Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-08

The Grand Duke Alexis having been
| ordered on another trip around the world
by his royal papa, there is prospect OF
some New York mules making another
display of their ears.
The hard times seem to have driven
| an unusual number of ofice-seekers TO
Washington The hotels and boarding
houses are full of them, and they swarm
in the Hobbies and the departments.
The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle denies the soft impeachment
! He has not three wives, and isn't about to
marry the fourth, didn't win hundred
thousand dollars at cards, never tried to
smoke his snuff box, and doesn't write
his own editorials.
An exchange says: 1.-THE stringency
in the egg market is painful. There has
been large falling off in deposits of late,
many of the hens having entirely sus-
pended, while others are holding on to
their reserves 1t is thought, however,
that nearly all will be able to resume
in the spring when the crops begin to
move"
The technicalities of the law, also, are
creeping into the courts of Idaho,
to the perversion of justice. Only
the other day Judge at Rocky Bal
showed how mighty particular he was
getting, by refusing to let man sit on
the Jury because he had shot couple OF
Cinnamon, and had been convicted OF
horse-stealing.
Hard times and dishonesty among
servants have got pretty tight grip on
the clubs of New York City. The Man
haitian Club has got TO raise $4,000 at
once, to meet its obligations, while the
Long Island Club will probably have to
be sold out soon, and nearly all the rest
are having hard wrestle with the finan-
cial question.
Liquor drinking in New York City
does not flag bit in consequence Of the
hard times. The excise commissioners
| have authority to refuse licenses when
they Judge best but they have already is
sued 6,S72 permits to sell, or at the rate
of one saloon to every 140 persons in the
city. Applications are continually made,
and the number of licensed sellers is now
nearly as large as in any former time.
The panic found the Michigan lum-
Der interest about as fiat as it could be, a
full years supply being already af1oat,
| rendering unnecessary the cutting OF a
stick of timber this winter Suspensions
of labor and the recalling of gangs have
prevailed throughout the Saginaw region,
and those employers who have not sus
pended have reduced wages 1917 per
cent The woods are full Of unemployed
men.
The latest improvement in burglar
proof safes is to line the interior with
steel rods which revolve easily. After
drilling through the outside casing OF the
safe the bit will strike one Of these rods
and be DETECTED from its course. 1t either
will not take hold or will be broken,
thus preventing the lock from being cut
out. But the burglars will doubtless match
this improvement with another one in
drills or jimmies.
"A fireman has introduced into an en-
CINE house in Bridgeport, Conn, an APP
paratus by which the lights are turned up,
the horses unfastened from their stalls,
and the doors thrown back, all by the
striking of the first blow Of the alarm.
The apparatus has worked very success
fully for nearly a year. The hammer of
the gong in lifting to strike the first blow,
moves lever which sets the whole ma
chinery in motion, and the horses, on
finding themselves unfastened, make
their way to the truck and solemnly back
into their places.
The sexton of new York church,
having to be away from his duties one
day, got substitute, who was not ac-
quainted with the congregation, and be-
came much excited when he saw an old
man come into one of the pews and raise
a peculiarly shaped ear-trumpet to his
face. Springing to his side, he said some
thing in a low voice; whereupon the gen
tleman endeavored to raise the trumpet
to his ear, but was prevented by the sex
ton Selling his hand. With increasing
voice and excitement, he said: "You
mustn't, sir. You mustn't blow that horn
in here. If you do, / shall be obliged to
put you Quit" And the good old man,
pocketing his bugle, heard nothing OF