Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| If speech is silver and silence gold, how
much is dumb man worth ?
/ To be humble, or even contrite, it is not
necessary to live in basement"
! Pillows, though not belonging to the
! human species, come under the head OF
rational beings.
1T may sound like paradox, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army is
pretty sure way to make it fly.
| A YOUNG man who keeps a collection of
locks of hair of his lady friends, calls them
his hair breadth escapes.
! VACCINATION has been successfully tried
to prevent dogs from taking the hydropho-
| bia. Buckshot make the bes, vaccine
virus.
The Christian Register says No bank
rupt or pauper is ever 50 destitute OF
credit that he cannot borrow trouble"
DURING the twelve years from 1859 to
! 1871 no fewer than 2,267, 500 Germans
emigrated to this country.
THE annual sermon before the Massa-
chusetts Legislature was from the text,
Thou shalt not steal
THE physicians to the Emperor of
China receive pay only for the time when
their Imperial master enjoys good health.
A WIDOW in Liverpool, England has re-
covered $1,000 in damages from the
owner of a mad dog, through whose bite
her husband died.
MANY ladies who do not like to have
their ears pierced, wear small gold wire
behind the ear, which clasps ii in front,
and holds the airing.
EMIL RITTERHAus, the most eminent of
the younger poets of Germany, has a
! poem on Lake Erie, in which he talks
about the palm trees and alligators of that
region.
LONDON, with population of 5000
600, has only nine daily newspapers-fve
morning and four evening-while Paris
has twenty, and New York twenty-four.
Two women were asked which of two
men each would choose were she compel
| led to marry one of them. One replied
| "rhc elder that might be the sooner
rid of him. the other "The younger,
that / might make him suffer the longest"
IL police case in New York, few
| DAYS ago, youth about ten years Of age
was placed on the stand TO give his tcst-
mony. When asked what they do to per
sons who swear to a lie, he replied: ''They
make policemen out of EN-"
|
poraton of London does Its business: An
error of $50 was discovered in one of the
corporation accounts, whereupon pro-
| fessional accountant was called to nvesti-
gate it, and his bill amounts to G4S2.
IL one of his plays, Addison makes an
undertaken upbraid mute who had
! laughed at funeral: " You rascal you,
| ] have been raising your wages for the
| ttEn ar "a IL
pear more sorrowful; and the higher
wages you receive, the happier you
| look"
EVERY year there die in England about
| half million persons, and out of this
| number nearly "A fourth, or 10000 deaths
are due 10 zymotic or miasmatac maladies
| In other words, 10000 lives are, rOundly
! speaking, lost by causes which are, or
/ ought to be, prcventibe.
HENRY WARD BEECHER states that
when ne was settled in Indiana where
food was plenty and money scarce, he
! owed tho New Nork OJseyrpr Si5 fnrth0t
paper, and offered towrite six letters from
! the West to square the account. This pro
| posal was declined, and he had to pay the
| cash
SEVERAL Of the large towns in Great
| Britain have made arrangements to con
! tinuc the system already begun OF having
/ penny lectures on science Tor the dement,
! of the working classes The most eminent
] men in Great Britain are concerned in tins
movement, and the attention paid to their
! addresses has been Of the most gratifying
! character.
! PROFESSOR WuRTK announces his
conviction, founded on induction from
| known facts, that throughout the middle
tier of counties of Western New YORK
| and in other large sections Of the United
| States every house ought Ia he warmed
and lighted by gas drawn from the earth,
without money and without price"
FRANCE has 27000 miles Of telegraph
lines England, $4,000; Russia, 2o,0oo
| The United States has $1,000 miles--the
equivalent Of the three countries named,
North Germany has 1900 miles; Austria,
| 10000 the East Indies, 1880; all
| America, outside Of the Union, LOCO,
and the rest Of the world together less
than this country alone has
THE following is the statute N the ola
Saxon code referring 10 leap year Al
| belt, oftenas leapc yearre do the occurre,
the woman boldeth prerogatlve over The
MEME in matters OF courishIpPe, rove
and matrimonic; so that when the lady
| DTDDDSGIB IL slldD nv W, iu"'h' 80 49,
man 10 say her nae, but shall cntertaine
her PROPOSAL in all guide courtesie."
A GENTLEMAN in Keenc, N. H., re-
Gently received by express package con
tanning a watch, on the outside Of which
the sender had made the following IN
dorsements "Only watch-bang 1t
| through--toss il around-drop 1t twice at
least. Merely watch, simply watch,
| knock il about. Second attempt in one
week to get a watch over the road whole"
The watch was received intact.
! ACCORDING TO the l'He census, in -Aels
| Hampshire, out of total population OF
! 31s. 800, there were 5,sS5 persons over
the age Of 70, or five per cent.
| of the whole number. OF this
aggregate, more than 1000 were between
| the ages Of 10 and Is; nearly 5000 were over
| Is and under 80 100 were octogenarians,
and 300. were between 30 and %. Ten
were 50 years old, 2 were 80, and had
passed the age Of century
"IT was noticed by somewhat close
observer at the Executive Mansion yester-
| day." says a Washington paper OF q re-
cent date, '.that Of all the throng OF la
dies who called TO pay their respects 10