Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-28
Miscellaneous.

How to keep even with the world
Don't be odd.
Necessity knows no law, but good
many lawyers.
Never indulge in schism, unless il
be witti-cism.
When you have reached your bottom
dollar, let it alone.
Most vessels carry too much ballast
most men too little.
The cleanest Of persons don't mind
handling filthy lucre."
"A shoemaker is proprietor of one OF
the Long Branch hotels.
The corner in wheat is likely to be
followed by corner in corn.
Asparagus is not bad medicine; and
an English journal says that it is spe-
cific for rheumatism and govt. II is
worth while trying it; if not good as a
medicine, 1t can serve as food.
The new remedial agent is auride-
mono-chloro- bcnzcnsulphonic acid. 1t is
very powerful, even in infnitesimal doses,
but can only be kept in big jug, for the
label can't BIC got on small one.
There IS no escape from the woman of
the period The blowing season is over
and now she turns up as female peeier
at Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania, where
his season she has peeled 200 cords OF tan
bark.
An old topper Of sixty called on doc
tor to get a remedy for inflamed eyes. The
doctor told him he thought he could cure
him; but il would be necessary for him
10 leave off drinking entirely. "Then
farewell eyes," said the infuriated drunk
ard.
"A correspondent of the Courter-Jour-
nal holds that the cholera has never pre-
vailed as an epidemic in a granite coun-
try, but i'm calcareous or limestone dis
tricts, where the water contains organic
matter.
An ingenious Yankee has bent the
scratching power Of hens to the aid of ag-
ricuIture. He places hen with chickens
in long narrow cage, just wide enough
To fit in between two rows of potatoes,
wherein she scratches to her hearts con-
tent. The cage is moved along the space
between the rows until the ground has
been thoroughly scratched, the potatoes
nicely hoed, and all the bugs eaten.
For once the lightning struck in the
right place, and the reflection that it is
not likely to do so again creates profound
melancholy 1t occurred last week. The
deadly bolt struck a lightning-rod peddler
in county in Indiana, and there have
been few more cheerful gatherings there
abouts than that of the bereft farmers who
performed for him the last sad rites. But
again they are sorrowful, for agents OF
rival factories are flocking to the locality
to show that the stricken peddler didn't
have the right kind of rod.
Kate Field says that for downright,
unconscious impudencc the Britisher has
not his equal on the face of the globe. The
nasal twang is not an American idiosyn-
cracy. Many Londoners have it, while it
prevails to an alarming extent in certain
counties. The nasal twang is a remnant
of Old England. The Pilgrim Fathers
transported not only themselves but the
canting tone prevalent in CromwelPs
days. Now it is declared to be of Amer
lean origin, as though the climate.induced
rascality She says she has always owed
the Pilgrim Fathers grudge for not hav-
ing left their noses behind them. Yet
strange as 1t may appear the best English
in the world is spoken by cultivated Bos-
tonians.
The latest thing in hotels Is suggested
by an ingenious correspondent of the Gal
weston Meas. 1t Is to be called the Aerial
Sanitarium. 1t is to be huge balloon,
secured by strong attachments at a proper
height. "Galveston," he says. ''is within
one mile of the most delightful climate in
the world, and this climate is directly
overhead" To the enormous balloon
thara 10 N no a frame work IF aufficipnflv
strong wire, fitted up to accommodate one
hundred guests. This airy saloon will be
reached by similar balloon acting as
an elevator. When the barometer indi-
Gates disturbing weather, the gas can be
let off and the whole establishment
brought down to solid earth.