Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
Miscellaneous.

10 w rent says sign Oh Il house
in Detroit.
There is in Boston young woman
who acts as engineer to manufacturing
establishment.
During 1871 there were seventysix
horses in this country that trotted their
mile in 2:30 or less.
An association of ministers and law
yers has been formed in Boston whose
object is to secure pure milk.
Death is the great persuader, and
works more successfully than all other
agents Of the Washington Life.
"A milkman in Cleveland has pursue
his vocation sine; Nay !, 1851, trayeiinH
Tactical fluid q
Mai..-, ~---pIoys nifty hands The compa
ny has recently bought 200 acres of tim,
Der to convert into spools.
An exchange has warned parents
against allowing their children to ap-
proach too near the Grand Dukes party.
They might catch the Hoopenkoff and
Popof.
"A Cleveland engineer has patented an
automatic side-door car. As soon as the
car is thrown from the track upon one
side, the other side opens, permitting the
passengers to climb out.
-Alphonse (who has has had an attack
OF mothcr-in-law)-" Pdrbeu, madam, it
is not re trouble Eat your daughter is my
wife. Non 1t Is because she is not an
orphan when she is married to me! %
The New York Mail has an article
headed " A Strange Story-A Young Man
at his own Funeral" just as if anybody
could be so unreasonable as to get up a
young mans own funeral for him and
then deny him the privilege of going to
It,
/ --Geologists affirm that the eastern
shore Of the United States is sinking at
the rate OF about one-sixth of an inch per
annum, o. sixteen inches every hundred
years. The island of Manhattan goes
under at the rate of seventeen inches per
century.
4 "A countryman in Savannah observed
gang Of colorcd men laboring on the
streets, each wearing q ball and chain.
He asked one why that ball was chained
o his leg. ITO keep people from steal
T." said the prisoner; cheap of thieves
bout here"
-Artemus Ward was on slow Cali
ornia train, and he went to the con-
luctor and suggested that the cow ketcher
vas on the wrong end of the train for.
aid he, You will never overtake a COW.
'ou know, but if you'd put it on the other
md, 1t might be useful, for now there's
lothn' on earth to hinder COW from
salldn' right in and bitin' the folks ~
An editor and his wife were walking
ut II the bright moonlight one evening.
like al editors wives, she was of an eY-
ieedngiy poetic nature, and said to her
nate Notice that moon; how bright,
ind calm, and beautiful u "Couldn't |
ninkof noticing it, returned the editor,
Tor nything less than the usual rates-a |
lollaiand fifty cents for twelve lines"
A National Error.--FmncA Gentle.
adn- 'Sare, you sail make me a new
!, 'oat fr 70 outside-something new and
} Ver fshionable." 7dizor-"We might
.. give yu something in Frieze cloth-tRat
, 8 yer. fashionable now" Customer
'Vat-or to freeze-oh! no; want him
or wan-not for freeze, oh! no."
-M.friend Meekly says he does not
, ntendo go and see Mr.. Wilkie Collins'
'Wonn in White" He has one of his
pwn. he opened the hall door for him
: after had vainly knocked at it for half
IN hou at one a. m, the other morning.
She hel chamber candlestick in her
band, al it is supposed by some of his
lriendslat that useful article had some
fonnec'n with the strip of sticking
plaster lch now ornaments his left tenn
! pie.
A hdsome young gentleman walked
. into thadams Express Office the other
day, an desired to express packet of
letters 7 lady, to whom he desired to
return i'm. ''What are they worthpn
asked thlerk, who in making out his
Ihccountssired to know what was the /,
risk. = young man hesitated mo. !
ment, thclearing his throat from GER
tain muses., replied: "Well, can't {