Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Miscellaneous.


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Miscellaneous.
Game fruit--the checkerbcrry.
A good summer resort-Home.
An imaginary quantity-A lady's age.
"A thorough washerwoman-SalS Soda.
"A Midsummer Nights Dream-Mos-
quitOes.
The next thing to white blackbird
is Spanish republican.
"A marriage on a railroad train may
properly be termed railroad tie.
1T is said that time never stays, which
may possibly account for its great waist
"A pretty hard cruise for anybody
Santa Cruz. 1t is worse than the widows
cruise.
The descendants of Ham are found in
great numbers among the pork-packers OF
Cincinnati
The Californians are drying grapes
into raisins, and raising fortune out of
them.
"A man may as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating, as wiser by
always reading.
The little boy with his first cigar and
the truckman with his gentle mule both
tried to back her and couldn't.
--Chloroform will remove paint from a
garment or elsewhere, when benZole or
bisulphide of carbon fails.
| "A French writer suggests that the red
color of the continents of the planet Mars
may be due to red heritage and vegeta-
ton.
Over 1900 hogs arrived in New York,
recently. Imagine how many, of one
kind and another, there must be there
now!
"A coquette loves her glass as much as
she can love her beau, and on the same
condition-that both keep telling her she
is pretty.
| Another treaty has been made with
the Crow Indians, but it will be strange
if they don't crow over it before long
discovering that they have caws
The Mennonites of the north Of
Europe have taken a fancy to this ceun
try, and in the spring will be Russian
over here in great numbers.
Mrs. Darlington says she hears thai
Wise, the balloonist, is any airy naught
and she supposes he must be, for thu
papers are blowing about him.
The age of trees is computed in exc
genous plants by the number of circles o.
wood in the trunk when cut across.
The American department of the vi
emma Exhibition seems to have beer
chiefly celebrated for its bargains.
"A Massachusetts, barber uses razor
said to be over hundred years old, show
ing that it has reached u good old edge.
"A correspondent of the New York
Mail says that ''kissing lady with al
Elizabethan ruff on is about as much fur
as embracing circular saw in full mo
ton"
An exchange says that 'woman il
like tar; only melt her, and she will TAKE
any form you please" She is not unfre
quently a Tartar, also; only get her, and
you will take any form she pleases.
An agreeable little parasite has beer
; discovered in the beef and mutton, and Ii
! said to be more dangerous than the famed
trichina spiralis.
For more than hundred years coffee
has been denounced by medical writers a.
poison. Yet the consumption of the arti
Gle has constantly increased.
The temperance people will be re
joiced at the report from the seat of the
Dutch. Atcheneese war, that the Sultan Of
Atcheen refused to treat.
AN eminent journalist defines editori
ais to be "shavings from the well.worr
mind, to be blown for one brief minute
before the wind Of public opinion, AM
then forgotten for all eternity"
No wonder that probabilities" mis-
takes occasionally, since he has such ,
large territory to look over. and mus
make his predictions daily, weather OF
no."
1t Is true, as recent writer has said
that we get as we give. 1t Is the law o
life. AS we dispense we receive, both il
quantity and kind. Shutting ourselves
, within ourselves, we find all else shuto out
Opening our life TO other life, we find tina
other opening to us.