Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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CINCINNATI has $50 miles Of streets and
alleys
DURING 1869 there were $1,000 deaths
BY violence in England.
The Milwaukee city directory contains
$4,000 names
ONE hundred thousand settlers entered
Kansas in the year 1859.
In Virginia the oak is said o.be dying
out, and the poplar succeeding.
THE George Peabody statue in London
il now complete, at cost of $4,000.
/ A CALIFORNIA lady has taken to silk
worms a. pets, and raised large colony
for smusement.
NASHVILLE has population Of 2S.771,
being an increase Of nearly 5000 since
1860.
THE birds with the city limits of New
Orleans are now protected by law from
being killed.
THERE is an umbrella in Bangor, Me-,
which has been in possession of one fam
lily for fifty years. 1t was bridal gift.
"A CENSUS of Sweden, just completed,
shows population of 4,172,0S9 souls-a
decrease In two years of 22,O61.
THE Prussian Government, it Is said,
pays fifty thousand dollars year to the
political spies whom it keeps in Paris.
A CONSCIENCE STRICKEN New Jersey
tippler has entered complaint against
himself for drunkenness, and paid the
fine.
ONE Of the rules of the Philadelphia
free baths is that no person shall remain
in the water longer than twenty minutes.
IT is stated that Daniel Webster's head
grew larger az his intellect expanded, and
he had to change the size Of his hat every
few years.
IT is but five years since nitro-glycerine
was introduced. During that time it has
been the direct cause of 100 deaths.
A LIQUOR dealer in Linn county, Kan,
has been sentenced to ten minutes impris-
onment and q fine of $500 for violation
of the law.
ONE hundred and fifty men, each over
65 years Of age, sat down to q dinner to-
gether, the other day, at hotel on Peake's
Island, Portland Harbor.
THE late James T. Brady once remark
ed that his experience among clients con-
WINGED him that mans wife is his best
lawyer.
THE Sportsmen's Club Of Denver City,
last spring imported several hundred doz-
en- of quails, and turned them loose. They
are reported to be doing well.
THE youngest man in the United States
House Of Representatives is Eugene Hale,
Of the Fifth District of Maine, who is 81
years old. The Republicans have nomin-
ated him for reelection to Congress
THE London rose show took place on
the 25th Of June and was visited by over
seventeen thousand persons. The roses
exhibited varied in color from white to
almost black.
THE Rev. Elias Libby, of Limerick,
Me-, walked twelve miles and picked half
bushel of blueberries on a recent Sstur-
day, preaching the following Sunday, as
usual; aged 81.
THE assessed value Of real estate in
New York city for the present year is
| $742, 1874, $50; the personal property is
assessed at 1906, 292 $3.50 making total OF
real and personal property OF l,o47 49,
O49.
A YoUNn girl, convicted of child-mur.
der in Austria. and sentenced to death,
committed suicide l.. her cell after she had
been informed that the Emperor, Francis
Joseph, had changed her sentence to I'M
prisonment for life.
THE Trenton Sentinel says: "a family
of high social standing in New York city
has lately lost daughter by deliriuna tre-
mons. Another daughter of the same fam
ily has been reduced very low from the
same cause, but is gradually recovering"
A LEADING physician in Paris, after
asking patient the questions according
to formula, as to sleeping and eating, next
demands what newspaper he reads. II
the patient be nervous or excitable, the
mildest and dullest journal is prescribed.
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry says
that the one hundred grains Of metallic
i'm found in the blood of . healthy adult
would be sufficient to make a good sized
pen.knife blade, but no useful implement
Of . larger size.
A LADY in Pennsylvania recently had
her eyesight restored by IN operation, af.
ter having been blind for several years.
The first thing she did after objects be-
came visible, was to sit down and read
number Of letters which she presumed
had been sent to her husband by ladies
during her blindness. The feelings of the
poor woman can be better imagined than
described when she found that her jeal-
ousy had been occasioned by number of
coal and washing bills.
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