Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21
FACTS AND FIGURES,

DOtn agree tnaL IL ID OF NO Great cOnsc-
quence.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
THERE are 1850 beer saloons in St.
Louis.
TERRR HAUTE, Ind, claims a popula-
ton Of 10000.
INDIA has ladies' newspaper, edited by
q woman.
RUSSIA Furnishes her drunkards by
making them sweep the streets.
A GRAND HAVEN hen recently Matched
81 chickens at one setting.
A PRACTICAL man wants to make q
lager beer vault of the Mammoth Cave.
PREsIDRNT FULLERTON. of the Bellows
Falls, Vermont, National bank, is 50 years
of age, yet he rides seventeen miles each
day to the bank.
THERE is girl near st. Paul, MINI,
who, although only twenty years Of age,
supports, by working q farm, her aged
father and mother and an idiot brother.
A CABBAGE which branches out every
year and bears great number of small
cabbages, each about as big as an orange,
is one of the attractions ct Los Angeles,
Cal.
ONE of the cheap papers of Paris cir
culates 240, 900 copies daily, mainly among
hackmen, nursemaids, soldiers and farm
ers. 1t is not allowed to discuss politics
In demolishing the old Episcopal
Church in Newtown, Conn, the other
day, petrified cat was found under the
pulpit, whose body had probably been
there hundred years.
THOMAS s. THOMAS, newspaper and
magazine publishers al Boston, paid $50
and costs the other day for rejected and
destroyed manuscripts !; the Supreme
Court ruling that the manuscripts were
the property of the author until the pub
fishers paid for them. and that in neglect
ing TO return them to the author they
became liable for their value.
THE official returns recently received
at the Bureau of Statistics show that the
total value of condensed milk exported
from the port of New York in the year
1859, was $79, 652, of which 821, $40 went
to England, 1900 to Australia, 90, 404 to
the United States Of Columbia, $9,176 to
China, 90, 118 to Brazil, S3,087 to Cuba,
90 093 to the British West Indies, and
$l,767 to the Danish West Indies.
In New England the average amount
of milk required to make one pound OF
cured cheese 10 10 pounds the product of
cheese per COW from April to November
is 400 pounds; the average cost per pound
for manufacture, including interest on
capital, commission, etc, is 21s cents, and
the net income the past summer has been
Is cents per pound.
A PARIS journal explains the origin OF
the phrase, to make q Jfasco. A German
Professor, touring in glass factory,
imagines that glass blowing is the easiest
thing in the world. Putting the pipe to
his lips he attempts practical illustra-
ton of the ease with which various forms
may be produced, but only succeeds in
celebrating q f1ask--that is, fascO-fail
ing wholly in anything more complete.
THE Pungo1o, Of Naples, mentions a
strange suicide committed at Gaeta. A
sergeant named Comolli, young man OF
excellent conduct, went to the building
where the artillery is kept, and lighting q
fuse of loaded cannon, placed himself
in front. He was blown literally to
atoms, his head and feet alone being at
forwards found. The cause assigned was,
as stated In two letters, one to his father
and the other to his captain, extreme dis
like Of military life.
IT has been generally believed, for many
years, that feather bed was sure pro.
lection from lightning A circumstance
which recently occurred In Greenfield
Connecticut, scatters this belief to the
winds Lightning entered the apartment
of Mr.. and Mrs. Banks, tore open the
feather bed upon which the parties men
toned, with q small child, were sleeping.
and set the bed clothes on fire, singed off
the hair and eyebrows of Mrs Banks,
blistered her chest from the neck down,
and knocked her completely senseless
MIR. Banks was also momentarily stunned,
but recovered in time to extinguish the
fire. The child, although lying on it
mothers arm. was not hurt.
AccoRpIEG to the Jamestown On. "
journal, there lives in the town of Har-
mony, Chautauqua county, q husband and
wife who have not exchanged words for
twenty. one years. In 1910 the husband
his better half harshly before
company, and she threatened that in
default Of better behavior she would never
speak to him again. The husband replied
that he wished nothing better, and the
wife took him at his word. They have
continued to live together in this taciturn
fashion ever since, and during the long
silence have had several children. Their
IL conducted in an indirect
manner through one Of the children, as,
for instance, by asking . child at table,
Will your mother have some meatfr
which Is answered in the same roundabout
fashion. The couple IL said to be wealthy,
and TO be owners OF pretty large farm.
FLORIDA il proud Of the possession of a
youth who can handle snakes, scorpions,
and centipedes with perfect fmpuuity. He
makes pets and plsyiellows OF the larger
kind OF rattlesnskes, twisting them around
him, and dallying with their forked
tongues or twelve rattles. He actually
has carried scorpions In his bosom, and
wasps and hornets in his sleeves and
pockets, without receiving bite or sting. In
The loneliness of the grove or forest, or in
any secluded place infested with snakes.
he can, BY Q few tslismanic words, call |
around him any number Of snakes, whom
be can charm into perfect obedience to
III his mandatea He can pick them up
md lay them down ct any given place, and |
It his bidding they win remain there until
his return after an absence sometimes OF
h0ura He can take 4 rat or n mouse and