Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-03
,1ecrLLAsEOUS ITEMS.
ooO DIAMOND has been found in q
fish.


fish.
recently had q storm in Texas
tnveled 100 miles in thirty hours.
YORK has twenty nine miles of
|-ont and over seventeen miles OF
reHrER of a New York stock
sxults over the fact that she has
Europe six times, and has never
inside of her mothers kitchen.
largest telescope in the world is
inc made at Cambridge, Mass, for
rernment. Three or four years will
tired to complete it.
Elbow tried to hang himself in
not long ago, and the magistrate
whom he was taken very properly
j him to pay the man who cut him
ten shillings for the job.
,RTFoRD horse seizes rats in his
when they come to his manger to
ia oats, shakes them like terrier
satisfied they are dead, and then
them out of the bin.
hss lady Indignant at being brought
Academy Of Design too early:
told you, papa, this wasn't the
,able hour. Well have nothing but
|horrid pictures to look at till the
comet"
recent wedding in Rhinebeck, as
erpy reached that part Of the cere-
III now pronounce you" a fish
r. in the street shouted bull heads!
esdsl' to the amusement of some,
e CONSERVATION of others, present
occasion.
distribution of carbolic acid
phout the air Of the room in which
It's are treated, so as to create what is
q as carbolized atmosphere, has
bund to be produc i've of great bene-
India and Egypt, in the treatment Of
diseases as opthalmia and variola.
he midst of a stormy discussion, a
man rose to settle the matter in dis
Waving his hand maiestically over
kcited disputants, he began "Gen.
all want is common sense"
ctly, that is precisely what you
was the immediate response.
W. W. THOMAS, Jr., the Maine
Missioner of Immigration, has been
tied by Swede with a watch, triang-
IA form, having the dial near the
Of one Of the angles. BY looking
Oh an aperture in the dial, the day OF
Onth is ascertained, and beneath the
an arrangement which shows the
the week.
FouyG lady In the singers gallery Of
trh at Lyons, N. Y, while looking
the railing, the other Sunday, to see
the congregation had to wear that
hew, lost her balance and fell plump
deacon's head and shoulders. She
ded into the aisle, however, without
wing any injury, and Joined in the
uding hymn.
HILE compositors and proofreaders
typographical errors will be
der. The Food Journal, published
pndon, has to apologize for very fun
under of the types. In recent
Der it credited the Boston Journal Of
bistry with the responsibility ofa mon
Is pea, measuring thirteen and onehalf
es in circumference! 1t should have
pear.
the town Of Newbury, Mass, is a
Wing which was erected in 1862. 1t
used for garrison in the time of the
Jan wars. The stairs are made of blocks
bak timber ten inches wide and ten
hes thick. 1t is now occupied by the
degeneration Of the family that built
be Christian name of each owner being
jamin.
I Titusville, Pa, when man owns
or Eve hundred wells he is generally
kidered we'll off, and "barrelsful of Oil"
he synonym of pockets full of rocks"
: customary to speak of the fsshiona
young lady as wearing an eighty-six
Ell opera suit, and when a boy wants to
his teeth plugged he gets requisi
on the "old man" for couple Of bar
Of oil. The system being abundantly
icated, works very smoothly.
CITIZEN of Albany, N. Y, has been
cu!arly unfortunate in the marriage
ion. His first wife killed herself
= four years ago; nine years after, his
nd wife ran away from him, and died
assumption in Illinois; six years later
bird consort was drowned. In 1853
,urth helpmate was killed, and he,
~ been convicted of the murder, was
to prison for life, but pardoned out.
lother decade the fifth partner mystic
ly disappeared and very recently the
idol of his soul sought peace and OBJ
by hanging herself to a bedpost.
". Mr. TALMADGE told his Brooklyn
lie in sermon, the other day, that the
ath evening previous a woman was
o with commissions in the vestibule of
hurch after service. In the delirium
followed she kept repeating: Eight
J! Eight cents 1 wish l could get it
/! l am so tired! l wish / could get
sleep, but must get it done! Eight
J! Eight cents" 1t was afterward
i that she was making garments for
cents apiece, and that she could
2 but three of them in a day! And
physician said she evidently needed
more than medicine.
vENTY years ago Boston tailor retir-
rom business on account of failing
b. For few years past he had suf-
much from dizziness. A short time
a surgeon discovered and extracted
his body q common sized needle,
double thread four inches in length,
he'd. As he had used no needle OF
kind for twenty years, the surgeon
osed he must have swallowed it an
r to the period, and is of the opinion
the working of the needle and thread
Ugh the system caused the dizziness.
! the operation the patient feels great
lieved, and is improving in health.
odd law case was lately tried in Biz