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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
A Fog Experience.

am Londoner and know something
about fogs. If some of your Brooklyn
folks were to spend about thirty days in
London during the month of November,
they would not take any note OF the
cloudy weather we had on Wednesday
morning last. To enjoy real good fog,
then, you mus! go to London, where the
boys cut it UP In squares and pelt each
other with the lump. That's what call
good solid fog-one that only a Lon
doner knows how to enjoy. ! have seen
the fog deep yellow--almost brown
color, and so thick that you could not see
person ten inches away from you.
Men feel their way along the sides of
houses, and, thinking they know the way,
often find themselves far away in the OPP
posita direction. / will just mention a
mistake made in the fog was going
home one very foggy night from the city
to the suburbs OF London by railway.
On reaching my destination l at once
made for home, knowing every step well.
knocked at my door, as | supposed,
and, being pleased at being so fortunate,
began to dance and sing until the door
was opened for me to bounce in and
kiss my young wife behind the door
(Which | did. | made for the sitting
Iooui, Dut inert was no ilght tileIt-hoho
but bright fire in the CRATE. / thought
my wife had just taken the lamp to see if
things were all right at the back of the
house, but you may judge of my surprise
when | heard the tramp of feet in the
hallway, and the next instant three men
with large sticks, and as many women
with lamps held over their heads,
confronted me and told me that "Resist-
ance was useless, | had better submit
which did. | was in the wrong house;
had kissed the wrong woman, and was
mile away from my own domicile.
That's my fog Observation-Disclosures
ton to tie BroOklyn Argus.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

yourself charming also. Put On for din
ner-and for the evening, for have in
vited all the neighborhood-put on, say,
my poor mothers diamonds. They repre-
sent in my eyes, all that l have most
loved in this world her, who gave them
to me for you-you yourself, who have
worn them for my sake and hers-your
daughter, who will wear them for all
three of usm And thereupon Mr.. Des-
oranges walked off to conceal some slight
emotion.
Why did not Madame Desgranges an
swer him? Why did she remain for some
time immovable. and with her head sunk
down? Why did her daughter, coming
in, carry her off to her own room, in tears?
Why was the son. in-law so gloomy? Why
did the dinner-bell make them all three
start? Why, on entering the dining room,
did the mother give troubled look at her
husband? Why did M. Desgranges, on
observing it, utter a few words that were
almost a reproach9 WhyY The words
themselves explain ALL
You have not got on your diamonds"
rcied the father. As her sole reply, the
mother threw herself weeping, into the
arms OF her husband. The daughter took
his hand, and kissed it, on her knees be-
fore him. you have not got your dia-
monds; what have you done with themE"
The wife and children were silent. "You
make no reply" continued the father, in
harsher tone 1T is l, then,
who must speak out. You have sold
them to cover the imprudence of your SON
in.lawl Yes, because he was pleased to
associate himself with ali ill-devised en-
terprise, because he had the folly to make
himself responsible for scamps who have
deceived him, you have been obliged, in
order to pay one-half of his debtor he
still owes twelve thousand francs-you
have been obliged to tear away from me
the dearest sOuUeR!r of my poor mother,
and the most precious voucher of our own
affection, and you have even embittered
this special day All, it is too badr
Madame Desgranges endeavored to
muttcf excuses.
THAT is enough" said M. Desgranges,
interrHpting her. Here are the servants.
Go, take your placesm
Mother and children went silently to
the table; but suddenly, as she unfolded
her napkin, Madame Desgranges uttered a
loud exclamation. Her son-in-law did
the same thing, and both leaned over to.
ward Mr.. Desgranges, their eyes fillcd
with tears. The mother had found her
case of diamonds under her plate, and
her son-in-law had the twelve thousand
francs that he needed.
"Ah, my dearw
"Ah, fathcrS"
"Irs all right, it's all right" replied
NJ. Desgranges, disengaging himself from
their embraces you will not hereafter
call me an egotist. 1t seems that there
was some propriety in my foresight; and
you comprehend at last that the father
ought always to remain richer than his
children, were it only-were it only, nay
dear ones, that he may be able to help
them at pinch, and save them from IA
catastrophe Nevertheless, Henry, don't
do the same thing again, because | shall
not be able TO repeat my part."-Appte-
tons Jourldi
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
Manurial Value OF Wood Ashes and
Lime.

"Apricola" writes as follows: Sow
small grain where brush pile or log
heap has been burned, or where liberal
dressing of ashes has been applied, and
there will be rank growth that will
probably fail and never mature. Sow
grain where lime has been applied to
the soil, and the grain will grown with
stout stiff straw and plump, hardy heads
that mature well. Ashes cause a rank
growth OF hcrbaceous parts Of plants,
such as leaves, straw and grass; lime in
duces a growth of the woody part OF
plants and the grain or fruit. Ashes
stimulate heavy muck and rich or virgin
soils. They appear to disintegrate or
make available what is already in the
soil. They seem TO act specially on vege-
table mould and manures from the barn
yard. Apply TO the most offensive pile Of
compost, and they will render IL inOdOr
Gus and worthless as fertilizer, their effect
being that of relieving the ammonia from
the compost. Ashes used with a compost
heap of dccaying vegetable matter would
be wasted-worse than wasted-as they
render the compost inert as fertilizer
Applied in an offensive sink, sewer or
cesspoOl, they serve an excellent purpose
as a dsinfectant. They promote the
growth of grass and forage especially,
proving very valuable on low lands; will
stimulate trees, etc, to vigorous growth
when the soil is strong. They exhaust
strong soils and injure poor ones. Lime
improves poor soils, especially sandy
ones, by rendering them more compact
and capable Of retaining fertility when
applied AS a promoter Of health and
vigor of apple trees, 1t is one of the best
applications that can be made to the soil.
Under its influence trees mature well, the
fruit is finer and trees are freer from
disease. Lime may be applied with bene-
fit on most soils and many plants, but is
of special value 10 the apple tree and
strawberry plant, while ashes are valuable
for heavy or rich soils for the grosser
feeding of plants, such as our native
plums and currant bushes.-N y.
Eay1IH
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

The celebration of anniversary we'd
dings is becoming more fashionable every
year The paper wedding is celebrated
one year after the marriage. Tinted paper
cards are issued and paper presents re-
ceived from relatives and intimate friends.
Each anniversary is celebrated in some
families with IA paper wedding. The fifth
anniversary Is the wooden wedding. In
vitations TO this are printed on cards of
wood Wooden presents are received.
The tin wedding is celebrated on the
tenth anniversary. Cards of tin bronze
inclOsed in u bronze paper envelope, with
lettering and monogram in dead silver
are issued. Gifts Of tinware are received.
Glass trifies are appropriate gifts for the
crystal wedding, which occurs on the
fifteenth anniversara. Invitations should
be issued on crystalized paper or on gela-
tine. The silver wedding celebrates the
twenty-ffth, and the golden wedding the
fiftieth anniversary. Silver lettering for
the invitations to the first, and golden for
the second, printed on the finest white
wove note paper, are used. For silver and
golden weddings card Is sometimes en-
closed on which is printed the following
words: at is preferred that 10 wedding
gifts be offered"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
A Tough Old Couple.

The toughest man in America lives
two miles below this place. His name is
Il. A. Rose. He is over seventy five years
old. Within the last ten years he has
had both legs broken, his skull smashed,
his hip dislOcated, shOulder-blade and
three ribs fractured, an arm broken, and
his teeth knocked out, all by runaway &C.
cidents. He always drives young and
spirited horse before wagon over forty
wears old. His harness is patched up and
tied together with ropes and strings.
After every one of his accidents he has
insisted on getting around before the
broken bones were properly set. The
consequence is that his limbs are crooked
and not TO be relied on. He Is obliged to
attend 10 his work on crutches, but still
drives fractions young horses TO his dilap
idated wagon. The horse that will not real
ana plunge at the sight Of the cars is toe
tame for him, and he exchanges II fol-
another.
Mr.. Rose has wife as tough as him
self She il almost as old as he, and has
been more or less crippled for years, but
has attended to her household duties with
the ai9 Of canes or clutches. she recent
Nv fell and broke her arm, but she did not
think il worth mentioning, and wen
about her work as usual.
Old Mr.. Rose is one Of the wealthies
men in the Delaware Valley. Together
with his son and two grandsons he owns
two miles Of rich fiat along the river, anc
as Jar back on the mountain. He says ht
thinks he will reach hundred years i
the next horse that runs away with hin
does not break his neck. Nothing shor
OF that, he thinks, will kill him.--Mata
naoras (Pa) Cor. NeW York Sun.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
Waking-Up Smith.

THE band had scarcely departed for
some other haunt of slumber and weari-
ness, when the notes of singing tioated up
that prolific alley, like the sweet tenor
voice of one bewailing the prohibitory
movement; and for an hour or more
succession of young bacchanals, who were
evidently about in search of the Maine
law, lifted up their voices in song. Bos.
ton seems to be full of good singers; but
they will ruin their voices by this night
exercise, and so the city will cease to be
attractive to travellers who would like to
sleep there. But this entertainment did
not last the night out. Itstopped just be-
fore the hotel porter began to come around
to rouse the travellers who had said the
night before that they wanted to be awak-
ened. In all well regulated hotels this
process begins at two O'Clock and keeps
up till seven. If the porter is at all faith
ful he wakes up everybody in the house;
if he is shirk, he only rouses the wrong
people. We treated the pounding of the
porter on our door with silent contempt.
At the next door he had better luck.
Pound, pound. An angry voice, "What
do you wantp
"Time TO take the train, sir"
"Not going to take any train"
"Ain't your name Smith"
Eyes"
"Well smith"
81 left no order to be called" lndis-
tinct grumbling from Smiths room),
Porter Is heard shutting slowly off
down the passage. In a little while he
returns to Smiths door, evidently not
satisfied in his mind. Rap, rap, rap!
"Well, what nowY"
whats your initialsH"
"a. r.; clear outr'
And the porter shambles away again in
his slippers, grumbling something about
"A mistake. The idea Of waking man
up in the middle of the night to ask him
his "initials," was ridiculous enough to
Danish sleep for another hour. A person
named Smith, when he travels, should
leave his initials outside the door with his
boots CharLes Dudley Warner.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

A FEW figures will sometimes make
thorough work with a newspaper sensa-
ton. One Of the essayists at the recent
meeting of the Public Health Associa-
ton said that during the war there was a
rumor that Southern emissares intended
to poison the drinking water Of the city.
He made little calculation of the matter,
and found that to poison the water sup
ply of the city for single day would re-
quire ia tons of arsenic, or three and a
half tons of strychnine, of which there
was probably not ton in the whole
world.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

CLOVER and the grasses are the great
needed element in our rotation of crops;
they are fertilizing and the chief source
of profit. No part Of the country shows
improvement of the soil so much a where
grazing is made, not a sole thing, but a
large element in farming, and the pros
perity of the farmer keeps pace with it.
Single branches prosecuted may be made
to do well for time, but they are includ-
ed In rotation, SO that all or many may be
carried, and are carried, by the wise, en-
ergetic and comprehensive farmer.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
III.

We have now reached tho Both of No
vember, fortnight later, but still at Vile
neuve.Saint Georges; for, if in this sketch
| have slightly violated the unity of time,
/ have at least respected the unity OF
place The house OF NJ. Desgranges is all
alive. Never has he himself appeared SO
happy. 1t is the twenty-fifth anniversary
Of his wedding-day.
wife" sale, he, TO Madame Desgran-
ges, this is day that must be worthily
celebrated. No economizing to-day,
spread all sail! give us dinner, just as
though / was an epicurel | have partic-
ularly recommended Madeleine, who has
been passing day in Paris, ! don't know
on what affair, to return with her hus-
band by the four O'Clock train. She will
find in her room pretty, new dress,
which | should like her TO wear today.
AS for you, if you still love me little, in
spite OF my deficiencies, prove it; make
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

To be sick is TO enjoy monarchial pre-
negatives. Compare the silent tread and
quiet ministry, almost by the eye only,
with which he is served, with the careless
demeanor, the uncermonious goings in
and out (slapping of doors, or leaving
them OPEN Of the very same attendants,
when he is getting little better, and you
will confess that from the bed of sickness
Throne let me call III to the elbow chair
Of convaiescence, is fall from dignity
amounting to despotism. Charles Lamb.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
THE DAUGHTERS DOVER.
By ERNEST LEGoUyE.

raj the annual meeting Of the five Academies Of
Paris held on the oath of last october, the
little sketch Of which translation is sub
foined was read aloud by its author.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

WHEN bit of ostrich feather is found
by wife in her husbands beard no one
can blame her for being down on him.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

A month after the above scene, the
young people were married. A year
after, Madame Desgranges was godmotn-
err. Two years later, M. Desgranges was
father. At the end of three years
we find the young household
and the old, the parents and the chilureh'
installed in the pretty house at Vile
neuve-Saint Georges.
/ have said that M. Henry Grandval
was an architect; but to speak OF a young
architect is, too often, alas 70 suggest an
architect in partibus. or all artists the
most unfortunate are certainly the archi-
tects. Let poet be ever so poor, he can
always find pen wherewith to scriboie
his verses; musician, sheet OF rnied
paper. on which to transcribe his notes; a
painter, a brush and a scrap of canvas,
whereon he can jot down his pictorial
imaginings; while one has not under
ones hand, and cannot command at VIII,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-09

SANDS OF GoLD.-Silent fools are like emty
wardrobes under lock and key.
1t is only great souls that know how much
glory there is in being good.
Gratitude is duty none can be excused
from, because 1t is always at our disposal.
He who receives good turn, should never
forget it he who does one, should never re-
member it,
Modesty is handsome dish-cover, that
makes us fancy that there must be something
good underneath it.
If you dislike people, shun their society,
but do not express your dislike, or utter com
plants against them.
Truth is rock of strength sufficient to
bear the universe error, mire in which
bodies sink in proportion to their gravity.
But for pride many man who sits in the
poor house porch to-day, might have rested in
the shadow of his own household tree.
Truthfulness is corner stone in character,
and if it is not firmly laid in youth, there will
ever after be weak spot in the foundation.
Catch not soon at an offence, nor give too
easy way TO anger. The one shows weik
Judgment, the other perverse nature.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-09

Before and after---it is always the same
story The other day in Detroit an individ-
ual fro n the rural districts, having consider
able money in his possession and being mod
erately drunk, was warned by a policeman to
take care Of himself. To which the self-con-
6dent bacchanal responded: You bet
will! Why, Mister, Pm chain lightning roll
ed up in bali and stuck full of rod hot bowie
knives I'm thunderbolt from the North
I'm regular rip-up thunderbolt Folks
want to let me alone, they do - Alas that
such dream OF invincibility should be dissi-
pated When the next morning dawned, the
drinker, where was he ? Well, he was discoy-
cred by the same policeman fast asleep in a
coal shed. His eyes were in mourning, and
there was non-natural hole In his head
Watch gone Money gone The policeman,
arousing the slumbeIer with a touch of irony
in his tone, inquired "Aren't you the thun-
derbolt from the North ?" Then the tllun-
derbolt sat up, and slowly and sadly replied !:
"No, haint 'zackly thunderbolt but I'm
the burned fool who thought he was"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-09

HEART DfsEAsE---A FASHIONABLE CON-
In the course of Il lecture recently delivered
In New York, Dir. Lyman said Heart dis
ease among both ladies and gentlemen, is the
one most in vogue at present. A. synonym
for pseudo heart disease is indigestion. False
modes of dress, by crowding the heart cause
it to beat irregularly Remedy the dress, and
the heart will beautifully perform its functions.
The heart is almost the last organ to become
diseased, because it has a great work to do.--
Nature made it strong and supplied it with as
few nerves as possible. Women who faint, as
a rule, have too small cavities for heart and
lungs. Painting is provision of nature for
the reinstatement of the body, by allowing
the heart brief respite. When the stomach
Is unduly distended by food, the heart is
crowded and complains Good, straight
shoulders are highly essential to women. If
she possesses an erect form, woman's heart
has better opportunity to beat evenly and
beautifully. Many mistake a palpitating SEN
sation of the muscular wall of that portion of
the stomach nearest the heart for an affection
of the heart Adiposc or fatty accumulation
around the heart will render its beating labor
ed or heavy. The heart is not, however, dis
eased it is only working under difficulties.
Postration also affects the beating Of the
heart, causing it to pulsate more rapidly
Strength will remove this difficulty. 1t is a
theory with some physicians that in natural
life the heart beats only given number Of
times. If this be so, running up and down
stairs, intense excitement, hurry, by increas-
ing the number of hcart-beats in minute, di-
minish the length of ones life. 1t is a WELL
known fact that race-horse is not long-lived,
because, having such demand made upon
the action Of It's heart, the heart muscles wear
out sooner than they otherwise would.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-09
ANCIENT AND moDnnv DrsrAscrs.


Weare so accustomed to tile magnifoent
distances of our country that our imacina-
lions also refuse to credit the possibility ONO
bic deeds done on 50 small a scale Of magnf-
tude as sufilccd to reveal the greatness Of an
Gent Greece. Wide space is evidently not
needed to develop tho activity Of even the
greatest men, any moro than intellectual pre-
eminencc requires large bodily dimensions. *
Gibbon must needs remind his readers t1,at
Palestine was not much superior ii, extent to
the principality of Wales, doubtless Intending
to hint that so diminutive territory could
not demand so much consideration for its his.
tory as seems to be claimed for it in the Bible.
But the skeptical historian would have resent
ed any attempt to cast doubt on the truth of
the history or the merits Of the great men of
Greece because their activity was all exerted
within so narrow space. Says writer in
the Christian Examiner
" 1t is hard for US in modern times to ad-
just our great lenses to the scale of magnitude
on which that marvellous drama was acted
out. Thus, by singular good fortune and
skill, Athens early succeeds in annexinr Elem
sis, ten miles off, and Salamis, across an easy
ferry, and absorbing into a sort of great
township its continental possessions of twen-
ty-four miles square. But Hgina. that Law
pleasantly in sight over the bay, was the homo
OF "alien enemies, and was only held under
by the iron hand. NIegara, at five and twen-
ty miles, was the standing pet hostility of
Athens while her most generous act of for-
eign policy was in steadily uphqlding Platea.
at thirty-five miles, against the hateful pre-
dominance of Thebes, at forty. The eternal
rivalry with Sparta reached over an interval
about as great as that which separates New
York from Philadelphia while the disas-
trous expedition to Syracuse, which bewilder-
ed the attic imagination no less by the daring
of its distance than by the splendor of its
equipment, trayersed world Of waters rather
less than from the Chesapeake to Port Royal.
Yet these narrow limits were enough for the
great passions of patriotism, ambition, jeal-
ousy and international hate. The intense
pride o every Athenian citizen in his own
splendid capital, his fond recalling of its gem
erous liberties and its grand memories, in ex-
lie, or disaster, or times of peril and fear is
familiar to any one who remembers the sol.
dierly summons Of Kenophon ON his retreat,
the touching appeal of Nicias to the folorn
hope at Syracuse the fond tone in Plato's di-
alogues, or the ringing harangue of Demos
themes when the shadow of Macedon began
to darken the pass of Thermopylm.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-09

THE WORDS WE UsE.--lt has been calcu-
lated that our language, including the no.
menclature of the arts aud sciences, contains
100000 words ; yet of this immense num-
Der, it is surprising how few are in common
use. To the great majority, even of educat-
ed men, three-fourths of the words are almost
as unfamiliar as Greek or Choctaw. Strike
from the lexicon all the words nearly obso-
lete--all the words of special arts or profess
sions---all the words confined in their usage to
particular localities---all the words which ey-
ell the educated speaker uses one in hommo-
pathic doses--and it is astonishing into what
a Lilliputian volume your Brodgnation Web
ster or Worcester win have shrunk. 1t has
been calculated that child uses only about
one hundred words and unless he belongs to
the educated classes, he will never employ
more than three or four hundred. A distn-
guished American scholar estimates that few
speakers or writers use as many as ten thou
sand words ordinary PERSONS Of fair intell-
gence, not over three or four thousand. Even
their great orator who is able to bring into the
field. in the war of words, half the vast array
of light and heavy troop which the vocabular
affords, yet contents himself with far less
display of verbal force Even the all-know-
ing Milton, whose wealth Of words seem amaz-
ing, and whom Dir. johnson charged with u.s.
ing "Babylonish dialect" uses only eight
thousand and Shakespeare himself, the
"Inyriad- minded" only fifteen thousand
These facts show that the difficulty of MASTER
ly overrated and they show, too, how absurd
is the boast of every new dictionary maker
that his vocabulary contains so many thou
sand words more than those of his predeces-
sors.