Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Chinese coin.
INDIANA has thirty-sevsn townships
named Jackson"
BosToN has had eighteen snow storms
this season.
A POLISH Count Is . regular lodser d
. station house In Baltimore.
The taxes in Texas are the highest Of
all the States in the Union.
ONH Of Brigham Young's daughters
claims to be the belle Of Salt Lake.
A sRvHNrY-rHRRH years old Virginian
has recently been arrested for horse-steal-
Tan ladies of Salem, N. T., have
formed an association 70 build . town
hall
IT Is estimated that tifty per cent. Of the
people in Dubuque, Iowa. drink cistern
water.
or the $50 convicts recently in the State
Prison, at jackson, Mich, only nine were
women.
An English coast steamer lately burned
100 pigs in order to get into port, hsving
exhausted her coal.
A YOUNG ladies' seminary in Philadel-
phis has just graduated Ave "Sallies' and
one Sadie" but not one Sarah"
| THE King of Prussia declares that 20
long as he is on the throne of Prussia the
death penalty will not be abolished.
! THE city Of Burlington, Iowa, has .
colored population Of ia, and voting Of
ALL, according to the census of 1859.
TEE new Mormon paper says that Brig
ham Young has impoverished hundreds
Of families in building his new railroad.
An Italian nobleman, who has spent
| two years in America, has written book,
| in which he says the Boston ladies excel
for beauty in this country.
THE advice of Pennsylvania suicide
to his brother was, willie, don't 60 with
fellows who have more money to spend
than you have"
SIXTY thousand copies Of German news
papers published in the United States CIR
culate In the States of the North German
Confederation.
A NEW HAMPsHIR1 man has, this win.
ter, raised full-sized green peas on vines
grown in his sitting room, fed with water
and air entirely, having no soil near them.
MRS. PIKRsoH, . venerable lady Of New
ark, N. j., has recently celebrated her
hundredtn birthday. The invitations to
her party bear the figures, 177O-1870."
An astronomer predicts for this year .
comet of such brilliancy, and 20 near the
earth, that our nights win b almost q
bright - our days.
JAMES CooMBE, printer, who Get the
first stickful Of type on the World, died In
New York the other day, having been .
"comp." for forty-three years.
MORE than forty years after the pocket
of the late Judge Richard Fletcher, OF
Massachusetts,, was robbed OF twenty. FIVE
cents, the thief sent back the money with
compound interest.
As .Leavenworth man was vending
his way TO the river TO commit suicide, he
was told Of fellow who had called him q
liar, and he gave up his idea Of death TO
'lay low" for the slanderer.
Mr. JABEE GATES, of Germantown,
Pa, 10 very happy In the possession Of IN
anvil upon which were forged the mods
in which the first types made In this coun.
try were cast
JOHN SMITH, carpenter ct Peoria, ILL.,,
just married, fell from the dizzy height Of
ninety feet, while working on the new
Central City Elevator at that place, the
other morning, and was dashed 70 pieces.
Two medical students 1t Keokuk pre-
tended to rob . friend In dark alley.
They were arrested a. street thieves, spent
. night in limbo, and were obliged to
friends for IN explanation which liberal.
Cd them In the morning.
A NEW YoRx physicians bin was t123
for attending child; and the parent:
satisfaction in paying II may Be imagined
court that the treatment did not kin the
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