Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-16
Miscellaneous.

The best color for faces-Water-
color.
An intellectual feast The entertain
mcnt Of an idea
"A shoe dealer adycrtises "Womans
Rights-and LET'S"
"A Detroit scavenger is going TO Scot
land 10 get $4,000 left by his uncle.
Thousands Of acres Of cranberrics in
Monroe Co Wis, have been destroyed by
frost.
An iron will, silyery voice, plenty
Of brass, and little tin will win golden
opinions.
The women or the United States use
more pins and needles than those Of any
other country.
The light of friendship like the light
of phospborus-seen plaincst when all
around Is dark.
Only twenty one steamers arc now en-
gagged in the Upper Mississippi River
trade, while in 1860 there were sixty.
There are now over 500, 900 bushels of
corn in store along the line of the Rock
Island Railway, owned by one man.
--"Thc strongest propensity in wo-
mans nature" says surly editor, lis a
desire to know what's going on, and the
next is to boss the job"
Six Indian skeletons have been re-
Gently exhumed in Pennington, Me. One
was of gigantic size, and is to be sent TO
the Smithsonian Institute.
-"Boy, what's become of the hole
saw in your pants the other day?' Young
America carefully examining his unmen-
fiona hIso o. Ito worn out air -
The hours of labor in the car shops
Of the Chicago 81 Rock Island Railway,
at Davenport, Iowa, have been reduced
TO eight, In preference to discharging any
hands.
One Of the buildings burned in Paw
tucket, L. l., recently, was the one in
which Samuel Slater opened-in the year
I7D9-the first Sunday school in Rhode
Island, if not in the United States.
The Icelanders are beginning to emf.
CRATE quite extensively TO the United
States. They are are said TO resemble the
scotch in appearance, and are bright,
clean and healthy looking class of people.
An amusing cpitaph.--
Dear passer-by, 1t is here lie,
died with q cancer In my right eye;
To all my friends bid Sdieu.
A more shocking death you mover knew.
Drinking and smoking put a good
deal Of money into the treasury. From
July l, 1872, TO May 1, 1873 the govern.
ment revenue from spirits of all kinds
mot including beer was Sal GAL 1876,
and from tobacco in its various forms,
$7,l7G,4l3.
I'm the southwestern portion Of Reno,
Kansas, considerable bands OF wild horses
are said TO roam. They are matchless In
speed and beauty. Hunters not unfre-
qucntly attempt To crease them, with a
view to capture, by well-directed shots
through the upper part OF the neck.
One of the Berlin (Prussis) hotels is
kept by man who was once servant in
the same establishment. While q "kell.
ner," wealthy woman asked him to
marry her. He did, and with her money
bought out his employer, and to-day Is
one of the greatest swells "Unter den Lin.
dem" This is fact.
Temperature Of the Ocesn.-It ap.
pears from the official report of the Brit
ish Challenger exploring expedition that
In the Atlantic the summer heat penetratcs
to the depth of about 60 feet, below which
the temperature is uniform all the year
round. The experiments made also de-
monstrate that at depth Of from one to
two miles the temperature Of the water is
everywhere % ,, or 4 . below the freezing
point.
One Of the latest additions to the mu.
scum Of the State University Medical De-
partment, at Iowa City, is live rattle.
snake sept to Prof Clapp by express. 1t
measures ten feet in length, and Is said to
be as big around as churn. and has . set
Of ratfles as big as an ear Of corn. The
serpent was confined in box which had
gimletholes bored in il to give him air.
If the box were touched, he would make
his rattles play with roar like . train
crossing bridge.
Religions and Educational.