Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.
BosroN claims S2O,75l Inhabitants.

LETTING 0HOW-A yacnt race.
CINCINNATI has thesecond highest spire
in America.
In 1869, 15s persons were killed by
crocodiles in Java.
IT costs New York 81, O00, 600 annually
to have its streets sprinkled.
THE Leipsig Gartenl0ube claims oircu-
lation of $50. 600 copies.
THERE are 1854 draft and 2,92S driv.
ing horses in Brooklyn.
A PHILADELPHIA paper has for its edit
orial staff father and his five sons.
A NEW YORK Judge and jury recently
spent day on case involving fifteen
cents.
CATHERINE RKEcHER Is now 70, Alice
Cary As, Fanny Fern 60, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe So.
A "L.fe of Abraham Lincoln" in the
Hawaiian language, has been published
in Honolulu.
A WIDOW lady in Durham, Me-, has
worked out her road tax for this year
with horse and cart.
THE following sentence contains all the
letters in the alphabet: John quickly
extemporized FIVE tow bags"
A MAN weighing one hundred and fifty
pounds contains one hundred and eleven
pounds of water in his tissues.
In Connecticut young lady celebrated
the Fourth by leading out her pet poodle
dyed in the national colors.
1--WE all owe something to our coun-
| try" said the man who went abroad with
out having paid his income tax.
THE people Of Cleveland ride in 3,455
private carriages, carry 2732 watches,
and are supplied with music by 1910
! pianos.
A MAINE farmer lately found three
sheep which he lost last fail, in the woods,
doing well, having lived all winter on
hemlock boughs.
THE original Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, now in the Patent Office at Wash
ington, is nearly illegible from the fading
of the Ink.
| The Iowa Homestead, in an article on
the WASTES Of the Farm" AYERS that the
| 10000 agriculturists of the State waste"
Sl0.00OO00 yearly.
| AN English swell has recently given a
fashionable breakfast to u party of other
swels, which cost the very moderate sum
of $4,000.
AN analysis shows that cotton seed is a
highly concentrated food, and is richer in
| flesh producing elements than cora, but
somewhat interior to corn MS fat pro-
Queer.
A MAN in Rumford, Me, has dog that
produces q fleece six inches long every
year. The material is said to make init.
tens that wear like iron.
THE number of gods of China has now
reached $4,000. The Chinese have only
one Sunday in the year, and that is New
Years day.
The Supreme Court Of Georgia has de-
Cided that bachelor is family, that he
is the head of it. and as such entitled to
the privileges of the Homestead act.
THE patronage at the disposal of the
Collector of New York, distributed
through the several departments of the
Custom House, is enjoyed by 1856 en-
pioyees
A HNDoo cabby, before mounting box
and taking the reins and whip in hand,
always first formally prays that his driy-
Ing may be to the glory OF his God.
IT costs Massachusetts, youth $50 to
celebrate our nations birthday, by per-
ambulating the streets ard throwing fire.
crackers and torpedoes nj unprotected
femnfnes.
A FRENCH peasant named Surin. who
had never been out of his native village,
has invented machine for spinning
hemp, by means Of which a great saving
OF labor is accomplished.
The members of the Methodist Churches
in he world now number about three and
half millions; ministers, 1909; local
preachers, 1894; Sunday school schol-
ars, nearly four millions.
An eagle was lately shot near Aub urn
N Y, which measured twelve feet from
tip TO tip of its outspread wings. When
discovered he was perched on a fence in
tently watching small boy picking straw
berries.
A NORWEGIAN vessel, which was given
nr for lost and abandoned by Its crew last
October, after nine months tossing on the
| ocean was discovered recently on the
English coast, with its cargo safe and In
good condition.
THE Philadelphia Post says; "One OF
the most brilliant writers In the city, now
the editor OF one of our best kno~n
papers, some ten years ago used to write
the sermons of q clergyman In West Phil
adelphia, fot five dollars week"
Ar recent railway accident to excur-
sionists, in England, the dead and wound
ed were plundered unfortunately. The
tempting display Of rings, watches, DC,
overcame honesty, and even the police
men lent the wrrckers their aid In dis
polling the dead.
A FRENCH dwarf, fifty-f years old,
with beard which reaches to his feet,
but being bald, and having but one arm.
proposes TO marry any young girl OF
about twenty, VINO 10 pretty and good.
tempered. The consideration ID, that the
warf possesses fortune Of about $780,
coo.
OK the William Connolly farm, eight
miles south Of Bowling Green, Ind, Is an
apple tree which 10 ten feet In circumfer.
cnce, being about three feet four inches
in diameter. It is twenty mine years old,
and stands in large walnut stump, most
~ sound yet
A WRITER from Brazil says that you
will see no potatoes, no corn, no fields OF
grain or grass about Rio. The butter
used nearly all comes from England, as
well as cheese. the hour from the United