Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-10
ACEs AND FIGURES.
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VERMONT has 52s physicians.
ST.. PETERSBURG has 10000 cab drivers.
THERE ere only two bachelor in the
New York Legislature.
THERE are seventy papers in America
called the 1a4oryh 58
TIE Massachusetts, savings banks gained
~, O00, 900 in dsDsits hast year
THx christening cake Of the Prince of
Wales new BABY weighed sixty-fve
poundA
Ar marriage lately contaminated at
Ottawa, Canada, $4,000 were donated to
the poor.
A LITTLE girl six years old was found
drunk in the'stseets of Paterson, N. j.,
the other night
RAILROADS in South Carolina have re-
duced their fare to immigrants to one cent
q mile.
A HoTEL-KEErER in Evans, CAL, was
shot dead by boarder for not preserving
him seat at the first table.
DURING the summer months the con.
sumption Of lager-beer in the city of New
York is estimated at 10000 kegs.
EVERY day dove visits fruit stand in
Boston, lights upon the shoulder of one
of the attendants, and is fed and petted.
No citizen of Japan can leave that
country without giving bonds that he will
return at the time specified. I.
Our of 392 Ohio divorce cases granted
last year, the custody Of the children in
334 suits was given to the mother.
THE Salt Lake Reporter knows of one
Mormon family that has buried one hum
dred and forty-eight children.
THE trade organizations in New York
city number eighty eight, with a mem
bership of $500. They have in bank
about 10000.
THE editor of the London Je,oish Mes.
ssnger argues that the opening Of the Suez
Canal pOrtends the restoration of PaIes-
tine to the Jews.
AT Hudson, New York, disappointed
bride recovered fifty dollars Of the fellow,
as payment for letter paper and stamps
used up in two years.
THE New York Association for the Pre-.
vention Of Gambling expended SIS, $50
last year. They closed $50 gambling
houses during that period.
A GENTLEMAN in Petersburg, Va, the
other day, for wager, ate one gallon OF
fresh oysters, minus the shells and liquor,
at one sitting.
An old lady at Windsor, England, was
saved from burning to death by her pet
parrot, who, seeing her in flames, called
out to her sleeping son, Harry, get up"
THE Philadelphia Mercantile Library
now contains over $1,000 volumes. Last
year 4,254 were added to it. The average
issue per day during the year was 4S1.
AT the Metropolitan cattle show, re-
Gently held at London, England, the su.
periority of American Implements in
lightness and beauty was unanimously
admitted
ALEXIS ST. MARTIN, whose side was shot
away in 1922, in such q manner as to ex.
pose the action of the digestive organs TO
the surgeons eye, is still alive and well
in Cavendish, Vt.
YORK, Me-, was the first city chartered
in this country. Now it is q country vii
lage of $40 voters. Its name was first
A gamepticus then the city Of Gorges or
Georgina, then York.
HENRY WARD BERCHER commenced
preaching thirty -four years ago, in West
ern town, for $50 year, during which
period he raised his own vegetables and
tended his own pigs.
THE "small sewing machine" which
some rascal in New York sends to those
people who respond to his advertisement
by Enclosing him 81, is a shoemaker awi,
worth about ID cents.
A MAN, his wife, nine children, and an
aged mother recently came from Nevada
to Vineland. n. j., at an expense Of $500
in gold, that they might have the benefit
of churches and schools.
THERE is man in New Hampshire
who persuaded dealer to let him have a
barrel of flour for 1915 for poor blind
man, and then compelled the poor blind
man to pay him $40 for it, besides 81 for
taking it to his house.
In Boston it is the fashion TO have "Dick-
ems parties" The invited assemble as they
would at any other party, and listen to
reading, by q choice reader, from Boz's
works. After the reading come coffee and
dancing.
DENTIST. My dear woman, if you
kept your teeth clean you would have less
toothache." Lady. "But, doctor, they
say that washing teeth wears them out"
Doctor. "Good gracious, madam I hope
you don't think that way when anything
ais your feet"
THE statistics of the Cumberland Mary
land) coal region for the year 1869 shows
that during that period 1,882,879 tons Of
coal were mined-an increase of 552 1926
tons over 1858. Thet aggregate produc.
ton Of the mines from 1912 to 1859, inclu
sive, amounts to 14,835, 1856 tons.
THE bust of Senator Sumner, which
was orderT and paid for by Hon. A. A.
Lawrence and other Boston citizens, has
been placed in the niche on the east side
of Doric Hall It was accepted by the
Legislature Of 1889 in behalf of the peo-
pie Of Massachusetts.
GEORGE ARRNsBUR0, the New York
printer who has accepted the challenge of
George Barber, of Cincinnati, for the
championship Of the lease" and 81 900,
some time ago Get up inseven days work.
ing seven hours per day, 101 500 ems, an
average Of about sou ems an hour
RHYKRRING to tho remark OF the
woman's paper In New York, the Rspolu.
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