Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-18

Generally speaking-woman.
Mental aerostation-Flying into pas
sion.
The best substitute for brains
money.
-Corrt,ng bliss often ends in welded
blister.
The new Golden Rule-To get all the
gold you can.
-Upperregister notes-$500 and 81 900
Treasury issues.
Men who always see through glass
darkly-Topers.
Money is like manure, of very little
use unless it be spread.
The blind leading the blind-Trying
to follow the fashions.
A curious thing about policemen is,
they are most always in areas.
What is the comparative Of "sweet
night?" Evidently sweet inter.
Wall street ejaculation-Have mercy
upon us poor miserable SINNERS!
When you have nothing to do in this
world, stop doing it as soon as possible.
1t is surprising how quickly men who
dislike red hair will fall in love with
req helresS.
The new comet is to yield to the gen.
eral request to make itself visible to the
naked eye.
in place of the cholera, New York
seems TO be afflicted just now with the
meloncholera.
1t is paradoxically prophesied that
pickles will be high because cucumbers
haven't come up we'll
The mosquitoes this year are said to
be larger, livelier, cunninger, more musi-
cal, and more penetrating than ever.
There is time for all things. The
time to leave is when a young lady asks
you what kind of day it is for walking.
A Vermont gentleman is just raising
his second crop of hair, after going bald
ten years. He ascribes it to his might
cap"
There is as much difference between
self-conceit and self-respect as there is
between selfish men and men who sell
fish.
A Denver paper says that hundred
jurymen could be selected there any day
in twenty minutes, for any case, at any
price.
The Itali ans have a proverb that ale
who takes an eel by the tail, or woman
by the tongue is sure to come off empty
handed"
-"The one thing says Jean Paul,
(which maiden most easily forgets is
how she looks-hence mirrors were in
vented'
Somebody has discovered that burg
lar is locksmith, because he makes bolt
for the front door when he hears the po-
lice coming.
Rhode Island is becoming clamorous
for law to protect the clam, and will
soon become boisterous in its advocacy Of
protection for the oyster.
The Persians believe that the dia-
monds all fell from heaven during the
earliest ages of the world, and are emit
tied to religious veneration.
Useful wells of grenadine, in square
meshes, made of sewing silk, are new this
season. They are far more substantial
than the ordinary gauze grenadines.
The Mississippi river is now called
the steamboat graveyard" by people
who think it sweeter to be mashed on a
railroad than to be blown up on
steamer.
First lesson in kissing-The gentle
man should be little the tallest. He
should have clean face, kind eye, and
mouth full of expression instead of to-
bacco.
The suicide season has just set in
with more than usual severity. Common
ly the cause is liquor; this year it appears
to be love. Two very dangerous things
to trifle with.
A railroad conductor. after twenty
years of experience, concludes that he
had rather carry 10000 men passengers
than to have one lone lorn female on
board his train.
The difference between the astrono-
mer and the meteorological is, that the as
tronomer uses the spectroscope, while
"Old Probabilities" bases his calculations
mainly on the expect-rOscope.
Brigham Young preached sermon
lately, in which he said that the sisters
thought they had good deal to bear, but
If they could stand in the shoes Of their
husbands they would then know what
trials and perplexities are.
Columbian University, Washington,
ID. c., is a Baptist institution which has
been kept in the background for many
years by financial embarrassments. 1t is
now coming to the front. Congress has
given it enlarged and valuable privileges,
and Mr.. Corcoran, the wealthy banker,
himself an Episcopalian, has promised it
100000 if 800, 600 additional is raised
before January, 1875 Half of this sum
has been pledged already, and the National
Baptist says it is little remarkable that
1t nearly all comes from men who are not
Rapfiats