Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-19
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THERE are 1900 doctors in the United
States. st s
SonErHNo TO WEEP OvER-A bushel
Of onions.
TIE GREAT AMERICAN BIRD-The
"bird in the hand"
When maiden gets married she ends !
miss-spent life.
BENNINGTON, Vt, has horse that has
killed three owners.
AN editor thinks that ten pounds Of
sausages for dollar is dog cheap
A ToPER's idea of hard drinking-si sitting
on rock, and sucking icicles
y. AWEsTERN editor reports money "close,
but not close enough TO be reached"
A SMILE" said six-year old sentimen.
talist, is the whisper of . laugh"
YrRMoNT is one of the Oldest States
but has fifty-three stage routes yet Left.
ONE express messenger IN Chicago Il
said to have travelled $500 900 miles in ten
years.
4 The School Board Of Lynn, Mass, ha.
six women on it, and they make good
members. ssgt 81. 4.
The total tonnage of vessels and steam.
boat craft running on our lakes is set down
AZ 0oU, 404 tons. e
IT has been decided that "Oh. dear,"
and Gracious me-! as used by the ladies,
is swearing.
Why do girls kiss each other and men
90 not? Because girls have nothing better
to kiss and men have.
The town of Lyme, N. H., has 20 PEG
pie over 80 years old, and SO over 70 years,
out Of total population of only 1858.
Loss Of China packet ship!' exclaim-
ed q literal old lady, as she laid down a
newspaper, II should think SO, when even
iron ones are not always safe!"
A PORTLAND paper asserts that man
recently walked into the Office of the
Zton's advocate, in that pleasant little
Maine city, and inquired if Mr.. Zion was
in. Att f'1at e
THE San francisco papers announce the
return to that city of q boy, not yet quite
nine years of age, who has travelled all the
way to Chicago and back, without either
q pass or money. ~ E
Cory of an order received by Dubuque
druggist; ''3 sents werth salts 3 sents
werth Ceny sents Rute Ginger 3 sents
Sinnamin Give 2ice this amount and make
up in 2 diffe Rent Par Sells" sH y3
Four squashes, weighing in the aggre.
gate 500 pounds, were recently taken into
Bay City, Mich. The largest weighed
199L pounds, and is 7 feet in circumfer.
ence They were all raised on one vine.
THE Aduertiser says there is a hog on
exhibition at Kewanee, H. which meas.
ures 8 feet A inches in length, feet 10
inches around the body, and 8 feet 8 inches
around the neck, and weighs l lao pounds.
CINCINNATI has divorce case, the par
ties in which aggregate 1870 years in age;
and the plaintiff complains of cruel treat
ment, and that she had to fish for living
While her husband was drinking whisky
out Of Britannia teapot.
THE following unique specimen of q
funeral notice recently appeared in BOs-
ton daily: Funeral services at his late
residence, - street, Wednesday, at IL
O'Clock Relatives and friends invited to
attend. Burial at convenience of family"
AMONG the most important discoveries
of the German arctic expedition was anew
land, about thirty six nautical miles east Of
Spitzbergen, and situated north of the
seventy seventh degree of latitude north.
gen, and presents very wild and rugged
pendicular mountains and cliffs.
A GENTLEMAN visiting a school had a
book put into his hand for the purpose Of
examining a class. The word "inheri-
lance occurring in the verse, the querist
Intercepted one Of the youngsters as fol-
lows: What is an inheritance ?" "Pat-
rimony?" What is Patrimonys" "Some-
thing left by : father" What would
you call it if left bya mother!" Matri-
mony." ''" ~
A HAPPY youth in Connecticut has
three living grandfathers and six living
grandmothers, making nine grandparents.
His grandfather, grandmother, great grand
mother, and great great-grandmother are
living in the same family. Next door live
his grandfather, grandmother, and great
grandmother, and within mile live his
third grandmother, and third great-grand-
mother.
THE cleanest city in the world is Brooch,
in Holland, where no horse or carriage
has ever been permitted to enter, and
where everything is kept with most
neatness. Before entering
many of the houses you are required to
the Emperor of Russia was compelled to :
CoHPy Win GulS CuSCOm OA ulo lCSCAs
visit to that place. #A b't9
THERE will be in Boston an annular
eclipse soon after sunrise on September 20,
1875, but on July 90, 1878, the great
eclipse Of June, 1905, will return for the
fourth time, and be total in British Colum-
bia, Montana, Colorado, Texas, and in'the
west of Cuba; and in the last year of this
century, on May %, 1900, there will be
another total obscuration Of the sun in
the United States, near Norfolk, Va.
A BosToN meteorologist has SO retent-
i've memory that he can tell you the pc
culiarities Of the weather upon almost any
day during the past forty five years, and be
Is regarded as official authority, in those
parts, on such matters, he being often
called upon by lawyers and others for the
state of the weather or the position of the
barometer on certain days, in cases where
questions of fact arise in judicial proceed
ings.
!, WHAT Is A MME-The following table
showing the length Of mile, in different
may prove of interest to
number Of our readers:
English mile. ....................l,IU oo'~n
Russian mile. slW ~