Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
Personal and Literary.


--Agassiz was twice married. His sec
ond wife was Miss Lizzie Cary.
Anthony Trollope thinks novels are
the sermons of the present day.
1t is reported that Mrs. Laura ID.
Fair has married lawyer in San Fran
cisco.
john Wassergraubueniinger is one
of the names in the Philadelphia Direc-
tory.
Anna Dickinson is said by a Phila-
delphia paper 10 be terribly in earn
est"
Seth Green intends to keep at work
right along until every lake and river is
stocked with fish,
Captain Fry, of the VIrginius, it Is
stated, was medium" and firm be-
lever in spiritualism.
joaquin Miller, half calf" is the
latest announcement OF London pub
Usher. Another libel suit in prospect
Tweed, it is stated, will write an
autobiography while in prison, telling all
he knows about buying up Legislatures.
Mrs. Secretary Fish has pale, regu-
lar face, framed in with snow-white hair,
and dresses always in neutral tints, or in
black.
Julia Ward Howe, who is a matron
Of many years experience, affirms that
no woman can be brilliant after mar
riage.
Richard Edwards, President of the
State Normal School of Illinois, has de-
cided to become Congregationalist min
lister.
Jim Nye, ex-Congressman, struck
out with his right few days ago, and
gambler at the other end of his arm went
to grass.
DR. Mary Walker has not yet aban-
doned her efforts 10 obtain pension.
Impaired vision is what's the matter with
the doctor.
The Siamese Twins have made money
enough to enable them to settle down and
live at ease, and they won't be exhibited
any more.
War" said John Stuart Mill, sis an
ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state Of nation
al feeling that thinks nothing worth awar
is worse"
Senator Edmunds, Of Vermont, is
said To have been advised by his physi-
clan to give up close attention TO his
duties on penalty Of becoming perma-
nent invalid.
Mrs. Nancy Moore, of Wakefield,
Mass, celebrated her 103d birthday on
Christmas. She has been blind for some
years. but her intellectual faculties are
unimpaired.
~ stand before you q convicted
criminal" Applause. 1t is thus that
Miss Susan b. Anthony begins her
speeches, while CLEAN of triumph IL
Eliminates her primeval eye.
The late Professor Agassiz was never
| injured by the bite Of a snake, or the
poison of any yenomous reptile, herb or
| fiower--a fact attributed TO the courage
and impunity with which the naturalist
moved among them in their wild state.
BOSS" Tweed does not wear the
regular Penitentiary uniform. The New
York Herald says "He has had special
suit made OF material different from any
worn in the institution, because there Is
no special uniform for misdemeanor pris-
oners"
MIR. William Moss, of Monroe county,
Is said TO be the oldest man In Indiana.
He was born May 10, 1859, and IL consc-
quently more than ia years old, and is
yet a hearty old man, walking nearly q
mile recently TO get his mail and
bitters. He has son living in the same
neighborhood who is rs years old.
Gen. Oliver o. Howard, who has been
president of Howard University at Wash.
ington since II started, has resigned, and
J Professor John NJ. Langston, Of Ohio
colored. has been appointed provisional
president. Langston started In life as O
barber in Chillicothe, Ohio, worked his