Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
Miscellaneous.

MISCELLANEOUS
-Exemplifying duty does more than
explaining it.
"A Journalist who is not up with the
| times is sure to go down with them.
We are told that nothing Is made in
| vain--but how about pretty girl! Isn't
she maiden vains
The Shakers, with quaint simplicity
| Of expression, always speak OF their dead
as harvested.
The restaurantkeeper in the Cry stall
| Palace, near London, pays $4,000 a year
or the privilege.
| The Khediye's third son will become
Prussian dragon, in order to obtain a
military education.
Mrs. Partington thinks that the gro
GERS ought TO hire music-teacher to teach
them the scales correctly.
| The women take lively interest in
the farmers movement. They are natu-
rally Patrons of Husbandry.
Gold is reported getting steady, but is
not yet steady enough to enable the pco
pie to get good square look at it.
Whenever a young lady has neither
pearls in her gums nor pearls in her mind
| she had better keep her mouth shut.
The labor of the body relieves us
| from the fatigues Of the mind; but this il
is which forms the happiness OF the poor
| Love, and you shall be loved. All
love is automatically just, as much as
the two sides of an algebraic equation
Emerson.
There's many woman who would
not cut her neighbours flesh who will yet
stab her to the heart by tongues thrust
at her character.
| If you want to know what man
thinks of you get him mad. We never
know what is at the bottom Of a stream
until it is stirred up.
Burial cases, constructed ofpaper, are
reported as the final innovation over metal
and wood, and are the peculiar ideas Of an
enterprising Auburn man.
The last novelty in college degrees il
NJ X. L., conferred by ladies' college in
New Jersey. 1t signifies mistress OF
English Literature"
The Boston Tyaascrtpt says the French
Academy has declared against the use OF
coffee. This will not settle it, unless they
exhibit the grounds.
measure Of enjoyments, as the foot is the
measure Of the shoe. We can call only
the want of what is necessary, poverty.
The Cleveland tunnel, extending one
mile and a quarter under Lake Erie, Is
nearly completed. II is estimated that II
will furnish water supply of 10000, DOC
gallons every twenty -four hours.
The rush to Europe this year has been
in excess of any former year. Five OF
six thousand families, of the class usually
resorting to the fashionable watering
place, have gone over the sea.
1t matters very little whether it be
Asiatic cholera or some other kind, sc
long rs it kills. But If it be Asiatic, it has
taken an entirely new freak in dealing
lightly with great cities, and playing the
very mischief with small towns.
1t is one of the possibilities of bal
looming in the future that the problem OF
the open Polar Sea, and Of the poles gen.
orally, will be solved by means of the bal
loon, which will also be successfully APP
piled to the discovery of future Living.
stones, should any of that family again
get lost.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
decided that fire insurance company,
has not the right to cancel a policy when
fire is approaching the insured property,
or when danger of destruction is i'm
pending. The case arose under the can
collation. Of q policy on cOrd-wood while
forest fires were burning In the neighbor-
hood.
--Oxidized silver ornaments are the
rule. The modern belle, with complete
set of oxidized jewelry, looks like leaf
out Of ancient history. And to be equip
ped in style one should have necklace
composed of large beads, earrings, breast.
pin, sleeve buttons, slides for the neck.
tie, buckles for the sash, shawl-pins, veil.
pins, and the numerous appendages for
the belt
"A civil service committee in Wash
ington asked an applicant for clerk
ship what was the distance Of the planet
Saturn from the earth. The candidate
answered that he was unable to state the
distance in miles, but did not think il suf-
ficiently near to interfere with the per-
Torrance of his duties as a clerk, nor to
beget in him desire to NEEDLE with the
rings.
"A farmer in Illinois last fall packed
some apples in plaster, filling up the in
terstices with this material. Opening the
barrel on the 14th of June, he found the
fruit In wonderful state of preservation.
There was not an eighth as many decayed
ones as in barrels put up in the ordinary
way, while the fruit was almost as fresh
as when 1t was gathered.
My experience as medical man."
says New York physician, SHOWS that
bald-headed men are seldom or never
drunkards; and that moreover bald.
headed man is seldom found in lunatic
asylum" To which an irreverent GUS
toner replies: "Bald-headed men, it may
be explained, seldom driak at their own
expense, and there are public institutions
beside lunatic asylums."
IF Mont Blanc were q solid lump of
gold, and If in order to become the owner
Of 1t We had nothing to do but go over in
Prof. Wise's balloon and take possession
Of 1t, We would thousand times rather