Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURHa
PHILADELPHIA has an Anti. Wonan's
Rights society.
THE population of British Columbia il
rated ct 10000.
THE rain that falls on the roof of barn
will water the cattle kept inside.
TEE Mormon missionaries in Denmark
made . thousand converts last year.
QUEEN VICTORIA is the richest widow
in the world She has laid up at least
s1oOOo.O 900.
A"LYcEun for ladies has been opened
at Brealau. In the Russian province u
Silesia.
THERE are 1t the present time upward
Of 800 scientific and learned societies in
Europe.
A sEAsoN's expenses of the various
baseball clubs in this country amounts to
over $4,000, 900.
A DECEASED citizen Of Nashville has
LEFT six widows 81, 900 each, conditioned
that they never marry.
A VALENTINE dealer in New York, this
year, sold seventy-eight valentines valued
at $50 each.
A Troy Police Justice sends man to
the work. house for having " an abiect con-
tempt for hard work"
Four hundred new money offices will
be opened July l, and new ones viii here
after be opened only semi-annually.
Our of 7.426 books taken from the
Mercantile library in San Francisco during
the month Of January, $3.50 were novelsI
ONE of the stipulations in an approach
ing marriage in Massachusetts, is that the
BRIDE shall pay the groom $500, cash
down, on the wedding day.
TIE cost Of Geographic dispatches in
Australia has been reduced to enc shilling
for twelve words and one penny for every
additional word.
A VERMONT court has decided that II
any person winks at an auctioneer, the
winkist is not bound to take the article
knocked down to him on account of the
sign.
A NEW spouting mineral spring has
been accidentally developed near Sara
toga, N. Y. 1t throws water several feet
high, similar to the Geysers of Iceland
and California.
FoR every death in a community 1t is
said there are two persons constantly
sick, and for every person who dies there
are twenty-seven who suffer from attacks
Of temporary illness.
A BELFAST storekeeper, annoyed by
loafers who persisted in roosting on the
granite sill of his window, poured sui
Dhuric acid on the stone, 80 that each Of
he loafers left part of his trousers there
when he got up.
Tuu MASSACHUSETTS, -ailroada cOmpria-
ing 2,235 miles, carried, during 1869,
.wenty-eight millions of passengers, kill
ing only ten Of the number, thirty nine
employees, and forty persons who were
ying or working on the track.
THERE are $4,000 wind mills in constant
use in Holland at the present day, for the
simple purpose of drainage. They are
almost Ill of colossal size, each lifting
rom ten million to fifty million gallons
IF water every twenty -four hours.
NORTH BRooKFIRLD, Mass. has citizen
who was born with only one ear. There is
no auricular orifce on one side of his head,
md only rudimentary external ear, about
IN inch long, near the jaw, where the
'front.' part of the ear il located.
EVAPORATION Of ammonia is said to be
The best method of producing artificial ice,
and German machine has been con-
,tructed capable Of turning out by this
means, with the aid of three men and .
horse power engine, a thousand pounds OF
Ice an hour.
FUNERAL style in Paris consists in not
issuing the billet de mort till month after
he death, and then inclosing photograph,
The size of q postage stamp, OF the de-
parted, with scriptural extracts suitable TO
his life, and with request to pray for the
repose Of the soul.
A MINISTER in New England, receiving
4 salary of $500 year, wears an overcoat
made from cloak he wore in 1884. His
wife has one cloak only, and it is thirty
i've years old.
A FIRE company in Pawtucket, X. l., re-
Gently captured golden eagle, and pro-
posed to keep him in captivity. But Mr..
q. G. L. Dorsey, the prisoners friend,
could not remain easy under such circum-
stances, and 30 he bought the bird fer $50,
half in gold and half In greenbacks, and
vet him ct liberty.
The numerously deluded American
heirs to English estates" who are continu-
ally being feeced by lawyers, would save
their money If they were aware that an
alien cannot be an heir in England where
there is no will, and that he cannot take
real estate even If left to him by will
THE Maine Supreme Judicial Court
tried suit on promissory note.
The plaintiff claimed that the endorse
ment of the note was: u back this note
holden for debt and costs" The defend
ant claimed that the endorsement was:
$ back this not holden for debt and
COSTS" and that the letter &c" has been
added. Verdict was rendered for the de-
fendant
THE machine power of England and
Wales ID competent to perform the labor
of nearly six hundred millions of men,
and is probably greater In productive ca
pacity than the labor power of al the
world besidea The machine power of
the United States, though growing with
amazing rapidity, does not more than
equA the labor power Of two hundred
AM0xo . number Of letters addressed
to the late Taupman, which have been
opened by the French Post Once author
itles dnce his execution, was one from .
romantic damsel, who enclosed her por-
trait with request that he would grant
her \ private interview to Conflde to her