Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-29
and prevented a serious accident. Presi
dent Fox has sent her $3.50.

and prevented serious accident. Presi-
dent Fox has sent her $3.50.
"A cool young gent, all of the modern
DAYS, entered a menagerie with cigar In
his mouth, when the proprietor politely
requested the visitor not to teach the other
monkeys bad habits. The young man
proved himself equal to the occasion by
producing his cigar case and saying, TRY
one"
in the Chicago Post Office, the other
day. there was found in the mails news
paper containing $11O, which the simple
minded sender was trying to forward to
England under two cent stamp The
name of the party mailing the paper
could not be ascertained, and the valuable
package went to the Dead Letter Office.
The New York Times is printing a
series of letters from married couples as
to the cost of matrimony, the most Curl
GUS part of which is the difference OF
opinion. One young man marrles on
$500 per annum and grows rich, while an
other bankrupts on $4,000. 1t appears
principally to depend on whether the
yokemates are helpmates.
in California sheep are said to be dy-
ing of what's supposed to be lung disease.
When first attacked they froth at the
mouth. The froth, at first, is white, but
gets bloody when the sheep is dying. In
that section an occasional loss has here
tofore been observed in sheep when af-
fected in this manner, but havoc recently
made led to examinations, from which
the conclusion arrived at was, that lung
disease and not poison, is doing the work.
Everything in nature INDUCES in
amusement of some kind. The light
nings play, the winds whistle, the thun-
ders roll, the snow flies, the rills and cas-
cades sing and dance, the waves leap, the
fields smile, the vines creep and run, the
buds shoot and the hills have tops-to
play with. But some Of them have their
seasons of melancholy The tempests
moan, the zephyrs sigh, the brooks muir
muir and the mountains look blue.
1t appears from official documents
that the number of steamers on the At
lantic coast inspected in 1871 was 1, 41O.
The value of property destroyed by fire,
explosion, collision and wreck, was ST.
324 600; lives lost, $40; number of steam
ers inspected in water flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico, LOTT; property destroy
ed, 81, 414,0 900: lives lost, G95. Number
of steamers inspected on the lakes, GAG;
property destroyed, S496,0O0: lives lost,
235 Number of steamers inspected on
the Pacific coast, 1870; lives lost, 206. No
statement of property destroyed.
This is how respectable Gothamite
became an involuntary highwayman:
Walking along Atlantic avenue, he was
jostled by a stranger and Immediately
thereafter felt in vain for his chronometer.
He hurried back, overlook the supposed
thief, presented his revolver, and sternly
demanded, "Give me that watch !" The
stranger surrendered his time-keeper with
out word and hurried away. On reaching
home, the gentleman was recounting the
circumstances of his encounter with the
highwayman to his wife, when he was
somewhat startled by her assurance that
he had left his watch on the bureau
and that she had been wearing it all
day.
"A distinguished German scholar, Herr
Kelb, in "A recently-published work, con-
sidcrs that he has settled the true date of
the CTucifixion. lie shows that there was
total eclipse of the moon concomitant
with the earthquake which occurred when
/ julius Caesar was assassinated, on the 18th
of March, Il. G.. A. lie has also calcu-
! lated the Jewish calendar to A. ID. 81,
and the results of his researches confirms
the facts recorded by the Eyangelists of
the Wonderful physical events that accom-
| panied the CrucifiXion. His astronomical
/ calculations also show that on the 9th of
! April, a. ID. 81, there was to al eclipse
of the sun, accompanied, in all probable
ity, by the earthquake spoken of in Mat
/ thew.