IOWA ITEMS.
    Johnny Nagel, of Ottumwa will never stump the big toe of his right foot again. Because after the hand car got by, they couldn't scrape Mr. Nagel's toe off the rail with a putty knife.
    Dubuque burglars called on Mr. Martin Byrne, last Friday evening, while he was away from home, and took away $1,360 to remember him by. He will remember them for some time to come without any keepsake.
    Last Saturday the body of a young Hankins, who was drowned near Iowa City when the ice went out last spring, was discovered at the head of an island at the mouth of Turkey Creek. The body was identified by the clothing.
    A Des Moines man named Morrison has made a bid for the presidency by keeping a large tank in front of his store filled with ice water all summer. He may never get to be President, but he will always be blessed by every thirsty man who passes that way.
    Somebody sent Mr. Birchard, of Marshalltown, a horned toad, from California, recently, and it has already started a numerous and healthy family of eighteen horned toads, and Marshalltown is rather anxiously wanting to know how long this thing will go on, and what will the harvest be?
    Isaac Sanford, who was killed by a railway train near Iowa City, a week ago, was at the time walking on the track with his back to the train. He was deaf as a post, and fell a victim to that inexplicable feeling which always prompts deaf people to lurk in the very places where nothing but noise can save them. If you should start a saw mill some night in the midst of a wild, uninhabited desert, three thousand miles from any living being, when you get up in the morning you would be apt to see nine or ten deaf men with their heads bent down, musingly backing up to the biggest and fastest and most vicious buzz saw in the mill.
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B.L. Hurst, of Jasper county, Iowa, claims $10,000 damages from the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad for running over him with a hand car. We suppose if he had been run over by a Pullman Palace car he would want a million dollars. It wouldn't be safe or cheap to run over such a high-toned man as that even with a wheelbarrow.
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    The case of the Wilton women charged with riot in breaking into the house of one Cory and tarring and feathering his daughter, last April, came up for hearing on the 6th inst. at which time the affair assumed a new phase by the prosecution dismissing the cases at their own cost, alleging, however, that they simply left the matter to be disposed of by the Grand Jury. The only cases resulting from this affair now pending are those four damages instituted by the father of Miss Cory who claims $50,000.