Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

of Swedish emigrants.
AT Ilion, New York, clergyman got
ninety dozen eggs at donation.
A FELLOW in Danbury, Conn, boasts
| of a moustache nine inches in length.
| AMONG the best skaters in Europe the
past season is q Yankee named Fuller, in
! Paris.
| THE first pair of handouts made in New
England are on exhibition at Hartford.
OLETUsBEJoYFUL is the name of an
Indian editor of the Port Hope British
Canadian.
NAL Gazette and Advertiser is announced in
London.
MAJOR RAINRY, of Carrollton, III, has
been Justice of the Peace constantly for
36 years.
A MAN in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
broke his arm, few nights ago, in pulling
off his boots.
A MAN in West Chester, Pa, has been
sent to prison for one month for stealing
an umbrella.
LADY librarians have charge of no less
than fourteen public libraries Of impor-
lance in this country.
A LADY physician in Lafayette, Ind, re-
turns her income from her profession last
year at $4,000
COLOGNE Cathedral, which has been
building for some 600 or 800 years, will be
finished in 1875.
AMERICAN newspapers have now a
much larger circulation on the European
continent than British journals.
THE entire length Of the "greatest
bridge in the United States" at Louisville,
is 1929 feet, nineteen feet over mile
A CALIFORNIA paper reports recent
"fish shower" near Montgomery, in which
the fish varied in length from six inches to
three feet!
A DOG of the Havana breed was left
for thirty four days alone in the cabin OF
the Canova, moored at Havre. When
discovered the dog was alive, but hungry.
A DEAD ragpicker in New York was
found lying on pile of rags in his shanty
the other day, with a bank, book showing
$500 to his credit in his pocket.
Miss DIX commenced her phlanthropic
work among the hospitals. jails md oh,so
prisons, over thirty years ago. She is now
at work in Tennessee.
THE dog tax in Ireland, established in
1865 has caused diminution in the |
number of CANNES In that country from |
353, 79S in 1866, to 24S,000 in 1869.
THERE are in EuDope at the present time
,4S2 theaters, Of which there are in
France 1877, in Italy 2O8, in Spain 168 in
Austria 1853, in Prussia 76, in Russia "a,
and in England 1856.
A SILVER mine, said to be of unparalleled
richness, has been discovered in Greyson
county, Ky. The ore was found to con-
a lorp Of all ko, |
hitherto discovered.
JOHN NEAL says that out of ga cases
brought before the Supreme Court of
Maine in six terms, only ninety nine went
to jury. That is, the people preferred
the decision of Judge in 400 cases.
THE Boston association of banks for the
of counterfciting report that
the counterfeitng for the past year has
l postal currency nrr and s"i.ender notes and
bank currency. "n 4>"'ioii'i
MARY RUSSELL milford, in one Of her
letters in 1920, said: 81 write merely for
and l would rather scrub
floors, If could get as much by that
healthier, more respectable, and feminine
Miss CAROLINE GoDsEY, the sleeping
girl" eleven miles from Union City, Tenn,
is still living, and, as usual, arouscs and
remains awake nine minutes eleven times
in twenty four hours. Twenty years
have passed since the sun shone upon
her.
IT is said that the keeper Of q lighthouse
off the coast Of New Hampshire once
picked up 375 little land birds, which had
been killed in one night during the mi
gratory season by flying against the glass
Of the great lantern.
A POOR fellow, now under arrest in New !
Hampshire for setting fire 10 two barns,
said he was hired to do the work for 50
by a wealthy farmer who had quarrel
with his neighbor, and that the wealthy
farmer, after all, paid him but $2.S5.
A WIDOW in Parkersburg, w. Va, ran
away with q fellow the other day, leaving
four children at home, the Oldest nine and
the Youngest one year 1t was three
DAYS before their abandonment was dis.
covered, when all their feet were found
frozen.
The average level of Iowa above the
ocean is 800 feet Keokuk (sOutheast cor.
ner) is 444 feet; northeast corner, $50
feet; southwest cornef 1860 feet; north
west corner, 1850 feet The highest point
is at Spirit Lake, in Dickinson county,
which is LOO feet above the sea level.
IT is related of Mr. Burns, the volun-
teer missionary to China, that during the
insurgent movements in the Annoy dis
trict, he was free to go where he liked,
when no other European could venture
among the rebels. "That's the man OF the
Book" they would say, land ne must not
be touchedw
AMONG the packages recently bid OIL at
an auction sale of express packages in
Hartford, was lot of love letters written
hv Young lady who, having married, re-
ouestcd her lover to return them. The
purchaser is heartlessly giving a series OF
evening readings from them at his board
ing house.
THERE is boy in Vermont who has
eleven grandparents living, and he pro
poses TO give party for them exclusively
one of these days, although his FIVE uncles
and aunts, his thirty great uncles and
aunts, his twenty six great great uncles
and aunts, and his forty second cousins
may fell sighted.
ATTEMPTS to commit suicide are here
after 4, be punished in Massachusetts,,
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