Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-21

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rHALBERe. the pianist, is worth $780,
600. t a IS giif rf la4
NEW HAMrsHra. has now eight daily
papers. 4t8.l
SAVANNAH sent 10000 shad North this
season. Sf s.tf
ALMOST every college in the country
now has it newspaper. 3}
ONO has twenty Ave different female
suffrage associations
NEARLY 100 Philadelphia girls were
married TO foreigners last year.
THE aggregate debt of the cities and
towns Of Massachusetts, Is nearly $35, 900,
600. IN \
NAPOLEON calls the Al, 900 schoolmasters
in his Empire" the pacific army of
France" fdf
ONE hundred and fifteen women are at
present suitors for divorce in the Indiana
courts
ALABAMA has 916 miles of railroad, the
total assessed value Of which y Eli, COS, 701.
ABOUT twelve hundred persons visit
the New York pneumatic tunnel under
Broadway, daily.
TEE Odd Fellows in the United States,
according to late enumeration, are some
thing over 250,O 900 strong.
THERE IL stone house ct Dunsback
Ferry, Saratoga county, N. Y, now &C.
cupied by . family, which was built in
17i7. II
A HOTEL building in Meadow Lake,
Nevada county, CAL, which cost original.
" $4,000, was sold at auction few days
ago for 81.
The Chinese laboren on the Texas
the day, but keep one hand busy handing
around tea. E
THERE were recently confined in the
penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, 1919 convicts,
the largest number that had ever been
congregated there at one time.
THE amount Of Peters pence received
by the Pope since its establishment ten
years ago. is about four million pounds, or
twenty million dollars.
IT is stated that every farm Of 160 acres
in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with
| 1855, 600 tons Of coal, or nine times more
| fuel than II the surface were covered with
heavy timber.
REUBEN MILLER, Of Springfield, Ohio,
who is seventy five years old, has kept q
diary in verse for the last half century
and it contains over eighteen thousand
items.
A MAIDEN lady, ninety three years old,
appeared as defendant in Massachusetts,
Court few days ago, and when 1t was
decided that she must pay q servant
! $l1.59, claimed rs wages due, seemed not
at all disconnected.
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ONE of the passengers on the Golden
! City at the time she was wrecked on the
coast Of California, has sued the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for $4,000 for
the privatiols he endured In consequence
of the disaster.
"IF were asked" said De Tocqueville,
the author Of Democracy in America,"
"to what the singular prosperity and
growing strength Of the American people
ought mainly to be attributed, l should
reply--to the superiority of their women "
An Eastern paper says that the verb
"to interview" denounced by purists as
an Americanism, was 30 employed in
England in the Elizabethan era, and can
daim higher antiquity than the noun,
which is used without hesitaton.s
How much iwiterXo you put in your
milk" asked 4 Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,,
man Of boy who delivers milk on one
Of the milk routes. I'VE don't put any
water in it," replied the boy. what do
you put in it, then" Ice" said the
candid youth. .,as
BISHOP SIMPSON, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, gave the following ad-
vice TO class of deacons ordained by
him in Philadelphia on recent Sunday !:
"Dont eat late suppers I have found
that nine out of ten ministers who eat
after preaching die carly"
4 MAN in England, named Gilman, has
been fined 500 for kissing widow. He
admitted that he had often kissed her.
| This, however, he averred, could mean
| nothing, as he had kissed the daughter at
the same time, and had been in the habit,
indeed, Of "kissing the family all round"
THE ENGLISH Society for the Suppression
of Vice has destroyed 129,881 indecent
prints, 16, 22O illustrated books, five tons
of letter press of the same sort, 18,O05
sheets Of songs, besides copperplates,
printing presses, &C. The funds of the
society are contributed by private indi.
viduals, and each prosecution costs $50.
THE Minneapolis (Minn) Tribune says
6lOemkkcr OI tn6L CITY nus IcCciVcu III
order for pair Of boots, the measure sent
being 10 inches in length by - across the
slab Of the foot If made up, in size, they
would be about No. %. The dealer was
unable TO furnish them from the store, but
is negotiating for . contract"
THE New York Sorosis bears on its roll
the names Of thirty eight newspaper and
magazine writer's, six editors, twelve poets,
six musical artists, twenty five authors,
two physicians, four professors, two
artists in painting, nine workers in art,
nine teachers, ten lecturers, one historian,
one compiler Of scientific works, and three
wel-known philanthropists. a g
AT an inn In Vienna (says the Neus
Frsie Prese) an old topper recently cele-
brated the completion OF the twenty -fifth
year OF his regular attendance at the beer
table The President Of the dinner party
which was given in honor OF this event
had also been q constant visitor for thirty.
eight years, and made short speech, and
ended by emptying his 4O,18oth seidel
(pint) of beer. T8g4t4 yFsjy
THE Official statistics Of Massachusetts,
for 1859 show that notwithstanding the
increase Of population, pauperism is
rather diminishing, while crime and vice
are on the increase. The whole lumber