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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
-Dur;nr the performance of woman

During the performance OF woman
gymnast and velocipede rider, on tight
wire. at theaier in Leeds, England, a
man in the gallery was detected in an at
tempt to unfasten the guy ropes by which
the wire was strained up. The slacken.
ing Of the wire would have thrown of
the woman and killed her. The man was
heartily thrashed by about dozen in the
gallery. and then kicked out.
Prentice milford thus writes of his
experience at the Vienna Exposition
..Of course / got lost. / couldn't find the
'Ausgang.' This. in German, means the
git out place must have walked seven
miles in that maze of building before the
.Ausgang' presented itself. | knew that
il would come sooner or later. l knew
that If simply stood still 'Ausgang'
would come round where / stood. i
think about five hundred other people
were similarly lost for they kept coming
up to me and inquiring in all sorts OF
languages where the 'Ausgang' was. /
said to them, Il am simply fellow-worm
of the dust like yourselves. Yesterday,
o. the day before yesterday, or last week,
or maybe last year, managed with a
great deal of difficulty to get in here, and
I've been wandering around ever since
trying to get out Some said 'Yaw,' and
some said So
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
The london Times of recent date

The London Times of recent date
mentions the increasing competition OF
the American iron dealers with those OF
England. The Times says this competi-
ton is Llainly shown in Canada, where
American railway iron is delivered at
prices fifteen TO twenty per cent below
those of Stafordshire. 1t mentions IN
this connection an order for fifteen thou
sand axles. which, under ordinary circum-
stances, would have gone to England, but
which. on account of the cheapness, was
given to a manufacturer in the United
States.
Recent experiments have. confirmed
the supposiiion that the inferior quality
of certain kinds of wheat and rye flour is
frequently due to the action of sunlight,
by which, even when in bags or barrels,
the gluten suffers metamorphosis SINH
lar to that occasioned by heating in the
milk. The tendency thus impaired to 1t
to become lumpy, and form dough with
out toughness, is similar to that OF flour
from moist grain, or of flour when it is
too fresh, or made from grain ground too
early, or when adulterated with barley
meal. Such -four can be improved by
keeping for some weeks.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Personal and Literary.

Henry Watterson will return to this
country In September.
Rev. j. N. Lee has resigned the Presi-
dency Of Bethany College, at Topeka,
Kan.
1T is said that United Senator John P.
Jones, Of Nevada, has an income from his
mining property of 100000 year.
Bailey, the Danbury Naos man, is not
going to sacrifice his selfrespect and repu-
tation by lccturing around the country.
Miss White Cloud, daughter of the
Indian chief, has conflded her hopes Of
earthly bliss to native of Ireland named
Pat Mcclure.
Deacon Davis, Of Springfield, Ill, has
been brought before his church for hab-
itual profanity In making use Of the ex.
preston "by gum"
The atlantic Aonthly talks about peo-
pie being "scicnced out of their relig-
{ous faith. Perhaps they might be
"ignoranced" back again.
William Cullen Bryant, II Is said,
contemplates voyage around the world,
either during the coming autumn or next
spring.
American newspapers and magazines
published In German have been definitely
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
A StupendOus Scheme.

A GENTLEMAN whose enthusiasm for
the American centennial is evidently
boundless has written to high govern
ment official to suggest that at precisely
twelve O'Clock, M, Washington time, OF
the Fourth of July, 1876, all the guns,
bells, steam whistles, trumpets, drums,
organs and other musical instruments in
the country, with the millions OF human
voices, "burst forth into sounds ofjoy and
praise.n He would have an electric signal
from the nations capital flashed through
all the telegraph wires in the country to
every city, town and hamlet, and by the
cable to Europe, Asia and Africa and,
we suppose New Jcrsey-and from the
western wilds to the far-off isles OF the
Orient this gigantic racket should Ibid
the slumbering millions of heathendom
awake and join the happy nations in
| singing that sublime invocation to praise,
| Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Now this scheme is magnificently patri-
otto, but it is also bewilderingly big; it
will be well to think of the consequences.
The combined yell of forty million pair
| of lungs-we set it low, because some
sedtious persons probably wouldn'tyell-
with the proposed instrumental accompa-
niment, would produce noise not to be
particularly sneezed at, and it might
'sbust things" What if it should rend
heavens concave, frighten the moon from
| its orbit, split the planets, crack the sun,
or topple over the foundation of the uni.
verse itself-who is going to clear up and
| fix things next day! We should hardly
want such bill for repairs, and we can't
expect the effete monarchies to chip in
| it isn't their funeral. But just think Of it,
! every man, woman and screaming infant
in this 'tarnal Yankee nation, standing
with breath drawn in, shoulders back,
and toeing out, ready to pour out their
souls in one gigant "Hoop-la" at given
| signal Of the signal shouldn't come,
| after all, it would be an awful come-down,
wouldn't it?) 1t is really to much; the
mind can't grasp it. Talk about waking
the "slumbering millions of heathen-
domw Why, it would scare EN- to death.
| Our poor Indians would think we meant
them, and would incontinently seek last
reservation in the waves of the Pacific.
And this extending the yell into foreign
countries would be a little perilous.
| Americans are not numerous enough
there. Away down in Australia, for in
stance, if some grizzly American miner,
| the only one in the vicinity, probably,
all the forenoon, and, at the signal, sud-
denly begin to howl and cut up, they
would think he had gone daft and would
knock him on the head, after the custom
of those primitive provinces. The more
civilized foreigners would stare at us and
call us pack of fools, while the fellows
in the other planets would wonder what
on Earth was a-going on, and we should
be subjected to their impairment remarks
for several days. Mono, this thing won't
do; we had better go little slower. A
few more punches of fire crackers, and
another pin-wheel or two, will answer
just as well, and will be infinitely safer
Springfield (Nass) Republican.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Appetite.

AT certain seasons, as in spring and
summer, the appetite of even the very
robust is apt to fail, and the relish for
meats and heavy food to wane. This is
all right en- ough, for animal diet in warm
weather heats the blood, tends to head
aches, and is generally unwholesome, un-
less sparingly used. On the other hand,
fresh vegetables, berries, fruit and bread
are cooling, corrective, and what the
palate most Graves Don't be afraid to go
without meat for a month or so, and, If
you like, live purely upon vegetable regi-
men. Wewill warrant that you will lose
no more strength than is common to the
time, and that you will not suffer from
protracted heat, as when dining on the
regulation roast.
Many persons regard hearty desire
| for food as something unrefined, indeli.
cate, and to be constantly discouraged.
This is a greater and more harmful mis-
take than that Of coaxing the appetite. 1t
! Is just as necessary for the man who
works only with his brain to eat beef and
mutton, as for the man who labors solely
with his hands. The stomach and the
brain are twins; the former being the
elder, and having prior right to care. Let
that be well provided for; and 1t will sus-
tain its brother. The people who strive
to check a wholesome and natural appe-
tite are the people who regard dinner
merely as q feed, not the center of an
agreeable social custom and as the domes-
tic event of the day We are sorry for
them, as they must regard eating at all as
q prosaic duty, obligatory on them be.
cause they have bias in favor of living
We all know that we must eat to live; but
we by no means live TO eat simply be-
cause we enjoy what we eat. We are not
gourmands because we relish chops, nor
are we invalids because we want straw.
berries.
A good appetite is good thing; but
not il it is to be worried by urging or
neglect.-"Homs and Society,"" in Scri6-
ner's for August.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
That Plaguy Hen.

Mr.. CoBLEIGH, of Nelson street, bought
three hens, Saturday night, and put them
under box until he could build coop.
Sunday morning he saw one OF them IN
the street, and bestowing brief curse on
the somebody who had overturned the
box, and je0pardized his property, ne
started out after it, to drive it back into
tie ward. 1t took fifteen minutes to con-
vince him that that hen could not be
driven into that yard, and then he attempt
ed to catch it Three times he rose up
with his hands full of feathers, and his
chin full of sand, but still that hen eluded
him. Once he got it cornered, and thought
sure he had il, but it flew straight up over
his head, and tapped its wings in his
face, and filled his eyes with dust. y,
how mad Mr.. Cobleigh was 1t was Sun
day morning. The bells were ringing,
people were starting to church, and there
he was in the street, with no coat or hat
on, and with nothing but slippers on his
feet and every once in a while one OF
them would come off and fly through the
air. and his naked foot would come in
contact with the cruel gravel before he
could stop himself Then he would have
to hop back on one foot after that slipper,
while the hen stood on the walk and elO-
cuted, and the little Sunday school chill
dren stopped and laughed, and their
parents reproved them and laughed,
100. Finally the hen got away from
him and started down street at a
wonderful speed for hen, and he started
after her, his face redder than ever, and
every time he cleared rod, he would stop
and hop back two after one of those slip
pers. When he reached the corner OF Is
sex-street, he jumped out of both slippers
at once, but instead of stopping to 60 back,
he picked up stick Of wood, and kept
on. Then as the hen lodged into gate
way he hurled the stick, and broke the leg
of strange dog, which added its piercing
"ki.yi," to the entertainment. But Cob.
leigh didn't stop. He tore into the yard
after his property, in his bare feet, and
chased the hen into wood pile and caught
it, Just as the owner of the premises came
out and wanted to know what Cobleigh
was going to do with his hen, and what
he meant, anyway, by getting drunk and
kicking up such hullabaloo in a peace
full neighborhood. Cobleigh first thought
he would knock the man down with an
axe, and what he could not eat of him
bury under barn, but the new conner
succeeded in proving TO Cobleigh that the
hen was his, and then the miserable man
burst into tears and limped back home,
where he found the three hens under the
box-Danbury Ne,cs
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Michigan is said to have the larpes

Michigan is said to have the largest
sawmill in the world. 1t is located in the
Saginaw Valley, four miles from Saginaw
Bay, and opposite the Bay City. The main
building is eighty by one hundred and
forty feet in size, with slate roof. There
are also several wings, in which machine.
ry for the Manufacture of lath and slaves
is placed. All parts of the immense
establishment are lighted with gas. The
mill began operations in 1865, and since
that time has manufactured 1870, 1853 027
feet of lumber, giving employment to
three hundred men. In one day it cut
s7C, 797 feet of lumber, feat which has
never been equaled.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11

forbidden by the German government to
| be sold in that country.
Wilson's real name was TornernleIm'
but she couldn't risk the ruinatlon OF heI
voice every time she had TO tell who she
was.
Frederick Douglass will deliver the
| address a, the dedication of the Soldiers
Monument, at Lynn, Massachusetts, In
September.
Emma Black, of Mississippi, since
| she towed a drowning man ashore by
means of her abundant hair, acknowl-
edges herself tow.head.
A Miss Wheeler, Of Milwaukee, has
published book entitled Poems on the
HalfShelI. The title would indicate
that the contents are of rather b-oys'er-
Gus nature.
Joseph p. Police, poor machinist OF
Atlanta. Ga. by the death Of bachelor in
Charleston. s. C., fell heir to $50, 900 worth
Of property and $1,000 in gold.
Miss Eliza s. Buchanan, who has
been nominated for Superintendent OF
Schools in Jefferson County, Iowa, has
much weight with the public. The scales
balance only at three hundred pounds.
-Eighty-eight young ladies are on the
lists OF the Michigan University at Ann
Arbor. Porty.two Of them are for the
literary course, thirty-seven for the medi-
cal, and four in the law school
brigham Young is described as cool
and unruffied about his wife's divorce
suit. He will, however, soon get ano-
Their that will suit, and will have an OPP
portunity 10 get ruffled again.
John j. Snider, aged 1916 years, who
served in the British army in our own
war Of the revolution, and was subse-
aucntly under Butcher in the battle OF
Waterloo, died recently in the poorhouse
at Statesville, n. G.
Elijah Newton restless in Clermont
county, Ohio, and is 10 years old. 1t is
said that he once refused to exchange
forty yards Of Kentucky jeans for the lot
on which the Cincinnati Post Office now
stands.
Prof r. F. Peckham has resigned the
Chair of Natural Sciences in Buchtel
College, Akron, to accept the appoint
ment Of Professor Of Chemistry in the
University Of Minnesota and Of Chemist
to the Geological Survey Of that State.
AT the Scientists Convention, in Port
land, paper was read the other day on
Calvert's Supposed Relic of Man in the
Miocene of the Dardanelles" While it
was being read you could have heard a
man drop postage stamp. Most of the
members were asleep.
The Dunkirk On. W Journat says
that Joseph Warren, Of the Buffalo
Courier, was recently challenged to fight
duel by Israel T. Hatch, of Buffalo.
Warren accepted the challenge and chose
broad.swords for weapons; distance, thirty
PAGES.
The Paris Untgcrs (Ultramontane) an,
nounces with great joy that Mr.. Darwin
was rejected by twenty,six against six
votes as corresponding member of the
French Academy Of Science The six
votes were given him, it says. by the
friends of the Apes"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Industrial.

Black River Falls, Wis, has shipped
two thousand bushels of blueberries this
season.
Oregon has fifty-four boot and shoe
establishments, that manufactured $115.
3l2 worth of boots and shoes last year.
The harvest of wheat and barley ia
concluded in Arizona, and the same land
is now being plowed and planted with
corn.
The Sutro Tunnel 10 now In dis.
lance of 4,243 feet The face of the header
is In hard, dry rock. Drifting has been
commenced both east and west, on the
line of the tunnel.
Money at the bank in Dallas, Texas,
II worth 331 per cent, and no trouble to
let 1t out ut that. Spectators in Texas
property are reaping rich harvest
The Illinois Central Company is
about to construct very large freight
depot at Dubuque, Iowa. It will be 3O4
feet In length by 90 feet in width. The
building will be Of brick, with stone
trimmings.
1T Is said that glycerine mixed with
the water in steam-engine boilers pre-
vents the deposition Of lime-salts, and
consequently protects the boiler from in.
crustation. About one pound of glyce.
rine to every three hundred or four hun
dred pounds Of coal burned is sufficient
for this purpose.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11

AN apple tree in Blackstone, Mass, at.
tracts much local attention from the fact
that two good-sized apples, touching each
other, have grown directly from the
trunk, few feet above the ground, and
SO close to the bark that it is difficult to
distinguish any stem.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
DR.. j. r. MILlER'S
UNIVERSAL
MAGNETIC BALM i.

It cures 2S II by mAGN EI1C
INFLUENCE, Neuralgia and all pain. and is
therefore very properly termed Magnetic
Balm" 1t is purely vegetable preparation. It
has no equal as remedy for
Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhna, Dysen-
terry, Collie and all Bowel Complaints.
Its Timely use will cure Colds, Group, Diph-
when properly used. Fever and Agle.
and other complaints incident to ourwestern and
southern climates. are easily broken up.
Nervous Pain. k-Headache, and Rheu-
matism are cured by this medicine when all Others
have failed. Toothache, Earache, Burns. Chill
blains and Bruises are relieved at once by its use
The genuine has ID. II ansoln d Co. -
private Revenue Stamp on the outside, and Or.
j. r. Miller's Magnetic Balm blown in the bottle.
Examine closely, and buy none but the gen.
uine.
Sold by ell Druggists. Price Is cents per
bottle.
D. RANSOM. Son & Co., Propr's, Buffalo, N. 7.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
i. r E: ,;A.eE..::. E.:.r.,

Dr. Pierce's PlSASant Purg9tiv0
Pellets, or Sugar-C Coated Concentrated Root
and Herbal Juice. Anti BiiAus Granules-,he
Little Giant" Cathavtic, or fSlfSw 81 fa,1S
Physic, scarcely largcrlthan mus.
tord seed, yet representing much eatharfic
power as large repulsve pills, bqhg mosfsea'tA'ns
and Moyo.gA. yef gritty szl kind!y sf<'ah.g
ulal ears IS sn required ,ls using them. For
S.s, land .HSnasd.ache' p. smPuiE S
Disziscss, sdas Ersctations, mad
tasto IN. MOdfh, 1iliOus attacks9
TO Head, DioSied Ssonsch, High
COlOred UriMes Hleomy FOrebsa.
ings, take DIR. PiefNe's Pellets.
RimPles. nlcseEs Er9Pilc:n::
lent Affections Of Hkin, ThrOas
and Bones. No cheap wuS "A or paste board
boxes, but kept fresh and rel1ble in walls -
cents, BY Druggists Or q ado.en: Mans Mac
So, "a, 81 and IS West Senecg/Se, BUFFALO. N. !.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11

-One Of the derricks used in the con-
struction Of the New Government build.
ing, at Chicago, gave way, the other day,
while handling seven-ton block. A
man who was seated in the top was hurled
thirty feet in the air, and fell upon pile
Of rocks, sustaining injuries that caused
immediate death.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
SCHRNCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS

These Pills arc composed exclusively of vegetsDis
Ingredients. and although they entirely super:ede
1se Of mercury DO not leave any q IL
liable remedy In all cases of dcrangement resu.s.s
from dsordered state Of that organ; L Mxssdscne
plant, Bilious Disorders Indigestion, Sick
Typhoid and other Fevers, &C., &C., Al succumo -
the free use of SCHRNCK's MANDRAKE PILLS.
For sale BY ~ Druggists and Dealers.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11

How NICE your collars have ALWAYS
looked this hot weather. What do Won
wear" said one gentleman to another.
always wear either the Elmwood or
Warwick. They are the best that can be
found"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
DR n W P1ERcE of Buffalo NV

DR. r. v. PIERCE, of Buffalo, NY. wa.
the first physician to advocate Constitution,1
as well as local treatment for the cure ~
Catarrh, and SO successful has his Golden
Medical Discovery proven as a constitutional
treatment, when combined with the use of N
Sage's Catarrh Remedy applied locally by Dr.
Pierce's Nasal Douche thc only method Of
reaching the upper and back cavities or cham.
beers of the head, that he has long offered
standing reward of $500 for case he can not
cure. Both medicines with the instrument for
81, by all Druggists. IS
PHILADELPHIA is strong on brotherlv
love, but an average of thirty three mar.
riages day for the past year indicates
something more than brotherly love.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-11-13
THE PLAGUE AT SHREVEPORT.

From the Southwestern Telegram, Oct. Goth.
1t is with heartfelt pleasure that
we resume our daily issue. When
the terrible scourge that has devasta-
ted our city first broke out, the
Southeastern telegram force were
among the first to feel its effects.
First one was attacked, and then an
other, until finally the whole force,
editors, proprietors, and employees,
were stretched upon bed of sick
ness, necessarily compelling the sus-
pension OF our paper, but thanks to
the mercies of a Divine Providence
we are able once more to appear be-
fore our readers, whose kind sympa.
thies during our troubles have been
fully appreciated. Never in the his
tory of Shreveport has death and
misery passed with such heavy hand
upon our afflicted citizens. High and
low, rich and poor, young aud old
nave alike suffered from the merci-
less touch of the devastating angel
scarcely household but mourns the
loss Of some beloved one, and, in
many instances, every member of the
family have been swept away.
When the fever was at its height
it was truly heart rending to witness
the appearance of the city. Every
business house and store closed no
teams or wagons on the almost de-
serted streets, and scarcely anyone
to be seen but the members of How.
ard Association. Had it not been
for the noble generosity of sister
cities, and the untiring devotion of
Howard Association, and few 9TH
ers who were able to be around, God
only knows what would have be-
come of our afflicted city. Out of a
population of about 900 remaining
in Shreveport when the yellow fever
was declared epidemic, at least 700
have gone o their last home, num-
bered among whom were many OF
our brightest, most upright and intel
ligent citizens yet notwithstanding
our sore Affections we look forth to a
bright and prosperous future. The
sad experience of the past have
taught us to realize that zone touch
of human nature makes the
whole world KIM" and also that the
laws of nature so imperatively and
plainly marked out can not be viola
ted with impunty. No endeavor
will be spared by the Southwestern
Telegram to ensure the sanitary con-
dition of Shreveport in the future be-
ing more beftting a civilized commu-
nifty than it has been in the past. We
heartily condole and sympathize
with those of our sister cities who
are suffering from the ravages of the
yellow fever, and sincerely trust that
bright and brilliant future will en-
able us all to soften the effects of the
terrible and blighting past.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-11-13
How a Chinaman Persuades a Mule.

The Chinese are always kind tc
animals, and never punish hence a
mule that in the hands of foreigner
would be not only useless. but dan.
gerous to every one about it, be.
comes, in the possession of China.
man, as quiet as lamb and as
tractable as dog. We never be-
held a runaway, a jibbing, or a
vicious mule or pony in a Chinaman's
employment; but found the same
rafting, cheerful pace maintained
over heavy or light roads by means
of tdr.r or cluk-k, the beast turning
to the right or left and stopping
with but hint from the reins. This
treatment is extended to all animals
they press into their service. Often
have admired the tact exhibited in
getting q large drove of sheep
through narrow, crowded streets and
alleys by merely having little boy
to lead one Of the quietsst of the
flock in front; the others steadily
followed, without aid either from q
yelping cur or cruel goad. Cattle,
pigs, and birds are equally cared
for Ir0Uels on horseback.