Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.
~ LRK1s has turned seamstress


/ tea each year.
THE New Orleans street cars are en-
tirely propelled by mules.
CHESTER, 8. c., has police force COM
posed Of boys OF sixteen.
A ROUGH of Portland boasts that he has
bitten the noses off Of five men.
MANCHESTER, N. H., has forbidden
| smoking In its streets on Sunday.
OVER twelve million tons of coal have
been received in Philadelphia since 1855.
THE Territory of New Mexico contains
population estimated at $4,000.
A BROOKLYN woman unsuccessfully
tried to commit suicide by swallowing
hair-pins
A HERMIT in Westchester county, N.
Y, wears a costume Of old boot legs tied
together.
The Emperor Of China is receiving
mirrors and costly household furniture
from Paris
PENNSYLVANIA has pedagogue ninety
six years old. He is one Of the Old Mas
tiers.
WALLINGFoRD, Conn, intends to cele-
September next
A NORFOLK lad shot himself rather
than to take care of a squaliing baby for
two hours.
A BROOKLYN man brags over watch
which has been in his family for two hum
dred years.
THE British House of Lords now num-
beers Ala members, only thirty-one of
whom are unmarried.
THE first London edition of the first
number Of Mr. Dickens new novel will
consist of 10000 copies.
THERE are now living in Maine, in good
health, five brothers named Lambert, aged
respectively SO, i92, 81, 81, and 70 years.
THE next great Astronomical Congress
will take place in 1871 at Stuttgart. A
Geographical Congress will be held in
Antwerp in August.
A LADY is in trouble at New Orleans
for padding her clothing with five boxes
of cigars and lot of jellies, when she
landed from Havana steamer.
OVER 100 young women are said to be
at present studying law in this country
many in the universities, but more in law
yers' offices, where they pay their tuition
fees by writing.
BosToNIANs suggest grand tea party
on the centennial anniversary OF the day
on which the tea was thrown overheard,
to which eli native-bOrn Bostonians shall
be invited.
The chignon is doomed, say the Paris
gossips. One lady, hearing the report,
has retired to her country seat, where she
means to be..shaved, in the hope of having
head Of native growth before next
season.
AT the recent municipal election in the
small town of Purtuis, France, only
Twenty-Five voters out of eighteen hun
bred registered their votes. Without loss
themselves unanimously into Office.
THE reduction in Geographic tolls in
France increased the receipts by nearly
$4,000 for the month of December.
Twenty words, counting the address, sent
from one point in France to another, now
cost twenty cents, instead OF forty.
JOHN CoTTLK, Cincinnati policeman,
convicted of manslaughter, was 80 over
come by his sentence of five years in the
Penitentiary, that his hair has turned
white, and he lost fifty pounds in weight
within six weeks after his arrest.
AN old cooper in Farmers village,
Conn.,, now a man of so years, has worked
at his trade for sixty-four years, and in that
time has made over twenty thousand
casks. He made for one distiller barrels
sufficient, if placed side by side, to reach
over eight miles.
A PITTsFIELD, Mass, couple once visited
q married pair in Utica, and friend re-
marked: "What fine couple the Pitts
field lady and the Utica man would
make" Years passed, the Utica wife
died, the Pittsfeld man was killed in the
war, and the widow and widower were
recently united in the holy bonds.
THE cost of the franking privilege in
Canada is estimated at 100000 year.
The privilege is enjoyed by the Governor
General, the chief officers of eacA depart
ment, the Speaker and Clerk Of each
House of Parliament, and during the ses-
sion, as well as for ten days before and
after its opening and closing, by members
of both Houses.
LIGHTNING struck and melted gun. bar
rel A careless inspection of the solved
metal suggested thought, and that in turn
begat another, until the final result was
the discovery Of the manufacture of steel
by means Of electricity, for which the
discoverer new holds letters patent from
the Government of the United States, and
which will be among the most important
discoveries of the age.
A CALIFORNIA paper reports that the
+" friend" OF a Chinaman, who had been
sick for some time, thought he was dying,
and forthwith tumbled him into coffin,
and proceeded to bury him. Some Amer
leans, however, interfered, and took him
out of the coffin. 1t was then about
O'clock in the afternoon, and The China
man lived until the next morning, when
his spirit took its fight.
A MATCHMAKER in Meriden, Conn has
on exhibition in his shop an old watch,
with only an hour hand and a common
catgut for winding chain. 1t has brass
case, but was originally inclosed in
huge tortoise shell. The inscription on
the watch is, Nv. Lee, No. 2, 1863" max
ing it 2l2 years old undoubtedly the old
est running watch in America. 1t keeps
good time, not varying two minutes
week. a4
A GHOST drove an entire family tumult-
uously from house in Oswego at late
hour on recent Sunday night. After
while their excitement was sllayed, and
on investigation they found that COW, on