Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14
BREYITIES.

VEGETABLE IHlLoSOPHG-Sape ADVICE.
THE FATE OF FLowERs-To be bowed.
PARLoR MAGAZINES" Nonexplosiye'
lamps.
If man has great many debts, are
they Every much to his credit ?"
If a termagant wife cuts her nails every
Monday, it is lucky-for her husband.
"WHAT's in dress ?" says n popular
writer. Sometimes a great deal, and
sometimes precious little.
A SIGN over a flour and feed store in
st. Louis reads al. G. Cole, Sons and
Daughter"
A SQUIRREL in a revolving cage runs a
sewing machine in the show window Of a
Saratoga shop.
PAREPA received one thousand dollars
for singing two ballads at Norwich,
Conn, one night recently
A HARTFORD skating park proprietor
advertises different rates of admission for
grown" people and adults"
AT Plymouth. Mass, recently, a law
suit was referred for decision to a com
mittee of four ladies and one gentleman.
CAPTAIN A. b. SABIS, of Dempster,
N. H., has for fifty years sung in the
choir of the First Congregational Church
THE French language has about 81, 900
words, the Spanish 10000, the Italian 3d.
O00 and the English 10000.
"Now, papa, what is humbug p 81" 1t
is" replied papa, "when ma pretends 10
be very fond of me, and puts no buttons
on my shirt.
A LEAyENwORTH young man got drunk
the other day. and while in an eccentric
mood chewed up several ten dollar green
backs.
LONDON, with population OF 3,25l,-
600, has 1919, $40 paupers, or about one
pauper to every twenty-siX Of the inhabit-
ants.
THE Washington Chronicle says "The
remarkable phenomenon has been wit
messed in Boston Of gas company cheat
ed by a citizen"
AN old lady is inclined to think that n
compass would be the best sewing ma
chine, because she heard it had a needle
with thirty-two points.
THERE is a woman in Philadelphia who
weighs but ninety-tive pounds, although
she eats three pounds of meat between
sunrise and sunset every day.
TWENTY pickpockets were arrested in
New York city on Washingtons birth
day, while operating on the pockets OF
people who were taking part N or looking
at the procession in the streets.
A PROFESSIONAL clown in London was
excused from serving on a jury on pro.
ducing n bond providing that he should
forfeit $500 on every occasion that ne
missed attendance at the day represents
ton of pantomiine.
A pARsfmoNIous sea captain, answer
inc the complaints Of his men that the
bread was bad, exclaimed: what! com
plain of your bread that is made Of -four?
What do YOU think OF the Apost'esy
They ate 'shew Bread made out of old
boots and shoes"
THE Missouri Democrut AYERS that Hof-
ace Greeley is going to set out ten acres
of cigar lockwood this spring on his farm
at Chappaqua. On two acres he intencs
to graft the government. stamp. Ihs
variety will be little later than the plain
kind, but much more valuable.
DIBBs and his wife were indulging in
"reminiscences over their dinner nuts and
raisins Glow one thing brings up
another" said the lady, absorbed in pleas.
ing retrospection. Eyes" replied Dibbs,
IAN cmetic, for instance. lie can't see
why she should call him ''mean thing,
and leave the table in huff.
THE Southbridge Mass Journal says
that farmers wife in Dudley recently
had footrace with a woodchuck, and
caught him when he had got half way IN
TO his hole:
And there she sat and held his tail
And held his tail, and held his fal,
And there she sat and held HE tail
for two hours, until her husband came
and killed the beast.
HERE is a new method Of engraving on
glass: A photograph is first taken on the
glass, using a film of gelatine and bichro-
mate of potash; after washing off the por'
tions of the film Enacted on by the light
the plate is subjected to a sand blast, by
which the unprotected portions are cut
away, leaving every line of the engraving
reproduced with perfect accuracy.
JONES, a kind -hearted man, thinking
his landlady had difficulty in making both
ends meet, surprised her on Saturday
night by raising the price Of his board
What was his amazement, at the end Of
the next week, when his grateful hostess
informed him that sine had concluded to
raise his board yet again--for she thought
she had as good right to raise it as he"