Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-05
Miscellaneous.

Ninety five pairs Of twins and one
collection of triplets were added to the
population Of Chicago last year.
Somebody, who has taken the trouble
to compile the statistics of violent deaths
in 1873 gratuitously, finds that more peo-
pie died by drowning than any other
means.
"A new stove has been invented for the
comfort Of travellers; it is to be put under
the feet, with mustard plaster to the
head, which draws the heat through the
whole system.
Spanish proverbs are at discount
just now; but this one is at par: "At
eighteen marry your daughter to her su.
perior; at twenty, to her equal; but at
thirty, to anybody who will have her"
Two Pittsburgh PENN surveyors
have found tract of land in that city on
which derots, foundries, ETC., are built,
and which is valued at $14.000,000,
and have laid claim to it. The case is in
court, and has not yet been decided.
"A writer in the Medical Times and Ga.
zette argues that fatigue in long railway
journey arises from the constant trembling
motion of the floor under the feet, and
that the use of an air cushion or foot.
stool relieves all sense of WEAKNESS.
The day when a boy begins to feel un-
easy at being dependent upon somebody
else is the day when his boyhood begins
to give way TO manhood. The day when
girl finds somebody on whom she is
willing TO depend is that in which she
passes from girlhood to womanhood.
"A neveryielding problem to newly
married man is how to carry groceries SO
that the people will not suspect that he is
just married. One man looks so sheep
ish that the fact is publicly advertised,
while another, in trying TO avoid this ex-
IRENE, becomes so preternaturally solemn
that he is betrayed at once.
"A paper was recently read before
the French Academy extolling the vir-
tues Of buttermilk. 1t claims for this
article a good share of the acid which de-
stroys the Incrustations which form ON
| the arteries, cartilages and valves of the
| heart, and believes constant use Of but
| termilk will free the system from troubles
which inevitably cause death between the
| seventy fifth and hundredth years ofman's
life.
A residence on Buchanan street, In.
| dianapolis, has the following conspicu-
ously posted upon its front:
mo YoUseE man ALLOWED
To come and COURTE my
| DARTER UNLESS
| he has $500 10 PAY DOWN
| on O HOUSE and Lot
| balance In II d yeares
for sail by me. WITHIN"
Mr.. Wendell Phillips tells US, in his
last lecture, that q Connecticut baby, six
months old, looks over the side Of his
cradle, plans model, and gets out pat
ent for It," There has been some little
surprise expressed at the precocity OF Mr.
/ Mill, as an infant, who was in Greek a,
| the age of three; but, after this, the
| Youthful achievements of the English
| philosopher go for naught. The Con
necticut baby is the champion OF the
world in the way of precociousness.
When boy is put to farm labor he
is given an old hoe, a fork with broken
| tine, a round edged ak, a scythe that no
| body else will use and Is expected 10
| work more hours than hired hand, TO dc
all the chores, to build fires in the morn
ing, TO run on all errands, TO turn the
grindstone and go to meeting in cowhide
boots. With this experience he does nc
like farming and lecturers, editors, mem
beers of Congress and petty lawyers mourn
because so many young men go from Inc
farm to the city.
The Friends have from time imme
mortal sat apart in their worship, the re
males on one side of the room and thu
males on the other. At meeting recent