Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-17
Miscellaneous.

The clerks in the new Grand Pacific
Hotel, at Chicago, have not had charge
long enough vet 10 sport diamonds, but
one wears the bottom Of beer glass set
In silver on his bosom, and the other--tbe
night clerk-has small bull's-eye lantern
SET in his shirt front, with revolving
lights L0uis DemOcras.
The Sieubenyille tOhio) Herald says
that Jefferson County man, who is very
fond Of cunning, went into the woods to
shoot squirrels He shot one woodpecker
and the top Of his horses head off. His
little boy laughed boisterously when he
saw the governor" coming home at night
drawing the wagon, which contained u
set of harness and no game TO speak OF.
Uncle Sam, says the st. Louis Demo
crat, will issue a new silver dollar just as
soon as be can get some silver and pre-
pare his dies. 1t will resemble the old
silver dollar 80 far as possessing the circle
Of stars, the American buzzard, l. Pluri-
bus, etc. but the female who was wont
20 eli on the old dollar, with the collar
button gone from her cheDise and hold
| ing her nighteap on bean-pole, will not
be seen on the new. She has been arrest
ed and locked up.
When Mr. Fillmore was Vice-Presi-
dent be had one tTifiiag bit Of fun, which
used 20 be enjoyed By few Senators as
well a. by himself During the sessions
Of the Senate he always recognized Sen
ator Sewer when rising to speak as the
Senator from Arkansdu. while he recog-
nized Senator Ashley as the Senator from
ArkdHsas, pronouncing the name Of the
State according 10 the manner of the SEN
ators respectively.
Sunrise and sunset cost us nothing
a. glorious a. they are. Colors that are
only 10 be seen in the heavens, bright
ness beyond description, are profusely
spread, and we have sight 10 behold them,
pulses 10 throb, hearts 10 beat, and minds
To contemplate with wonder thankful
ness and JOY. Rising and setting suns
are commonplace exhibitions, when, were
there only one such exhibition To be wit
messed in century, multiplied millions,
nay, almost half the population Of the
globe, would behold it with rapture.
The following is from the Detroit
Free Pres: A life insurance agent doing
business in this city issued a policy on the
life Of married woman in the Sixth
Ward few months ago. She died the
other day, and the following letter was
written by the husband as notification
DEAR SRI take my pen In hand to let you
know that am well, but that my dear wife. in
sured for s. go In your company. IL no more; she
died to-day. Her policy Il No. -. can truly
cay she was q fond wife and good mother. / have
doctors certificate, that there will be trou-
BILE about the policy. She sick only a short
time. but suffered much. DO you give check In
advance OF must wait sixty days for the money!
"A woman, bound To get her moneys
worth, created deal of amusement at a
shore dinner, near Providence, the other
day. She was accompanied by son Of
five or six years, who, having gone
through baked clans and chowder once
to his stomach's content, and commenced
over again on clans, drank heartily of
water, and passed his cup for more. At
this the mother, with smart sprinkling
Of asperity in her tone, and with man.
ner that showed her TO be obliyious to the
fact that any one else was within hearing,
said: Look ahere! I've paid for a clam
dinner for you, and now amt going to
have you filing up with water" The lit
tie fellow paid strict attention 10 CLANS
after that
"A man in Connecticut has petitioned
the Legislature to be divorced from his
wife, because she has become insane. II
the depths Of mcsnness could be sounded,
| at the bottom would be found the man
who attempts to put away an insane wife.
The Judiciary Committee, to whom the
petition was referred, reported against its
prayer, saying: There were only two
precedents OF such divorces in the State,
one about 100 years ago, and one In 1870.
The committee believed they were bad
presidents. The woman was insane, and
probably incurable. But her insanity
came from no fault of hers, and the COM
mittee thought that 1t would not be in &C.
cordance with the sacred marriage CON-
pact TO cast her away for this cause, any
more than 1t would be proper TO put her
aside because she had become para
lyEed."