Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-26

An American tour is now fashiona
/ bic In England
Poetic readings are 10 be a feature Of
the watering places this summer.
They give Won towels the size Of hand
| kerchiefs at fashionable" seaside hotels
The power of love is once more illus
| trated in the case OF a girl in London who
| in order TO save her lsver, the real culprit
went into court and swore that she stole q
certain diamond pin.
81 had friend who dressed himself
| in ladies clothes and called upon q cele
/ brated fortune-teIler She did not dis
cover the disguise, but he heard what
made him very unhappy" Here the gen
tleman ceased. A lady, much interested
asked, What did the fortune-teller say to
him. why" said the gentleman, as
Stunning very grave aspect, ''she told him
he was to marry soon, and be the mother
of ten childrenn
AT Tom Badgers wedding, his most
intimate friend, Jack Lumley, was called
on for a toast Jack could not remember
the neat little speech he had been coming
for a week the presence OF blooming
damsel, who stared in his eyes, frightened
the elaborate toast out Of his memory.
But he felt himself equal TO the occasion,
and 10 the amaZement Of the guests he
said: Badger, your health May this
evenings entertainment be often repeat
ed" Mrs. Badger tainted.
A notable will was that left by the
late Dudley p. Rogers, of Salem, Mass
First he bequeathed $4,000 to the Salem
Fraternity" the income TO be used in pro.
viding such innocent amusements as its
officers "may consider best calculated to
attract and draw from the streets of Salem
the young men and women who have no
place To turn TO in the evening for amuse-
ment but the streets" Then the sum OF
81, 600 was left in trust, its income to be
devoted to the support of certain favorite
animals Of his as long as they live, and at
their death to be added to the other fund
Some individual with soft heart
writes TO the editor of the Louisville
Courtor-J Journal certain prophylactic for
cholera. He says that, when the old tiger
is around, all you have to do to secure i'm
munity is to put sulphur in your socks
every morning. A half teaspoonful of
sulphur per sock is all that is necessary.
| 1t Is alleged that this process charges the
| system with sulphureted hydrogen, and
sulphureted hydrogen Is the standby OF
the homcopathists. The preventive is a
simple one. The process may increase
wash bills, but If the sulphur doesn't
drive away cholera, it will deodorize the
feet, and in the summer time this is not
the worst thing that can happen.
"A veteran observer asks: "What be-
comes of all the men who, in youth, ex-
hibit high talent and give promise Of a
~ f,,t, ha ION
is not put to us individually, yet we take
seen cnveloped in white aprons, and
as bar-tenders. Their voices, that once
gave evidence of Ciceronic talent, are now
heard retailing vitreOus pastry-or "glass
puddn." They command canal-boats
and strcet-cars, and occasionally, one,
comes manufacturer of root beer and
drinks.--& Louis Democrat
Astronomers now very generally adopt
the theory that the November and other
periodical meteOrs consist of vast num-
Der of those small bodies moving, like
comets, across the sky or around 1t, and
in orbits SO eccentric as to cross that of
the earth They may move in vast aggre-
gated numbers, or in streams more or less
elongative. Some idea of the vast number
of some of these meteOric streams, or ag.
gregations, may be inferred from the fact
chat 1t required six hours for the earth to
cross the mcteoric stream which was en-
countered on the 9th of November last
AS the earth moves at the rate of 68, 1000
miles an hour, il follows that the meteOric
stream In question must have been up
ward of 100000 miles in breadth and of
unknown length.
OF what possible use mosquitoes
could be in the economy of Nature has
been an unsolved puzzle to most Of the
human family, even those who have a
profound faith in the utility of all things.
But science has answered that question at
last. The infant mosquito is discovered
to be the best food which the troutbreed-
ers can give to the young fish, Mr.. Mather,
of Honeoye Falls, N. Y, a practical trout
raiser, raises mosquitoes also for his finny
pets. With two barrels of stagnant rain
water he creates mosquitoes enough for
each thousand fry, and the youthful mos
quito Is strained out of its native barrel
and inc0ntinently thrown to the fishes
Luckily the fish are hungry fellows, and
devour these Larvae greedily. If it were
not for this way of getting rid of them,
Mr. Mather's neighbors might consider
this mosquito-raising business nuisance
"A gentleman and his wife, residing
in this place, went out few evenings
since to make call, and took along the
baby-cart with the baby in it. After max.
ing their visit, baby was snugly tucked
into the cart and all went their way home,
the distance being about half mile. In
due time home was reached, and on at
tempting to take baby out, what was their
surprise and establishment to find no baby
there. As may reasonably be supposed,
the father and msther-who, by the way,
are among our best citizeAs-were terribly
frightened, and with all possible haste re-
traced their steps in search of the little
lost one. On nearing the place of their
visit, and within few rods Of the house,
there lay baby fast asleep on the sidewalk,
all snugly bundled up, unconscious of the
perils which surrounded it. How it all
happened remains mystery to the pa.
rents, and will, no doubt, never be ex
planned TO their satisfaction. Monroe
(Wis) Republican.