Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-11

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FACTS AND FIGURES.
A YOUNG lady Of Canada has devoted
5000 to the Pope.
THERE are 1900, 900 lots in Brooklyn,
and but $4,000 houses.
DIAMONDS have recently increased In
value z or 8 per cent.
The sale of Charles Dickens persona,
effects realized nearly 10000.
MASSACHUSETTS had, the first Of July,
1880 inmates in the prisons Of the State.
IT IL stated there are one hundred salt
springs In the State Of Kansas.
A FRENCH paper asserts that seven per
cent. OF lunstics are made 20 by the EN-.
ployment of hair dyes.
BooHIsTER points proudly u . lit.
chunk Of coal weighing over eight thou
sand pounds.
THERE are now living In Athens
county, o., sixteen couples who have been
married over fifty years.
NICHOLAS LoNawoRrH once purchased
the business portion of the city of Cincin.
natl for the value of horse.
FROM the year 1859 to 1867, according
to q recent publication, 1893 people were
killed, and 1925 wounded, by railway
accidents.
CINCINNATI had 29S divorce suits pend.
ing during the past year, Of which lib
were decided. Wives were the petition
ers in lis Of them.
A BANGOR policeman owns dog which
amuses itself in it, own way Ill day, but
ct Q D. m. appears on his owners beat,
and shares his watch.
THE Phillipsburg (PA) journal relates
how q savage mule near that place killed
. COW, then proceeded 70 devour her calf,
leaving but . small portion Of 1t.
A NEW counterfeit twenty franc piece
Just uttered" in France, and made Of
platina and aluminium, Is 80 perfect a. TO
defy all tests but those of chemistry and
time.
A D1ss1PArED Englishman, who commit
ted suicide in Boston few weeks since,
has had fortune of two hundred and
twenty thousand pounds left him by the
death Of relative.
Smcx Queen Victoria took her place on
the English throne, thirty.three years
ago, every throne in Europe, from the
least unto the greatest, has changed occu-
pants.
A BOT in Portland has had . bean re-
moved from his ear, which had been there
thirteen years, and the only change It had
sustained during this long period OF time
was q change Of it, color TO black.
Dr.. MxNDKL, of Berlin, who has been
l. &~r atv0R ~ n
NAL cavity, nnds that the temperature Of
the interior of the skull II lower than the
general temperature Of the body.
TIE Rural Nsv Yorker thinks there
win be great falling OF In the produc.
ton Of wheat this year, taking the whole
country into view; that there will b .
full crop Of corn, . large one Of potatoes
and full average one Of hay.
SIDNEY SIXTH nys, regarding the IN
necessary consumption Of food: $40
cording to my computation have eaten
and drank between my tenth and seven.
tieth year, forty-four wagon.loads more
than was good for me-"
Mr. BKssEAER's plan for obviating sea-
sickness, by means of an oscillating cham.
Der, supported on bearings similar to those
Of compass, will shortly be put to prac-
tical test. A chamber Of this description
il now In construction in England, and
will be fitted to . steiner Of about 800
tons.
CINCINNATI has IS insurance companies,
rs jewelry establishments, 700 retail gro
ceries, 81 large restaurants, 100 dry goods
shops, 800 shoe shops, 90 coal yards, ITO
candy shops, 70 pork psckeries, 40 cloth
ing firms, 20 printing Offices, 1T drug
vendors, and $50 liquor saloonA
Tn. Chinese in California make gold
dust out Of silver alf.dOllar pieces, BY
sntting up the silver coin into particles
which resembles In shape the gold dust
formed in the stream2 This II then col.
ored to resemble gold and II mixed with
genuine gold dust How the yellow color
q put upon the silver il Celestial secret.
The profit of tho business must be great
% two silver half dollars make almost IN
ounce Of gold dust, worth about eighteen
dollars.
PROMPTED by various cases Of illness
caused by the use Of syrups sold under
Vandevyvere, In Brussels, according to
the Journal d PAovnsdcie GAnsers, has
analy zed some OF these syrups, and found
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the fruits after which they were named.
Many consisted of Q solution Of glucose,
colored with aniline red, Rw6tx LmpeTiale,
or fuchsine, and mixed with some tartaric
or citric acid and few drops Of fruit e.
sence9
An amusing incident occurred few
weeks ago at . marriage in Hanoverian
village. After tho marriage ceremony
had been performed, and the people were
enjoying themselves in the village inn,
one Of the peasants remarked: But
children, the pastor has not asked II they,
the bridal pair, win have one another.
All present agreed that the question had
bean omitted, and 70 the newly-married
couple were again hurried to church.
whore the ceremony wAs fe-perSormed, to
their owaand their friends entire satis-
hctipn.