou.ds in my cup"
A CONVICT in the Windsor, Vt.
prison has recently CONSTR cted box
foot in length, six inches wide and
inches d ep, composed OF 1880 piece.
only tool being jack knife
THE entire population of Ohio, accu
ing to the recent census. is 2655 Ol2,
Of this number O29, 752 ale native ID
and 373,25O foreign born There are
COL, 735 white persons in the State,
63,267 colored persons, including lndi
One man is returned as Chinaman, n
ed Daniel Webster, born in Alabama.
TALLEYRAND used to be worried abb
his autograph, and to one of his persea
ors he thus wrote: Twill you Oblige
with your company to dinner Oh WednI
day next, at 8 o'clocks l have invited
number Of exceedingly clever persons an
do not like to be the only fool Of the lot
A FRENcnMAN at Sheldon, vt, Wild
left the employ of the railroad compsnj
because of the danger to his life, and CON
menced working from house to house, VI
instantly killed a few days after, by a I'M
ment OF q log exploded by pow der, in
adjoining that in which he was sSwi
wood. He leaves wife and two childs}
THE following is from the will of anl
liner of Bristol, England, proved IN
MY executors to pay, out of he 4
moneys collected, to my beloved will
living, one shilling, which give as toll
Of my love, that she may buy iosel N
as know she is better plea ed with end
ing them than she is with nsenaiM
holes in her stocksngs."
GONE TO PRoPosR.-
He went up town to-day. girls,
With . very busine-s air;
He'd oiled up Dir mpetache, girls,
And parted we'll bis hair;
Something's In the wind. girls,
hichever way II blOwe;
And I'll tell you what II II, girls
He's going to propose.
Sometimes he's confidential,
And says Maria's fair,
And praises Besrir's hazel eyes,
And Jennie's flow ny hair;
Says Alice is angelic, too,
Admtree Lucin0a's more;
knew how 1t would end, girls
He's going to propose
UNCLE SAM--a down East farm
known far and wide by bis pa riotic
had neighb who was in the habit
working On Sundays, but after a VII
this Sabbath breaker joined the chur
One day our friend m t the n,inista
hose church he belonged, well, UH
SAM said he, do you SET any diftnl
In Mr. P since Ii, Joined the churcb
"Oh, Yes" said Uncle Ssm, "a grestd
ference. Before, when he W. Mt out
mend his fences Oh Sunday he carried
Ak on his shoulder, but now he Carrie
under his coat"
AN Irish woman who came to
country about year ago. and settled
fennsJ ivania recently, grew 20 homes
that she became insane lid ATTEMPTED
starve herself, taking 10 food for tweD
Two days. At the end of that time
was helpless, and was r,onis. d if
would tat she would be taken back to
land. She made her fritnds set the
at two weeks in which she was to ST.
ana as they were hot ready at the el
DAY she took to her old tricks again.
Ing 1t was useless 10 put h off they ca
menced the j"urn y, wh' n she began,
recover reason and health at once, and
probably now as vel and happy as
one.
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS Col. Jd
W. Formy said. ut a d nner given ID
honor In 1870 we count fit, five b
dred news periodicals of Nil degrees
probable annual circulation of not
than seven hundred and twenty five
Nous, Or those. four HUI dr., d and sew
ty.nve are dailies, circu aiing nearly
millions OF copies ev. ry twentyD
hours. one hundred and sixty are agnc
turai Journals, circulating over halt y
hon and about thru hun.ir.d rellgtt
periodi, ais, circulating ov two AID
nall million of copies of each edition.
asg9regate, Without C. uniting 'ur moDu
literature, larger than the rest of the CT
ized world: In fifty years, when our POI
anon shall have atiained, o. the pre-