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

while asleep, and narrowly eso.
t ing TO death. Moral-Alwayssp e elo
'ee'n On 1he table when you 20 o ~ ye|
The hotel-keeper at Mi,lcrto "
was recently going to masuno. l A.
ana made an unannounced cali Sae
aged mother to see if his disg,,i.o On h
good one. She gave one scrssr Wa,
oiooa vessel and died in five minI,,s Oh,
| W. J. Bowling, of Dubuo,.
caught his heel in the fron qee, lon
and being unable to extricat At ! IN sslaa
was run over by freight train Inset
t,ac his body being literaIIrioo , o.
-During recent storm in T.,
County, Mimi, a party of s;r - 1assa
frozen to death when within A.. nseases
OF shelter, and a Norwegian lssvnd
County persisted in the same storm III lex
Mrs. Gordon, wife of Cant.;
don, Clerk OF the Circuit Conp, a.1 y q
OF Pemiscott County, Mo-, and Io ost
daughter, three years old War hef lrs
bly, burned by the explosion Of ~ vi
lamp, in their residence at y coaa
short time ago, that they both di :d sol
ly after. ''A uiea shol
-, The physician attending Miss H..
Thomas, who had her entire seal, n ,aN
on by the machinery in a button "a. .aHs
at Nauugatuck, Conn, nearly vea ,acot
is replacing the skin by transni. aso
pieces from other parts of her h1 dde
from other persons. Three-6ftSs ana
wounded surface is already verv rvs su VI III.
fully covered. success
"A California farmer recently
some wheat soaked with WHISKY ,,a one
field frequented by wild geese H. v' t
fowls gorged themselves with tho n so slly
tive banquet, and got so tight tb,, s' ,p
could not fly, when the farmer sta ,as 'nsy
and dispatched six hundred of tb btppe sl.a 10
a club Other silly geese are also ,a WIN
times dispatched by means of I con Solle
ton of whisky and clubs. ''"lunc'
"A bright little boy, ten yesrs of
in Middlebury, VT, the other avan a'
was put to bed as usual, and in tbo n;afs,
it seems that he got bewildered and a nsu'
dressing himself or nn.,in aioe
any shoes, proceeded to his grsndma,fI.. "
house, about twenty rods distant "aS
aroused them from tlIeir slumhprs p IAN, anu
1 u, mere was great trouble at bis boup
The night was intensely cold and ,Ss
wonder is he did not freeze himself Es e
however, was taken home, and, strange !,
'ay, he was not injured by his MEMS
walk. He seemed to be conscious lint
vas laboring under ha!lucination NJ
ectly unaccountable.
"A young man in Vermont was mu6
ddlcted to reading in bed by the light d
Kerosene lamp, and persisted in the
abit notwithstanding the advice of h
rlends and the warnings of the terrible
ccidents which occur almost daily. On
etiring one evening recently, it appears
hat he set the lamp too near the edge
ne bed. AS he did not come down to
reakfast next morning his mother be-
anne anxious, and raped on his chamber
DOR. Receiving no answer she entered
he room, when her worst fears were real
ed. During the night the lamp had
pped over upon the bed and completely
lined a patchwork quilt made by her
hen only eleven years old. The only
tlcle on the bed unharmed was her
'owsy son.
panes of glass in one of the store
lndows of Lexington, KY, are largeand
re solid plate. The frost was very heavy
ION them one day recently. The frozen
DISTURB on the inside offered an induce.
emit to clerk of an artistic turn, and,
king his scissors, he cut through the
IN coating ice on the glass, and traced
t railroad bridge, with cars The etch
remained for day or two, perhsy
ore, the sun shining full upon it ever
orning. A thaw came, and the fros
The window was Thorough
cleaned by the store porter several
les after the disappearance of the frost
d yet, when the frost reappeared on the
than week after the first
Itch was made there was the bridge
plain and as clearly outlined on the
IS as the first day. There is no mark
atever on the glsss, and the etching
done with smooth pointed instru-
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