Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-28
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England hsd year.
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German penitensiArses.
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ING horses In Brooklyn.
THEux are three hundrc1 and Forty ex.
listing species OF pigeons
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sass recorded words al Charles Dickens
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champion rsgpickcr OF TrS1N. Y.
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plovcd g. out door l&scrcrs id.kLg gland.
THE q, 900 miles Of railroad in Illinois,
with equipments, coss &i30,oc0,o 600.
TIE Y. Nj. c. A. az Chicago has found
employment So ever 5000 men the past
year.
Two hundred miles OF pathway has
been explored Ia the Mammoth cave of
Kentucky.
A York Stxte ccsocenarian has married
a girl OF lG-younger than some Of his
grandchildren.
BETWEEN three and four thousand
American boys are studying in European
schools and colleges.
THERE ere in the United States four
hundred newspapers Published in foreign
languages.
Postmaster Bert has introduced
young ladies into the delivery department
of the Boston Postof11ce.
GAgABALpI's novel, we are told, was
published in six languages, but never
paid its expenses in any.
THE style of Partisan ladies' hats now
and one hundred and five years ago Is said
to be identical
IT is said there is danger Of the total
extinction of elephants, the hunters are
killing them of 20 fast
EIGHry miles on bicycle in eight and
half hours has lately been accomplished
by gentleman at Dundee.
A PHILADELPHIA lady proposes to build
memorial church TO George Washing
ton, in Westmoreland county, Va.
Two chairs, which had once been the
property of Benedict Arnold, were lately
sold for 81, 250, at st. Johns, N. B.
Over 1900 women used the free baths
| in New York City on the Fourth. They
| represented all ages, colors, and condi.
tons Of life.
TEE machinery used In the State OF
Massachusetts Is capable of doing the
work Of more than hundred million OF
men.
FoUR business firms in London have
names which make curious combinations
Flint g. Steel, Ward 81 Lock, Lamb g.
Hare, and Holland Il Sherry.
Four thousand tons Of ore were thrown
out at single blast in the Lake superior
iron region the other day. Fifteen and
half kegs OF powotr were used.
NEW YORK was in such heated condi-
ton the other day that 100000 pounds
| Of ice were necessary to relieve the sui
ferings Of her unhappy citizens.
| A PARIS shoemaker Is said to have in
| vented shoes provided with rollers, which
allow the wearer to move rs fast as
horse, and to stop Immediately.
PERSONS who prefer stale bread can
have their taste gratifed by sending to
| Pompeii, where they have loaves baked
over eighteen hundred years ago.
BELGIUM, little kingdom Of II 1882
| square miles, about the size OF Maryland,
| gives a comfortable support to over
100000 people, or about 600 to the
| square mile.
THERE are fifteen hundred and thirty
nine incorporated societies in one prov.
ince in Austria; Of these eight hundred
and eighty are in the city OF Vienna.
THERE IL mountain In the north Of
] Sweden situated so near the Arctic Circle,
| that from its summit on midsummer
night may be seen the phenomenon OF
the midnight sun.
A MAN in Lyndon, VT, has been on his
bed twenty One years, unable to move or
bend single joint in his body. Every
Joint has been affected by rheumatic dit.
fculty, and all the bones appear to have
grown into one.
THE hirsute appendage of a young lady
In New Orleans became undOne the other
day, and when she became aware Of her
misfortune string OF hair several yards
long was streaming behind her In the
wind.
A RAT In q store in Troy, "fooling
around" with piece of tin, attracted the
attention OF policeman, who, thinking 1t
was q burglar, watched several hours for
the latter to come out. The rat is now
dead.
| In Queen Victoria's crown there are
1868 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose dia.
monds, and lat table diamonds, large
ruby. II sapphires, II emeralds, small
rubies, and EFT pearls-a total OF 2,1S0
precious stones
ONE of Disraeli's admirers, in speaking
about him to John Bright, said: !" You
ought to give him credit for what he has
accomplished, as he is selma man"
~ know he is" retorted Mr.. Bright, "and
he adores his maker"
THERE are two ladies in the Post Oflce
Department at Washington who are EN-.
ployed in translating the foreign CORE.
spondence, and In keeping up the accounts
in foreign languages. They are scholars
in four languages German, French, Span
ish and Italian.
TIE average number of persons liv.
ing in single house In London In s, In
Berlin 80, in Paris 80, in St. Petersburg
80, and In Vienna 65. For every 1000
inhabitants the average annual mortality
in London IL "a, in Berlin 25, In Paris %,
In st. Petersburg Al, and In Vienna Al.
A WIDOW of forty recently married, ct
Paris, q widower whose frst wife was q
~u;Aovv xnshoso fvrt huehsv,1 ~u~n uy;d