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

while asleep, and narrowly escaped cbo,
ing to death. Moral-Always Law . n
teeth on the table when you go o bed 0df
The hotel-keeper at Millertm NJ
was recently going to masquende ~
and made an unannounced call on g az
aged mother to see if his disguise w.i us
good one. She gave one scream, brots
blood vessel and died in five minutes
w. J. Bowling, of Dubuque Inn.
caught his heel in the frog of swi,"t
and, being unable to extricate Iimso.
was run over by freight train nov;a
backward, his body being literally cut Y
two.
During a recent storm in Jekso,
County, Mimi, a party of six menwo,a
frozen to death when within few,oaes
of shelter, and Norwegian of l ous
County persisted in the same storm. WA
Mrs. Gordon, wife of Captain y,
don, Clerk of the Circuit County Cnr
of Pemiscott County, Mo-, and her hi,
daughter, three years old, were SO ta., 0
bly, burned by the explosion of a coalal
lamp, in their residence at Gayoso
short time ago, that they both died Shot
ly after.
The physician attending Miss Hato
Thomas, who had her entire scalp taxi.
off by the machinery in a button factor.
at Naugatuck, Conn, nearly wear ago
is replacing the skin by transplantip
pieces from other parts of her body AMI
from other persons. Three-fifths of tha
wounded surface is already very success,
fully covered.
A California farmer recently scattered
some wheat soaked with whisky over !,
field frequented by wild geese. The sill,
fowls gorged themselves with the seduc
tive banquet, and got so tight that tbey
could not fly, when the farmer stepped II
and dispatched six hundred of them with
club. Other silly geese are also some
times dispatched by means of a coniupc
ton of whisky and clubs.
"A bright little boy, ten years of age
in Middlebury, VT, the other evening
was put to bed as usual, and in the nig6tt
it seems that he got bewildered and arose
without dressing himself or putting on
any shoes, proceeded to his grandmothers
house, about twenty rods distant, and
aroused them from their slumbes, STATING
that there was great trouble at his house
The night was intensely cold and the
wonder is he did not freeze himself. He.
however, was taken home, and, strange TO
say, he was not injured by his nights
walk. He seemed to be conscious, bu
was laboring under hallucination, per
fectly unaccountable.
"A young man in Vermont was mucl
addicted to reading in bed by the light o
a kerosene lamp, and persisted in tn
habit Notwithstanding the advice of hi
friends and the warnings Of the terribl
accidents which occur almost daily. Oh
retiring one evening recently, it appear
that he set the lamp too near the edge o
the bed. AS he did not come down t
breakfast next morning his mother be
came anxious, and raped on his chambe
door. Receiving no answer she entere
the room, when her worst fears were rea
lied. During the night the lamp ha
tipped over upon the bed and completed
ruined a patchwork quilt made by he
when only eleven years old. The onl
article on the bed unframed was he
drowsy son.
The panes of glass in one of the stor
windows of Lexington, KY, are large an
fine solid plate. The frost was very heav
upon them one day recently. The froze
moisture on the inside offered an induce
ment to clerk of an artistic turn, an(
taking his scissors, he cut through tn
thin coating of ice on the glass, and trace
out railroad bridge, with cars. The etcl
ing remained for day or two, perhal
more, the sun shining full upon it eve
morning. A thaw came, and the fro
disappeared. The window was thoroug
ly cleaned by the store porter sever
times after the disappearance of the fros
and yet, when the frost reappeared on Il
window-more than week after the fir
sketch was made-there was the bridg
as plain and as clearly outlined on Il
glass as the first day. There is no mai
whatever on the glsss, and the etchir
was done with a smooth-pointed instr
ment.