Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-09
MiscellanoOuS.


Scientific journals say that milk de.
creases according to the amount OF
rain.
A good .natured spinster used to boast
that she always had two good beaux; they
were elbows.
The average depth of the sea is two
miles. Occasionally, in certain parts, 1t
is four miles, and sometimes only one
mile.
A California milliner has invented a
hat which is warranted to make q lady
blush. The cost $50, is also sure to make
a man swear.
According to Blackwood, every man
who is not monster, a mathematician,
or a mad philosopher, is a slave OF some
woman or other.
"A Chicago paper explains why a
streetcar conductor in that city was hon
est and refused to take a S. bill for 81 !;
he thought it was counterfeit.
in Montana man killed an elk re-
Gently which dressed eight hundred
pounds by actual weight, and the Herald
claims it as the monster elk of the Rocky
Mountains.
"A convict of the Michigan City Peni-
Tertiary feigned death for three hours,
but when they jabbed pin into him he
rose up and wanted to put head on the
jabber.
Pittsburgh rejoices in the possession
of woman so faithful and loving that
she always kisses her husband "good-by"
when he goes into the back yard to feed
the chickens.
A widow woman at Omaha, who has
eight boys, says that she had rather do
washing any day than have to go upstairs
at daylight and pound them out of bed
with policeman's club.
-"What is that, children" asked a
young pastor, exhibiting to his Sunday
school magic-lantern picture OF poor
sinner clinging to the cross towering out
of stormy waves in mid-ocean. "Robin-
son Crusoe," was the reply.
"A South Carolina man couldn't die
happy until his son had shot neighbor
against whom there was an old grudge.
"Did you hit him plumb center?" asked
the dying man, and upon receiving an
affirmative reply he fell back and deaths
cold smile covered his face.
We ask for long life, but it is deep
lie, OF pTdHu HlOHcIlJS tldJ SiPuuy. LCt
the measure of time be spiritual, not me-
chanical. Life is unnecessarily long.
Moments of insight Of fine personal re-
lation, smile, a glance,-what ample
borrowers of eternity they are.-Emerson.
-Sabbatarianism is not quite extinct in
Connecticut yet, although it is now law
full in that State for a man to kiss his
wife on Sunday. 1t is not lawful, how
ever, for him upon that day to hunt or to
fish, and at East Haven, recently, sixty
nine men and children, belonging mostly
in New Haven, were committed TO Jail
for taking such an irreligious liberty.
The ungodly stormed about the lookup,
and threatened rescue of the sixty-nine
martyrs.
The highest price ever paid for real
estate was not either in London or in New
York, but in Bowlder, Colorado, where
town lots are worth about fifteen cents a
front foot. Two adjoining proprietors
have gone to law about one and half
inches on the dividing line The case has
been in progress only two years, and when
last tried occupied the time of one judge,
four lawyers, one high sheriff, one crier
forty-six witnesses, three constables, and
twelve jurymen for six days. This was the
first trial, and the costs therefor amounted
to s., 542. IS, and how many more trials
there may be can't be foretold, for the
iury didn't agree.