Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-19

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Miss Greeley wsDts 10 get copies OF
ali the letters her father ever wrote. Who
ever HIS any IL requested to forward them
10 her, and she will take copies, ana
faithfully return the original.
William Cullen Bryant's equanimity
is frequently disturbed by complimentary
illusions TO "Thanatopis" as the best
poem he has ever written. As he produc-
cd "Thanatopis" before he was -, the
venerable bard regards such illusions as
anything but pleasant.
The handwriting Of the late Chief
Justice Chase was very peculiar. he
wrote q singularly small and almost
feminine hand, which, however, he turned
of with great rapidity and nervous force.
His private letters (which were more
numerous than those of almost any other
public man who filed stations SO eminent)
were models Of terse and clear English
style.
Miscellaneous.
--Woman's glory Is In her hair, but it
is a good plan to tie 1t up when cook
ing.
Mr.. Purling Plane, Of Belvidere, is
SuppOBtu W Dc uic oiuCSs Ahon AA AiiinOso,
aged 100.
1T is useless for physicians to argue
against shortsleeyed dresses. The consti-
tuition of the United States says that "the
right ~ bear arms shall not be intcrfered
with.
"A chap given TO statistics estimated
that over 1900 toes were frozen during the
past winter, by young ladies keeping their
beaus lingering at the gate, instead OF ask
Ing them into the parlor.
The precocious school-boy who, quot
ing from distinguished statesman, said
he knew no North, no South, was sur
prised TO find himself put at the bottom Of
the class in geography.
"A man who will take a newspaper
four or five years, and then. refuse to
pay for II, should begin his name with an
h and end 1t with a q, and put an o in the
middle.-M. Gilead lO) Register. The
editor who will send his paper To a man
for four or five years without getting his
pay for il, should begin his name with an
i and end it with an !, and put two o's in
the middle.--Imn fO.) Democrat.
1t is no wonder that so many people
are fiocking to Danville, N. H., this sum
mer. There is not a lawyer, doctor, light
ning-rod man, sewing machine agent, nor
hotel clerk in the place, while more than
400 beautiful, long haired, rosy checked,
bright eyed maidens, with natural teeth
and white dresses, meander through the
streets at eventide, chewing gum and
smiling on the few young men who have
heard of this clysium before. Young men
Of Missouri, sell your horse pistols and go
Eaaf ~ Txu;s Ieuorr1f
"A gentleman of elegant leisure" and
bachelor at that, has been amusing him
self with matrimonial statistics, and re
ports that out of two hundred marriages
published in New England journals dur
ing recent week, only two of the ladies
had old.fashioned names-such as Mary
and Susan. All the others were Mollies,
Dollics, Pollies, Libbies, Tibbies, Biddies,
Hatties, Phtics, Mattics, Lizzies, and so
on. He says ifhc can hear of some girl
with familiar "Christian name," he shall
start for herr
George Darum, in Nature, mentions
some facts going to confirm the opinion,
which has often been advanced, that per-
sons when lost always stray in a circle and
toward the left II has been suggested
that this may be accounted for by the fact
that the right side of the body is stronger
than the left, it being well known 10 boot
makers that the right foot is generally
larger than the left People are as a rule
rightlegged as well as righthanded. The
singular circumstances of lost persons
moving to the left pertains in the back
woods of both Australia and America.
In the quaint old town of Burlington,
New Jersey, lived cOlored divine, who
was known among his ebony countrymen
by the cuphoniOus name Of "Brudder
Jacksing" Some years ago the above
mentioned "brudder" was preaching to
his "deluded .brudderin'," when, all Of a
sudden, getting much excited, and picking
up the elegant new Bible which reposed
before him upon that sacred altar for the
first Sunday, held 1t poised in mid-air for
q moment, when down it came like a
thunderbolt to its former resting place.
This was noticed instanter by one OF ode
belubbcd," who, thinking, perhaps, the
whole proceeding totally wrong, immc-
diately exclaimed, in voice loud enough
TO be heard all over the room: "Brudder
Jacksing, flyer wants TO try dat 'speri-
mcnt ober again, why, just please to take
de old Blblcw
The gaseous smoke which arises from
the gas works during the manufacture of
gas has medicinal qualities that are large
ly appreciated by certain classes of peo-
pie in cities, and, strange as IL may seem,
the popularity of the medicine is on the
increase. The fumes are credited with
speedy cures Of whooping cough, includ-
ing, in several instances, very obstinate
cases. The San Francisco gas works
have finally become regular resort for
people afflicted with coughs, for whose
comfort and convenience the company
has erected several roomy benches. Adults,
upon whom the cough has disastrous
effect, and little children, who cough, and
laugh, and cough again, and only seem
annoyed when whooping, may be seen sit
ting side by side on those benches, and in
haling the fumes. Thus the exhalations
that arc not kindly regarded by healthy
persons become blessing to the sick.
"A very remarkable case of resuscita-
ton, remarks Galigpanfs Messenger, has
just been effected at the hospital of the
Val-de-Grace. A man had hanged him.
self in a garnet in the Rue Saint Jacques,
and having been cut down and examined
by the medical men, he was pronounced
TO be dead. The clinical lecturer, how
ever, desired to try one last experiment,
and he opened the chest and attempted