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

Miacollanoous.

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Niscellaneous. taisls a1fl
4 adead beat" is said to be live
l0a ANEW Orleans has shirty-four corn
doctors. 81,
The Sensation Of the season-Cold
"A Foreign Climb-Asoending the
pyramids. Tho
plowshare.
What have you to expect at hotels-
Inn-attention.
IF YOU want to make time travel
faster. use the spur of the moment.
One house in New York is inhabited
by 1918 persons-"a village under one
MANY a good man leaveth an inherit
once in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, Of New York.
An exchange says that the reason
school-boys delight TO dig and explore
caves is because Of the recesses there,
Tn 1883, a bachelor club /" was
...r+ad in Muncie, Ind. It was broken up
the the other day, by the marriage of the last
The wear 1871, says an exchange, Will
.he a18Sd year Of the Grecian Era,
oe pa VII. tho last wear of the Grecian Bend. 1att
rr,a Resolution asks: why should
A.. paecher control the Brooklyn cleo
t;n ro' Because she has an entire Ward OF
her own ~ !. Nov, yeor,s recen.
49,, =. the White House did not deter a
New York illustrated paper from having
a sunerb and perfectly correct view OF the
ecenes at the levee.
A Young clergyman, having buried
,hree uIyes. was asked by lady, how he
hanneped to be so lucky. Madam" re-
nIied he. Il knew they could not live
Without contradiction, so let them all
have their own way"
Mark Twain says: have seen slower
people than / am-and more delperate
peoplc than anl-and even Guieter, and
more listless, aud lazier people IMAM ana
But they were dead. fgaa& i
A hard case-dying without money
without property, no insurance N the Mt-
tual Life Insurance Company, OF Chicago
and vet leaving wife and small children
to mourn your neglect!
A Providence man has, for twenty
wears, summer and winter, taken his rega'
lar morning bath in the Woonusquatuckst
river, the simplicity of the name, perhaps
rendering its waters very efhcacious.-
"A prescription was sent 70 city drug
store in Dayton, Ohio, the writer having
added postscript for the guidance OF the
druggist, that it was intended Tor the
"reieef off the Kaulick." Rather bad
spell Of the. cello. ~F rtryC
The Boston journal Of Chemistry re.
norris as among it's subscribers Dr. DEATH
DR.. Slaughter, DIR. Dye, DR.. Coffin, Dr.
Toombs and DR.. Graves. This sombre
list is lighted ap by one DR.. Life, one Dr.
Strength, and DR.. Joy. DR.. Drinkwater
JUS, blances DR.. Rumn, ON the liquor
Come, girls" said Jolly old aunt
"about this census. We are always hear
ing of united ages Let us club our
years. I'll put in sixty two, and you toni
Shall put in twenty each. Then we SHAH
all be under thirty!" The girls nearly
kissed her old head off for her audacity
A little girl, about three years old
after being corrected the other day fol
something she had done, said: Ma,
wish whipping cost something" Why
replied the mother Because SAID the
little pert, you never give me anything
that costs something"
The Marion IN. c. Star says young
couple, aged respectively fifteen anc
eighteen years, recently arrived in that
town at daybrealS, having Travelled all the
preceding night through heavy snow
storm, and both upon one horse, reaching
Marion Just in time to take the train ior
Bristol, where the knot was tied.
The Lowly Life
A little flower go lowly grew,
so lonely was II left,
That heaven looked like an eye 9l plue,
Down in its rocky cleft.
What could the little flower do
In such darksOme place,
But try 70 reach that eye Of blue. @eE
And climb to kiss heavens faces
And there's no life 20 lone andllow
But strength may xtill be given,
From narrowest lot on earth 10 grow
The strmghter up TO heaven;
-"Do YOU believe in forerunnersg
asked old Mrs. Quilp of Bob Hastings.
"Yes, ma am" was the grave reply, Yes,
ma'am. I've seen 'em" Bless mel cried
the old lady; ado tell" Yes" con-
tinuei he in a voice of solemn import, and,
casting his eyes into corner of the sitting
room, II see one now" Mercy! mercy
on mel Where, Bob, wheres" |" There,
ma'am, there" pointing where his eyes
were directed why, that's the cat.
Certainly; don't she FeH9H on att ffUurs
Bob never received any invitation to tea
after that
"A good story is told of Dean Swift's
parrot, which was great pet with the
whole family. One day Polly managed to
open her cage and get away, TO the great
CONSERVATION of the household. After a
great search, some one found Polly in the
garden on the top Of an apple tree. The
welcome news was communicated to the
Dean, who, with the whole of the inmates,
rushed out at once, accompanied by DR..
Vaughan, who, with some friends, was
then on visit to the Dean. Polly was
found swinging on the topmost branch,
but when she discovered the large audi
ence below her, she looked gravely down
on them and said, . Let US, pray.
Many people think newspapers dear /;
that five cents q week for the brain is too
extravagant; but q glass of whisky Is mann-
featured from about seventy grains Of corn,
the value of which is too small to be esti-
mated. A glass of this mixture sells for 8
dime, and, II good brand, is considered