Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-30
Miscellaneous.

-Thirty-two Lapeer, Mich. boys re-
Gently shot $500 squirrels in a single
day.
Putting up a stove-plpe is known
in Danbury as attending a Black Crook
matinee.
Ladies are said to be like bills of ex-
change, because they ought to be settled
at maturity.
Bad temper bites at both ends; it
makes ones self nearly as miserable as it
does other people.
"A modest little girl at school reads
thus: 1.-THE widow lived on small linn
bacy left her by a relative"
of the thirty -four vessels composing
the Arctic whaling.fleet all but six are
from New Bedford Mass.
"A Tyrone Pa man's hydrant wouldn't
work until the plumbers relieved il of a
dead eel, fifteen inches in length.
A well which flows illuminating gas
has been struck at Bloomington, H., and
it is proposed to light the city from it.
More than twenty convicts in the New
York State prison at Auburn, N. Y, draw
pensions from the Government as war
veterans.
Wives are presumptuous creatures.
They always ask for lock of their lovers
hair before marriage, and take it without
asking afterward.
An old farmer said of his clergy
man, whose sermons lacked point: "Ah,
yes, he's good man, but he will rake with
the teeth up"
The season is fast approaching when
the husband without any discipline in
his family must arise betimes, and with
chattering teeth and fingers all benumbed
proceed to light the kitchen fire.
1t is now announced on the authority
of an eminent physician" that it is not
healthy to rise before O'Clock in the
morning. This applies only to men.
Wives rise at Z, and start the fire as here
tofOre.
The anthracite coal basin of South
Wales is the only anthracite coal field in
the Island Of Great Britain. This field is
about eighty miles long and from one
mile wide in some parts to two piles in
| other parts.
The discovery is said to have been
made that it is not necessary to groove a
rife barrel the whole of its length, but
that few inches of growing near the
muzzle will give the bullet all the needful
amount of spin.
"A peculiar way of discharging print
ers exists in the Dayton, o., Offices Each
compositor has nail to hang his coat on.
and, when the foreman concludes to dis
pense with the service of one of the hands,
he takes hammer and drives the nail in
to the head.
AT the recent Sheriff's sale of a sus.
pended menagerie at Shreveport, La, the
rhinocerous brought $500, the baby ele-
plant $1,000, the leopard and hyena 1870,
the lion and lioness 1855, and cage of
intelligent monkeys and communicative
birds $202.
Mr. II. z. Simmons has purchased
the trotting gelding Jim Irving from his
owner, Mr.. James Irving, for the sum of
10000. This is the largest price ever
paid for trotting horse, and as Mr.. Sim
mons is an experienced turfman, and SUI
peri0r judge OF horses, he must have been
satisfied that Jim Irving was decidedly
the fastest trOtter in the world before he
paid this price.
"A Sitka correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery: "Take one big noun
tain, covered with trees from the base
nearly to the summit, with an under
growth of brush, briers and moss, almost
passable-multiply the one by ten thou
| sand, and you have Alaska. There is q
terrible sameness. One singular feature
of this mass of forest is the absence of
birds. have seen but one robin in Sit
ka."
Some Branford, Conn, women are
credited with inventing the most novel
substitute for tar and feathers. Their pa
thence becoming exhausted, recently, at
the continued inebriety of one of the male
members of the household, they took him
in hand while lying dead drunk on the
ground, covered him from head to foot
with soft soap, and then sprinkled it all
over with -four. The victims sensations
under the broiling sun must have been
peculiar.
An immense stone, twenty.one feet
long, seventeen feet wide and three feet
! thick, and weighing 119 tons, has recently