Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

. x FACTS AND FIGURES.
T. CHARLEsToH, s. c., contains q poprla.
NEW York forbids boys flying kites in
the streets. rs
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., exhibits los
pound Goldfish.
RUSSIA warns passenger coaches with
the heat Of the locomotive.
TIE private fortune of the King Of
Prussia is estimated at $13,O 900, 900.
i ONE hundred thousand patents have
been issued to American inventors.
ONE firm in Minnesota town recently
shipped 10000 rat skins to market in one
week. 1-
HENRY On BARGRR, of Trenton, New
Jersey, aged "a. is cutting new set Of
teeth.
| THE Philadelphia Inquirer regards the
Quaker race as doomed to extinction in
ten years more. s
THE railroads in Maine have cost $500
per mile more than in any other State, ex-
cept Pennsylvania s,s;gsJ
A MASSACHUSETTS farm has lately been
sold on mortgage, after being in the
family seven generations. a
DOVER, N. H., with 10000 inhabitants,
spends $3.50 day for Intoxicating liquors,
or STA year for each voter.
An indianapolis school boy has been
punished by being compelled to write the
word "cow" five hundred times.
In France convict is not notified of
| the time of his execution until they come
to lead him to the gullo.ine.
/ A NEW YORK doctor will give $1,000
| for authentic records Of case where any
person ever died of a broken heart.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Adgd,sce
thinks that an NJ. D. outranks d. D.,
since NJ. equals 1000, and D. only 500.
IT cost $1,815 to wash towels for the
Treasury Department at Washington last
year, and there were 5000 towels washed.
THE most successful and accomplished
pickpocket in New York is a pretty wO-
man, well known to the police as Little
Lou. e ai a.f.
THE wife of q respectable English
| tradesman has ben convicted of stealing
carpet from the floor of railway car
riage.
THE Vienna Academy of Political and
| Social Science has offered prize Of two
thousand dollars for the best work or
American finances.
| THERE are seven million young men in
our country about two hundred and
fifty thousand of them profess to be
PARIS has 5000 chifonniers (rag pick
ers), 5000 of whom are licensed and 5000
interlopers. Their aggregate gains are
$500, 600 francs per annum.
THE acreage now under cultivation of
l d. So IL .o tod
cient to furnish material for covering
crop of 10000 bales of cotton.
ONE of the proprietors of the Hender-
son (Ky) Reporter received check the
other day by mail for $21525, in payment
of debt contracted twenty-seven years
ago. n pJ l.gl 81
| THE annual value Of the wool manufac-
lures of the United States, and of those
manufactures in which wool is a cOmpO-
nent part, is said to be not less than $175,-
100000.
THE bridegroom Of an approaching
! fashionable wedding in New York, has
| found the money to pay for $125, 900 worth
of diamonds and pearls as his gift to his
| bride.
ACCORDING to the latest statistics, Eng.
| lishnlen are about two inches taller and
more than seven pounds lighter than
| Americans of the same age and similar pur-
suits.
THE whaler True Love, built in Phila-
delphia 106 years ago, and now owned in
Hull, England, is still in good order. Her
course has run smooth, disproving the
| maxim. f~ #
| A RICH man died in Maine recently. and
his last words to his heirs were: "Plant
me as soon as am cold, and don't cart me
around for side-show." He was planted
accordingly.
A QUARTERMAsTER in the French navy,
stationed at TOulon, was surprised recent
w by q lawyer, who informed him that he
was heir to the title Of Duke, and for.
tune Of 100000.
THE new Mayor of Auburn, N. Y, at
his inauguration presented to the Council
copy Of the city charter, with the re-
mark, I'm that book will be found my in
augural and speech" I@El 1
A RECENT charity ball in New York
for the benefit Of the Nursery and Child's
Hospital exhibits the following balance
sheet: Gross receipts, $19,715.O0; ex-
penses, $S,2O703. Net proceeds, $16,-
6O7.9 81. EsH
THE town of wardsboro, VT, elected
Miss Ellen A. Brimhall School Superin-
tendent; but the Moderator decided that
it was not legal to elect woman to such
office, and directed the election Of another
person.
THE Directors of the California Insane
Asylum report q rapid increase of insanity
in that State. There is one insane person
for every six hundred Of the inhabitants.
The number under treatment in the Asy-
lum last year was 1, 1896.
A YOUNG man in the vestibuie of
church in Newark, N. j., accidentally shot
himself In the head during the progress of
prayer meeting He won't carry his
pistol any more In the same pocket with
his handkerchief. s3s !. F.sste
A scHEAINa mother in New York paid
$50 to have her daughter abducted and
safely married TO rich sutton, but the
young woman foiled the scheme BY leap
Ing from the bridal hack, and running
shrieking through the streets. at.5
An exchange having announced that
"an elegant and commodious Congrega-
tional Church ID soon to be erected IN
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