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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
THE STATE LEGISLATURE

MARcH19.-Th Senate to-day passed the bill
to organize an Industrial department In the
public schools, and also the bill apportioning
the State into Legislative districts. The
House passed the following bills: Senate bill
to exempt wholesale peddlers from license;
Senate bill to prohibit minors from
saloons and billiard-halls; Mrs. Matilda
Fletcher's bill providing for an expo
sition In public schools; the Legislative
APPROXIMATION BILL. After the adoption
the usual resolutions of thanks to the presid-
ing officers, clerks and reporters, both houses
adjourned sine die. .. The following are the
names OF the officers Of the different
State institutions, chosen by the Leg
islsture in joint convention on the
evening OF the 18th Trustees of the
State Agricultural College, A. J. Kirkwood
of Johnson County, c. Warden OF Wapello,
Laurel, Somers Of Scott, A. Tracy OF Winnie
shiek, c. z. Whitney Of Monona; Regents OF
the State University, L. w. Ross OF Pottawato-
mic, A. X. Campbell of Jasper, j. w. Hen
derson; Trustees Of the Soldiers Orphans
Homes, w. H. Leas OF Polk, 8. p. Bryant
Of Scott, j. c. Otis of Mills, G. B. Van saun
Of Blackhawk; Trustees Of the State Reform
School, E. E. Andrews d Hardin, j. A. Par
vim of Muscatine; Trustee Of the Insane
Asylum at Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. <. Nj. Elliott;
Trustees Of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, j. w.
Cattell Of Polk, William Orr Of Pottawatomie.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

districts IL is not an unfrequent occur
renee for an engineer TO run down and
kill deaf, blind, or drunken persons who
are walking on the track. He sounds his
whistle and expects them TO leave the
track. Persons 50 frequently step aside
AT the very last moment that until that
moment arrives the engineer gives hin
self no uneasiness. A pretty scene that
must have been on the Pennsylvania Gen.
trail when on nearing Harrisburg the en-
gineer of en- express train discovered a
little girl at play on the track ahead of
him, Her back was toward him, but he
saw the golden curls, the little bare arms,
and almost imagined he heard the joyous
prattle of the unsuspecdng child as the
flying engine approached the cross-ue
where she sat. Perhaps he thought Of
lust such another child at home, for he
sprang from his cab-it was too late to
stop the train-and leaning over the
"pilot reached out and caught the little
girl lust as she raised her head and saw
her danger Then the mother, who had
seen the brave act, rushed from her house
and took the child from his arms when
the train was brought to a stop.
AN EyGrNEER's FIRST VICTIM.
Last summer, the engine run by William
Baird, of the lightning express on the
Hudson River Railroad, struck drunken
man who was sitting on the trestle-bridge
at Plumb Point, and killed him instantly.
At the inquest the day after, the engineer
told the writer that exactly year before
on that very day he had "struck his first
man" somewhere just above Yonkers.
Said he: ~ was running the lightning
then, and was making lively time past
Yonkers, when i saw young fellow with
Q cane in his hand walking on the down
track. / whistled and jerked back my
lever. The light was full in his face, and
when he heard my whistle l saw an ex-
preston Of horror on his face, for
he was blind and had thought
was coming on the down track. He
jumped, but il was too late; and / saw
him throw up his hands, even heard
sn'r " pressanr ro lake. Uni'dreh need d
ter or mothers may rest. &
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
Miscellaneous.

Pneumonia has become epidemic in
Sacramento.
Many a saioon.keeper would like TO
hold pistol at his head and say die, oh,
Lewisl
--Decorum and etiquette are to be
taught by a Professor In the st. Paul
schools.
"A Vermont husband punished his
wife by pinching her heel with a pair OF
ice-tongs
Lake Champlain frozc over iast year
on the 25th of January; this year five
days later
Some of the wholesale liquor houses
In Cincinnati have had 10 call In their
drummers.
"A Michigan schoolmam points out
the sad fact that no schoolmaster has
ever been President.
Moose Lake station, on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, contains but four build
ings, and they are all to let
The Indians In Nevada predict a
great flood as soon as the snow In the
mountains commences TO melt.
A partridge comes regularly from the
woods to dwelling In Craftsbury, VT,
and is fed with crumbs by the children.
80 He has left void that cannot be
easily filed" as the bank Director touch.
ingly remarked OF the absconding Cashier.
One who wishes the world to know
what he knows about horticulture says
that the best way to raise strawberries is
| with spoon.
Goats milk Is said to make the
cheeks look red and peachy, but goats
head will do the same thing II the animal
has a fair run of ten feet
The old style of combing the hair
over the ears is revived among the ladies.
What blessing this will be TO those who
have homely "organs Of hearing" and
what sacrifice for those who haventl
AT Binghamton, N. Y, the other
day, a man was blown into the air ninety.
nine and half feet In consequence OF
the bursting of boiler The local papers
refuse TO stretch the distance six inches.
james Sylvester, a trapeze performer
at Berry's Opera House, while, performing
| in New York q few evenings since, missed
| the safety rope and fell, striking his head
on the stage. He died an hour after
| ward.
The great majority of crimes are
committed between the hours of ten al
night and three in the morning. The
| Chief of the New York police recently
said that IL every place where liquor IL
sold in the city were vigorously closed al
ten o'clock at night one-half the police
force might be dismissed.
"A man named Robinson, employed In
a lumber camp on Beaver River. Mich
igan, was left alone In the shanty recent
", and being taken with 1T fell into
the fire. The heat brought him to hi!
senses, but his clothes had taken fire and
he was roasted nearly to death.
| "A servant In the employ of family
living on Michigan avenue, Chicago, wa
recently dispatched In great haste to
grocer's for bottle OF capers. He aston
ished and mystified the grocer by calling
for bottle OF tricks, and dinner was KEEP
waiting until no made the second trip.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


The Bspsisss ~ PhIiadeiphia have
raised si25 600 for publishing house in
that city,
--PArson Brownlow il opposed 70 mix.
ing the white and black races IN she pub
lie schools.
"A petition is circulating in stockton
Cal. In ssvor 81 introducing the study o'
the Irish language in the public schools,
The Memphis Preshysery hss resolved
% recommend the licensing OF such Cos.
ored men rs preachers ~ are found 70 e&
Eticd foF the ministry.
Mr.. EmersoR gR Waldol 81 she Lass
meeting 81 the 0versea-s 81 Ex-vATc
College. declared in fkwyE ns rsslEsas'
sorry attendance 81 students q; prayers
Boston has twenty seren CaSholis
churches and about dozen cshSTsels, while
six ntw Catholic churches sra being
built. The Cssasnaac schools zrIEnbr SIX.
teen. and hA2fa-dozen more are n proc
pcci
An eyr-aa-a inssv revival numbering
a1ressy Asssus tNs converts 81 -cp0Ftrd
in Derry. EpclAnd. urasT Ebe erxngtslac'
o. lsl,crs 81 . vpRzr. Bcsla0g1s k5s1 osvslssS
Scotch Epssccga2 scca1r, Ret Nj,
ponglAss
--Sgvs tst CkawIkn1E " II The fashion
Of female preachers evsr etts fairy esaaf'
lisheo tn arr denomination zAe Others
will hsre - yield "a t. SazDt leading
man will take i Ey sa- s1f sake 81 pfs,a.
lArsgy. AID the res VIII have ~ fAl IN
The Caspcegior uf Georgia University
speaks thus 81 The desire sas edDcasae1 be
witnessed in the sseepac as,ori BAalons-
"a: . They fe4f sts necessity IKE EaAysi
cal ~&ri, an6 t&skea about ]: hs th02gA u
were O sensatiaa in their b9esc3 ~ well ~
q sentiment In iheir hearts ] wish that
al Georgia had tie dtvs3e ire al tAe4'
feelings"
The preshyteEy ~ Brooklyn il deter.
mined ;hg, Miss smiley shal! not ht
allowed TO occupy any Of the PresosieriGa
pulpiis within is Jurisdiction The tao
brethren who have offended in this par.
ticular, By inviting Miss Smiley TO ihetr
pnlpits, are exonerased from AL intention
Of violation Of the established ussges 81
the church, bat they are sdmonished 'c
avoid all such causes OF offense IN the
future.
The French Protestant Church 81
Charleston, y. c., was founded about the
year 1880, by French Proteslants VIC
fed from the prosecutions Of their native
country. The first church edifice wa:
erected on the site of the present one In
1893. This Is the only remaining dis
tinctive Huguenot church In this coun
try, and from its antiquity and many his
toric events Is looked upon with deep in
terest.
President White, of Cornell, says that
ne knows but Of one single instance among
the young ladies at the university OF ina
billy 10 keep up with the class. He OBJ
serves that as rule they average about
10 per cent better on the examination pa.
pers than do the young men; that they
have raised the average OF conscience and
manliness and decency more than 10 pei
cent, and that the young woman who
took degree at the last commencement
stood easily among the first fifteen In
class of a hundred.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

dwellings near the Office, both the doo,s
and windows from the machine shons
across the way, and tore the whole s;ds
of the compressor building and boiler
house, strewing the fragments for lone
distance in every direction.-SpriagfsH
Mass) Union.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
Personal and Literary.

bingham Young mas Ihld up " UUUUOU
in treasure in the Bank of England.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes Smith, the vet.
Gran authoress, is leading the wOman's
temperance crusade on Long Island.
William Cullen Bryant thinks he ia
good yet for fifteen or twenty years OF use
fitness No man In New York Is so hale
and vigorous at his age.
Mr.. VIM. NJ Evarts, ii is said, has re-
ceived more as retainers since the APP.
pointment Of Chief.Justice Waite than the
salary of the ChiefJustlce amounts to In
"a year.
George Knott has been marine editor
of the Philadelphia North american for
sixty years lie is now in his eighty first
year, and is the sprightliest journalist In
the city.
Several American lstterateurs residing
In Paris are supporting themselves by
writing for the English newspapers and
periodicals. They say they are better
paid over there than they would be here
MIR. Sumner scarcely ever went into
society, so.called, and had morbid dread
of being introduced TO ladies. For such
a confirmed old bachelor TO marry at the
age of 81 would seem TO be inviting the
domestic unhappiness and divorce that
followed.
lone of the saddest features Of the
death and funeral ceremonies Of Senator
Sumner" says an exchange, us his utter
loneness Not relative was at his death
bed to soothe the agony of the last mo-
ment; mo kin followed his corpse on Its
last journey"
i'm FIVE years the late Senator Sumner
sent To Harvard College 1000 pamphlets
1t was Mr.. Sumner who once said OF a
communication which Boston man had
published in the papers Of that city, that
the document twas worthy Of being taken
from the newspapers and given general
circulation IN pamphlet"
1T Is curious fact that there Is hard
ly a paper or magazine In the land but
cites one of Longfellow's most familiar
quotations incorrectly. Richard Grant
White, In The Gdlary, is the last TO blum
der, writing: "The mills Of tho gods
grind slowly, bat they grind exceeding
fine; - and should write:
,sThe mills Of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding smsll.'
--Eliphalet Williams, the Oldest and
most prominent citizen of Northampton
Mass, and Presidea. of the Northampton
Bank, with the exception of ten years
since its foundation In 1888, nine times a
member of the Legislature, Auditor OF
the Connecticut River Railroad since its
opening and engaged in business until
within a few weeks, died, March ID, from
stroke of paraly sis, lacking but nine
days Of having completed his ninety
fourth year.
--"The great attraction of the recep
lions given by Mrs. Gen. Sherman q
Washington Is the General" writes |
correspondent. "There Is no other sncf
General---no other such man. He is ne
grim hero. war-worn and sedate, but or
of the boys, who not only loves to jes
with the girls, but who, If he can get an.
one to sit down at q piano and play
reel, is in his glory. To see him balanc
ing, swing opposite ladies, tearing dow
the middle and up the outside, you woul'
never recognize the leader Of that hos
which went marching through Georgia
conquering and to conquer
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

Why should literary men and students
enquiries a recent writer indulge in the
lazy and unhealthy habit of sitting? He
assures us that man may think as well
standing as sitting, and often much bet
ter, and there Is no necessity why a per-
son. should be bending his back and
doubling his chest merely because he
happens to have book In his hand But
If man must sit, let him sit erect, with
his back to the light, and free, full pro.
lection Of the chest.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
NOTICE.
81. n. Internal Revenue 9
Taxes, May 4, is7A,
April 30, 1915. !

-~s.---l--T hAI A " at panan
time, especially at night, in the glare OF
my headlight, | saw that pale, thin, blind
face, saw the hands thrown up, and l
heard the poor fellow scream when the
pilot seemed to strike him."-N. 7.
Daily Graphic
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02
Foreign Gossip.

i;ament from Nottingham, is said TO be
the fret Jew protesting Conservanve pr'n ~
ciples who has been elected melnpcl -
the House of Commons.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

Never before since the settlement ~
the State was there SO great breadth Of
ground sown in winter wheat th-oughou,
Central Illinois as last fall.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

An American citizen, the inventor of
the patent wool-spinner, has actually sue
ceeded in securing q Prussian patent.
The fact deserves to be noted, az the
Prussian Government rarely or never &c
cords patent for foreign Inventions.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

A PENNY saved here and there counts mn =,
the end Of the year. Buy only sILVEp
TIPPED Shoes and you will save dollars in
stead of ents. Parents remember this.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.
On railways that intersect populous
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-02

tier or
terms
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
A Very Obedient Dor.

Late Tuesday night a stranger, just
for amusement, gave several bystand-
ers specimens Of his dogs acquire
ments, at the corner of Perdido and
st. Charles streets. The master quietly,
without gesture of any kind, told his
dog to walk across the street and find
a little wagon and get into it. Doggy
obeyed, though reluctantly, as the
wagon was a cart, but he finally COM
piled. He was then told to hunt up a
fire-plug and mount it. His keen eyes
searched a moment, and on the instant
poor Tray pleased his owner. He was
then commanded to hunt a lamp post
and put his fore feet on it. This done
he was told to go into the Pelican
saloon, find a chair, and sit in it; then
to look up a barrel of beer and stand
on it; then to lie down and act like q
poisoned dog. These orders were
given in the most commonplace tone
of voice, and most of the time the beast
could not see his master; yet he
obeyed quite as readily as a willing
servant, apparently understanding the
English language very well.-New On.
leans Ke2,asbticu~.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
A Queer Family Of L~unatics.

The family of James Scott, of Clark
county, Ind, is afflicted with q very
strange sort of lunacy. They are Nor
mons, aud Scott processes to be the
oracle of God. His wife wal taken
sick late in August, and he confined
her in q room, to which he refused to
admit anybody but his son and daugh-
ter. The neighbors made several at
tempts to get in, but he always op-
posed them. One day q Mormon min.
lister called and said he had received a
manifestation from God to the effect
that he should see the woman, but
Scott replied, {" I have q later NANTES.
tation to kick you off the premises, "
and kicked him accordingly. Finally,
q band of men determined to unravel
the mystery. They broke into the
room, the father, son and two daugh
tiers meanwhile standing by moaning
and talking wildly. The found the
confined woman sitting in a chair, and
looking stiff and stolid a. marble; her
face void of expression, and she evi
IDENTIFY. quite Indifferent to all that was
going on. The woman, when she was
first taken sick, got q notion into her
head that. she would never die, but
would be translated a. Elijah of old /;
and, after sitting the matter, it is
pretty clearly ascertained that Scott in.
tended to keep his wife concealed until
she died, and then give ont to the
world that she was translated. A
movement has been made To have the
whole family examined by q lunacy
commission.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
Bureau of Charities in New York.

New York is to have a Bureau of
Charities, which will be 90 clearing.
house for charitable institutions " in
that city. It is estimated that 20, 600
persons who have no claim to relief get
it daily. Some of them hang like
leeches on five or six charities, all Of
which they bleed as often as may be.
If they get only fifty cents a day apiece
and this is . low estimate-the money
thrown away on them during the year
amounts to 1851, 600. Their gain Is,
of course, the loss of the deserving
poor. The Bureau of Charities will
collect statistics about pauperism and
the existing means of relieving it, and
will aim to keep a careful record of all
applicants Tor charity at each institu-
ton. The addresses they give will be
verified by the Bureau. This is a
much-needed effort to prevent charity's
promoting the evil it is designed to
cure. Indiscriminate giving by plying
women is the most efficient pauper-
making machine in existence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
Natural Red Silk.

It was announced two or three years
ago, at a session of the Acclimation
Society of Paris, that one of the men,
bers had obtained red silk from co
coons of worms that had been fed upon
leaves of the grape. At a recent SEES
sion of the society the subject was re-
vived, and u statement made by q
member, M. Ruinet, that, when a boy.
he and some of his comrades had
amused themselves, in Brittany, by
rearing silk worms; that when the
leaves of the mulberry failed, they had
recourse to other vegetation for feed.
ing the worms ; and that in numerous
instances they obtained magnificent
red silk from the cocoons OF worms
which were fed on the leaves of the
grape ; and, further, that by feeding
the worms with lettuce, cocoons of q
dark emerald green were produced.
Another member, M. Delidon, also af.
frmed, from his own experience, that
silk of various colors could be obtained
by various feeding. He had produced
green, yellow, and violet bs
feeding upon lettuce, nettle, and other
vegetation. The society, on the whole,
entertained no doubt Of the possibility
of obtaining red silk by feeding the
worms upon grape leaves, and took
measures for %instituting q series of ex-
to test the degree of success
which might be attained.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29

MEDICAL ADvERr1s1Na.-The medical
profession are outspoken in their de-
nunciatlon Of the system of medical
advertising. and declare that any med
icine that is advertised is a fraud. How
thoroughly inconsistent. and unfair is
such All argument. The men who are
SO loud in their criticisms, are those
who advertise themselves Us medical
sovans by o~stontatious display; splen-
did residences with massive door
plates; fast horses and costly car
riages. DIR. j. WALKER, of California,
an old practitioner, respected alike for
his skill and conscientious independ-
ence, dares to differ; and having dis
covered IN his VINEGAR BrrrERs a
purely herbalistic medicine, free from
all spirltuous poisons--a wonderful
specific for numerous disorders, adver-
tises the same for the relief Ut his fell
low man, and is borne ont in his dec
laratlons OF its many virtues by thou.
sands Of invaiids, Who are being cured
Of disease by It's use.-Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
A Mantlepiece Ornament,

A pretty mantlepiece ornament may
be obtained by suspending All acorn,
by a piece of thread, tied around it,
within half an inch of the surface of
some water contained in 4. vase, tum-
bier or saucer, and allowing it to re-
main undisturbed for several weeks.
It viii soon burst open, and small roots
will seek the water; q straight and
tapering stem, with beautiful glossy
green leaves, will shoot upward and
present q very pleasing appearance.
Chestnut trees may be grown in the
same manner, but their leaves are not
SO beautiful as those of the oak. The
water should be changed once a month,
taking care to supply water Of the
same warmth: bits of charcoal added
to it will prevent the water from sour
ing. If the little leaves turn yellow
add one drop of ammonia into the
utensil holding the water, and they will
renew their luxuriapce. Another pref
ty ornament is made by wettlng q
sponge and sprinkling it with canary,
hemp, grass and other seeds. The
sponge should be refreshed with water
daily so al to he kept moist. In a few
days the seeds will g%erminate, and the
sponge will soon be covered with a
mass of green foliage.-Scientifc
american.