Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-27
Miscellaneous.


Natures tailoring--a potato patch.
An air of importance-One's first
breath
The buckwheat is "the cake" at
present.
The tide of emigration to Texas con-
tinues in the South.
The crash has had a clean wipe in
the matter of towels,
1t is estimated that 1000 plug hats
were won on the result of the Ohio elec-
ton.
The debt of New York City is as
large in proportion as that of tho United
States.
An iron will, silver voice, plenty of
brass, and a little tin, will win golden
opinions.
The last lion-tamer has been chewed
up for the season. Menageries gone into
winter quarters.
An old negro woman of Duluth
cures toothache by rubbing her hand over
the patients cheek.
Coffee is getting so high priced in
Georgia that people are saving persmmon
seed TO use as substitute.
"A Nashville man boasts of owning
'the inkstand used by General Jackson at
the battle of New Orleans.
Portland, Me-, il making an effort to
suppress shaving on Sunday, which the
BARRIERS regard as altogether unrazor-
nable.
One female clerk in the Treasury De
partment can count 5000 notes In an
hour, and has counted 1000 in twenty
minutes.
In the dictionary Of trade, which fate
has reserved for embarrassed manhood,
there is no such word as fail" 1t Is
suspension.
An Eastern clergyman recently de.
clared that the whistling of a railroad en-
CINE on Sunday "snorted defiance in the
face of heaven"
"A New York thief tied lady to the
leg Of a piano and then ransacked the
house. This is another reason why folks
shouldn't keep pianos.
The Shaker Society of South Union,
KY, has offered to adopt and educate
fifty Of the children orphaned by the re-
cent pestilence in Memphis.
"A Cincinnati man bought his wife two
thousand papers of pins the other day.
He said he'd stop her jawing about pins
"A Maine paper speaks of "Miss -
-, an unmarried maiden lady" AT
least one single solitary one OF those
words might have been spared.
"A widowed mother, three sons and
two daughters were all married ut the
same time in Cincinnati. They were
bound TO keep ii in the family.
Trying to do business without adver-
Using is like winking at a pretty girl
through pair OF green goggles. You
know what your doing but nobody else
does.
The reputation Of man is like his
shadow; sometimes follows and some
times precedes him; it Is sometimes
longer, sometimes shorter, than his natu-
raj size.
"A Salt Lake City paper declares that
Brigham Young's new house will be zone
OF the most gorgeous and costly resi-
dences anywhere between sunrise and
sunset"
--Coleridge, when lecturing az young
man. was once violently Kissed. He inn
mediately retorted, "When a cold stream
Of truth is poured on ed-hot prejudices,
no wonder that they hiss"
1t having been said that since her
marriage Nilsson is more free with her
voice than before, q cynical exchange re-
marks that "probably that news came
from her husband, poor fellow"
There is refuge for prosecuted hus-
bands in the Sandwich Islands. Under
the bcneficent rule of King Bill hus-
band can divorce himself from his wife If
in his opinion she talks too much.
The cheek of some women is astound-
ing. Mrs. Cranston, out at Davenport, for
instance, demands some two thou.
sand dollars for simply settling in that
town. She settled in mudh hole as she
was getting out of stage.
The ultima thule of surgery seems to
have been reached in New Haven,
Conn, If we may credit local chronicle,
which tells of a patient there who re.
Gently "had q cancer removed from her
heart"
Get to the roots Of things. The gold
mines of Scripture are not in the top soil,
you must open shaft; the precious dia
monds of experience are not picked up in
the roadway; their sacred places are far
down.
The Wilmington Del.) Commercial
gives as the general estimate, that at least
thirty per cent. of the men recently en-
ployed in the leather manufactures In
Wilmington have been discharged Many
OF the firms are shutting down on the
manufacture Of stock. 1t is said that one
OF the largest Trims In the city has issued
orders that no more skins be prepared for
manufacture at present. Most of the
firms have large stocks on hand, which
they desire TO sell before manufacturing
more.