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

The real torch Of Hymen is said to be
love match.
A Connecticut farmer has named a
prize rooster Robinson because he crew
| so.
The man who popped the question by
starlight got his sweetheart's consent IN a
| twinkling.
The Erie Springs Gazette, Of Color
ado. publishes its notices of marriages
under the head of Melancholy Acct
dents"
The Boston Herald coolly advises a
correspondent for whose letter it has no
room to publish paper of his own.
/ Five feet five inches is said to be the
perfection of height for woman, and
five feet eight inches for man.
Rev. Vim. II. Patton's Advice" To
each fellow man we say: Go thou and
do likewise Insure in the Washing
ton.
The Infidels of Massachusetts, have
subscribed $50, 600 toward the erection
Of building for their use, to be named
Paines Memorial Hall.
A very singular matrimonial case re-
Gently happened in Essex County, Va. A
gentleman's second wife's two sons mar
ried his third wife's two daughters.
GOOD morning, gentlemen" said a
brusaue colporteur on entering railway
car. No one responded Beg pardon
if have said too much. withdraw the
last expression.
When one sits unceremoniously in
pool of slush in the middle of the street,
what happiness it is to observe the pleas
ure your action gives to all who wit
ness it.
Conversation in Western store: Po-
lite cerk-"Can l show you anything
else to-day?' Lugubrious Customer
"No, l reckon not. | lost two horses
and my wife last fall, and I feel putty
poor. Good span Of horses, too"
"A woman with six children, one OF
them an infant and another sick, were
turned into the streets OF Dubuque, Iowa,
the other night, for nOn-payment' of rent.
The neighbors took them in, after the
poor family had wandered about till mid
night.
Upon beech tree in Adair County,
Ky., is still to be read the following in
scription. I'D. Boone, 1773; Gary, 1773. ="
The tree also bears other evidences OF
Dams skill as a carvist, among which are
couchant beasts of the forest tomahawks,
| tic.
Speaking of earrings, the Louisville
C0uayer.Journal suggests to the ladies that
if they desire to make these articles use
full, they can wear a good-sized valise in
one ear and handsome, capacious lunch
basket in the other. Something really
practicable, now, would be a pair of cut
glass smelling bottles.
Samuel Hartman, of St. Croix, Wis,
retired from military life with a Brevet
Brigadiership Goodbye, General"
were the parting words of his old COM
rades in the army. How are you, Colo
Wisconsin. AS he approached home this
began to come down to "How dye do,
Captain ~ and finally, when he came
among the boys at home, he was greeted
with Halo, Sam; got back again ?"
An Arkansas paper contains the fol-
lowing advertisements For Sale-A
handsome, dark bay horse, seven years
old, and sixteen hands high. He is sold
for no fault except that he kicks, bites,
and strikes, is balky, and will run away
every chance he can get. He would be
an excellent horse fer an undertaken, as
he usually kills one groom month, and
the undertaken could have the collins
at the cost Of manufacturing. Apply
to-" etc.
"A gentleman of veracity and of high
moral standing, from Logan County, ILL.,,
was this morning at the Stock Yards,
where he stated that he recently saw a
five chinch bugs, and the whole incased
in ipa ha inn voS ha off "
four of the bugs gathered themselves up
and ran off as merrily as if they had just
taken good nap. The other bug had
deceased Chicago Journal
"A New York Bank Note Company
has forwarded to Treasurer Spinner the
following letter from Braxton, w. Va
owe to your country or to your God to
engrave a fac simtle of the U. s. Treasury
notes thus: THE United States will not
pay the bearer etc. l would like to
get something of the kind for those suck
ers who are always ready to bite at naked
hooks If such thing don't meet your
favor, excuse me and commit it to the
flames, as this is strictly, confidential"
-Pheba Cary,at the time of her death,
was at the head of movement for the
establishment of "Woman's Dress
Guild" similar to the one instituted in
England. The plan has been taken up by
other influential women of Boston, and
the following are some of the rules of the
proposed associations: To purchase for
cash only; to buy nothing which is not
wanted simply because it is cheap; to
dress in manner becoming the station
in life; to pay proper Difference to the
tastes and pecuniary ability of the heads
OF families; to wear no false jewelry.
false hair, pads, ETC.; to avoid all un-
seemliness in dress, and to do away with
the foolish and silly custom of dressing a
number of times day.