Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

year.
BALTIMORE has forbidden the playing
Of hand organs.
SPRINGFIELD Ill, papers say the census
shows the population of that city to be
fully $4,000.
IT is now positively certain that the
next Universal Exhibition will be held at
Vienna in 1878.
THE profits ofth Methodist Protestant
Book Concern for the last four years have
been 81, 03606.
INDIANA, it is said, has fewer female
convicts in proportion to her populatic-
than any other State in the Union.
CHARLOTTE GUILIARD was the first
notable female printer. She was in
business for 80 years in Paris--Irom 1905
to 1856.
THERE is a boy in Sulnvan county, Pa,
three months old, who weighs forty
pounds. He weighed twenty-eight
pounds at birth.
LAST year hundred and forty three
plebeians in France importuned the
Emperor to confer titles Of nobility upon
them.
THE Methodist Episcopal Conference
in New Jersey has ruled that no minister
in the conference shall! marry any d.
vorccd person.
THE average weight Of the graduating
class of Trinity College. Hartford, TWEEN
ty. one members, is 1922 pounds The
average age Is 2214 years.
THE statistics of emigration and immi'
grafton of the Kingdom of Saxony show
that All persons moved into that country
during the year 1869, while 451 emf
grated from it.
PARAMOUNT PARK, Philadelphia, in.
GLIDING the new district, has 2,7O6 acres,
and lie the largest public park in America,
Central Park, New York, only measuring
800 acres
"A NAN in Washington county, Pa, has
recently built house, the four corners OF
which are each in a different township,
the corners of the townships meeting in
the center OF his cellar.
A WOMAN named Agnes Swoka, in East
Prussia, injured her husband in such a
terrible manner by pouring boiling water
over him, that he died OF IL. She was
sent to the penitentiarv for five wears.
A LAKE has been discovered in the
mountains, near Helena, Montana, from
which an unlimited supply Of water will
be obtained for mining purposes at and
near that place.
IT is estimated that eight hundred
Young men in Baptist colleges In this
country are studying for the ministry
two hundred and forty Of whom are In
theological institutions.
AT Lisbon theater, where they are
playing drama descriptive of California
fife. a party of miners are represented in
red anC blue silk pantaloons and patent
leather boots.
A MONTREAL bat maker made cricket
bat which he begged Prince Arthur to &C.
cept. Primes Arthur, however "csnnot
tender feelings by buying 1t.
TIE Newport Mercury has entered upon
lite one hundred and thirteenth year OF
publication. One hundred and twelve
years ago June, 1859, the Arcury was
first published by James Franklin.
IT is claimed that man in Salem, Ohio,
can tell from memory the weather OF any
and every day since 1827-thst he distinct
" RENE snbers whether any day was clear
or cloudy, warm or cold, rainy or snowy.
lisa case in Germany, where little
girl died from injuries received by her
clothes catching fire, while locked up In
room by herself, the mother was sen.
fenced TO three months imprisonment
for manslsughter through carele@ness.
A YOUTH of seventeen, named Charles
Thompson, was brought TO Iowa from
New York, last April, and bonnd out To
a farmer. He became dissatisfied, and
started back on foot, making the distance
of 1,1OO miles ia six weeks, averaging "a
miles day.
THERE are altogether 953 officers in the
regular army of Saxony. OF these, 3 are
generals /; Z Interchangeable; 10 major
generals; % colonies; 10 lieutenant.
colonels; SO majors; 100 captains; 1876
first lieutensnts, and $50 second lieuten-
ants; II auditors and 90 surgeons.
THE tribe to which an Indian murderer
belongs is known by the method by which
the victim is scalped. The Cheyennes re.
move piece not larger than silver dol.
lar, from Immediately over the left ear /;
the ArapahOes take the same from over
the right ear. Others take from the crown,
forehead, or nape of the neck The Utes
take the entire scalp from ear to ear,
and from the forehead to the nape Of the |
neck
In Massachusetts, during the past year
there were fewer marriages than in the
year before. or the year preceding that,
lsct which may TO some extent be ex.
plsined BY the emigration Of young men
10 the West. There were twice - many
marriages between Americans ~ between
|oreigners, and yet more children born Of
oreign than native families. In the city
II Boston the numbtr Of foreigners and
4 Ame1icaus married was about equal,
mt the births OF the foreign were - seven
O three 81 the American families. The
Increase Of tie population Of the State u
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