Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
TEXAS has So postmistresses.
THERz are $50 liquor sellers in Albany.
Irtakes 5000 horses year to supply
Paris restaurantS
A BRBKD Of dogs that .annot bark ha-
been discovered r. AustrAlia.
AMAN in Bremen has made figure 81
: woman which can, owing to ingenious
" ccntrived machinery, talk.
A HALr:PxNHY paper Is projected in
London which ID expected to circulate
from 10000 to 750, 900 copies daily.
Ixa recent hAilstorm ct Buffalo stones
fell. Ave Of which aggregated the Weight
of Ave and quarter pounds. -
THERE = one man In the Legislature
Of Massachusetts, who boldly declares that
whisky IL nutritious and healthy.
MANY Of the waves Of trouble, like those
Of the ocean, will, II We await them calm
", break at our feet and disappear.
SOMEBODY suggests that the descend
ants Of the signers Of the Declaration of
Independence should meet on the 4th Of
July, 1870
TwENrY-oNE millions Of dollars are ex-
pended annually by the drinkers of lager
beer In the United States for their bev-
erage.
4 BAR KEEPER in one of the downtown
hotels in New York Is said to wear dia-
mond pin worth $3.50, and to get salary
of sic week.
| A VIENNA merchant celebrated the for
tieth anniversary of the founding of his
business by giving fifty thousand dollars
to the poor.
An Iowa mathematician has calculated
| that the English alphabet is capable of L.
391, ia 288 1851, 252, 999, 425 1928 493, 402, 200
changes, and not one more.
THE population Of Washington Terri.
tory, which In 1880 was II ,5944, is nov es-
| timated by some persons at 10000, and BY
others at 10000.
THE Directors of the Connecticut State
Prison say there lie an apparent increase
of crime in the State, the number OF con.
victs having increased from 1873 to 2l9, and
the prison Is crowded.
A POOR woman in Buffalo, compelled to
beg to save her husband and children from
| starvation, dropped her bank book the
other day, which showed that she had just
deposited 1925.
THERE is family of summer residents
at Newport, consisting of four ladies';
they have brought with them twenty-six
servants, and nine horses What house.
hold, and without head"
| A LOUISVILLE man, who Is graduate
of an Eastern college, and has practiced
law and medicine, and studied for the min
istry, now drives brick cart, and thus
earns an honest living.
In Holland there are $4,000 wind mills
| in constant use for the simple purpose OF
drainage. They are said to be almost Of
colossal size, each lifting from 10,OOO,OO0
to 100000 gallons Of water every "a
hours
ANILrNx dyes are now said to be adul-
terated BY mixture with fine eranulafed
sugar, each crystal Of which u covered
with Z very thin film Of the true dye, 20
~ TO produce an excellent imitation In
color and form.
TIE Mayor of Montgomery, Ala, in
the case Of negro charged with petty
larceny, sustained the point that pinch.
beck breastpin, won In gin enterprise"
was not the lawful property of the reputed
owner, and that 70 take 1t was not then.
A Rich old lady of Caen, France, LEFT
al her property TO the Institute of Fine
Arts" meaning probably the Academy
of Fine Arts.r As there 10 no such insti-
tuition In existence % the former, the
heirs-atlAw hope to secure the property.
CHARLES DICKENS lived longer than
Shakespeare, who died at ffty-thre than
Byron, who died ct thirty-seven; than
Thackeray, who died at ffty-two; than
Burns, who died 1T thirty -seven; and was
one year younger than Macaulay, who
died at fifty-nine.
IT ID estimated that should the entire
progeny of single pair of birds survive,
In the course of fifteen years they would
increase to nearly 100000. As 1t H.
there IL scarcely any increase from year
TO year, the number that perish equaling
the number that are born.
A FRENCH observer, Mr.. Jourdain, finds
that the administration Of chloroform to
plants produces strange ehects-analogous
mails. For instance, It gives the raspberry
plant sort Of loci. Jaw, violently invert-
ing the leaves, a. II they had muscleA
THs Michigan Press Association oder
the following premiums: For the best
make up /" local paper, first week in Au-
gust, go; and for the the paper present
ing the best get up Of local matter during
the month Of August, e10-the competi-
ton to be confined to local papers uncon-
nected with dailies.
THE New York 6ofosis claims to have
among ito active members thirty eight en-
gagged In literature, dx editors, twelve
poets, six musical artists, twenty five au-
thors, two physicians, four professors, two
artists in painting, nine workers in art
nine teachers, ten lecturers, one historian,
one author Of scientific works, and three
known phiAnthropists.
An sbsurd wager between Lord Wey.
mouth and Sir Archibald Home has 70.
Gently been decided in Scotland. They
were to walk up Ben Lomond during
high wind, Lord Weymouth in top boots
and backward, and Sir Archibald Home
a. he pleased, but TO carry In his hand an
open umbrella Sir Archibald lost the
wager, which was for $1,000.
SPANISH gentlemen speak with great
enthusiasm Of the handsome behavior, In
Q recent duel Of two naval officers OF high
rank, intimate friends, who bad quar-
relied over their cups. They fought twenty