Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Ireland, FL dtzie
TIE bear crop Of Maine last year was
328 animals. a 81 ~ liH ,}5t
A Man drives q street car in Cincinnati
who was once worth 420O, 900.
A PrrTsBuRaH young man has paid $50
for kissing lady in the street.
THE coal fields 0! Amc-;c: arc estimated
to contain 3, 500, O00, O0o, 900 tons Of coal.
How do people manage TO sleep on q
spring mattress oil through the winter p
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Iriscomputed that there are %, 092, 600.
600 of fire and marine insurance in the
United States.
+ TaE first cheese factory in Massachu.
sets went into operation in 1854; now
there are 20 in the State, - III.
In the three days that Jefferson Davis
was at Huntsville, Alabama, he took over
500 life insurance policies. tH9na
EvERYsteamer between New York and
Europe Is said to carry an average Of FIVE
pickpOckets or burglars.
People who are troubled with sleep.
lessness, should secure good bed, suffi-
cient exercise to get tired, fresh, and not
too warm air, lightly loaded stomach,
and an easy conscience.
In recent trial Of will case in Troy
woman testified that she and the testator
stood before q looking glass, Joined hands,
and agreed to live together as man and
wife. She received by the will *12, 900 in
five-twenties, and . house and the furni.
ture therein. oI9ii ~ ~la~5E
ACCORDING to " Schern's Ecclesiastical
Almanac" lately published, the ministers
of the Evangelical churches in this cOun-
try number 43, 600, or one to every SO OF
the Protestant population. The whole
number of church members is stated TO
be 1851 .978. r*....., -
A CALIFORNIA operator, who tele.
graphed to San Francisco, inquiring II he
Should buy at quotations, received
in reply: emo price too HIGH" but
when, after acting upon this advice, he
ascertained that the reply should have
read, "No; price too high" he was pro-
voked, not to say annoyed. ...tt = I'd
A MAN in Wood county, Ohio, who was
acquitted Of murder on plea of insanity,
year ago, secured his lawyers by giving
them mortgage on his farm. He repu-
dates the mortgage now, as he was in
sane when he made it, according to the
A NICE young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the supposed
daughter Of highly respectable lady, and
came back for the lady's blessing, which
was freely given, together with the in
formation that the girl was not her daugh-
ter, but q quadroon servant girl. He said
it was q swindle, and left for parts un-
known.
m. n "A n...~-:oh d.. <y.,y...,. -~novd q
the death Of Betsy Hunt, of North Kings
town, Rhode Island, and says: "She died,
apparently, early in the day, and, while
laying her out, the corpse, as it was sup
posed to be, commenced winking, and
finally rallied, and lived several hours,
when she died again" t ~ 3'
As some young men Of the village of
Walls, Shetland (Scotland), were amusing
themselves by firing shots from an old
ship carronade on a recent holidsy occa
sion, the gun burst. One OF the youths
legs was blown off and carried about 100
yards, where it fairly kicked bystander,
was kicked died few hours after the &C.
cident. The other will recover.
In an English court of law lately
witness was called to attest to persons
insanity. II know he's mad" said the
witness, "because the poor fellow inn
AGNES himself to be the prophet Jere-
miah." "Do you consider that to be
proof of mental arrangement ?" asked
the examining counsel. should rather
think So" confidently replied the witness,
"seeing that | myself am the prophet
jeremiah"
RECENT statistics show that England
has about $500 miles of navigable rivers,
$500 miles of canals, and $4,000 miles of
railroads; France has 1,740 miles of river
navigation, 3,700 miles of canals, $3.50
miles Of railroads; Belgium has $50 miles
of river navigation, 900 miles Of canals,
and 1,400 miles of railroads. The Ger
man States have over 5000 miles of navi-
gable rivers, 600 miles of canals, and
about 800 miles Of railroads. t,gr
THE Springfield (Mass) Republican tells
q story about young man who, while
with some companions examining safe,
entered it and closed the door. But the
lock sprung to its PLACE, and the poor
youth was buried alive. The man who
had the key was two miles distant, and
the immured would die in five minutes.
Hammers and chisels were brought into
use, and the door opened, ana the almost
dead man crawled out of his too safe re-
treat" ~ tatotaa t3
THERE is lady in Atlanta, Ga, who is
the mother of five healthy, intelligent chill
dren, the eldest of which is about 8 years
old A singular fact in connection with these
children Is, that not one of them has ever
been known to cry. They have been vic
Tins to the pains and aches that child flesh
is heir to, yet all the sign of pain they
have ever unaffected are low means.
They never cry. In other things they
are Is other children, and full of life and
mirth.
"A GERMAN paper states that train
composed Of all the locomotives and rail-
road carriages in Europe would reach
from ST. Petersburg TO Paris, and would
contain 100000 passenger carriages and
500, 900 luggage vans. The network Of
European railroads represents length of
7O,718 miles; $1,000 locomotives are en-
plOyed on II, and these rush over dis
lance Of GO, 900 miles in year. 150,-
OO0, 600 cwts. Of iron have been used for the
rails, and 90, OOO, 900 cwts. of coal are re.
quired yearly to feed the engines.