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

Chinese coin.
INDIANA has thirty-sevsn townships
named Jackson"
BosroN has had eighteen snow storms
this season.
A POLISH Count Is . regular ledger u
. station house In Baltimore.
Tn. taxes in Texas are the highest of
al the States In the Union.
ONs Of Brigham Young's daughters
claims to be the belle Of Salt Lake.
A s.vHxTY-rHRss years old Virginian
has recently been arrested tor horse steal
In. ladies of Salem, N. Y, have
formed An association to build . town
hall.
II ID estimated that ATTY per cent. Of the
people In Dubuque, Iowa. drink cistern
water.
or the 652 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, having
exhausted her coal.
A YOUNG ladies' seminary in Philadel-
phia has just graduated I've "Sallies" and
one Sadie" but not one Sarah"
THE King of Prussia declares that 20
long a. 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
I'LL, 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. PIERsoH, venerable lady Of New
ark, N. j., has recently celebrated her
hundredth birthday. The invitations to
her party bear the figures, 1770-167O."
An astronomer predicts for this year .
comet of such brilliancy, and 20 near the
earth, that our nights viii b almost -
bright - our days.
JAMES CooHBE, . printer, who set the
hrst stickful of type on the World, died In
New York the other day, having been q
comp" for forty three years.
MORE than forty years after the pocket
of the late Judge Richard Fletcher, Of
Massachusetts,, was robbed OF twenty-fy
cents, the thief sent back the money with
compound interest.
As q .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
'slay low" for the slanderer.
Mn. JABEz GATES, Of Germantown,
Pa, 10 very happy In the possession Of an
anvil upon which were forged the molda
In which the first types made In this coun.
try were cast
JOIN SMITH, carpenter ct Peoria, H.,
Just married, fell from the dizzy height ol
ninety feet, while working on the new
Central City Elevator at that place, Tho
other morning, and was dashed TO pieces
Two medical students at Keokuk pro.
tended to rob friend In dark alley.
They were arrested - street thieves, spent
. night in limbo, and were obliged to
friends for m explanation which liberat.
Cd them in the morning.
ANEW YonK physicians bill was e123
for attending child and the parents
satisfaction IN paying II may b imagined
from the fact that SIX doctors testified In
court that the treatment did not kin the
child, and three others that II did.
a CINCINNATI woman, who had receiv.
cd from the Relief Union a unbelievable
pair Of boots for her daughter. promptly
returned them with the request Please
i've me . finer pair, and the tops high, for
my daughter wears her dress SA0Ft"
6x years ego, John =. Dewitt, youth
Of sigitesn years, took the local agency Of
q he ins1rance company q New York
BY energy he soon took the general AGENCY
Ior New Eneland I'D New Yogk. and the
other day wss PAID b. the company $3.50.
600 70 givs up his ri6ht
0lnA1 B1zTAM - 1l,293 miles q
railway, on which has been sxpsnded -.
$500 GO IL - ~ seF ths Esoas rsc.!Pes
sum was required for werking expenses,
available IN the form Of pgo6k
TIN ANNEXED Asj story b 8 Maryland
production A man hshing n . river IN
that 6Asae found that his hook Wa -
tAched to somsthing, and pul1ingi Il up With
some dimculty, discovered q IL end Of the
line Jug holding about halfa gallon. Not
wishing 70 lose he only hook, hs dsmol-