Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.
has an Anti. Woman.

THE population of British Columbia i.
rated ct 100000
THE rain that falls on the roof of barn
will water the cattle kept inside.
TIE Mormon missionaries in Denmark
made thousand converts last year.
QUEEN VICTORIA is the richest widow
in the world. She has laid up at least
100000.
A "LYcKuN for ladies has been opened
at Breelau, in the Russian province Of
6ilesia.
THERE are ct the present time upward
Of 800 scientific and learned societies in
Europe.
A sEAsoN's expenses of the various
baseball clubs In this country amounts to
over $4,000, 900.
A DECEASED citizen Of Nashville has
left SIX widows s., 900 each, conditioned
that they never marry.
A VALENTINE dealer in New York, this
year, sold seventy-eight valentines valued
at $50 each.
A TROY Police Justice sends man to
the work house for having An abject con-
tempt for hard work"
Four hundred new money Offices win
be opened July l, and new ones will here
after be opened only semi-annually.
Our of 1929 books taken from the
Mercantile library in San Francisco during
the month Of January, $3.50 were novels.
ONB of the stipulations in an approach
ing marriage in Massachusetts is that the
BRIDE shall pay the groom $500, cash
down, on the wedding day.
THE cost Of telegraphic dispatches in
Australia has been reduced to enc shilling
for twelve words and one penny for every
additional word.
A VERMONT court has decided that II
any person winks at an auctioneer, the
winkist is not bound to take the article
down to him on account of the
sign.
A NEW spouting mineral spring has
been accidentally developed near Sara
toga, N. Y. 1t throws water several feet
high, similar to the Geysers of Iceland
and California.
For every death in community 1t Is
said there are two persons constantly
sick, and for every person who dies there
are twenty seven who suffer from attacks
Of temporary illness.
A BELFAST storekeeper, annoyed by
loafers who persisted in roosting on the
granite sill of his window, poured sui
Dhuric acid on the stone, so that each Of
he loafers left q part Of his trousers there
when he got up.
ng 2,2S5 miles, carried, during 1859,
twenty eight millions of passengers, kill
ng only ten of the number, thirty. nine
employees, and forty persons who were
wing or working on the track.
THERE are IL, 1000 wind mills in constant
use in Holland at the present day, for the
simple purpose of drainage. They are
almost oil of colossal size, each lifting
rom ten million to fifty million gallons
If water every twenty -four hours.
NORTH BRooKFIELD, Mass, has citizen
who was born with only one ear There is
no auricular orif1ce on one side of his head,
md only rudimentary external ear, about
IN inch long, near the jaw, where the
fOnt part of the ear IL located.
EVAPORATION Of ammonia is said to be
he best method of producing artificial ice,
md German machine has been con-
,tructed capable Of turning out by this
means, with the aid Of three men and
engine, thousand pounds of
ce an hour.
FUNERAL style in Paris consists in not
ssuing the billet de mort till month after
he death, and then inclosing photograph,
he size of q postage-stamp, of the de-
parted, with scriptural extracts suitable to
ais life, aud with request to pray for the
.epose of the soul.
A MINISTER in New England, receiving
! salary of $500 year, wears an Overcoat
IA b ho in
wife has one cloak only, and it is thirty
I've years old.
AFIRE company in Pawtucket, r. l., re-
,ently captured golden eagle, and pro-
POSED to keep him In captivity. But Mr..
I. G. L. Dorsey, the prisoners friend,
,ould not remain easy under such circum-
tances, and 90 he bought the bird for $50,
,alf in gold and half In greenbacks, and
vet him ct liberty.
THn numerously deluded american
heirs TO English Estates" who are continu-
lily being deeced by lawyers, would save
heir money If they were aware that an
llien cannot be an heir in England where
here is no will, and that he cannot take
zeal estate even If left to him by will.
THE Maine Supreme Judicial Court
recently tried suit on promissory note.
I lag RA0IutAA4 CA0AAAAOA sA0s WAC Cu0OA0C
nent of the note was: II back this note
aolden for debt and COSTS" The defend
INT claimed that the endorsement was
: l back this not holden for debt and
,osts," and that the letter &c" has been
added. Verdict was rendered for the de-
iendant.
The machine power of England and
w ales Is competent to perform the labor
If nearly six hundred millions of men,
md is probably greater in productive ca.
pacity than the labor power Of all the
world besides. The machine power Of
he United States, though growing with
lmaxing rspidity, does not more than
,qual the labor power of two hundred
nillions Of men.
AMONG . number Of letters addressed
10 the late Traupman, which have been
opened by the French Post Of1ce author
ties since his execution, was one from .
damsel, who enclosed her por-
lrait with request that he would grant
her q private interview to conhde to her
he names of his assistant asaassips, and
another postmarked from North America,
the safe arrival Of his accom-
plices on our shores.
TEE New York Times alludes to the